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It’s that time of year when we become busy making memories together as a family. With the holidays near, we are starting to get ready for Christmas and as a big family we enjoy decorating and making things together. What’s more fun than all of us, including Dad, getting together to paint things?
Christmas is a wonderful time to spend time together and make memories and creating crafts with our children is a fun and easy way to spend more time together. Elmer’s Painters Paint Markers make crafting with kids especially easy. Every Christmas my children make ornaments; it’s just a fun tradition and fills our tree with hand made memories. Elmer’s Painters Paint Markers make it easy to create the perfect homemade ornaments.
To get started with our project, we bought some plain glass ornaments from the craft store filling each ornament with glitter and mini Christmas items that I also found at the craft store. We tried to find things that applied to them like baking goods and Christmas lights, basically anything small, cute, and fun.
I really like how easy Elmer’s Painters Paint Markers are to use. The paint goes on smooth and you don’t have to worry about it smudging or running. We had no problems with any streaking and the paint stayed on directly where it was applied and the markers didn’t slip at all, making it easy to write or draw a picture, even on glass.
Elmer’s Painters Paint Markers are easy for kids to grip and since they come in a pen there’s also minimal mess to clean up! We had no problem with the paint wear and smudging off and it dried in seconds making there virtually no paint mess like with many painting accessories.
We had a lot of fun making this year’s ornaments and each of our girls got to personalize their own ornament. It’s a fun and creative way to spend time together and get in the holiday spirit. We all did our own ornaments and we all added something we felt was worth remembering. Being that we used paint, these will last forever and these are great keepsakes from our kids for 2014.
In the end you have creative ornaments that are truly unique and we make this a Christmas tradition so it’s fun to do year after year! These are also great for gifts and crafting ideas for groups and family to do during the holidays. Be sure to share your craft creations socially with hashtags: #DIYwithPainters and #PaintersMarkers.
What are some of your family traditions each year?
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We leave Santa a banana every year. Random…I know. I’m glad you shared these Painter Markers. I really need some.
I love the idea of decorating ornaments with the Elmer’s markers! Such a cute idea! Plus it looks like the kids had a blast decorating.
I love homemade ornaments for the tree. Those paint markers are perfect for preserving those works of art
We are totally doing this this weekend! Thanks for the craft!
This product is brilliant for kids, so much less mess. I love how the ornaments turned out. We have some fun holiday traditions and one that I love is making sugar cookies.
I thought Elmers were just glue!! The more you know I have to go check these painters out and I love the idea of make your own ornaments!
I honestly never thought to let my kids use the paint markers! And I love how nicely they worked even on the glass.
What a cute idea we love crafting at Christmas these would be a great way for the kids to make gifts!
What a fun way to make ornaments. They turned out really cute too!
These are adorable! They did such a great job!
What a great way to make memories! I love Elmer’s Painters too!
Oh what a fun craft! I love those and will have to pick up some for the kids to use!
Love them! What a fun idea and a great gift or family tradition! Every year we make frosted sugar cookies and some handprint craft.
I love their painters pens. They are so much fun to use. The ornaments are adorable.
Awesome markers. That looks like a fun keepsake.
This is such a great craft idea! They turned out awesome!
I could think of so many uses for these. They seem really awesome!
We make cookies every year, but this year I want to make those dough/salt ornaments with my kids and to let them paint them. I like your crafts ideas. Paint markers are the best!
I love Elmer’s products too! They always make for some crafting time!
I love these Markers. I use them all the time in my classroom. What an adorable idea to use them to make ornaments. I have to get to the store to do this myself!
I think their ornaments came out great. How fun to make this a yearly tradition!
I love paint markers. I use them all the time because they are so much easier to write with than trying to write letters with a paintbrush.
This is such a cute and easy way to make ornaments. They would make great Christmas gifts for grandparents.
I am in love with this craft idea, I love making things with the kids and have never made ornaments, that I can recall. This is perfect for our holiday season crafting. Thank you!
Those are great, you can use them for so much this time of year. I’ll have to pick some up!
they did a great job. I love how simple the markers make everything
These paint markers are really neat. I could see then being used a lot in our house. A lot of our traditions revolve around food and decorations.
I bet kids love doing crafts such as these. What better way to personalize your Christmas tree?
Those are too stinking cute! I absolutely love personalized ornaments.
I love those ornaments. I am going to have to pick up some of the painters, my daughter loves to do stuff like this!
These would be PERFECT for a project I want to do for my book club meeting next week! Those ornaments your kids made are too precious and I bet you took pride hanging them on the tree 🙂
These are nice! I will have to grab some and include them in gift baskets this year for the kiddos who like crafting.
What a great craft activity to do with the kids.
This is such a cute idea. It would be a great gift for Christmas.
You know, those would be perfect activities to do on Friday. Thanks so much for sharing… so awesome
Great idea! So cute too I need to do more of this with my kiddos!
Those are cute ornaments that the kids made. We always bake cookies.
We love to make new ornaments each year! And I am loving how easy those Painters make decorating the ornaments! I may have to try that this year!
These are awesome, these make so many craft projects possible. They eliminate the mess of paint brushes too.
What a cute idea! We like to make ornaments every year.
My daughter loves paint markers. We made ornaments last year similar to these. Yours are adorable and your kids looked like they had a lot of fun making them.
These ornaments look great! I would love for my family and I to make some this year!
These are perfect for so many crafts! Being able to paint with them makes them perfect for kids too.
I agree they would be great for so much. My daughter would go to town with these.
Love Elmer’s products! Those pens look so easy to use and your results are amazing! I am going to have to look for these in the store
Those are adorable! What a great project to do with the kids. I love it.
That is too cute! I had no idea that Elmer’s made anything other than glue. Very cool.
SO easy and fun! We love Elmer’s products! My son is an artist and I must get this for his supply drawer!
That is such a cute idea. I think they came out great.