Angelina Ballerina's Christmas Crafts by Katherine Holabird (2003, Paperback)

In this Christmas themed book from the ‘Angelina Ballerina’ series, Angelina the mouse looks forward with excitement to a Christmas countdown, and a new craft project or recipe for each of the twenty five days before Christmas. The craft projects are made with simple materials like beads, buttons, glue, craft paint, tape, scissors, felt, fabric, ribbon, faux fur and glitter. The recipes involve candy decorations like chocolate chips and gumdrops and other basic ingredients and utensils. There is also one recipe for making bird seed ornaments to hang outside to feed wild birds. The book also includes Angelina themed illustrations throughout the pages, as well as some gift tags and stickers.

Some of the projects included in Angelina’s Christmas Countdown are:

* Glitter Ornament
* Picture Perfect Ornament
* Soap Snow Mouse
* Snow Balls
* Easy Cheese Crackers
* Angelina’s Cottage
* Cocoa Mix
* Cozy Bookmark
* GingerBread Magnet
* Shinning Star Ornament
* Sweet Spice Ornament
* Glitter and Glue Ornament
* Tiny Tree (a pinecone tree)
* For the Birds
* Bend n Bead Tree
* Quiet Little Mouse
* Angelina’s Crown and Fairy Wand
* Nutcracker Suite
* Mrs. Mouseling’s Christmas Cookies
* Christmas Crackers
* Nifty Noodle Snowflakes


Reading level is ages 4-8 (48 pages)