{Decking the Halls with the Kids-Homemade ornaments for the kids}

Kids make holidays so much fun! They love to be apart of all of the action whether it is baking, decorating, or just anything! I sometimes forget this and don’t include the little ones in my crafting…so this year I decided to let them decorate their own little playroom tree. I came up with a few ideas for ornaments that they could make on their own and I was surprised at what a great job they did. We turned on Christmas music, made some hot cocoa and got our craftiness on.

#1:  Button Snowflake Ornaments:

You will need:

4 popsicle sticks

a big bag of white buttons or colored (colored would be fun!)

white paint

hot glue gun and glue sticks

school glue

I had the sticks glued together first. You can do this by placing one on top of another in an X and gluing the center. 

After they were glued together, I let the kids paint them white. 

We let the snowflakes dry and then we added the buttons. I then put strips of glue on each stick and let the kids add the buttons. Let them dry overnight.

#2:  Felt trees with ric rac and pom pom trim

LOVE felt, pom poms and ric rac especially for crafting with the kids.

I first had the triangles cut out and ready to go. I used two pieces of felt to make them more sturdy. I glued my ric rac loop in the middle of the two felt pieces so that we could hang it on the tree.

Then I let the kids use some tacky glue to glue down ric rac strips and sparkly pom poms.

#3 Candy Cane Pom Pom Ornaments:

First, cut shapes of candy canes out of felt. Super Easy! Next, let your child add some pom poms with tacky glue. And last, add a ric rac loop on top! These were there favorite and they look so cute on their little tree!

And there you have a very cute playroom tree! 

{Side note:  They really wanted to incorporate pipe cleaner-they love those little bendy strips. So…we rolled them around a pencil, pulled them apart a bit and added them to our tree as “icicles.” Those clever little ones!}