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This year I planned to make my son’s preschool teachers homemade mason jar holiday gifts. Christmas is everyone’s favorite time of the year and it makes it even better by making your own creative and personalized gifts. This fun and easy idea takes hardly any time to create.

You will need:

Mason jars (available at Dollar Tree)
Ribbon
Scrapbook paper
Scissors
Key tags
Colorful stickers
contents – hot drink mixes, marshmallows, candy canes ( the contents can be anything of your choice)

Start by adding some decorative stickers to the mason jar and add some marshmallows and hot drink mixes.

These are some of the drink mixes that I got:

Then I cut circles out of some scrapbook book paper to add to the lids of the jars.

Insert the candy canes and close the pretty lids. Tie ribbons to the top and you’re almost done.

Now to add a little message I hung the little key tags to the ribbons like so:

And our homemade holiday gifts are ready:

Hope you enjoyed! Happy Holidays!!

My son needed to wear Red Blue and White colors to school to celebrate the 4th of July so I decided to make him a shirt using some supplies I had at home. What you need:

A Red, Blue or a White T-shirt
Red, Blue and White felt
Fabric Glue or needle and thread

I found an old blue T-shirt I did not mind ruining. Luckily it even had red piping on its sleeves. I cut out a rectangle out of red felt cloth. Then cut three stripes out of the white felt cloth. Apply fabric glue all over the edge of the red rectangle and press it on the shirt. Now glue on the white stripes. Cut out a square of a darker colored blue felt cloth. Glue on to the red rectangle. Almost there! Now with the left over material from the white stripes cut out a few stars. They need not be so neat. Or at least mine weren’t but that’s okay. Keep it for 2 to 4 hours to set. I kept mine overnight.