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Decorated Kid Made Ornaments

ByCarolyn Wilhelm

This post has decorated kid-made ornament projects for the holidays. Both are made on sphere shapes, one with a clear globe and one with an inexpensively purchased Styrofoam glitter ornament. By starting with actual although plain ornaments, the children will be successful by adding a few craft items.

The first ornament we made was a simple clear plastic globe ornament, and our idea was to add sequins, stick-on sparkles, ribbon, and plastic filler. So we got everything ready.

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Sparkly Globes Made Two Ways

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Step one was to fill the globe with the filler and sequins. The white plastic filler was quite the mess to clean up, actually, so other ideas using the globe are described in this post, also. 

After filling the ornament, a ribbon was added to the top as well as a cord so it would hang on the tree.

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Finally, glitter stickers were added to the outside of the ornament. Some chose to add initials . . .

While others added the stickers in a way to make it look like it was snowing or stickers to show the year. These globes were just filled with ribbon.

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Another idea some had was to use glue inside the ornament. Our best idea using the glue thought of by one mother and was to squirt the glue inside the ornament and swiping around the inside to get the glue spread out. Then sequins were added inside, to stick to the glue. This approach took several days to dry, but they did dry.

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This is a close up for the effect of using glue and sequins inside the globe.

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No matter what approach was used, we all liked the ornaments created.

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Another Ornament Idea

Here is another idea also using an inexpensive purchased ornament. Glitter Styrofoam ornaments are cheap and already prepared with a top for adding a string and hanging on the tree. This idea allows children to add some pins to have a lovely ornament they “made” themselves. The step-by-step PDF has photos and instructions and is also explained in the photo below.

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Have fun making ornaments with children! Thank you for reading, Carolyn

We hope this helps keep students and children at home busy during this exciting time of year. Thank you for reading, Carolyn

Carolyn Wilhelm writes curriculum the grade levels she has taught over 28 years including grades 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. She also taught gifted education and thinking skill classes for grades K-6. She has a BS in Elementary Education, an MS in Gifted Education, an MA in Curriculum and Instruction K-12, and has completed the KHT Montessori 12 month program

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6 Comments

  1. Carolyn Wilhelm says:

    The blog hop has me hopping for materials and time to make all these ornaments. Thank you for writing.

  2. Carolyn Wilhelm says:

    Right, that one has holiday spirit! Thank you for writing.

  5. Such a clever idea – they are like little treasure boxes decorated inside and out!

  6. The ornaments you made are so cute and easy 🙂 I love letting kids get creative and you have definitely allowed that with these ornaments! Thanks for joining me in the Kid Made Christmas Blog Hop

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