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Home > Arts and Crafts Projects >Christmas Ornaments > Making Styrofoam Ball Ornaments
Christmas is coming and you want to make your very own unique Christmas Ornaments. What is a crafter to do? Well, how about using styrofoam balls, clay, or a rubber ball as the base of your new Xmas ornaments and then adding toothpicks and some paint? This is an easy idea that you can build upon to make your very own unique designs. Have fun.
1. Small rubber ball, Styrofoam ball, or ball of clay
2. Double-pointed cocktail toothpicks (colored or plain, wooden or plastic)
3. Tempera or showcard paint
4. Paint Brush
5. Powdered tinsel (sparkle) gold, silver, red, green, blue etc. (You may purchase the tinsel in small glass bottles or in a larger amount by the pound.)
6. Salt shaker for the powdered tinsel--You may need to enlarge the holes in the shaker so that the tinsel will go through.
1. Cocktail toothpicks are stuck into and radiated from the center of a cork, styrofoam ball, small rubber ball, or ball of clay. The toothpicks should be placed close together to make the most attractive ornaments.
2. Paint the ornament with tempera or showcard paint.
3. While the paint is still wet, use a salt shaker to sprinkle the ornament with the powdered tinsel, or the paint may be allowed to dry and rubber cement (or glue) can be brushed over the paint and the tinsel sprinkled over the wet rubber cement.
These glittery ornaments may be suspended from string or ribbon and used as Christmas tree ornaments; they may be placed on boughs of evergreen for mantel decorations; they may be hung from the ceiling for room decorations; or they may be grouped together for table decorations, favors, etc.