• Christmas beads, sequins and fabric yield simple and easy crafts.metallic beads image by Yekaterina Choupova from Fotolia.com
  
  Fun and easy Christmas crafts allow family members to spend time together as they create small gifts, decorations and many memories. Both young and old can join together in making fun crafts as they reminisce about Christmases past and make plans for the upcoming holiday season. Crafts enable people to spend time together adding personal and heartfelt touches to Christmas trimmings.
  
  

Ornaments

• One fun and easy Christmas craft requires gathering up all those scraps of luxurious fabrics, assorted beads and sequins, sewing needle and thread and a few craps of paper and ribbon. You can hand-draw or use coloring book patterns to create 6-, 8- or 10-inch Christmas stockings for package trims or to hang on the tree.
  
  Using simple stocking patterns can result in beautiful and exquisite stockings cut from fabric. It is a simple task to whip stitch raw sides together using embroidery floss or similar type thread and a sewing needle. After turning the stocking inside out, you can trim the stocking with tiny beaded garland. Embroidered initials or glued on beads in simple star, snowflake or tree patterns add further dimension. You can glue or sew on sequins and tiny bead pearls. A few tiny, paper-and-ribbon wrapped packages can peek out from the top opening. A loop of gold or silver ribbon and a bow or two will enable you to hang the stocking and add extra frills. Your recipient will love it and think of you every time he hangs it on his Christmas tree. This stocking is not only easy to put together, but beautiful as well.
  
  

Napkin Rings

• Dress up your holiday table with elegant napkin rings. Elastic ribbon or beading thread from a craft store can be trimmed with vintage beads from old, broken jewelry. You can string newly purchased beads from a craft store or flea market onto elasticized beading thread. Beads and sequins glue easily to colorful elastic ribbon. Folded napkins will benefit from positioning a napkin ring around it. Your holiday table will look spectacular with this simple and easy Christmas craft.
  
  

Glittering Candles

• Easy Christmas crafts often involve using simple items in creative and crafty ways. Part of the fun of Christmas comes from glitter and sparkle. A simply arranged array of glittery candles on your holiday table or side chest will create a stunning conversation piece. Simple to create, these glitter candle clusters will sparkle even when unlit.
  
  Assortments of old candles or new ones in various shapes and sizes become lovely displays in groupings. You can spray them with adhesive and sprinkle them with fine glitter in gold, green, red, silver, white or other Christmas colors. Set upon coasters or small vintage saucers, they look great on table runners.
  
  

Christma Card Ornaments

• Christmas cards appear to grow lovelier each year. Recycling and cutting out parts of their illustrations give these cards new life when you glue them onto small wooden cut-outs you can find in craft stores. Chipboard and heavy craft or scrapbook papers that you cut into stars, trees, candy canes, Santas, sleighs and animals become fun ornaments and package trimmers when you decorate them with old Christmas card cut-outs. Ribbon or braid trimmings are easy to add with a little glue. Punching a hole and adding a small string add the finishing touches before you bedeck your holiday tree.