Making ornaments

Alaina, Ruby and I made some cute ornaments this weekend, a reindeer and a tree.  My friend Peggy has been sending me some cute ideas for things to do with the girls and this was one of them,  It was so easy, and they had great fun!

To make these you need:

cinnamon sticks

small buttons

a star sticker or button

small red jingle bell

wiggle eyes

decorative string for hanging

glue gun

For the reindeer ornament, lay out 3 cinnamon sticks in an upside down A shape, place the stick accross the center further from the point of the A, to make the reindeer face.

Glue the center stick to the outside sticks.

Then put glue on each side stick, and press a wiggly eye on each spot.  Put a dot of glue at the point and press a red jingle bell into the glue.

Last, cut a short piece of string and glue it to the back of the cross stick for hanging.

For the tree, cut cinnamon sticks into various lengths and glue across another cinnamon stick:

so it looks like this.

Glue small buttons to the end of each branch.  (The girls decided that there should be a button on the center of each branch too).

Then glue a star to the top of the tree, and glue a string for hanging to the back of the tree.

 Here they are; 2 trees and 2 reindeers!  They smell good too.

2 happy girls with their ornaments.