These are great safe ornaments for families with small children. I made several different ones of these. There are so many different ways to create them.
I used styrofoam balls of different sizes, scrap fabrics and lace. These can be made to coordinate with your homes decor. I started these by hot gluing ribbon or raffia to the tops of the styrofoam balls. Waiting to add the ribbon could be an eyesore. For one look, I cut a circular shape into some scrap fabric and wrapped the ball in it. I finished it by gathering the fabric at the top and tying it with a pretty ribbon. The second look for these ornaments can be achieved by simply wrapping the balls in raffia and hot gluing the ends. The third look was achieved by wrapping some lace ribbon around the ball.
The next list of ideas aren’t so children friendly. Using small push pins and sequins, I place sequins on the ball and attached them by pushing pins into them.I have also made these by hot gluing dried flowers to them. I purchased small clusters of flowers from the craft department at my local Walmart. After clipping half the stem off the flowers, I just simply pushed them in. You can roll the styrofoam ball in glue and then into glitter. I painted one of the balls red. I purchased artificial cranberry’s at my local dollar store. I snipped the wire about half way on the cranberry’s. After the paint was dry, I pushed the cranberry’s in to the ball. I have also seen these made by pushing real cloves into them and they smell wonderful.
Supplies needed:
- Styrofoam balls
- Scrap fabric
- Raffia
- Lace ribbon
- Ribbon or yarn
- Hot glue gun
- Glue sticks
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