Kid Craft: Paper Christmas Tree Ornaments

Hi Everyone! I have a special treat for you today! I am teaming up with 11 other bloggers for the 12 Days of Christmas Crafts for Kids series, organized by Claire form Polka Dot Pretties!

The Christmas Craft for kids series is a blog hop, you will be able to visit each blog on their assigned day to see a different fun craft designed to inspire!

Here is the schedule:

Dec 1st – Fancy Frugal Life
Dec 2nd – Alderberry Hill
Dec 3rd – House on the Way
Dec 4th – Scattered Thoughts of a Crafty Mom (That's me!)
Dec 5th – I should be Mopping the Floor
Dec 6th – Season Gredings
Dec 7th– A Night Owl Blog
Dec 8th – Mamma Marchand’s Nest
Dec 9th – Cherised Bliss
Dec 10th – Little Inspiration
Dec 11th – Aubrey Plays
Dec 12th - Polkadot pretties

Today, I am sharing these Paper Flower Ornaments the kids and I made.  You'll love how simple they are to make!

See the step by step directions after the jump:


I have quite a collection of paper punches leftover from my scrap-booking days.  The kids love to craft with  paper punches.  So much, in fact, that I have to keep them put away on a high shelf at the back of my closet.   Otherwise they will punch everything in sight, leaving trails of paper pieces everywhere!  

Something else the can't stay away from is my pin cushion and sewing pins.  It's so funny, both of them will come in to my craft room and make a bee-line for the pin cushion!  (Anyone else's kids do this?)

The paper flower ornaments were the absolute perfect craft for them. They were able to punch flowers out to their hearts content and then stick pins into styrofoam!  How much better can it get?  (Maybe I should have thrown in some bubble wrap - then they would have been in heaven!)

Supplies needed for the paper flower ornaments:

I pre-cut the patterned paper into strips so it would be easier for them to punch the flowers and hopefully waste less paper.

We only had one flower punch, so they had to take turns punching the flowers.

We used about 2 to 3 strips of punched flowers per styrofoam ball.

Then we pushed the pins through the paper and into the balls  Couldn't get much easier than that!

For children, I recommend thinner paper over thick card stock   The green card stock was much heavier than the other paper we used and was harder for my daughter to push the pins through.  I ended up putting the pins through the paper for her and she pinned the flowers into the styrofoam.

Once you have covered the styrofoam with flowers, cut a 6 to 8 inch piece of ribbon, fold it in half and pin it into the styrofoam ball.  You may want to add a drop of glue to help keep the ribbon in place.  (Ours seem to be holding up well with out glue, but we still have over 3 weeks till Christmas...)

Aren't they cute? And so easy!

Have fun making ornaments!

Don't forget to visit the other blogs to see what crafts they are up to as well!

Yesterday the blog hop was at House on the Way, where Leslie showed us how to make a darling Christmas Ribbon Ornament.  And tomorrow is another fun craft from I should be Mopping the Floor!

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