Gettin Crafty Challenge Week #3

Sunday, November 29, 2009
With the kids out of school this past week, I thought it would be the perfect time to make ornaments for the tree. We had a few left over from last year so we only made 3 different kinds of new ones. The kids loved the diy ornaments so much last year! I did throw in some sparkly red snowflakes I had from a few years ago...other than that, everything is handmade.

We glued different color buttons on to styrofoam balls. Our color theme this year was blue, pink, red and green.

pretty button ornaments

Next, were the tissue paper balls. All you do is cut different color tissue paper into 2 inch squares, crinkle them up and glue them on to styrofoam balls. I took a pin and poked it through silver ribbon to hang them. With styrofoam, you can't use just any old glue. They do make styrofoam glue but we didn't have any on hand and opted for the glue gun. Xander used a low temp one and Gia was in charge of crinkling the paper...she loved that!

tissue paper oranaments

Horrible lighting I know but I had to show a pic of the chaos which is craft time. ;)

in the crafty chaos

Since some of these were more girlie colors, I let Xander decorate a few ornaments with his favorite things... Legos! He also has several Lego men climbing the tree in a race to the top.

Lego Puppy Ornament

I loved the tissue paper thing so much that I made a Christmas tree for the mantle using cone shaped styrofoam.

tissue paper tree

Our finished tree...

our handmade tree

our little handmade tree

We also made a paper chain from scrapbook paper to finish off our day of craftiness. The solid color chain was one that we made last year.

We finished up our Advent Calendar today so I will share that shortly. I have been dying to watch Angels and Demons so I am finally going to be able to sit down with The Baconator and watch a movie in peace (kids go to bed early because they are back to school tomorrow!).


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