Get all of the materials you need to have a bash at these crafts (and more) from the Edinburgh Art Store, situated at 129 Lauriston Place, Tollcross, Edinburgh, EH3 9JN. With a 15% discount for students, what’s not to love?
Wine Bottle Ornaments
If your flat is home to the party and you have an endless supply of empty wine bottles then why not do your house a favour and recycle them and turn them into fun, xmas-themed decorations? All you’ll need are three wine bottles, some coloured paints, cotton wool, twigs, material and goggly eyes. Paint one bottle brown, one bottle red and one bottle white. Once the bottles are nicely coated, leave them to dry over-night. The next day, you can put some twigs in the brown bottle, gather a small circle of cotton wool and paint it red and stick on the goggly eyes- now you have Rudolph! You can make any character, from Santa to Jack Frost. Treemendous
This one involves tree twigs, fairy lights and a lot of string rope (which will cost you only a few pennies). Gather a variety of twigs, these will be used for a pyramid shape, twist the string around both ends of the twig ensuring it’s even and secured at both sides, each twig used should be slightly bigger than the previous twig so that it starts to look like a pyramid shape. Once complete you
should have what looks like a twiglike triangle joined together using the string rope, this can be used as a hanging for on your wall or door. Final touches can be hanging some fairy lights around it and adding a star to the top. Hanging Leaf Garland
All you need is some sprinkle glitter, leaves and ribbon. Get outdoors and pick some pretty fallen leaves (as many as you think you’ll need), cover them in glue and sprinkle some glitter over them until dry, best thing to do is leave them to dry overnight. Attach a ribbon to each leaf and tie the ribbons onto a longer piece of ribbon. Once complete hang the centre piece like a to jazz up your walls.
2 cups of flour 1/2 tsp of baking soda 1/4 cup of packed brown sugar 1/4 cup of white sugar M&M’s Using a small funnel layer the cookie ingredients into the jar, start with the flour, baking soda, brown sugar, white sugar and M&M’s. Use candy pieces so the jar is full to the top. Print out the recipe and stick it onto the side and add a little ribbon and some tags- now you have a cookie jar gift.
by Sophie McLean sophiemcleanblog.wordpress.com
Festive Cookie Jar
For this easy and cute christmas idea, you’ll need a mason jar with a lid, scrap fabric, ribbons, glue, paper and a cookie recipe. For the cookie ingredients you will need: December 17 | WeAreTSA.co.uk
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