The Winter Booklet
by Sarah Kress
Dear Reader,
Thank you for downloading The Winter Booklet. I hope you will find inspiration here for appreciating this surprisingly rich season.
Traditions for celebrating the seasons are important because they interrupt our every day routines and encourage us to anticipate heart-warming activities that are familiar to us, but that are out of the ordinary. For those of us who live in cities and who work indoors, it can be challenging to notice all the natural changes that take place in nature as the months pass.
Without holidays and traditions to celebrate these changes, it’s hard to distinguish memories from years past. In this way seasonal celebrations help to prevent the feeling that life is escaping us.
Winter traditions can be as simple as hanging a wreath on the front door, or as grand as taking a vacation to Hawaii every January. If escaping to a tropical paradise is not an option, there are plenty of affordable activities which can be enjoyed at home during the cold months.
Winter Crafts
Gingerbread Ornaments – Cookie Ornaments
Dried Fruit Ornaments – Cranberry Garland Paper – Snowflakes – Christmas Candles – Recycled Ornaments – Card Garland
– Beaded Snowflakes
Gingerbread Ornaments
3/4 cup applesauce
3/4 cup ground cinnamon
1/2 Tbsp. cloves
3 Tbsp. white craft glue
Wax paper!
Rolling pin
Thread
Pencil
Mix the ingredients in a bowl and then roll the dough out on a piece of wax paper so that it is 1/4 of an inch thick. Cut out shapes, then poke a hole at the top of each shape with the end of a pencil. Allow the ornaments to dry for 2-3 days, then string a loop of thread through the hole of each ornament to hang them.
Cookie Ornaments
3 cups flour
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1 1/2 cups salt
3 Tbsp oil
1 1/2 cups water
Pencil
Acrylic paints
Paint brushes!
Thread
Preheat the oven to 250 degrees Fahrenheit. Mix the ingredients in a bowl until it becomes a thick dough. Roll the dough out on a sheet of wax paper until it is 1/4 of an inch thick. Cut out shapes and then poke a hole at the top of each shape. Arrange the cookies on a cookie sheet. Bake them in the center of the oven for an hour, or until they’re golden around the edges. Allow the cookies to cool until they are hard before painting them and tying a loop of thread through the holes to hang them.
Dried Orange and Lemon Ornaments
Slices of oranges and lemons
Cut thin slices of an orange and lemon and set the slices on screens to dry for 3-4 days. The slices can also bake at 150 degrees for 3-4 hours with the door slightly open.
Cranberry and Popcorn Garland
1 or 2 bags of fresh cranberries
1 large bowl of popped popcorn
fishing line or several small boxes of dental floss
1 large needle
Cut a manageable length of fishing line or dental floss to thread the needle with before tying the line at the end. Alternate the cranberries and popcorn or do entire garlands of just cranberries and just popcorn.
Paper Snowflakes
Several coffee filters.
Scissors
Fold the coffee filters in half, and then fold them in half again so that each one looks like a triangle with a rounded side. Cut out holes and squares along the straight edges of each triangle, and then unfold each one to reveal the snowflakes.
Christmas Candles
White, round candles of various heights
Circle cut-outs of old Christmas cards
Holly leaves and berries
Hot glue gun
Glue the circle cut-outs of old Christmas cards onto the face of each candle, and/or hot glue the holly leaves and berries around the base of each candle.
Recycled Christmas Card Ornaments
Circle cut-outs of old Christmas Cards
Yarn, thread or string
Craft glue.
Paint brush!
Sparkles
Cut out circles from old Christmas cards by tracing the bottom of a small or medium sized glass onto the face of each card. The circles must be the same size. Lay half of the circles face down on a table and then brush craft glue onto the back of each one. While the glue is wet, lay a loop of thread or string onto each one so that the loops are outside the circles and the ends are on the glue. Lay the remaining circles on top of the sticky circles so that the colorful sides are up. At this point the circles can dry, or the edges can be decorated with sparkles.
Christmas Card Garland
Circle cut-outs of old Christmas cards
A long piece of yarn, thread or string
Paint brush!
Craft glue!
Cut out circles from Christmas cards by tracing the bottom of a small or medium sized glass onto the face of each card. The circles must be the same size. Lay half of the circles face down in a row on a table and brush the backs with craft glue. While the glue is still wet, lay down the long piece of string across all the circles. Place the remaining circles on top of the sticky circles so that the colorful sides are up. Let the garland to dry before hanging it.
Beaded Snowflakes
Small and medium sized clear and light blue beads
Needle nosed pliers
20 and 24 gage copper wire
Hot glue
String or thread for hanging!
Cut three 4-inch pieces of 20 gage wire and arrange the pieces on top of each other so that they all intersect in the middle. Spread out each arm of the snowflake so that they are equal distances apart. Secure the shape of the snowflake by dripping a dab of hot glue onto the middle intersection of the three pieces and allow the glue to set. Next, string three or four small beads onto each arm.
After doing so, use the pliers to twist a 6-inch piece of 24 gage wire onto all of the arms so that it forms a circle around the apex and above the first row of beads on each arm. String beads on this piece of wire before twisting it onto each individual arm. String beads onto the remaining length of the snowflake arms and then twist the end of each arm to finish the snowflake. Attach a loop of string or thread to one of the arms to hang the snowflake on the tree.
What’s Included…
Winter Foods & Drinks
Appetizers Warm Drinks Cookies Desserts Meats Vegetables
Winter Foods
Chestnuts
Carrots
Brussels Sprouts
Beet Root
Shallots
Pomegranates
Pecans
Walnuts
Turnips
Grapefruits
Rutabagas
Kale
Oranges
Leeks
Radicchio
Lemons
Radishes
Cauliflower
Mussels
Duck
Goose
Appetizers
Roasted Chestnuts
Spiced Nuts
Caramel Popcorn
Warm Drinks
Buttered Rum
Holiday Eggnog
Cookies
Almond Cookies
Caraway Cookies
Gingerbread Cookies
Pfeffernusse
Desserts
Mincemeat Pies
Christmas Fudge
Cinnamon Fudge
Peanut Brittle
Ginger Bread Cake
And Much More…
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