• Religion plays an important role in the celebration of the holidays.nativity image by enens from Fotolia.com
  
  Designing your own holiday crafts around a religious theme provides a terrific opportunity for showcasing your talents and your faith at the same time. Religion plays an important role for most people when celebrating the holidays, and making religious crafts demonstrates the importance of faith in your life. Religious crafts require few materials and relatively little crafting time.
  
  

Beeswax Cross Candles

• Make cross candles from beeswax for an easy religious craft.cross image by cherie from Fotolia.com
  
  Make cross candles to give as gifts or to decorate your home, using cross-shaped cookie cutters. Purchase sheets of beeswax and long wicks at your local craft store. On a prepared work surface, lay out the sheets of beeswax and cut out cross shapes. Place a wick as long as the cross in the center of one cut-out cross. Make the wick long enough to extend over the top of the cross, so that it can be lit. Place another wax cross on top of the first one and press together like a sandwich. Share or save your cross candle.
  
  

Religious Notecards

• Personalized religious cards make a gift to give or send.christmas cards image by david hughes from Fotolia.com
  
  Design a watercolor nativity scene using bright colors on a letter-sized piece of paper. Cover the entire paper with color, and make the painting as detailed or as abstract as you like. Take the painting to your local copy center. Shrink the painting to a 3-inch by 5-inch picture. Make as many copies of this smaller-sized painting as you plan to give or send. Purchase plain card stock at your local craft store. Use a glue stick to adhere the small painting copies to the front of each card. You now have personalized art notecards to use a gift. Package with a ribbon and give in sets of six. Use these as your family's holiday cards to send to family and friends.
  
  

Cross Door Hanging

• Use two hangers to make a cross shape. Unbend the two hangers and form into a cross shape by attaching the two wire pieces with a piece of small garden wire around the center. Use old T-shirts or red, green or white fabrics. Tear the fabrics into strips about 6 inches in length. Wrap each strip around the cross shape and tie a knot at the center. Continue until the entire cross shape is filled with fabric knots. Alternate between the green, red and white colors. Tie a ribbon at the top for added appeal. Attach a small hanging loop on the back for easy hanging.