DIY Christmas Gifts

Madeline Owens, Editor

Festive Holiday Bowl
Materials:
-Peppermint and spearmint
round candies
-Parchment paper
-Small bowl shaped baking pan
-Oven
-Hot glue gun

Directions:
– Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
– Line baking bowl with parchment paper and place mints in the paper around the pan, forming a dome shape.
– Bake this for 5-8 minutes, watching it carefully.
– Let it cool, then remove it from baking pan. Pull off the parchment paper carefully. If peices fall off or don’t stick right, just hot glue them together.

Hot chocolate reindeer bag
Materials:
– Brown pipe cleaners
– Plastic piping bag
– Googly eyes
– Red button
-Glue
-Hot cocoa mix
-Mini marshmallows

Directions:
– Take plastic bag and fill 1/3 of the way with hot cocoa powder mix.
– Put 1 cup (or however much you want) of mini marshmallows on top of the hot cocoa mix in the bag.
– Twist tie the bag with the brown pipe cleaner to close the bag. Make the pipe cleaners bend into reindeer antlers by using multiple pipe cleaner bits and forming the antler shape.
– Take one red button and two googly eyes and glue in the shape of a face on the bag, below the tied pipe cleaner.

Minty hand and body scrub
Materials:
-1 drop of Red food coloring
-3/4 cup of Granulated sugar
-3/4 cup of Coconut oil
-4 drops of peppermint oil
-Mason jar for storage and green ribbon to tie around mason jar.
(If you want to make more or less of the scrub, then adjust the amount of your materials to make enough)

Directions:
– Take a small mixing bowl (optional) or just mix the scrub together in the mason jar.
– Add sugar and coconut oil and mix really well.
– Next, add the drop of red food coloring and 4 peppermint oil drops and mix very well again.
– Put mixture into mason jar if you haven’t already and decorate by tieing with ribbon or however you’d like.