Christmas stars!

With the countdown to Christmas having begun our thoughts turn to Christmas activities and crafts! Below are two great and simple ideas for Christmas stars! These ideas came from www.activityvillage.co.uk, check out this great website for other Christmas ideas!

Even the youngest children can make a very impressive star painting with this handprint technique! And of course gold paint is a real treat to paint with.
You will need:
Construction paper
Gold or yellow paint
Instructions:
Keeping your fingers together, print 5 handprints in a circle, palms overlapping and fingers pointing outwards.

Once you have made your Christmas star decoration with lollipop sticks, the kids can go wild with their choice of decoration!
You will need:
6 lollipop sticks (popsicle sticks) - we used pre-coloured but you could paint plain sticks before you begin
PVA (white) glue
Ribbon for hanging
Decorations - metallic pain, sequins, jewels, glitter, metallic pens etc
Instructions:
First make your star. Assemble two triangles, using dabs of white glue at the end of the sticks. Catch of loop of ribbon between two of the lollipop sticks so that you can hang your star.
When dry or nearly dry, position one triangle on top of the other and use large dollops of glue at the places the two triangles join. You will need large dollops of glue because the triangles don't lie completely flat!
When dry, decorate your star!