Paper Christmas Ornaments
An easy craft for kids and one that uses lots of creativity. A little folding, some glue and a few sparkles will render some unique, handmade ornaments that your kids will love and you will too.
You will need:
*Sturdy paper - construction paper or thicker, white or colored
*Scissors
*School glue
*Sequins, sparkles, glitter, beads, gold or silver spray paint.
*Something round to trace the circles onto the paper. An overturned glass will do.
Trace circles onto the paper and cut them out. You will need 8 circles for every ball ornament. Fold the circles according to the diagram and when you are done folding, open it up and cut on one fold to the middle (the dotted line in figure 4).
Now, pull 1/4 over the adjacent 1/4 and glue together so that you have a little cup of only three sides. Do this for all the circles. When you have them all done assenble you ball by gluing them together to form a ball. You can either spray paint them gold or silver once assembled or have the kids individually decorate each piece before assembly using glitter, beads, sequins, anything they can imagine. It’s fun to assemble differently decorated cubes togather for interesting and unique ornaments.
When the ornaments are assembled you can punch a small hole at the top to attach a string or glue one to the middle of the cubes as you assemble them.
They are inexpensive, and easy to get rid of if you would rather toss them out when they look a little rough, instead of dragging a big heavy trunk of ornaments into the attic every January when the tree is taken down/tossed out.
Or in my family’s case in March if someone gets around to it.
By Janus on December 10th, 2006 at 2:29 pm
Actually I made a few of these when I was young for my family’s tree. I used quite thick paper and some of them lasted for many years. Somewhere in the last couple of moves, I lost all my old ornaments and there were still a few of these among them. Most importantly, the kids like making them. I was gluing a few together before I wrote the post, and my daughter decided I was very clever to know how to do this. She made one too.
By Andrea on December 10th, 2006 at 4:31 pm