{"id":214,"date":"2015-12-17T15:15:51","date_gmt":"2015-12-17T15:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/?p=214"},"modified":"2015-12-17T15:33:36","modified_gmt":"2015-12-17T15:33:36","slug":"festive-decorations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/2015\/12\/17\/festive-decorations\/","title":{"rendered":"Festive decorations"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Xmas<\/a>It\u2019s that time of year when school is finished and kids are on holiday. The first few days are fun because you don\u2019t have to get up early and can spend more time in bed in the morning, but if you are anything like me \u2013 after a few days you start to get a bit bored.<\/p>\n

Some friends are lucky and go away on holiday for the festive season, but lots don\u2019t. The thing to do is to find ways of keeping busy.<\/p>\n

One way is to make cool decorations for your room or house.<\/p>\n

If you get a group of friends together \u2013 it\u2019s even more fun. Plus sometimes you can pool your resources and then share \u2013 like buying spray paint, glitter and stuff like that.<\/p>\n

Try making a bowl of popcorn \u2013 either on the stove or in the microwave (yes \u2013 you can eat some of it). Obviously you don\u2019t put any salt or butter on the popcorn that you are going to use for your decorations. Ask your mom for a needle and some thread and string up length of about 60cm of popcorn.\u00a0 Make sure to secure it properly at both ends so that it does not fall off. You can also spray these with some gold or silver spray paint to make them look even prettier on your Christmas tree.<\/p>\n

Other easy and cheap decorations to make are paper chains. Find an old magazine or use crepe paper and cut strips of paper (about 2cm wide x 15cm long). You can either staple them or glue them together to make a long chain. You can experiment making them wider or thinner and see which ones you prefer. Have a competition with your friends to see who can make the longest chain.<\/p>\n

Paper beads are also fun to make. Take a strip of paper (2cm wide x about 7cm long) \u2013 roll it up tight into a tiny skinny little tube (you can use a tooth pick to roll it around) and then stick it down with a dab of glue. Once the glue is dry you can paint your paper beads different colours and string them all together to make your room or tree look pretty. You can even sprinkle some glitter on them whilst the glue is wet \u2013 to make them all shiny.<\/p>\n

Remember \u2013 you can make your own glue by mixing flour and water into a paste (not too runny and not too thick).<\/p>\n

Have fun,<\/p>\n

Sibo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s that time of year when school is finished and kids are on holiday. The first few days are fun because you don\u2019t have to get up early and can spend more time in bed in the morning, but if you are anything like me \u2013 after a few days you start to get a … Continue reading “Festive decorations”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[34,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":218,"href":"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions\/218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}