
- 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!
Valerie Deneen says
These are fabulous! I thought about you when I did my recent post — Make Your Own Bird Watching Kit. Your blog is a terrific resource!
Valerie
Frugal Family Fun Blog
Good times on a budget!
Becky Nelson says
I love, love, love your blog. I have two little girls who love doing your crafts. i have no creative ideas in my head and with your help, craft time is so much fun. Thank you!!!!
Allie says
Thanks Valerie , I’ll check it out.
You are so welcome Becky!
Cathy says
I love the sparkle card. We have glitter everywhere here. Just put my little one in the bath and a shower of glitter came off with her clothes – I think she’s importing it from pre-school.
Ali says
Totally cute! I am excited to try this with my almost 2 year old. We made salt dough ornament, but he likes to try to eat those so these might be a little better lol. And they are really pretty! Thanks, I love your blog!
Teri says
Really cute, Allie! I had my 3s do a project today which required tacky glue. This is the time of year where I try to do more whole-group activities (as opposed to one-on-one). I gave each kiddo a square of paper w/ a little puddle of glue & a toothpick (after LONG discussions on how careful we need to be, etc). I showed them how to pick up a little blob and place it on our paper! It worked GREAT and you won’t believe how meticulously they worked, even my boys who tend to rush just to finish! Maybe O would like to try that! 🙂
.-= Teri´s last blog ..Black Saturday? =-.
Stephanie says
Hi, thank you for the great idea! I had bought some of this glitter sticky paper at Walmart and my daughter used it all up before I saw this, except for a red piece. I really wanted to make an ornament for family, and didn’t have time to run back to Walmart. So I ended up doing this:
I used the cardboard that came with the package of sticky glitter paper. One side was white. So I traced my daughters hand on the white side and stuck the glitter paper onto the brown side. Then I cut out her little hand prints. It was a bit challenging, so you’ll need some good scissors. After that I painted the white side green (Probably should’ve painted it before cutting out). Then I’m going to glue glitter saying 2010 on the green side. Punch a hole in the top and voila!
Just thought I’d share the idea! I’m not a crafty person at all, so I was pretty proud of myself coming up with this. 😛 I love your blog! Great winter projects for us. 🙂
Angell @ Passionate and Creative Homemaking says
I featured this today on my blog’s Christmas in July Celebration.
http://passionateandcreativehomemaking.blogspot.com/2012/07/day-17-christmas-in-july.html