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Holiday Decorations

Holiday decorations don't have to come from a store. Try these home-grown decor crafts to spark up your holiday home. Includes Chocolate Kiss Trees, Candy Cane Reindeer, Graham-Cracker Gingerbread Mini-Houses and more.

Tiny Christmas Craft: Make A Graham Cracker Gingerbread House!

By Cynthia Ewer
Editor, Organized Christmas
Author, Houseworks: How to Live Clean, Green and Organized at Home

graham cracker mini-housesSimple, no-bake Graham Cracker Mini-Houses are a sweet holiday treat. Use them as place cards for holiday meals, or hang them as ornaments on the Christmas tree.

Decorations are applied while pieces are flat, then pieces are assembled with melted bark coating in a plastic squeeze bottle.

While an adult should trim the graham cracker sections, decorating and assembling is easy enough for kids.

Makes 10 - 20 houses, depending on breakage and number of crackers.

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Christmas Craft: Chocolate Kiss Trees

By Cynthia Ewer
Editor, Organized Christmas
Author, Houseworks: How to Live Clean, Green and Organized at Home

Hershey's Kiss treesBrighten dark corners with a holiday tree made from foil-wrapped chocolate kiss candies.

Pretty to look at and simple to make, chocolate kiss trees are an easy, kid-friendly holiday craft.

Toothpicks anchor shiny Hersheys-brand kisses to styrofoam cones, while bright-colored foil makes it easy to create stripes or patterns.

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