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Crafting Ideas to Celebrate Kwanzaa
During the season of Kwanzaa, one way to demonstrate the principle of “Kuumba”, or the focus on creativity, is to develop craft projects for the holiday. Once finished, the crafts can be used year after year as part of the Kwanzaa theme in your home, creating great decorations as well as great memories.
If your Kwanzaa holiday includes planning a party in your home, this will be the perfect opportunity for craft projects. Invitations, place cards, place mats, and decorations are very easy craft projects for the entire family to create. The designs will be limited only to the imagination of the designer, with the only rule to be that they remain in the Kwanzaa theme. Using the traditional colors of the holiday, black, red and green, invitations and place cards can be stamped, inked, colored, or decorated with fabric or other materials. With corn as part of the seven symbols, incorporating unpopped kernels into the designs will add a realistic touch to your art. Place mats for the dinner table can be woven with colored construction paper, stiffened ribbons or strips of plastic canvas available in craft stores.
Your creative flow can run freely with decorations for the holiday. Kwanzaa is a celebration of many things: crops, family, community, creation, and African past and future. With the foundation roots of Kwanzaa springing from African harvest festivals of decades past, any African print, theme or idea can be utilized for decorations. Small natural clay pots, hand decorated in African theme with black acrylic paint can be connected with hemp and suspended upside down as wind chimes. Strips of cloth in black, red and green can be hand sewn to fashion a variety of African flags and displayed as a wall hanging; for children, this same craft can be created using colored construction paper and string.
Children love to create, and craft projects geared to their age groups will form wonderful memories for years to come. Their designs can serve double duty as Kwanzaa decorations around the house, as well. African native animal crafts are particularly appealing. Monkeys, lions, tigers, elephants, giraffes and brilliantly hued parrots can be cut from colored construction paper and glued to plastic straws or Popsicle (craft) sticks to form a jungle zoo. Animal and traditional African masks are also very decorative crafts that can be both displayed and played with by children. The masks can be as simple as cut out construction paper, or made more ornate by crafting with cardstock paper and including glued on decorations such as feathers, beads and hemp.
Fun surprises are always welcome by young and old, and you can create a few craft surprises to delight family members during Kwanzaa dinners. Using common household items, such as empty bathroom or paper towel rolls, crafting tissue paper, construction paper, string and glue, you can design Kwanzaa candles that hold sweet treats. Simply cut construction paper of black, red or green to wrap around the paper rolls and glue in place. Place on square of tissue paper on top of another, forming a star-like pattern, place your finger in the center and fold up the sides like an umbrella. Carefully stuff the folded tissue completely into the roll. Insert the sweet treats, and secure the end with string, leaving tufts of paper at the end to form a "flame".
Creating beautiful and memorable crafts does not mean that you need to spend a lot of money on materials. There are certain to be plenty of materials around the home that can be put to use in craft making. Items such as paper grocery bags, cast off clothing, loose beads, food items like dried beans and popcorn and glue can be the foundation of many attractive and creative crafts. Throughout the year before the Kwanzaa holiday, discounted items can be purchased and stored to be brought out at the season of Kwanzaa.
Begin a family tradition for the Kwanzaa season that can be carried on for years to come. Creating crafts to decorate and delight through Kwanzaa will bring the family together in unity and creativity as well as providing lasting memories of happy times spent.
About the Author
S Canfield, owner of Accent the Party selling many different types and themes of unique party favors.
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