My Dad used to make the old flashbulb/glitter ornaments!! In fact, I stll have one! It will be a teary time hanging it on the tree this year, as my Dad passed the end of June. In fact I'm teary eyed just thinking about it.
I am making saltdough ornaments with the grandkids this year to go in gift baskets and to send to their mom in Afghanistan. They older ones and I aren't going to cut them out, we're going to make three dimensional ones specifically for each person.
When my kids were little and we lived by the beach, we used to make paper snowflakes. I would tape them to the window and carefully spray the fake snow over them. Then I would carefully remove the paper, clean off any overspray and I would have beautiful snowy flakes. Now we live where it snows, although we usually don't have much snow until jan. & feb. Last year it snowed the day after Christmas.
We used to put popcorn strings on the trees, but the cat's ate them! Now we string them and put them on the outside trees for the birds and rabbits. We tried ONCE stringing cranberries, I love the look of popcorn and cranberries strung together. I don't know if there is a secret to it, but we had the hardest time getting the needle through the berries and we also were squirting/dripping juice, it was too hard and messy for me to do with little ones again.
When my Mom was a den mother, we (I was an unofficial part of the den, better than a babysitter) used to make the folded t.v guide things. But we used catalogs, when folded all the colorful pages really make them pretty as is. But a lot of times we would spraypaint them gold, silver, or paint a base color and add things to make santa, frosty, angels etc. I believe my Mom got the idea from Pack'o'Fun magazines for scout leaders(I know I've seen them online, I will look for it, LOTS of great cheap, recycling ideas!).
A favorite ornament I used to make as a child was to take egg cartons, cut the individual cups, put a hole in the middle, push a pipecleaner through add a bead, push through another one, add a bead... until you have about four hanging(or the length of the pipecleaner) add bead at bottom. Leave some at the top to form a lood, put ribbon through it to hang. You can leave them as is or decorate or paint or glitter them as wanted.
Monica
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