Crafting Christmas Ornaments

I would call them “holiday” but let’s face it—these are Christmas ornaments. Anyway, the kids have had 1/2 days most of this week (it’s why I have that nervous tick again) and I’m desperate to keep them busy. Today I said, “You want to do a craft?” and Annabelle and her friend Emily started screaming, “ yes!” Max’s interest was piqued from all the fuss and he did one too.

Supplies

• Ornaments--I bought the glass ones from Michael’s (which are on sale this week). They have newer ones that are plastic (so they won’t shatter). They’re pricier though so I opted for glass.

• Fine glitter--I also bought this at Michaels. Fine glitter is more like a powder than traditional glitter. They had a collection of 4 tubes by Recollections that had some really pretty colors in them. You can buy large bottles but you really don’t use that much. I went with small tubes and more colors.) Michael’s has a nice coupon this weekend and you can get it here.

• Liquid Floor wax—I bought this at Walmart. I couldn’t find it anywhere else.
• Paper plates
• Yogurt tops—I have my kids save the yogurt lids from YoCrunch Yogurt. These little tops are AWESOME for beading but they’re also great for crafts in general.

Directions

1. Take the tops off the ornaments. Pour small amount of floor wax in one of the ornaments. Swirl it around so that you have the whole ornament covered. What I did was pour the excess from the ornament into the next one, and so on. You use VERY little of the floor wax.
   
   
2. Put ornaments in the yogurt lids. It just helps to keep it from rolling away. Pour a little glitter in the ornament. The recollection tubes were great because we could pour directly from the tube. Otherwise, you’ll need a funnel.
3. Cover the top of the ornament and shake. Pour excess glitter back into the yogurt cup so you can reuse it later.
4. Put top back in the ornament and wait for it to dry (takes no time for it to dry). All in all this craft didn’t take long, wasn’t that costly, didn’t cause too many heart rate spikes for me, and was not that big of a deal to clean up.