Happy holidays from the deRosier family!
I will be taking my annual winter blog break and will return on January 5. Best wishes for a wonderful holiday season.
12/19/25
Merry Christmas 2025!
Cindy deRosier has a masters in Education and taught 4th and 5th grade for 11 years. She uses that experience to blog about crafts and family-friendly educational travel. She spent many years as the Editor of Fun Family Crafts, a website with over 12,000 kid-friendly craft tutorials. Cindy is the co-author of "What Would Jesus Patent?", does freelance writing and designing, loves jigsaw puzzles, is an avid scrapbooker, and has been to all 50 states.
12/18/25
The Best of 2025
Every year in December, I go back through all the projects I've made that year and pick out my favorite kids crafts and scrapbook layouts. It's a lot of fun to see everything I've created over a 12-month period. I almost always find that by the end of the year, I've completely forgotten what I made at the beginning of the year. So let's take a look at what I did make, starting with my favorite kids crafts from 2025:
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These are my favorite scrapbook layouts of 2025, starting with the one that was published in Scrapbook & Cards Today.
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I have a lot of ideas for projects in 2026 that I'm excited to share, but I'm even more excited about the ones I haven't even thought of yet. Here's to a creative year!
Cindy deRosier has a masters in Education and taught 4th and 5th grade for 11 years. She uses that experience to blog about crafts and family-friendly educational travel. She spent many years as the Editor of Fun Family Crafts, a website with over 12,000 kid-friendly craft tutorials. Cindy is the co-author of "What Would Jesus Patent?", does freelance writing and designing, loves jigsaw puzzles, is an avid scrapbooker, and has been to all 50 states.
12/17/25
Peeking Reindeer Painting
I made a companion piece for the Peeking Snowman. It's a Peeking Reindeer!
Peeking Reindeer
Materials:
Steps:
Cut the paper to the size and shape you want the window to be. With a wet brush, moisten the area where the sky goes, then brush a small amount of light blue paint horizontally onto the paper. Let the paint dry completely.
Use a pencil to sketch the outline of the reindeer. Paint the reindeer brown, with tan for his inner ears and muzzle. Paint the hat red. Add green trees.
When the paint is dry, outline the reindeer and his hat with a black pen. Add eyes, a nose, and a mouth.
Use the brown paint pen to make a window sill by coloring each edge of the paper. Then use the ruler to mark the center of each edge. Draw a vertical and a horizontal line through those center points to finish the window.
Look how cute the two paintings look together!
Who else can you imagine peeking in the window? Let me know in the comments!
Cindy deRosier has a masters in Education and taught 4th and 5th grade for 11 years. She uses that experience to blog about crafts and family-friendly educational travel. She spent many years as the Editor of Fun Family Crafts, a website with over 12,000 kid-friendly craft tutorials. Cindy is the co-author of "What Would Jesus Patent?", does freelance writing and designing, loves jigsaw puzzles, is an avid scrapbooker, and has been to all 50 states.
12/16/25
Santa's Closet - A Printable Drawing Challenge for Kids
We all know what Santa wears during the winter, but what does he wear the rest of the year? This printable challenges kids to use their imagination to draw what they think Santa wears during each season of the year.
Of course I tried my own challenge! But before you scroll down and look at my sketches, take a minute to decide how you think Santa dresses in spring, summer, and fall.
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It was great fun thinking about what Santa does in the off-season and how he would dress. I decided that Santa's spring wardrobe includes a red polo shirt, khaki convertible cargo pants, a yellow and green ball cap, and tennis shoes. In the summer, he wears a red tank top, yellow and green floral board shorts, a green visor, and red flip flops. In the fall, he wears a black and red knitted sweater, brown corduroy pants, a yellow knitted beanie, and brown hiking boots. I colored my designs with my Ohuhu Kaala markers, which are always so much fun to use.
If any of you take the challenge and draw what's in Santa's closet, I'd love to see it! You can email photos to cindy.mycreativelife@gmail.com. Enjoy!
Cindy deRosier has a masters in Education and taught 4th and 5th grade for 11 years. She uses that experience to blog about crafts and family-friendly educational travel. She spent many years as the Editor of Fun Family Crafts, a website with over 12,000 kid-friendly craft tutorials. Cindy is the co-author of "What Would Jesus Patent?", does freelance writing and designing, loves jigsaw puzzles, is an avid scrapbooker, and has been to all 50 states.
12/15/25
Printable Christmas People Bingo
Our church is having a congregational Christmas party on Sunday. It's going to be a lot of fun. I'm running the People Bingo game. This is the card I made.
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I tried to include a mix of things that apply to a lot of people and others that are more unique, so that the game is winnable but not ridiculously easy. Nine of the 16 apply to me. How many are true for you? Let me know in the comments!
Cindy deRosier has a masters in Education and taught 4th and 5th grade for 11 years. She uses that experience to blog about crafts and family-friendly educational travel. She spent many years as the Editor of Fun Family Crafts, a website with over 12,000 kid-friendly craft tutorials. Cindy is the co-author of "What Would Jesus Patent?", does freelance writing and designing, loves jigsaw puzzles, is an avid scrapbooker, and has been to all 50 states.
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