These crafts are relatively simple to do with generally available materials in a short amount of time.

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Costumes

• Viking helmets made from aluminium foil (see viking helmet pictures)
• Paper-flower wreaths (see flower wreath pictures)

Viking-related crafts:

• The Viking-inspired helmets mentioned above (see Viking helmet pictures)
• A Viking ship
• The website for the Swedish Historical Museum in Stockholm has a wonderful collection of Viking-related craft items and templates on its teacher resource pages. We are in the process of translating the instructions and plan to offer them to the museum for their use. Please contact us to ask about the current status of the translations. Here are instructions for a Viking ship in Swedish.

Swedish flag

• It is simple for children to create a flag using blue and yellow construction paper
• Swedish flag on a pin. Parts can be put together in advance to make it quicker to assemble the flags. This is a fun swap item for Girl Scouts.

Coloring picture book

Put together a picture book using images the children can color.

• A great resource is on the Enchanted Learning site, where there is a variety of Swedish-English dictionary pages illustrated with pictures.

Christmas crafts

• Children can make "straw" stars from thin strips of manilla folders. The final result looks incredibly similar to the straw stars that are commonly used to decorate the Christmas tree. No instructions available at this point -- please see the pictures of the straw stars for now.
• yarn santas (garntomtar) -- see SWEA-Austin's instructions
• woven or braided heart baskets:
  • SWEA-Austin's instructions for the woven heart basket
  • The Enchanted Learning version of the woven heart basket
• smällkaramel = "exploding caramel"
  • Contains candy and possibly small prizes.
  • After Christmas, the smällkaramel is the subject of a wishbone-style tug of war.
  • These are similar to "crackers" in Great Britain.
  • Here is another set of simple instructions for British-style crackers.

Easter decorations

We have made a variety of Swedish inspired Easter decorations using yellow felt, colored feathers, styrofoam balls, cardboard, and toalet paper tubes. Please see the pictures of the Easter crafts for ideas.