Easy Holiday Decoration: Make it with your kids

I love slow weekend mornings.  After rushing around every morning getting ready for work, trying to feed the girls breakfast, and remember everything for my day, a mellow morning is a welcome reprieve. Listening to music, having a second cup of coffee, and doing a craft with my daughters is the beginning to a fine, fine day.

This Saturday with a few inches of snow on the ground, we started making a holiday decoration.  For me, crafts have to be simple, natural looking, and doable for and with kids.  It has to be something I actually would hang up, too.  

This decoration features doves, hearts and stars-- showcasing nondenominational and universal themes (peace, love, inspiration)  for the holiday season.  

All you need is some felt, some ribbon, a sewing kit, and some sequins or other small detail decorations.  Cut a piece of ribbon long enough to hang loosely across the top of a window, two windows or over a pass through in your house. 

Trace a dove with pencil on felt.  You can use any color, but white looks lovely.

Then your kids' can decorate them with sequins, glitter, ribbons, or anything you like.

You can make any shapes you want:  snowmen, ginger bread boys and girls, wreaths, or Santas.  We made doves, hearts, and stars.

Next you attach the decorated shapes equidistant from each other on the ribbon.  You can use a hot glue gun to do this, or a few stitches. I stitched these shapes on.  Be sure to keep the shapes attached to the same side of the ribbon-- double check every so often that it did not twist.

Then you can hang it up anywhere you want to feature it and bring a little homemade holiday cheer.

Let me know if you try it and how it comes out-- I'd love to hear.