The holidays are right around the corner! Whether you’re planning an intimate dinner or a festive party, you can find ideas for spectacular crafts, inspirational decor, and recipes everyone will enjoy. 

Holiday Décor and Crafts 

• Hanukkah is the festival of lights, so create something that will illuminate any room. Take large glass vases, fill them with string or fairy lights, and place dreidels around the sides. It would also make a beautiful centerpiece. 

• Have a magical feast and decorate the Hanukkah table, complete with beautiful centerpieces, napkin ideas, and decor in traditional blue and white—perfect for any celebration.  
• Help this year’s celebration glow a little brighter and make a modern marbled menorah using concrete and copper. 
• Pour blue gemstone vase fillers in the bottom half of different sized vases. Fill them up with water and then place floating candles on the top.
• Discover festive DIY Christmas garland ideas for every room in your house.  

• These Christmas decorating ideas for small spaces bring the merriment of the holiday season into even the tiniest corners, thanks to simple accents like miniature Christmas trees, homemade garlands, and pretty place settings. 
• Spruce up your outdoor space to bring the merriment of the holidays to your home. There are plenty of holiday outdoor décor ideas for a beautiful and cozy winter to help you create a warm and welcoming beautiful scene.
• Get your home ready for the Christmas season with these easy snowflake crafts. From snowflake wreaths to simple gift tags, these crafts shine with holiday spirit.
• Place cinnamon sticks around a candle and wrap a piece of burlap or twine around the sticks to keep them in place. 

• Dress up old Mason jars like jolly gnome cookie jars to deliver the sweet gift of Christmas desserts or use them to liven up your kitchen. 
• Make a memorable Kwanzaa tabletop decoration. Add a pop of color to the table by placing fruit in a basket to represent the beautiful harvest. Some things you can incorporate to add a mix of texture are straw mats, ears of corn, and of course, the Zawadi for the last night. Make beaded napkin rings using red, black, and green beads on a wire.   

• Buy air-dry clay to shape and construct your very own kinara. Mold yellow or brown clay into a rectangle. Before it dries, use the bottom of a candle and push it into the clay so when it dries, you can pop the candles in easily.    

Scrumptious Holiday Recipes 

• Discover a variety of holiday recipes you and your guests will remember.   
• This matzo ball soup is a must! 
• Check out 14 Hanukkah side dishes that are unbelievably tasty and will make everyone challah. 🎶 
• We guarantee this recipe will bring you a latke joy. They are crispy, classic and taste like happiness. 

• ‘Tis the season for easy Christmas appetizers that are ready in 25 minutes or less.  
• Making a Caprese Christmas wreath is quick and easy to make, plus it looks incredible. Lay basil leaves in a ring to shape the wreath and place cherry tomatoes and fresh mozzarella balls on top of the leaves to look like ornaments. Before serving the dish, drizzle on extra virgin olive oil and top it off with sea salt and freshly ground black pepper. 
• Your family may forget to leave room for dinner once they taste this jalapeno cornbread. 
• The best Hanukkah brisket will fall apart in your mouth. It’s so yummy; don’t be surprised if they are no leftovers.  

• Uncover tons of healthy slow cooker meals from chowders and casseroles to dips, wings, and pulled pork. There are many healthy options that you can try.  
• Marinating this chicken recipe overnight is what results in an incredibly flavorful jerk chicken. 🍗 
• Other gumbos take all day to cook, but this pressure cooker chicken and sausage gumbo takes only 30 minutes of prep and will be an absolute favorite at any festivity.
• A southern dish everyone will want more of; your friends and family will love this gluten-free Creole-style shrimp and grits. 
• The perfect combination does exist. These mashed sweet potatoes with marshmallows will be a hit at any table. 

• Every holiday celebration needs a moist 5-star rated cinnamon-apple cake. 
• Donut knock it until you’ve tried these donut muffins. They are mini muffins that taste just like cinnamon sugar doughnut holes with a beautiful touch of nutmeg. 
• Instead of assembling a gingerbread house, make gingerbread cookies and blow the roof off your party by placing the cookies around the sides of a cake as décor. 

• Cookies are cool, but Santa gives two thumbs up to these Christmas cake pops. 
• A chocolate-berry wreath cake draped in homemade chocolate frosting makes for a doubly delicious dessert recipe. This chocolate cake gets dressed up for the holidays with fresh berries placed to look like a festive wreath.
• This peach cobbler will have your guests going for seconds… or thirds. Don’t forget to add a scoop of your favorite vanilla ice cream. 
• Dreidel, Dreidel, Dreidel, I made it out of marshmallow. Take a chocolate kiss, dip the bottom into melted chocolate, and then press it onto one end of a marshmallow. Place it into the fridge for 10 minutes until it sets. Create the dreidel top by pressing a pretzel stick into the opposite end of the marshmallow. Dip the entire bottom of the dreidel into a bowl of melted chocolate and after it sets, use white chocolate to pipe on the Hebrew letters.
• Get the party started with fabulous Christmas cocktails, from apple cider cocktails and peppermint punch to hot chocolate and unforgettable eggnog.
• These holiday drinks will have you singing Fa la la la la la.