| Mini Winter Scene. Put very tiny
pinecones in the ball, add the fake snow, replace cover. Contributed
by Lium1949@aol.com
Mini Nature Scene. Remove the top and fill 1/3 of the way full with
bird seed. Replace the top and add a little bit of artificial pine and
a cinnamon stick branch and then add a tiny bird from the craft store.
These are very cute when then are finished and I use my hot glue gun for
it all. Contributed by Joanna Jackson, jjack@nqi.net
Fill them with popcorn! It's easy. Remove the metal top. Place 15-25 kernels
of microwavable popcorn in the ornament. (Wipe off some of the oily gunk
first.) Place the ornament in a paper bag and put in the microwave for
1-2 minutes. Listen carefully, you may not need to leave them in for a
full two minutes. When the popcorn is done popping, remove the ornament
carefully, it will be hot. Sprinkle some glitter in if you like. Tie a
pretty ribbon on the top and hang from your tree.
Put photos in them. One year I took a picture of each child in my sunday
school class. I cut their picture out in a circle to fit the clear ball.
Added color tinsel to the back to hold the picture in place, added a ribbon
and gave them to the kids. The parents loved them. Contributed by Mary,
MBA34@aol.com
Fill with shells and sand for an interesting beach look.
Fill with silk fs. Take apart some colorful silk fs and stuff them down
the neck of the ornament.
Fill with tinsel. Use different colored tinsel, pieces of old garlands.
Add some of those shiny cutout shapes they sell to insert into greeting
cards and packages as a nice addition.
Sand Art! Fill with layers of different colored sand.
Paint / Marble the inside. Put a drop or two of paint into the ornament
and swirl around to coat the inside. Use more than one color, either at
the same time, or one color at a time (letting each dry in between). Experiment
with your paint - too thick and it will just sit there in a blob. Too
thin and it won't adhere to the side of the ornament. Try using a straw
inserted into the neck of the ornament to blow the paint around, or drop
a small bead into the paint and swirl it around the inside of the ornament.
Glitter / glue - easy for kids to do! Just draw a design on the outside
with white glue and sprinkle glitter on.
Attach to tree lights. Take off the metal cover, insert the light (the
small kind) into the ornament. Carefully replace the cover over the light
wire.
Fill them with potpourri. You'll need to crumble the potpourri up fairly
fine in order to fit it into the neck of the ornament. Hang next to a
light on your tree to warm up the potpourri and release the scent.
Fill with odds and ends. Take all those little scraps left over from
other projects - pieces of pearl strands, red felt, buttons, all kinds
of scraps. Sprinkle in a little silver or gold glitter. |
