These are some of my favorite things we have done this year. I bought three craft paper ornaments from paper-source.com thinking I would do a nature scene like they do at Easter inside the Panoramic sugar eggs. I had the kids paint the outside of the ornament using three shades of blue however they mixed them together and the inside a silver paint - though my daughter used some blue inside too which made it even prettier than my original idea. After the first coat dried the kids put on a layer of silver and blue glitter paint. We put down some glue and some actual fine silver glitter - let it dry then the final step was putting the sweet Christmas/evergreen tree in the ornament with a dollop of craft glue - I actually had trouble finding these but did after Christmas in the sale stuff - I guess people use these tiny things for Christmas villages - the dollhouse ones at the craft store were way too big.
Love these - plan on doing them next year as gifts!
These are really beautiful! I'll keep this idea in mind for next year. This year for homemade ornaments we rolled out Sculpey clay & cut out shapes using cookie cutters. After baking/cooling them, we decorated them with acyric paint and - you got it - glitter glue pens! [To keep the table neat, I wrapped it in wax paper.]
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