Christmas craft ideas for decorating your home and the tree during the Holiday Season!

Here are the supplies she used for two 6 foot garlands

Two family sized bags of small

Four yards one inch wide red ribbon

Five boxes each rigatoni and wagon wheel pasta

Gold and Silver

Four yards of 1/16 inch diameter gold cord

Here are the tools she used

with glue sticks. You must ask an adult to help you with the glue gun.

Scissors

Newspapers

Here is how Hanna made the pretzel garland

Dump the pretzels out on your work table and eat all the broken ones.

Cut the ribbon into two 6 foot long pieces.

Hold the pretzel in one hand. Push the ribbon up through the left hand hole in the pretzel and then push it down through the right hand hole.

Hold the pretzel and gently pull the end of the ribbon until the pretzel slides almost to the other end of the ribbon.

Keep adding pretzels in this way, leaving them about one inch apart, until you fill the length of the ribbon. Fill as many ribbons as you like.

Ask an adult to hot-glue the pretzel covered ribbons' ends together to make one long garland.

Here is how Hanna made the pasta garland

Spread out the newspaper on the table top in a room with lots of ventilation.

Spread the rigatoni on the newspaper with about one inch between each piece of pasta.

Point the can of gold spray paint downward and spray the rigatoni.

Let the paint dry about half and hour.

Turn the rigatoni over and spray paint the other sides and edges and allow to dry.

Paint the wagon wheel pasta silver the same way. Let it dry.

Push one end of the gold cord through one hole on one silver wagon wheel and tie the cord in place. This is to hold the other pasta from slipping off the end of the cord.

Then thread a gold rigatoni onto the free end of the cord andslide it down until it meets the attached wagon wheel.

Add another wagon wheel, pushing the end of the cord up through one hole and down through another hole on the other side of the wheel.

Keep adding more gold rigatoni and silver wagon wheels until the cord is filled up.

Tie the cord onto the last wagon wheel to keep the other pieces from sliding off.

A message from Chico Chihuahua

Kids, this is one Christmas craft ideas project that is safe from that big white cat, Snowball, that lives next door.

He hates pretzels!