Make Your Own Christmas Ornaments

Supplies:

• One small bag of large, straight tube pasta
• One small bag of small sized elbow pasta
• 18 gauge gold colored wire (you can also buy regular wire and use a gold paint pen)
• cream colored paint & brush
• One small bag of bowtie pasta
• One inch diameter wooden or plastic balls in a light color
• Superfine red and black pen
• One small bag of tightly curled doll hair in whatever hair color you’d like your angels to have.
• Strong craft glue

Instructions:

1. First, assemble the body of your angel. Glue the round

one-inch ball on top of a large straight piece of tube pasta. The ball

is the angel’s head and the tube is body.

2. Next, add arms by gluing one piece of elbow pasta to each side of the angel’s body.

3. Add wings by wrapping the wire around the middle of a bowtie

pasta piece and twisting it so it’s tightly secured to the piece of

pasta. This is where the wire the angel will hang from on the tree, so

make sure it is long enough to do the job.

4. Glue the bowtie pasta with wire attached to the back of the angel to create wings.

5. After all the glue is dry, paint the angel with the cream paint and allow to dry.

6. Using the red pen, draw on a mouth in the shape of an “O” for a singing angel. Or, simply draw on a smile.

7. Using the black pen, draw eyes on the angel. For singing angels, you can draw on half crescents to represent closed eyes.

8. Apply a good layer of craft glue to the top of the angel’s head and glue on the curly hair.

9. Finally, use the gold wire to create a little round halo. You

can attach the halo onto the gold wire the angel is hanging from so it

appears as if the halo is floating above the angel’s head.

10. Create a whole parade of angels to hang around the tree, or to decorate a table with.

For equally impressive Christmas ornaments that take a little of your

time, try creating your own personalized bulbs from clear glass

ornaments.

Here are a few crafty ideas on how to dress them up:

Christmas Characters

Using fine paint markers, draw creatures on your bulbs. Some characters to try:

• Reindeer
• Penguins
• Angels
• Mice
• Polar Bears
• Gingerbread Men (and women!)
• Santa Claus

Glittered Snowballs & Snowflakes

1. First, paint a layer of glue over the entire bulb.

2. Next, use a spoon to drizzle white glitter over the ball until it is completely covered.

3. Attach mistletoe or holly leaves and berries at the top to

complete the festive look, and tie it to the tree with a red ribbon.

To make a glittered snowflake:

1. Use a white paint pen to draw on the shape of a snowflake onto the ball.

2. Using a paintbrush, carefully retrace the white pen with glue.

3. Use a spoon to spoon white glitter over the glue for sparkly snowflake.