Creating Memories We Can Cling To For The Holidays with Crayola + A Giveaway
Handmade gifts are some of my favorite gifts to give and receive, especially now that we are parents. Last year my mom surprised us with a bird house that A painted for us and it was the best gift we got all season last year. We also know how much people love receiving gifts that our little ones have created every year. Knowing that handmade gifts are always a win, in combination with A’s love for getting hands on and creating + our love for Crayola, I’m ecstatic to share with you what we are doing to go with all of our holiday gifts. (Family members who may be reading this – act surprised this Christmas, mmmkay?)
Every holiday we end up with some sort of window clings on our windows. There’s just something about clings that are overly exciting to children, I remember being the same way as a child, so when I was presented with the opportunity to share their with you all today I could. not. wait. We had a blast trying this out and making special gifts just for our family members. It says it’s for ages 8+ but mamas, this is great for toddlers too with your supervision and assistance.
We had such a fun time. We did attempt to make our own clings with the moldable clay but had a rough time so we stuck to the standard molds and they worked fantastic for our family! We mixed the two solutions to the lines they suggested, tossed it in the shaker – which A found extremely fun – and poured them into the molds. (Mamas with children that have sensory challenges or sleeping babies – you can shake the mixture by hand if that’s a better fit!) Each cling takes about 15-20 minutes to full set which can be quite a while in toddler time. That said, we made five at a time – one in each mold type – and waited. Usually we only had a little bit of extra wait time by the time we finished up the last one. So, we washed hands, had snacks or found other activities to do during that time. We learned that when we filled up the creator molds half way our molds were more flexible and stuck better!
After our clings were made we stuck the ones A chose to keep to the windows and picked out which once we wanted to give away. Once the decision was made, I took a page protector and cut off the edges. Once the edges were cut we stuck the clings to the clear plastic so both sides were covered. Then, we took out our Color Wonder paper and paints and painted some beautiful artwork all over them. Once completed and dried, we attached the clings to the new gift tags with clear tape, so that we could attach them to presents!
I can’t wait to spread a little extra cheer to our family members this Christmas with these clings that will remind them of Miss A all throughout the year!!
Even more exciting? Thanks to Crayola, I get to bless one of you with your own and a $50 Gift Card. I’m completely serious. I am running this giveaway for one week so that you’ll have time to win it, and receive it in time for Christmas meaning you can either use it to make gifts like we did OR give it to a kiddo in your life for Christmas. The $50 is yours for whatever you wish too! Super awesome right?
The Crayola product, gift card, information, and additional gift pack have been provided by Crayola
Handmade gifts are the best!!! LOVE!!! <3
Definitely agree!
I’m getting kinda tired of having to wash the windows from the window markers that the kid keeps using! This would be a much better solution for the windows!
Definitely a clean solution! Your girl would LOVE this!
Oh how reba would love this! This is new to me and I think we would have aast making them!
We had a lot of fun. A insisted on doing it herself (pouring the solutions into the mix cups and pouring!) So it was good practice listening too in order to get the solution measurements correct. 🙂 Reba would definitely enjoy it and it makes such pretty things for the windows! 🙂
My daughter would love the cling creator! She loves decorating our windows during the Holidays with window clings! I would love the $50 gift card!
So fun, right?! Funny how clings are a favorite among most kiddos!
I’d love to win this because my daughter loves all things Crayola.
Crayola is an excellent thing to love!
This would be so much fun to do with my son especially on a winter day.
Yes! Hooray for busy activities when it’s too cold to go outside!
I would love to win this cling creator because this would be a fun activity to do with my grandsons! I would spend the gift card on even more great Crayola products for them!
Would certainly be a great activity to do with your grandsons! Good luck!
This would be great to win for the kids, they would have so much fun with it.
They certainly would! Good luck!
I would love to win this for my little niece who loves arts & crafts. I think she would really enjoy this.
Yay for little creative spirits!! Good luck!
I want to win this for my niece who loves Crayola.
Good luck!
My daughter loves crayola products and I could use the gift card to purchase more arts & craft products
Crayola is a household favorite here too!
I would love to win the Cling Creator and $50 because this would be a great winter activity to keep my kids busy. We would buy additional art supplies too. Thanks.
Definitely a great winter activity!
I would love to win the Cling Creator for my niece. She is so creative and I would love to get her some craft supplies along with this cool creator 🙂
Sounds like a great plan Betsy! Good Luck!
I would love to win the Cling Creator for my niece because she is so artistic and would love more art supplies. I also could use the gift card to buy her a nice Christmas gift.
You can never have too many art supplies!! 🙂 Good luck, Natalie!
I would love to win the Cling creator for my daughter. She would love to create window clings for her room!
My daughter loves putting them on the windows in her room too!
This would be perfect for my niece
I want to win because my kids both love to do crafts.
i wanna win this for my daughter
Crayola anything is a blast for kids and $50 would be great for holiday toys.
I would love to win this for my son to play with.
I would love to win this because I try to encourage my kids to be creative, and I know they would love this.
my daughter would love to have this! I think i will enjoy it more though lol. the gc would be great for buying groceries too!
I would love to win because this would be such a fun project to work on with my little boy. Thanks for the chance!
Entered the Rafflecopter as “Wild Orchid”
Thanks for the chance to win!
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I would love to win this for my son. We hang up window clings every holiday and he would have a lot of fun ceating his own!
My son would love this, he loves doing crafts!
I would love to win this for my niece
I would love to win this for my son!
I would like to win this for my son.
I would like to win this for my nieces and nephews
This will be perfect for those days we can’t get outside and need something crafty to do! I’d love to win this for my girls!
I would love to win this Crayola Cling Creator for my kids, and the $50 gift card for me to use towards stocking stuffers.
Oh we would have so much fun with this! We always buy the window clings for the holidays, and would love to make our own!
I’d love to win it for my nephew.