Easy Button Snowflake Craft

Once Christmas and Hanukkah are over it feels like we’re facing a long winter without much to celebrate or decorate. But snowflakes are a fun motif that we can keep using for crafts through the winter season.

If you have a stash of craft sticks and white (or blue, or really any colors you like) buttons, this snowflake craft from Red Ted Art is low prep and pretty easy to make for kids with good gluing skills.

These are fun to hang in windows or anywhere else that needs a little brightening up this time of year.

Head to Red Ted Art for all the details.

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Use recycled buttons to create colorful button art. Simply glue the buttons onto a piece of paper or canvas in a pattern or design of your choice. This is a great way to use up small buttons and create a unique piece of art.
Use recycled buttons to decorate a picture frame. Glue buttons onto a plain picture frame to add a pop of color and interest. You can use different sizes and colors of buttons to create a unique look.
Use recycled buttons to create a button bracelet or necklace. Simply thread the buttons onto a length of string or elastic and tie the ends together to create a fun and colorful piece of jewelry.
Use recycled buttons to decorate a cardboard box. Glue buttons onto a cardboard box to create a colorful and unique storage container. You can use different sizes and colors of buttons to create a one-of-a-kind design.
Use recycled buttons to create a button mosaic. To do this, glue buttons onto a piece of paper or cardboard in a pattern or design of your choice. This is a great way to use up small buttons and create a beautiful piece of art.

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Hanukkah Learning Activities for Kids

The celebration of Our Lady of Guadalupe is important throughout Mexico and other parts of the world. Her feast day is Dec. 12, and the celebrations honoring her appearance to Juan Diego in 1531 begin a few days before that.

Whether you celebrate yourself or just want to share about the celebration at home or in your classroom, Las Mañanitas: The Beautiful Celebration of Our Lady of Guadalupe is a good place to start. The book, by Ernesto Joel Vega Rosales and Jeanette Gonzalez Seneviratne, with illustrations by Dana Sanmar, tells the story of a family’s celebration of the feast day in both English and Spanish.

They prepare with a novena, which is nine days of prayers and preparations. The children, Lucia and Pablo, are given special outfits made by their grandmother that look like what Juan Diego might have worn when he saw Our Lady. The book describes the prayers that are made each day, such as a prayer for respect for life, for families and for the indigenous people of the Americas, to name a few.

As told in the book, Juan Diego was a native Mexican born near modern day Mexico City. His given name was Cuaauhtlatoatzin, which means “He who speaks like an eagle.” When he converted to Christianity his name was changed to Juan Diego, and as he walked to church he passed a hill called Tepeyac. One day he heard the birds singing especially beautifully and a voice called him to go to the top of the hill.

There he saw Our Lady of Guadalupe, who asked him to tell the bishop she wanted a chapel built in her name at the foot of the hill. The bishop asked for a sign that Juan Diego really saw her, and later she had him collect flowers that she blessed and take them to the bishop. When Juan Diego dropped the flowers, an image of Our Lady could be seen on his cloak, which is still on display in her basilica to this day.

The feast day is celebrated as mañanitas, which includes singing, indigenous music and dancing, and children presenting flowers to Our Lady. Juan Diego is remembered today as being humble, brave and faithful, and was the first indigenous American made a saint.

The book is colorful and tells the story in a clear way, and it’s fun to have it both in English and Spanish if you teach Spanish or speak Spanish at home or in the classroom. It’s a great way to learn the basics of the celebration and the story of Juan Diego and why he is still remembered today.

About the book: 40 pages, paperback, published 2024 by Loyola Press. Suggested retail price $14.99.

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