HOLIDAY CRAFT STOPS

Learn from the best! Illustrator and Risograph Instructor Rohan McDonald will guide us through printing our own colorful holiday cards on the Risograph--a digital screen printing machine. Drop in for this fun activity any time between 1-3 PM and leave with your own “look what I made!” holiday cards. Suggested participation fee at the door: $5.00/person

We'll craft our own hanging holiday swag at Newton Centre's Derby Farm Flowers. Owner Lucinda Chrislip will guide us through working with greens and berries, fashioning them into fragrant, natural, holiday decor for decorating doors or walls. $15/participant

Kids make Christmas ornaments alongside Santa. With 3 different craft stations, they're kept busy making festive holiday decorations. A $25 fee per child for ornament making and free photos with Santa. Registration appreciated--pick your arrival time and then spend as long as you'd like in the studio. (Most families are there for 45-60 minutes.)

Leave it to creative sisters Valentina & Valeria Restrepo, owners of new Newton Centre bakery Luna's Cakes & Coffee, to come up with the ultimate Holiday Cookie Kits. Each one contains 5 holiday-shaped cookies, 3 icing colors & festive sprinkles. $25/kit. Available for pick up. Click button below to order.

Little ones and their adults are invited to the Auburndale Community Library for free winter crafts from 1-3 PM.

While we’re bopping around on Saturday from one crafty experience to the next, we can drop into The Winter Market of Newton at 275 Grove Street which is hosting free crafts for kids and face painting. And while the kiddos are crafting we can get some holiday shopping done at this brand new holiday market featuring 35+ vendors, including several much-loved Newton small businesses! The market is open Friday Dec 12 from 5-8 PM and then on Saturday the 13th from 10 AM - 3 PM. Kids’ crafts are only on Saturday.