Christmas Ornaments
Felt Wreath Ornament
Letter of the week is on hold while we focus an amazing amount of energy on my favorite them for crafts, Christmas! So each Monday instead of our regular old letter of the week we will be doing a series of unbreakable ornament crafts. I know I need more and more unbreakable ornaments as my son keeps growing but is still too curious for his own good. There is no reason to leave your tree only half decorated anymore.
- Gather your materials. You will need some red, green and white felt ( mine was scrap), some beading wire, a large needle, pinking sheers, and some fun ribbon.
- Start by cutting your felt into rough squares.
- Thread your wire through your needle.
- Thread the felt onto the wire , making a pattern.
- When it’s all threaded on take the ends and tie in a tight knot. Snip the ends.
- Add some fun ribbon and hang it up- on the low branches, because it’s unbreakable !
Sparkle !
I love glitter and it’s a good thing because my kitchen , my son and I are all covered after this and we bought pre-glittered stuff! I figure a little extra sparkle is never a bad thing! This advent craft is a fun number search every day leading up to Christmas, it’s also a great Christmas centerpiece. My plan is to take each number off the tree and place it on to our Christmas tree ! These are great kid friendly ornaments that add sparkle but not a lot of cost to your decorating budget.
- Gather your materials. You will need some fun wire decorative branches, some snowflake ornaments, some labels ( pre cut circles ones would be way easier) some crayons, a marker and a vase.
- Start by writing out the numbers 1-25 on the labels. I didn’t have circle ones so we cut ours into circles but if i did this again we’d get pre-cut circle ones.
- Have your child color the numbers, and identify the numbers they are coloring too ! Yay Math!
- Cut into circles if you need to.
- Peel and place the stickers on each snowflake ornament. Press firmly.
- Hang onto the tree!
- Have fun counting down to Christmas!
Books!
The Little Drummer Mouse
Merry Christmas, Mouse! 
McDuff’s Christmas
Before my son came along I used to make all my own gift tags with nice card stock, ribbon etc… this year 90% of my tags have Lighting McQueen or Cinderella on them and I did not make them. However I thought I would make a few picture frame ones for our family far away! Oh and I swear this is the last sparkly foam craft til next Christmas, or at least Valentine’s Day !
- Gather your materials. You will need some foam, sticky back works but you can use regular , or even cardstock, some wallet size photos, glue, a marker, scissors and sparkly pipe cleaners!
- Start by cutting out your picture, and using it as a guide for how big a piece of foam you will need for the frame.
Cut out.
- Cut out a larger piece for the back.
- Glue your picture to the larger piece
- Cut some small pieces or shapes and have your child glue or stick them onto the frame.
- Place the frame over it, glue it down.
- Poke a small hole at the top and thread a pipe cleaner through.
- Write your message on the back with a marker!
- Add them to your gifts or tree !
Ornament
- Gather your materials. You will need 2-3 colors of sticky back sparkle foam sheets, a yogurt or other plastic lid, some ribbon, a marker and scissors.
- Trace the outside of the lid on the back of one of your foam sheets. Cut out.
- Peel the backing off and press onto your lid, I lined it all up for my son and he pressed it down.
- While your child marvels at the sparkles, cut out some shapes from the other foam sheets. I made a few diamonds, rectangles, triangles and squares. Make any shapes you like!
- Add them to your circle. I kept them out of reach, and had my son ask for each by it’s name, we haven’t done much with shapes lately so I wanted this to be a mommy lead lesson. If it’s just fun time, I would ask him casually as he was adding them what each was without being so blatant.
- Keep adding them until your ornament is full!
- Poke a hole in the top of the ornament
- Thread a ribbon that is folded in half through the hole, tie a knot.
- Hang up and marvel at this super easy but super cute ornament!
Jessica over at The Entertaining House is always sure to have something fun and crafty on her site. These ornaments turned out so well, they look like something you would find at a little chi chi boutique! For the full how to check out :
The Entertaining House
