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by Nancy Arcayna

Making handcrafted Christmas ornaments can help ease people into festive holiday spirit. It also is a good way to bring the family, including little ones, together to create simple designs to be used as gifts or to serve as family keepsakes.

Ben Franklin stores offers an array of holiday decor making classes including wreath decorating, personalizing ornaments, holiday pins and card making.

Project sheets are available in stores or online at www.thejoyofcrafting.com. One project used miniature canvases that could be painted and transformed into Santa and snowman ornaments. Another simple project involved taking clear plastic or glass ornaments that could be filled with colorful shredded paper or small beads as a backdrop to paint and use other embellishment outside......

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