I know we have talked about Christmas décor and ornaments already but
today we’re gonna go a little further and explore the tradition of the
Christmas ornament a bit more and make some too!
Christmas trees were traditionally decorated with things like fruit
(usually apples), candy canes, and different shaped pastries.
Glass ornaments were first introduced in Germany by Hans Greiner in the
late 1500’s. He made garlands of tin and glass beads. Since these ornaments
were so popular, eventually people began to experiment and made what we see as
the “traditional” Christmas tree ornament, glass balls decorated that have a
cap and hook near the top. Mass productions of ornaments began in in New York
in 1890 after Woolworth sold the German imported versions in 1880. Of course
now you can find ornaments in all shapes and sizes some are mass produced but
you can find some many handcrafted with lots of details.
You can also make your own ornaments which is what we are going to do
today. We found some cool paper ornaments on
Curbly .com so we are going to
try these out with our own modifications.
These are super cute and very easy to make. Again we are making use of
our leftover card strips.
We used three sizes of strips 5”, 5 ¾”, 6 ¾”. If you take a look at the
link below you will see that they use different lengths for different size
ornaments. They cut theirs down to certain sizes but we just used our leftover
strips that all are ¾ inches wide and most of them are all about 6 ¾ inches
long and then we just cut them accordingly.
We used one of the 5” strips, two of the 5 ¾” strips, and two of the 6 ¾”
strips.
Once you have your strips ready to go then layer or sandwich them
together starting with the longest one, then medium one, then the smallest one
in the middle, and then the other medium one, and finally the other longest
one. You can pick any colours you want as well.
You can hold all of the strips together with a foldback clip and then staple
all the strips together, glue all the bits together near the ends, or you can
punch a hole and use an eyelet which is a handy hole to hang it from later on.
If you tape it together, you will need to make a hole at the top of the
ornament so that you can put a ribbon through it to hang it up.
If you staple it, you can cut some small complimentary coloured bits to
cover the staples.
Feel inspired and want to make more ornaments? Then follow the links to
some other cool DIY ornaments that we found.
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