I am so not-an-artist that when my kids recently asked me to draw a dog (a dog!) I couldn’t begin to figure out the shape. The final result looked more like a car. But! For fellow uncrafty parents, here are four holiday crafts that are so simple, they seem pretty impossible to mess up…

My friend Erin Jang helped her kids make cut-out portraits of their grandparents, in lieu of gift tags. How sweet is that? “The characters really look like my mom and dad,” she told me. “It cracks me up.”

Martha Stewart Living featured this photo of cookie-cutter photo ornaments — I couldn’t find the original instructions, but it seems pretty self-explanatory? I like that the photos are in black and white.

Jodi Levine — the genius crafter (remember her week of outfits?) — makes mini gingerbread houses with graham crackers covered in pretzels, cereal, gummy candy, whatever you have in your pantry.

Finally, I was gobsmacked by these gorgeous bows tied around candles. This would be fun to do with older kids who know how to tie their shoelaces and therefore a bow 😉

Thoughts? Any crafts you do with kids or adults over the holidays?

P.S. Three alternatives to wrapping paper, and 10 wonderful holiday rituals.

(Candle photo from Heather Taylor/Instagram.)