At Christmas, everyone is always sharing recipes for delicious cookies and perfect turkey. But here’s a silly “recipe” that will help you make a fun treat for your kids, friends, coworkers, or even yourself. The recipe for snowman poop is easy and quick, and no cooking skills are required. All you need is a sense of humor and a few simple ingredients.

Recipe for Snowman Poop
To make snowman poop, you’ll need the following ingredients:
1 sandwich-sized plastic bag
Mini marshmallows, popcorn, Hershey’s Hugs or any white candies
1 Snowman Poop Poem

Directions:
Step 1 – Fill the plastic bag with your choice of white candies or popcorn.
Step 2 – Seal the bag and attach one of the snowman poop poems (see below) to the bag.
Step 3 – Deliver your gift and enjoy!

The secret to turning plain ol’ candy into snowman poop is the poem. Your recipe for snowman poop isn’t complete without one of these. Pick your favorite, print it out and attach it to your bag.

Snowman Poop Poem #1
I hear that you’ve been naughty.
So listen, here’s the scoop.
Instead of getting coal this year,
You’re getting snowman poop!

Snowman Poop Poem #2
Santa looked at his list,
and then he checked it twice.
And he saw that you haven’t been very nice.
Since coal is so expensive,
listen, here’s the scoop -
Santa’s filling your stocking this year
with silly snowman poop!

Snowman Poop Poem #3
He knows when you’ve been bad.
Don’t forget he watching you.
So all Santa’s bringing for Christmas
is this tasty snowman poo.

Find more variations of the Snowman Poop Poem on HubPages.

Many people love the Christmas season, but it’s an especially wonderful time for children. Adults may sometimes feel like the holiday comes and goes much too quickly, but for a child, waiting for Santa can seem like an eternity, but they enjoy moment of this special period. So this year, remember what’s it like to be a child, and make some extra time to share the Christmas magic with your child. Here are a few ways to make the season last.

1. Watch Christmas Shows Together – Spend at least one night a week watching Christmas specials together. If you have a DVR, it’s easy to look for all the well-loved favorites, such as Frosty the Snowman, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, the Little Drummer Boy and others. But you can also search for keywords such as Christmas, elf, reindeer or Santa to find new favorites. Some modern favorites to watch for are Elf, The  Santa Clause and Olive the Other Reindeer.

2. Get an Advent Calendar -Let the countdown begin! You can make or buy inexpensive advent calendars to help your child count down each day of Christmas. Drug stores, superstores and market such as Trader Joe’s often have cheap calendars that contain a small piece of chocolate or candy inside.

3. Write a Santa Letter – Having your child write a letter to Santa is not only a fun activity for both of you, but it’s a great way to create a keepsake that you’ll cherish for years to come. Sit your child down with some paper and a pencil, and help him or her create a letter to Santa. If your child is too young to write, have them tell you what they’d like to say and be sure to write it verbatim so you’ll be able to enjoy seeing their actual words years from now. If your child is old enough to write his or her own letter, give some gentle guidance on proper format, spelling and the limitations on what to ask Santa to bring. Then be sure Santa writes back! Check out sites such as Free Letter from Santa Claus.net,  Santa Letter Templates.com or Printable Santa Letters.com for free or inexpensive Santa letters to print at home.

4. Enjoy the Christmas Lights – From Thanksgiving to Christmas, many neighborhoods are brightly lit with lawn decorations and lighted displays. These days, you can often find houses that have even synchronized their light display with music you can hear by dialing a specific radio station. Make a plan to walk or drive around your neighborhood at least one night every week to look at the displays. Take a different route every time if your’e on foot or hop in the car and find the best displays in your area.

5. Do Some Craft Projects – Christmas crafts projects for kids can be simple or complex and everything in between and, fortunately, you don’t need to have Martha Stewart’s talent to do some homemade crafts. Simply look online for kids Christmas crafts and you’ll find plenty of fun, simple projects such as clothespin reindeer you can make cheaply and with few materials.

by Debora Dyess
When I was a kid (more years ago than I care to recount) my daddy always made sure we each had a personalized Christmas ornament every year. He used a fine liner paintbrush and model car paint to meticulously write our name and the year on a Christmas ball, along with some memorable thing that happened that year. ‘Me, too!’ my ball reads for the year I was two. My sixteenth year ornament reads ‘Off to England!’ They are treasured keepsakes.
Options for personalizing Christmas ornaments have come a long way, baby. While the hand-painted Christmas messages are still a wonderful way to individualize holiday heirlooms, there are so many more ways available today to create your own personalized photo ornament. Here are simple instructions to help you create a homemade photo ornament using Microsoft Word and some simple materials.

Materials:
- Clear glass Christmas ball ornament
- Overhead transparency sheet (office supply store)
- Digital camera
- Computer and printer

Directions:
Open a new document in Microsoft Word. Open the drawing toolbar (view – toolbars – drawing), select an oval and ‘draw’ it onto your document.
Right click inside the oval; select ‘format autoshape’. Select ‘color and lines’; choose ‘no fill’ as the color. Click on ‘size’, and type in both height and width to match the size printed on ornament box. (NOTE: Because the ornament is a circle, height and width will be the same. If only one number is listed on the box, it is both.)

After closing the ‘format autoshape’ option, copy and paste the circle to cover the document, creating as many as you need. Insert the picture(s) by going to ‘insert’. Select ‘picture’, ‘from file’, and browse until you find your pictures. Insert pictures in circle document, resizing as needed to fit the balls. You will lose whatever doesn’t fit into the circle, so resize carefully.

Print onto transparency paper (a copy shop can do this for you). Cut out circles. Roll individual photo-circle around a skewer and insert into opened Christmas ball. Make sure the bottom of the picture is at the bottom of the ball. Once the photo is inside, it will open and fill the Christmas ornament. You may add glitter or confetti for a fun look, or decorate the outside of the ball with paint pens. Make sure not to obstruct the photo.
Using formal portraits or candid shots will change the character of the personalized photo ornament, as will how you choose to decorate each ball. You may even wish to combine the ‘old school’ method of personalization with the new, adding a name, date and words or event to remember to the outside of the ornament with a careful hand.
These personalized photo ornaments are sure to saved and cherished for many years.

Part of welcoming Baby into the family is the addition of a baby Christmas stocking. Placing it with the others on the mantle somehow solidifies the little one’s place in the household.

Picking the baby Christmas stocking used to be limited to choosing pink or blue, with the words “Baby’s First Christmas” embroidered on the front. But times have changed! Stockings can specialize in the family’s favorite sports teams, hobby or town or have photo inserts for that all-important first-year portrait.

If you’re a crafty mom, making a baby Christmas stocking is an enjoyable way to prepare for the holiday. The stocking will be unique and truly special.

Begin with a plain stocking. Patterns are available in stores and online. (I like the clear directions and pattern at Craft and Fabric links. Here are two other easy ideas.

Handprint Christmas Tree Stocking
Make a Christmas tree from your baby’s hand- and foot- prints. Start with the trunk of the tree. Using brown paint, footprint your child. Carefully press the tiny foot to the stocking, positioning it correctly. Green handprints make boughs of the Christmas tree. Make a handprint stamp by transferring your baby’s handprint to thick FunFoam. Cut it out and use it to create the tree. This prevents accidents caused by wiggling little fingers! Use 3-5 near the bottom of the tree and decrease by one until the top is created. Fingers should point out for the lower branches, and up for the top. The number of handprints will vary, depending on the size of the stocking. Allow the painted tree to dry, then adorn with beads, sequins, buttons, etc. Tiny charms can be used as miniature ornaments, and a locket can hold a photo of Baby.

Photo Insert Baby Christmas Stocking
Photo insert stockings are easily made. Purchase fabric needed, plus a small square of thin vinyl (available in many fabric sections). Before sewing the front and back stocking pieces together, position the vinyl on front of the stocking and sew in place on three sides. Once the photo is inside, close the opening and sew the stocking as directed. Cover stitching with decorations or trim. Several photo inserts can be placed on the stocking to show baby’s growth during the first year or Baby with different family members.

However you choose to make your baby Christmas stocking, enjoy! This is a great Christmas for you and your family.

This is an easy Christmas craft project for kids. It’s quick (my kids were done in less than 10 minutes), doesn’t require many materials, and is simple enough that even younger kids can help.

 
Materials for Clothespin Reindeer
- 3 clothespins (the old-fashioned kind work best)
- 2 googly eyes
- 1 red pom pom
- glue
- optional: red ribbon
 
Directions for Making a Clothespin Reindeer
1. Glue the first two clothespins on top of each other to make the body.2. Glue the third clothespin upside down on top of the others to make the head and antlers.

3. Glue the googly eyes and pom pom on the top clothespin to make the eyes and nose.
 
4. Optional: If you’d like to use your clothespin reindeer as a Christmas ornament, tie a red ribbon around the neck and make a loop at the top to hang it on your tree.
 
That’s it. You’re done!