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Make Your Own Christmas Ornaments
With a little creativity and some inexpensive materials you can make your own Christmas ornaments. But making your own makes them uniquely your own. The ornaments described below are low cost and take less than an hour each to make. Kids and parents can make these into fun shared projects.
Christmas Stars
This is a really easy one! Cut out some Star shapes from some gold cardboard, Yellow Cardboard, or plain carboard. Make up the first one and use it as a stencil to make more. Decorate with glitter, ribbons, paint and punch a hole for hanging. Attach some string or curling ribbon and hang from your christmas tree, doors or whereever you want.
Carboard Roll Reindeer
These are so easy to make using materials already on hand or a few that are easy to buy. We use a cardboard roll that had wrapping paper on it and cut it into smaller sections.
1. Cut a piece of Cardboard roll and stuff it full of tissue. This gives it support.
2. Cover the roll with felt.
Cut some strips of brown felt the same width as the cardboard roll and spread a little glue and roll on the felt. Don't worry if it isn't exactly flat. Deer skin is wrinkled near their arms, legs and neck anyway.
3. Head -
Use an ice cream stick to make a support for the neck, then bunch up some felt for the head or and wrap it for the neck. Attach with glue. Then get some small black buttons for the eyes. Use brown or gray pipe cleaners for the legs and tail. To give the legs some thickness, just spiral the pipe cleaners around some brown tissue paper.
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