Easy ways to celebrate the holidays

Get into the yuletide spirit with our easy holiday decoration ideas, tasty cookie recipes and creative crafts

Craft your own holiday decorations

Jingle all the way with low-cost homemade holiday decorations, gift wrap and cards

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Design your own traditional cards

Stamped-paper-tree card
Press a tree stamp on paper, then color in and cut out. Copy a favorite family picture; cut out. Glue both pieces to folded, colored craft paper, and trim it with ribbon. Cut out and glue on a computer-generated holiday greeting.

Felt-tree card
Cut three graduated triangles out of felt, the largest no wider then three inches. Glue white paper to folded card stock. Cut tree trunk out of card stock. Glue trunk, then felt triangles, to paper. Add square pieces of felt as gifts. Trim gifts and tree with ribbon, mini garland, sequins or glitter.