So the long holidays have started and it’s still a couple of days until Christmas. And already the kids are driving me up the wall.

On my list of things to do this week was make some salt dough ornaments which I thought would be a cute place setting favour at our Christmas dinner {which will actually be Christmas Eve}.

Which got me thinking to what else could keep small, idle hands busy in the lead up to the big day that had would also help get them in the Christmas spirit.

• Make and eat ~ edible snowflakes at the Bird Bath
• Use up all that junk mail flying through the door with junk mail snowflakes at Indie Fixx
• Or make pretty snowflakes garlands as found by paper n stitch
• Some doily snowflakes by design*sponge
• Make a beautiful, sparkly glitter village by the long thread over at alpha mom
• A twinkle pom pom ornament at zakka life
• Plus more ideas from the fabulous the red thread