Homemade Nativity

Every year at our church, they have a display of all different nativity sets.  I happened to come across this article that I had saved years ago on how to create your own Nativity Set.  So, Audrianna decided that she would like to make this for the display.  It turned out so amazing, that we decided to create a bunch as Christmas gifts, as a family.  It was a fun project to work on together.  Here is a picture of the one that Audrianna made.  We made a few changes to the original pattern to save money. 

 

A homemade game

This year for Christmas, we decided to be very crafty with our gifts.  After searching and searching for something to make for the cousins, we came up with our own twist to the game Sequence.  This game was called Four Score.  There are five free spaces on our game and not just four.  There are markers for three people.  We made these from stickers and the little metal rimmed tags that you can buy at a craft store or office supply store.  The board is actually made from cardboard and posterboard which was decoupaged to the cardboard.  Each square has an individually decoupaged picture that was cut to fit the space.  The cards are actually business cards that are perforated and were printed on both sides to look like normal cards that you would have with a game.  We themed this game for the three brothers that were to be receiving this game.  They all participate and enjoy different sports.  So we tried to include the different sports within the pictures on the board.