Animal Ornaments

Today we are making some animal ornaments.  Putting the GRRR in Christmas.  Don't like that one?  How about the Furr into Christmas?  I'll work on it.  Ok, I got the idea for this craft from here.  I thought we would make some ornaments for our tree.    I thought these ornaments were really cute.

Ok, Supplies needed:

Tongue depressor (wooden popsicle stick)

paint (we chose white, yellow and orange)

animal print pipe cleaners
seed beads

white cardstock paper

black marker

green tissue paper

string

glue

GLUE DOTS!!!!!

I think you know my love for glue dots.  I'm excited that we get to use them today.

Ok, lets get started.   First, let's paint the wood sticks.  We are making 3 ornaments so we are painting with orange

yellow

and white

A word to the wise.  Now is the time to paint a small 1/2 inch square of your card stock and let dry.  We forgot to do this so we used a marker in the same color and colored a square on the paper.  You might want to make two colored squares for this project.  You will need the second one later on.

Cut the dried square into a 1/2 inch square and cut the square diagonally (these will be the ears).  Glue these to the top back of the wooden stick.  You don't need much glue for the ears.

Next, we made three glue dots on the front of the stick (towards the bottom) and glued on 3 matching seed beads.  This picture is deceiving. My model didn't listen and glued her beads to the wrong side.  We just went with it.  It still came out adorable!

Add eyes, nose and mouth

Take your animal print pipe cleaner and cut it so you are only using 6 inches. 

Twirl the one side, this is the animal's tail

Using a GLUE DOT!!  attach the tail to the LOWER BACK of your wooden stick.

Here is where you can use that matching colored paper and cut a small rectangle out and place it across the glue dot (this will ensure that the tail stays on)

Green tissue paper cut into 1/2 inch squares, need to twirl onto your pencil eraser

twirl, like this

Now to make a leafy collar for our animal with the tissue.  Place some glue where you want your collar and take your twirlled tissue paper and put in place.  You can glue some red seed beads on the collar to look like red berries

Some string glued to the top back of the ornament so we can hang onto the Christmas tree

 

Ready for our close up

And, of course, my model, ready for her close up

See you tomorrow!