Christmas Ornament Craft

Do you want to learn how to make Christmas ornament craft? If yes, here we have given you tips to make Christmas ornament crafts like granny mouse ornaments and strawberry walnut ornaments to hang on your Christmas tree for increasing its beauty. Decorating Christmas tree is a favorite pastime for many people. And what best way of celebrating than by making your own unique Christmas ornament crafts. In this article, we will show you how to make three basic kinds of ornaments.

Strawberry Walnut ornaments: In order to make this Christmas ornament craft, you need to materials like red spray paint, craft glue, scissors, gold cording, whole walnuts, tiny white friendship beads, needle and dark green felt.

Instructions for making Strawberry Walnut ornaments

You can make these ornaments in big quantities. You can start by spreading walnuts out on old newspaper for painting. When the weather is warm, you wish to do this step outdoors to make sure there is ventilation if you are using spray paint. Spray all walnuts with red color paint. You need to dry them thoroughly. You should repeat this step to make sure all sides of walnuts are covered.

Use green cut out leaves for the top side of your walnut. You should take leaves, which have a round shape with zigzag edges. They must be big enough to cover the top side of walnut. You must use gold cording thread needle and then draw into center of that rounded leaf. After this, you need to draw it back and knot, leaving a thread, which is used to hang your finished ornament. Glue the leaves into the top side of walnuts and let them dry. Now, you need to take small white beads and glue them onto painted walnuts by using craft glue. It is an easy way to glue some seeds on at the same time and dry them before continuing. Once seeds are set into place, you will get a finished strawberry to hang on your Christmas tree.

Granny Mouse Ornaments: Materials needed to make granny Christmas ornaments are baskets filled with fiber stuffing, , craft glue, old pair of black nylons, pink marker, white thread, scraps of Christmas print fabrics, tiny white beads, tiny black beads, gold cording, miniature baskets, red paint, paintbrush and miniature pairs of glasses.

Instructions for how to make granny mouse ornaments:

First, you need to paint all the baskets with red colored paint and dry them. Once dried, you need to thread gold cording via a hole in the basket weaving and form a loop, which will be used to hang finished ornament. Now, you need to take nylons and cut into square. These squares become granny mouse face so cut as many as you have baskets. After this, stitch around edges of nylon squares.

Now, place fiber filled stuffing baskets into nylon and then pull the thread tight, creating a stuffed oval. Now, knot the threads to hold. After this, you need to take a scrap of fabric and then cut a circle of one inch bigger in diameter that is granny mouse head. Now, place fabric over the top of the head for forming a bonnet. Now, you can assemble mouse. Place granny mouse head on top side of fabric at one end of the basket and glue into place. Granny mouse is ready to hang on your Christmas tree.