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These were a fun way to keep the kids occupied yesterday.  They loved making them and getting to go through pictures from the last few months to choose just the right one for their ornament.

They’ll hang on this year’s tree a little while then get packed away for next year, when we’ll marvel at how big they gotten since ‘last year’.

We used craft foam, scissors, favorite recent photos, glue sticks, ribbon or fabric for the ties,  a permanent marker to write the year and a hole punch.

The one extra thing we do is to cut a matching piece of foam for on the back to secure the picture in place better and to make it look more finished.

Happy Crafting!

With just two weeks till Christmas and the knowledge that we’ll be getting our tree this weekend, it was time to start thinking of some ornaments for the twins to make.  I got out the clear ornaments and was ready to get out the paints to put in them when a roll of Reynolds colored plastic wrap got my attention.  It was in the craft ‘closet’ for another project that was nixed and it looked lonely.

Knowing I wanted to do something really quick and not at all messy, I wrapped an ornament in the colored plastic.  It looked really cute!  And I can just imagine the lights twinkling through it on the tree.

The twins loved it too, and so we made a few of them up in red and green and some ribbon.  We’ll be making some in blue for Jarod and purple for Makenna as soon as I get to the store for more plastic wrap.

The best part is I was thinking we could use the plastic wrap to recycle some old ornaments that we have that aren’t as shiny or colorful as they used to be.  And, the plastic wrap isn’t permanent like paint, so if we want to change the colors to have all blue ornaments next year we could do that.