Instructions: Holiday Stove Top Potpourri Mix

Items Needed:

• 1 Orange
• 2 Cinnamon Sticks 
• 1 T. Whole Cloves
• 1/2 Cup Cranberries
• Holiday Bag
• Directions tag (You can access the file HERE)
• Ribbon

STEP 1: Place Orange, Cinnamon Sticks, Cloves & Cranberries into bag, making sure to measure the amounts as listed above.

STEP 2: Tie closed with twist tie and add directions tag with ribbon.  Give to your friends, neighbors or enjoy it for your own home!

Enjoy your Holiday Stove Top Potpourri Mix!

Instructions: Cooking Conversion Chart

Items Needed:

• Cooking Conversion Chart Printout (1 sheet)
• Scissors (not included)
• 5x7 Wood Plaque
• Sandpaper (not included)
• Paint, optional (not included)
• Paintbrush, optional (not included)
• Glue
• 4 Tacks
• Hammer (not included)

STEP 1: Sand any rough edges of your wood plaque.  Make sure to brush any remaining dust off before moving on to Step 2.

STEP 2 (optional): Paint wood desired color.

STEP 3: Cut out Cooking Conversion Chart printout.  

STEP 4: Center Cooking Conversion Chart printout on board and glue it down.  This will keep it from bubbling/puckering when you hammer your tacks in.  Let dry.

STEP 5: Being careful not to damage printout, hammer in the four tacks in each of the corners of the printout.  Use a folded paper towel in between hammer and tack if you are worried about damaging the top of the tack.  

Enjoy your Cooking Conversion Chart!

Instructions: Wooden Nativity Block Set

Items Needed:

• 6 Wooden Blocks
• Sandpaper
• Nativity Pictures Printout (you can access the document HERE.  There are two sets to a page.  Pictures courtesy of http://preparednotscared.blogspot.com)
• Other Paper, cut into 1 1/4 inch squares, if desired (not included)
• Scissors (not included)
• Corner Rounder, optional (not included)
• Mod Podge (not included)
• Paintbrush (not included)

STEP 1: Sand any rough edges of wooden blocks with sandpaper.

STEP 2: Cut out nativity pictures, using the grid printed on the paper as a guideline.  If desired, also cut out other paper to cover sides not covered by a nativity picture.

STEP 3 (optional):  Using corner rounder punch, round all the corners of paper/nativity pictures, if desired.

STEP 4: Using a small amount of mod podge, paint a little bit onto a side of the wood block then adhere picture/paper to it and go over the whole side of the block with mod podge as well being careful not to move the paper/picture as you brush it on.

STEP 5: Continue until all sides are covered (make sure you leave a side that is not drying, so you can set it on the table!)

STEP 6: Let dry.

Enjoy your Nativity Block Set!

Instructions: Simple Nativity

Items Needed:

• One 6 inch tall wooden block (Joseph)
• One 5 1/2 inch tall wooden block (Mary)
• Two wooden ball heads (Joseph & Mary)
• One 3 inch block (Baby Jesus)
• One small wooden head (Baby Jesus)
• Paint (not included)
• Paintbrush(s) (not included)
• Sandpaper (not included)
• Twine
• Hot Glue Gun/Hot Glue (not included)

STEP 1: Sand any rough edges on all of your wooden blocks/heads.

STEP 2: Paint bodies & heads desired colors.  **Make sure and paint the shorter block for Mary and the taller block for Joseph**  After dry, distress any edges with sandpaper, if desired.

STEP 3:  Hot glue heads onto wooden blocks.  

STEP 4: With a small amount of hot glue, glue Mary & Joseph together and then glue the Baby Jesus to the front, at an angle.

STEP 5: Wrap twine around (starting in front, and then wrapping all the way around and back to the front) and tie in a knot or bow.  Hot glue, if necessary, to hold in place.

Enjoy your Simple Nativity!

Instructions: Clothespin Christmas Card Garland

Items Needed:

• 25 Clothespins
• Christmas Paper (not included)
• 25 Buttons
• Spool of Ribbon
• Mod Podge/Glue (not included)
• Paintbrush(s), optional (not included)
• Paint, optional (not included)
• Scissors (not included)

STEP 1 (optional): Paint clothespins Christmas colors, if desired.

STEP 2: Decorate each clothespin.  Cut paper to fit onto front of clothespin and use glue/mod podge to adhere paper strips to front of clothespin.

STEP 3: Add buttons to the top part (the part you squeeze to open the clothespin) of each clothespin.

STEP 4 (At Home): Measure where you want to hang your garland and cut the desired amount of ribbon.  Place clothespins on the garland and add Christmas cards as they arrive! 

Enjoy your Christmas Card Garland!

Instructions: Cinnamon Stick Stars

Items Needed:

• 5 Cinnamon Sticks
• Hot Glue Gun/Glue (not included)
• Decorations, as desired (not included)

STEP 1: Following the picture below, arrange the cinnamon stick into a star shape, putting a SMALL dab of hot glue at each intersection.

STEP 2: Decorate as desired, using hot glue to secure decorations.

STEP 3 (optional):  If desired, tie a small piece of string at the top of your ornament so it can be hung as an ornament.

Enjoy your Cinnamon Star Ornament!

Instructions: Gratitude Journal/Cards

Items Needed:

• Gratitude Journal/Card Printout (8 pages)
• Scissors (not included)
• Hole Punch, optional (not included)
• Binder Ring/Ribbon (not included)

STEP 1: Cut out each of the rectangles from the Gratitude Journal/Cards pages (there are 4 on every sheet, except for the last one there are only 3).  If you want to use these as individual cards, you are done!  Enjoy!  If you want to make it into a Gratitude Journal, continue with the remaining steps.

STEP 2 (optional): Using hole punch, punch holes in the top left-hand corner of each page, making sure to punch the hole in approximately the same place on each card.

STEP 3 (At Home - optional):  Put pages in desired order and insert binder ring or ribbon of your choosing.  Your gratitude journal is ready to go!

Enjoy your Gratitude Journal/Cards!