Silhouette Tic Tac Toe Set

ByAimee
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What do you do to get your kids excited for the holidays? We have all kinds of traditions at our house. One of which is our Elf on the Shelf. This seems to be a super hot topic lately, and I know this tradition is not for everyone, but we love our elf dearly. He is funny and cute and hardly ever mischievous. Originally we had our elf and an advent calendar, but last year I combined the two and it is has been so much fun!

I received sample products to facilitate this post. All opinions are my own. 

Our elf now brings fun activities or ideas for family fun with him each day. For example, in the past our elf would move to a funny location AND I would plan a movie and hot chocolate night for our advent calendar. Now I just have our elf hang out on top of the BluRay player holding a box of hot chocolate!

I love to use this opportunity to remind my kids the true meaning of the holidays. Our elf loves to bring ingredients to make cookies for a neighbor, or a note about heading to the mall to shop for a giving tree. It is such a fun way to get my kids excited and thinking about others. I decided to get my craft on using my Silhouette Cameo to create this fun advent/elf activity for my kids this year.

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This project was so intimidating, but I am happy to say that it really was so simple to make!

Start by selecting your shapes. I recommend starting out with shapes from the Silhouette store labeled Print And Cut. I knew I wanted my tic tac toe pieces to be holiday themed so I started there. I chose this cute cat and moose.

Create a new file with “Show Registration Marks” check in the registration marks options panel. This allows your Silhouette to cut on the exact lines you printed.

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I made my tic tac toe board by using the rectangle drawing tool located on the left of your document screen. Once you have the rectangles drawn highlight all your bars, right click and select merge. This will join the shapes so you can cut them as a unit. I filled mine with a dark red to match my shapes. Once my board was sized I made sure my game pieces were sized correctly to fit inside my squares. The grid on your screen makes this really easy!

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Go ahead and print your images on your home printer onto the Silhouette’s Printable Magnet Paper. Make sure to print to the white side.

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Once printed, place your printed magnet paper on your cutting mat just like it is shown on your screen. Change your cut settings to Printable Magnet Paper and adjust your blade to the appropriate setting. Click cut!

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Peel your images and start playing! This is perfect for your refrigerator door or on an chalk board wall like shown here.

The packet of Printable Magnet Paper comes with four sheets, it would be really easy to make an extra game to have your kids doorbell ditch (ring the doorbell and run) a friend. A perfect simple but fun surprise!

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  2. We like to bake together, especially holiday sugar cookies. We also make crafts and read books together.

  5. We love making homemade ornaments for the tree, baking and decorating cookies and making special cards for friends and family.

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  10. We bake, play video games, do crafts, ride our ATV and if there’s snow, we play in it and build snowmen. 🙂

  12. We decorate ornaments, trim the tree, make cookies and I help them make presents for family members

  14. We bake cookies, we play games, we go to the movies, we build snowmen if there’s snow, be go bowling, and we just have nights where the kids decide what they want to do.

  16. We’re a bit of a baking family so we do tons of stuff together in the kitchen. We also love to make a new Christmas wreath each year. It’s a great way to express ourselves.

  20. We eat together, pray together, decorate, shop, wrap, cook, and clean up…. Well no I guess its all on me, because my sons and husband don’t help much. I fantasize about going to Europe and taking a river boat cruise instead, on some holidays.

  24. the biggest activities to accomplish are decorating and baking . these are ongoing activities, and they all want to help

  35. We bake cookies, make gingerbread houses, and make homemade Christmas ornaments.

  38. We take them to see lights in the neighborhood and in the city square. We bake/decorate cookies and give them to our neighbors and family.

  39. What kinds of activities do you do with your kids during the holidays?

    besides going broke…tree hunting

  46. We make cookie boxes filled with cookies and we make Christmas tree decorations every year.

  53. We love baking lots of Christmas cookies and making homemade Christmas cards together!

  56. We always did so many projects when they were little! Now they are grown but I still help them with Christmas gifts and projects. Last year I helped my son make jars into a cupcake to hold treats.

  58. We will be starting the elf on the shelf this year. Our daughter is 2, almost 3, so I am excited about how it will go.

  59. We love to make holiday crafts and crafts to give as gifts. We also love holiday movie nights.

  60. We do a lot of baking, board games, and crafts. We always make several gift to give to the grandparents, aunts, uncles and friends.

  64. We love decorating the house with the kids, doing crafts and DIY’s, sledding, ice skating, and baking.

  72. That is so fun! We too have an elf and he isn’t very mischievous at all. He is a bit lazy. 🙂 We do a couple Advent calendars as well.

  74. This is very cute! I have a Silhouette but haven’t tried the magnetic paper yet, I will have to ask for some for Christmas.

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