Capture A Photo of Santa In YOUR Home!!

This is my FAVORITE idea involving Santa and Christmas. Thrill your kids this Christmas with a photo of Santa in YOUR house! How will your kids doubt Santa when they see a picture of him in their very own home delivering presents?!! This is such a cool idea and very easy to do. I uploaded images of my family room to the company's website. I spent a few minutes choosing a Santa (there are hundreds to choose from). It took about 15 minutes to create - which includes a downloadable picture I printed instantly. Wow - I have PROOF of SANTA in my very own home!  Here's Santa in front of our fireplace. I love his facial expression of being caught in the act! I shared this post last year and this is still one of my all time favorite posts.

Santa in front of our Christmas tree. He's probably checking his list to find out if we've been naughty or nice ; ).  What a fun tradition to do every year and then look back on the different pictures!! Your kids will be talking about Santa visiting their home for years!

Here's my before picture.

This is how easy it is to do.....

 

How fun would it be to try and show Proof of Santa's Visit in your home?!? Just before bedtime on Christmas Eve - have your kids help you set up your camera on a tripod or on a desk/counter.  Mention to your kids if Santa appears the camera will automatically take his picture. Of course, if your child still believes...this will be easy to pass off. After the kids are sleeping, take the photo you really want to use and upload it to the company's website. Make sure to delete the camera image - just in case your child looks at the camera (you don't want an image of your family room on the camera without Santa in the pic). This site has several great features on this website - you can resize Santa, brighten, contrast, etc to make it look like he is really in your home. Print out the picture and show your family the next morning...what an awesome surprise. I wish my kids were young enough to pull this off.  For $9.95 you're able to do 3 different pictures. The account set-up will expire in one year - create 1 or 2 pictures this year and another next year. Great deal!

Fun items for Christmas...

 

Chase Prod. 499-0506 Spray Snow 

INSTA-SNOW 1LB BAG

 

Personalized Santa Key

Santa Clues - Proof of Santa's Visit



I absolutely LOVE this so much that this is a repost from last year.  I hope you like it.

Christmas Bingo

Hello, Design Dazzle readers!

I'm Michele, and I create at The Scrap Shoppe.

I'm really excited to be here as part of the 100 Ideas of Christmas Wonderful!

As a mom of two little boys, I enjoy coming up with new and fun ways to interact with them. Especially around the holidays! I want Christmas to feel just as special to them as it always has to me. And that means finding lots of things to do together as a family!

Today I would love to share a Christmas Bingo

game that includes some free printables for you so you can play at home, too!

Let's get started on the tutorial...

I printed my bingo cards on fabric because I thought, over the years as we play, it would hold up pretty well. But of course you can print these bingo sheets on cardstock if you so choose. 

To run fabric through your printer, you need 2 things:

fabric and freezer paper

1. Cut your freezer paper into 8.5x11" sheets.

2. Also cut your fabric into 8.5x11" sheets. I'm using unbleached muslin. 

3. Line up your fabric with the shiny side of the freezer paper.

4. Iron the two pieces together. 

5. The shiny side of the freezer paper with fuse to the fabric.

6. Feed your freezer paper/fabric into your printer. You shouldn't have to tell your printer any special commands to print on fabric, but you may want to change the print quality to high for the best results.

(The free Christmas bingo printables can be found for download at the end of this post.)

7. Out should come your printed fabric!

Now that you have printed your bingo cards on the fabric we want to thicken them up...

8. Peel your fabric off of the freezer paper.

9. Take some fusible webbing and attach the sticky side to the back of your bingo sheets.

10. Trim some felt (or similar backing) to 8.5x11" and iron the fusible webbing-backed fabric on top of the felt. The webbing will fuse the two pieces of material together.

11. Cut out you bingo cards.

The fabric bingo cards can now easily be handled by little hands and aren't too floppy with the extra weight of the felt behind them. 

I also have a sheet of bingo images to use to play the game. 

Print and cut out.

We need little tokens to put on our bingo sheets so I cut up little squares of felt.

To keep up with the felt tokens, I dressed up an old baby food jar with scrapbook paper, scrap muslin, and ric-rac to store them in. The bingo image cards are small enough to store in there, too!

Though I only printed 4 bingo cards (we're only a family of four!), there are 8 total available for download. I promise they are all different! The star is always in the center though and can be used as a free space if you so choose. 

The 4 bingo sheets and images cards can be downloaded via 

the following links in Google Documents.

Santa Bingo, Snowman Bingo, Ornament Bingo, Boots Bingo, Bingo Cards

Play the game as you would any bingo game. 

First one to 5 in a row (horizontal or vertical) or diagonal wins.

It will be a fun matching game for the little ones as well!

I hope you enjoy the game and would love for you to come visit me sometime!

 Freezer Paper Sheets 8-1/2 Inch x11 Inch 30/pkg

 Cotton Muslin Fabric By The Yard

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Thanks Michele!! I LOVE your ideas. This fabric print bingo would certainly make a wonderful Christmas heirloom for your family. 

To view all of our 100 Ideas of Christmas Wonderful posts visit here. More "wonderful" everyday until Christmas!

25 Fun And Cute Kids Room Decoration Ideas

Children are the flowers of our life that we all want life to be cool and better than ours. The children's room in the house is the first place to start. To do so, so funny and cute, the boys would always be happy to spend time there. They would be happy to show off to friends, play and sleep there, and probably do your homework. Check out this gallery and you can certainly find some ideas for decorating your child's room.