No other crafting time of year brings out the creative side the way that Christmas crafts do.
Tree ornaments, homemade gifts, cards or home decorations are all popular forms of holiday self expression.
Whether one is simply using glue and glitter with construction paper or pulling out all the stops and making elaborate ceramic or wooden items there is plenty of opportunity for new innovation and standard themes.
There's room here for needle point and sewing or candle making and metal working.
There are no limits to possible media selection.
When there are children to entertain try to keep the fun of arts and crafts in the forefront of the activity.
Remember that they will have a lifetime to perfect their skills but will only have the moment to enjoy being children.
Confetti and glitter are big helps to dress up the mundane.
Cotton snow and metallic shades of crayons and gel pens make the crafting more fun.
Adults enjoy Christmas crafts as much as children do though and there's a great many directions that a craft party can turn.
Bread dough or salt ornaments are especially delightful to all ages.
Those with exceptional skill and experience can really work wonders with this simple art form.
This is a really inexpensive option but a separate session will have to be planned for painting or treating with polyurethane.
Christmas crafts that are to be an individual enterprise can be more involved.
More effort can be devoted to knitting a wall hanging or sewing table cloths and matching placemats.
There are many kits or how-to books on the subject.
These make especially nice gifts.
Since a hooked rug or afghan kit take a lot of time to complete Christmas crafts of this nature could realistically be started right after opening.