Christmas Crafts/ Christmas Ornaments
CHRISTMAS ORNAMENTS
FROM OLD CARDS
Materials needed:
You will need:
Several old Christmas cards
Glue
Circle and corresponding triangle pattern
Scissors
Directions:
Decide what size ornament you want to make and transfer the
corresponding triangle and circle patterns to a piece of heavy
card stock or plastic (coffee can lids work well for this). A 1 ½
inch circle makes an ornament that is approximately 3 inches in
diameter.
Using your circle pattern as a guide, cut 20 circles from old
Christmas cards. If you can center designs in the center of the
circles that is best.
Place the triangle pattern in the middle of one of the circles
(right side up) and fold the sides of the circle in around the
triangle as shown:
Do this for each of the 20 circles.
Arrange the tabs so that they stand straight up.
Choose five of the folded circles and glue one tab from the
first circle to a tab from the second circle:
Continue glueing tabs until all five circles are glued
together:
They should be arranged like this with the tabs sticking up:
When you glue the last two sides together it will form a dome.
This is the bottom of the ornament.
To form the middle of the ornament, select 5 circles and glue
them together as follows:
Glue a to b to form a ring and glue it to the bottom of the
ornament matching the tabs as you go.
Form the top of the ornament just like the bottom but before
gluing the last two pieces together, remember to attach the ends
of a piece of colorful string to hang the ornament by. Bring the
loop to the outside and glue the top together.
Line up the tabs on the top with the tabs on the middle and
glue them together to complete the ornament. For a sparkly effect,
you can run a line of glue along the edges of each of the tabs,
then dip them in glitter.
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