Whether you are hosting a Christmas event/party or simply enjoying some time with family and friends, this poster is sure to add a dash of creative fun to your holiday. It’s a great activity for all ages and you’ll love looking for the holiday songs, names of Christ ornaments, etc.!

We understand that not everybody has enough space for a giant poster so we’ve provided a coloring page size, too! The smaller pages can be handed out individually or even used as a coloring contest!

HOW TO PRINT A COLORING POSTER

1. Go to officedepot.com or staples.com (or another office supply store)
2. Click on “services”, go to “blueprints”
3. Click on “customize”
4. Upload poster (links below)
5. Choose the size you want 18×24 or 24×36
6. Click on “black and white”
7. Click on “add to cart” and have them deliver it or you can pick it up (sometimes same day!)

MERRY CHRISTMAS COLORING PAGE

MERRY CHRISTMAS COLORING POSTER 18×24

MERRY CHRISTMAS COLORING POSTER 24×36

Download the free printables today and have a Merry Christmas!

Thank you for stopping by U Create today!

Please tag @ucreateblog and show us your finished poster and pages on social media!

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You will find reindeer antlers with a red nose, striped elf legs, and a cute little Santa hat! The pattern is called “North Pole Friends” and is very easy to follow!

Whether you’re a seasoned stitching enthusiast or a beginner eager to explore the world of needlework, these designs are tailor-made to bring joy to every level of skill.

Gather your friends or family for a cozy craft night and let the laughter and creativity flow. These ornaments are not only delightful to make but are also perfect gifts that carry a personal touch.

These patterns are designed to fit inside 3-inch embroidery hoops and this design works with any cross-stitch fabric or linen (used in the pics).

HOW TO ASSEMBLE:

1. Stitch your Christmas image in the free pattern linked below.
2. Place in 3inch embroidery hoop
3. Trim edges and glue access behind the hoop.
4. Place pom pom trim with a glue gun around hoop (OPTIONAL)
5. Add greenery and tie with ribbon or jute.
6. Hang on your tree or give as a gift!

I’m excited to share these patterns with you! Simply download the free PDFs linked below and let your creativity soar. Don’t forget to share your finished creations on social media using @ucreateblog — I can’t wait to see your beautiful handiwork!

Wishing you all a season filled with warmth, laughter, and endless moments of crafting joy!

Happy Stitching and thanks for stopping by U Create!

NORTH POLE FRIENDS PATTERN

POST BY: Kari Sweeten

Patterns Stitched By: Penny Duran (my awesome Aunt)

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Whether you are hosting a holiday gathering, in charge of a classroom party, or simply enjoying some time with family and friends, this poster is sure to add a dash of creative fun to your holiday. It’s a great activity for all ages and you’ll love looking for the holiday songs!

We understand that not everybody has enough space for a giant poster so we’ve provided a coloring page size, too! The smaller pages can be handed out individually or even used as a coloring contest!

HOW TO PRINT A COLORING POSTER

1. Go to officedepot.com (or another office supply store)
2. Click on “services”, go to “blueprints”
3. Click on “customize”
4. Upload poster (links below)
5. Choose the size you want 18×24 or 24×36
6. Click on “black and white”
7. Click on “add to cart” and have them deliver it or you can pick it up (sometimes same day!)

COLORING PAGE (8.5×11)

COLORING POSTER (18x24)

COLORING POSTER (24×36)

Download the free printables today and have a wonderful holiday season!

Thank you for stopping by U Create today!

Please tag @ucreateblog and show us your finished poster and pages!

POST BY: Kari Sweeten

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Introducing my brand-new collection of 9 modern Christmas-themed prints. These are decked out in modern designs and colors, curated to complement your holiday decor. The best part? They’re available for FREE downloads in both 5×7 and 4×6 sets. Yep, you read that right– FREE!

Grab some frames and place them on your mantel, make a wall collage, add to your office, etc.!

Printing these is a piece of cake! You can easily print them from the comfort of your own home or quickly send them to a local print shop. Tip: for best results print on white cardstock or photo paper.

Merry 5×7 Art Set

Merry 4×6 Art Set

I can’t wait to see how you display these prints! Share your festive decor with me by tagging @ucreateblog on social media!

Wishing you all a holly jolly crafty season! Merry Christmas!

POST BY: Kari Sweeten

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If your children are anything like mine, they love to help when it comes to decorating for the holidays! Here’s a simple way they can help using this Merry Christmas Coloring Banner!

SUPPLIES:

• free “Merry Christmas” banner download
• something to color with (markers, colored pencils, crayons)
• white card stock
• scissors
• printer
• tape
• string or ribbon

DIRECTIONS:

1. Print.
2. Color.
3. Cut.
4. Hang with twine or ribbon.

Involve the whole family and make it together. I had a lady contact me and tell me she used this at an assisted living home that she runs and the residents loved coloring this!

This is such a fun way for the kids to get involved in Christmas decorating. My girls want to hang this in their bedroom next to their own mini Christmas tree!

I ove these!!

Love to color? Check out these free Christmas Coloring Pages…

POST BY: Kari Sweeten

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Hi everyone! It’s Autumn here, from It’s Always Autumn, where I share tips and tutorials on photography, crafting, sewing, and baking, as well as free printables. Last week I shared instructions to make cookie mix treat bags with 12 different printable toppers, and today I’m sharing five pages of printable gift tags perfect for adding to the tasty treats you’ll be giving away this season.
I’m excited to be here at U-Create today to share one of my favorite holiday treats to make, eat, and gift: chocolate covered caramel pretzel bites….

You might think you already know all you need to about chocolate caramel pretzels. After all, pretzel rods dipped in white or chocolate almond bark are fairly common, as are the pretzels with the rolo and m&m pressed on top. But these chocolate covered caramel pretzel bites are in a league all their own. They’re simple to make but taste absolutely decadent. They don’t stick around long.

The main reason these chocolate caramel pretzel bites taste so much better than the other versions is that the proportions are perfect. First, using small pretzels instead of pretzel rods give you a much better salty outside to boring inside pretzel proportion. Sandwiching caramel inside two pretzels and dunking the entire thing in chocolate evenly distributes the caramel and chocolate so every bite is delicious. And finally, that chocolate dunk really maximizes the amount of chocolate on each and every bite, leaving you with a delicious, perfectly proportioned treat. (Plus they’re little, which is always fun.)
And they package up perfectly! Look how pretty 5 of them are in a sweet little handmade box:

Want to make your own box?
Click here for a post with free printable templates for four different treat boxes you can construct out of paper or cardstock!
You can make about 36 of these treats in under 1/2 an hour, and they package up nicely at 5 or 6 to a box, meaning you’ll end up with 6 tasty gifts, each one costing less than $1.50. Not bad!

Let’s talk chocolate before we get started. Most candy recipes like this call for almond bark because it melts beautifully and dries shiny and pretty. The only problem is that it’s not actually chocolate – it’s more like flavored shortening – and although it kind of sorta tastes like chocolate, there’s just no substitute for the real deal. The very best taste will come from dipping chocolate (or even the chocolate chips made by Guittard, which produces dipping chocolate). The only problem is dipping chocolate’s a little temperamental and unless it’s kept at the perfect temperature at all time it often dries with grey streaks, which doesn’t change the flavor but certainly doesn’t look very good.

So I compromise a bit and use Hershey’s milk chocolate chips. The flavor is still very good (way better than almond bark) AND the chips dry without grey streaks. You have to be careful not to heat chocolate chips too fast or they will sieze up and go crumbly, and even once melted it will be a little thicker than almond bark would, but those are easy things to deal with (and who doesn’t mind a little thicker layer of chocolate?).
Now that we have that out of the way, here’s what you do:

Chocolate Covered Caramel Pretzel Bites

 

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Prep time

15 mins

Total time

15 mins

 

Author: Autumn - It's Always Autumn

Recipe type: Snacks

Ingredients

• Small pretzel twists (you’ll use less than ⅓ of a bag
• Caramels (again, you’ll have lots left over)
• 1 bag (or 2 cups) MILK Chocolate chips

Instructions

1. Place wax paper on a large cookie sheet and lay out 36 pretzels.
2. Unwrap 18 caramels and cut each one in half.
3. Top each pretzel with a caramel half and place in a 250 degree oven for 5 minutes or so, until caramel is soft to the touch.
4. Remove from oven and top each pretzel with another pretzel, GENTLY squeezing in the middle of each pretzel to sandwich the caramel. If you break a pretzel, don’t worry, just grab a new one and be a little more gentle.
5. Melt your chocolate in a microwave safe bowl, stirring every 30 seconds until just melted. (I keep a handful of chips out while I melt the rest, then stir them in at the end – this helps ensure the chocolate won’t go grey when it dries).
6. Grab a pretzel sandwich and dunk it completely in the chocolate, then hold it between two fingers and shake to remove excess chocolate.
7. Place on another cookie sheet covered in wax paper. Use your finger to gently swirl the chocolate on top of the pretzel bite to make sure it looks pretty and no pretzel is peeking through.
8. Repeat with remaining pretzels and allow to set up completely at room temperature.

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If you’d like, melt some white chips and tint green with a little food coloring. Put the melted chocolate in a ziplock bag and snip a tiny piece off one corner, then pipe the white chocolate out in a Christmas tree design (white snowflakes would look really cute as well).
Let everything dry, then package them up and give away to six of your favorite people! Luckily for me, my six favorite people all live with me, so we didn’t actually give any away – we just ate the entire batch. I guess I’ll be forced to make some more…

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My favorite candy? Hands down M&M’s!
I made these M&M jars as simple gifts for some friends and wanted to share a printable tag for you to use, too!
So many fun things you can do with this tag…

• Fill a small jar
• Tie directly to any sized M&M bag
• Make some M&M cookies

…or whatever your heart desires!!

Click the following link to download…

Christmas M&M Poem Tags

Enjoy!!

POST BY: Kari Sweeten

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Tis the season for holiday baking and I am thrilled to be sharing these fabulous Eggnog Cookies with you today! There is just something about the cooler nights and shorter days that has me firing up the oven more often. We love these moist, flavourful cookies that are a perfect addition to any of your Christmas festivities.

These Eggnog Cookies are essentially a seasonal take on the classic sugar cookie. They have the rich flavours of nutmeg, cinnamon and eggnog which is one of my favorite combinations. I like to serve them with eggnog shakes for the kids and a chai tea latte for momma. Are you with me? Seriously delicious!

Egg Nog Cookies

 

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Author: Heather Painchaud

Recipe type: Dessert

Ingredients

• 1 ¼ cup sugar
• ¾ cup margarine
• 2 eggs
• 1 tsp vanilla
• ½ cup eggnog
• 2 ¼ cups flour
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp nutmeg
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• For icing:
• 2 oz cream cheese, softened
• ¼ cup margarine
• 1 cup confectioners sugar
• 2 Tbsp eggnog

Instructions

1. Preheat the oven to 350.
2. Cream together first five ingredients until smooth.
3. In a medium bowl combine dry ingredients and carefully add to the wet ingredients. Mix well.
4. Drop dough by the tablespoon (walnut sized amount) onto greased cookie sheets. I like to use my Pampered Chef cookie scoop for even portioning.
5. Bake for 12-15 minutes until bottoms are just brown.
6. While baking combine ingredients for icing.
7. Allow cookies to cool before drizzling the cream cheese eggnog icing overtop.

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You may want to freeze these after baking or at the very least hide them in the pantry otherwise they will be gone all too soon. My kids like to wake up early and sneak a few from the cookie jar hoping that I won’t see the trail of cookie crumbs across the counter.

Be sure to visit Twin Dragonfly Designs for more holiday baking, Christmas craft projects and festive decor ideas!

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Below you will find many styles of holiday coloring pages for all ages! These are great for nursing homes and medical centers, too!

Free Christmas Adult Coloring Pages

Click on each link below to print the coloring pages…

Christmas Gifts Coloring Page by Dover Publications

Christmas Ornaments Adult Coloring Page by U Create

Christmas Candles Coloring Page by Dover Publications

Christmas Village Coloring Page by Activity Village

Christmas Lights Coloring Page by Dover Publications

“Oh Christmas Tree” Coloring Page by U Create

Candy Cane Coloring Page by Dover Publications

Nativity Coloring Page by Hope Ink

Simply print, staple, and you have a free fall adult coloring book!

Want to color your own Christmas banner? I designed this free download, too…

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Simply print out, attach to your favorite lip balm, and you have an instant Christmas gift for just about anybody on your list!

I’ve created “Merry Christmas” and “Happy Holiday” versions to choose from!

BALM Printables – Merry Christmas

BALM Printables – Happy Holidays

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