![]() ![]() Use a wooden skewer to make a hole at the top for the ribbon. Cut through the candy with the cookie cutters. Remove from oven and let cool for about 3 minutes. Watch closely they are ready when melted but not bubbling. Put the cookie sheet in your oven and bake for 5-9 minutes. Remove the candies from their wrappers and place them on a parchment-covered cookie sheet in the shape of the cutter you will use. Supplies: round peppermint candies, cookie sheet, parchment paper, cookie cutters, toothpick or wooden skewer, ribbon Let your ornaments sit for a day, then paint and decorate as desired. Use the straw to make a hole at the top for the ribbon.īake for 2-3 hours at 200˚F or until dry. Flatten the dough (not too thin) to make a circle large enough for your child's hand. Add more flour or water as needed until the dough is smooth and no longer sticky to the touch. Mix together one cup each of flour, salt, and water to make a salt dough. Supplies: flour, salt, water, a straw, acrylic paint, black paint pen or permanent marker, embellishments, sealant (e.g., Mod Podge), and ribbon Sew thread through the back of the hat, form into a hanging loop, and tie it into a knot. Use hot glue to attach the wooden ball, Santa hat, and embellishments. Peel back a few of the top pine cone layers to make room for the Santa hat. Supplies: pine cones, small wooden balls, mini Santa hats, hot glue gun and glue, embroidery thread and needle, and embellishments (optional) Use permanent markers to add details like faces, a scarf, and a hat. Place the ornament in the palm of their hand and press their fingers and thumb around the ball. Paint your child's hand, thumb, and fingers with white paint. Supplies: a plain round ornament, white paint, permanent markers, and a paintbrush You might even end up with a tree as perfect as ours! You'll create magical memories and precious keepsakes. My husband and I even have a few decorations we made when we were children, including a salt dough drum that is so big and heavy we joke that it will cause the tree to tip over if it isn't carefully balanced by other ornaments on the opposite side.īelow are five simple ornaments you can make with your children. Gingerbread men and angels and a drawing of our Elf on the Shelf, carefully trimmed by tiny hands so it could proudly hang on our tree with all the other ornaments. And they make my heart smile.īut the very best decorations we have are the homemade ones made by our children. In fact, one is a plastic keychain with a hook where the keys would go. We have ornament frames with pictures of babies with Santa, not just of my own babies (who are now nearly grown) but of our nieces and nephews too. There used to be twelve, but scores of Christmases filled with excited children - and at least one very playful cat - have narrowed it down to three. They were given to me by my mother, who got them from her mother, who got them from her mother. We have three hand-painted antique ornaments. Our tree is decorated with a mishmash of memories - and that's what makes it perfect. Those trees are beautiful, but they aren't perfect like our tree. ![]() Also if you don't like red, use another color like green or blue to match your Christmas decorations.It doesn't look like the ones you see in the stores with color-coordinated ornaments among carefully positioned bows.Finally add ribbon, jute, or other cording through the hole at the top of paint brush so you can hang it on your tree, door knob, anywhere you like.Take ribbon and glue around top of face around paintbrush.Take the speck of red felt for lip under mustache.Cut out mustache from white felt and glue.Cut triangle tan felt and glue so it sticks out.(note you can you yarn, fiberfill whatever you have or like). Take the white felt and wrap around from one side along back to other side to make his hair, adhere this with glue.Take piece of tan felt and adhere to front metal piece of paintbrush.You can you spray paint or paint, but I like marker it dries quickly. Take paint brush I got one that had no color or varnish on handle and used a red thick marker to color the top handle. ![]()
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