Any ideas for fun Thanksgiving & Christmas crafts - NEW BABY??

Question

I am almost 29 weeks along, with my DH's and mine's first child (first all around). :) We're having a little boy, who will be named after his Daddy, and is due November 15.

We're in the process of buying a new house in the next month or so, and baby comes the month after that. Needless to say, we're so broke for the upcoming holidays. **BUT it is the best kind of broke - just monetary - we get the gift of a home and a new family member**

My question is - I really want to do something crafty and special as gifts for Thanksgiving and Christmas from us (the new little family) to our parents. I had thought of getting clay casting kits and making ornaments out of little Greg's baby footprints...

What did you do for your child's first Turkey Day/Christmas? I would love some ideas! I'm so excited!

:) :) :)

Thanks!!!!

Answer 1

my son was born the day after thanksgiving so I didn't do anything. We'll have his first thanksgiving this year. But for christmas I went to a craft store and got a bunch of the clear balls and some paint. then I traced my sons hand on some paper and cut it out. I painted the paper and pressed it on the ball so each ball had his hand print on it. then for my side (he was the first grandchild) I painted around the hand print grandmas first Christmas, Aunties first Christmas, Great Grandpas first Christmas etc.. then for Joes side I just did Merry Christmas Grandma, Aunty, etc. I got a white ribbon (to hang it form the tree) and I wrote on it babies are angles with invisible wings! On some of them I tried to be really artsy and I did snow flaks, but it took so long....

I'm not an artistic person at all! I mean I have some cool Ideas but things never end up looking like what I planned them to look like, and even still they were a HUGE hit! everyone loved them! and they cost about a buck each to make! :)

Hope I could help!

Answer 2

I think little feet/handprint gifts are perfect in any form for thanksgiving and Christmas... you could use (safe) stamp ink and put your baby's feet prints on a blank cardstock card, like a green foot print upside-down on the front, and then glue a little brown square (for a pot) or a little christmas-patterned oval (for a 'tree skirt') at the bottom under the toes, and a little sequin star or sparkle star sticker right above the heel, and voila! A baby footprint Christmas tree! Then you can write a message on the inside, or include a picture on the inside and write next to it, etc! For Thanksgiving, you could do the card idea but make a tiny baby turkey out of your baby's hand print! Everyone loves those. Cast-wise, you can get some handprint molds with pre-measured plaster anywhere, like Wal-mart has a heart-shaped one you could easily fit both baby feet and both hands in, or you can buy those stepping-stone kits from a craft store like JoAnn fabric or Michael's, and just break up the mix into a few different dishes, so that you can make several hand print impressions, feet, etc. If you want to make them into ornaments, take a plastic straw and put a dab of hot glue on the end to close the hole, and set the straw in the mold (hot glue dot to close the hole and then put it straight where you want it in the mold, so that you don't have to glue twice) depending on what you use for a mold, and then when you pour the mix it will go around the straw. After the mold has settled, you can remove the straw. A glass container or metal, and the hot glue will come right off! Then put a pretty ribbon through it... much cheaper, and easier, to do than paying too much for handprint kits at the store!!!

Just get creative and have fun!!!!