• You can make your own Celtic cross with a snowflake theme.celtic cross image by Peter Helin from Fotolia.com
  
  While many people are familiar with making Rudolph the Reindeer crafts at Christmastime, such a craft theme doesn't have any real religious significance during Christmas, a religious holiday. Religious snow crafts should ideally have a dual purpose: they should celebrate the winter season and the holidays that accompany it while illuminating certain religious traditions, trends or beliefs. Ideally, the best types of crafts would be religiously appropriate and also serve some sort of function aside from being decorative.
  
  

Snowflake Celtic Crosses

• This activity will empower you to make your own winter-themed Celtic crosses. A Celtic cross look like a regular Christian cross with a circle in the intersection. Some say the circle represents the Eucharist, infinity, the sun and other symbols. Regardless, you can use a snowflake to act as that symbol on a cross of your own. Two modest sticks taken from nature make the cross. A piece of twine wraps around them at the point of intersection to hold them in place. A paper snowflake cut out of card stock glues down to the sticks at the point of intersection. Glitter covers the snowflake.
  
  

Religious Snow Scene

• This activity allows kids and adults alike to create a wonderfully simple snow globe that portrays a religious scene. The craft begins with an empty jar, like a baby food jar or a jam jar. The interior of the jar portrays a religious scene such as the birth of Christ in a manger, a menorah or tiny figures of saints. Once the figures have been glued down securely to the bottom of the jar, fill the jar with water and glitter. The lid should screw on tightly to the jar before you shake it to watch it snow.
  
  

Snowflake Angel

• While one use of this snowflake angel would be as an ornament for a Christmas tree, another use of this craft would be to act as a flame extinguisher on a menorah. Silver metallic paint should cover a miniature clay pot completely. The pot is turned upside-down and a small wooden ball is glued onto the bottom of the pot. You can paint a smiling face on this ball or leave it blank and slightly mysterious. Wiry silver ribbon is glued onto the head to act as a mass of silvery hair. Each piece of a cardboard glittery snowflake, cut in half, is glued to the back of the figure, acting as an angel's wing. A looped and knotted ribbon is then glued to the back of the angel's neck. You can use this ribbon to hang the angel form a Christmas tree or to dangle it from your fingers when snuffing out the flames of candles.