Christmas Ornaments

This year in December, the kids and I made some special ornaments.  

This first picture is a photo of a crocheted candy cane ornament I made.  I thought these turned out really sweet and added just the right touch to our tree.  I ended up making a few for our munchkins, my siblings, some friends, as well as for the grandparents.

 These next pictures are of ornaments I made with the munchkins.  They were very easy and fun to make.

All you need is some white craft paint, ball ornaments (your choice of color -we used frosted red ones), paint brushes or sponges, and permanent markers.

 What you do is coat your palm of your child's hand, with the white paint.  (You can either paint it on with the brushes or put the paint on a plate and have your child put their hand down in the paint to coat their palm. We did it with the paint brushes.)  Then, have your child grasp the ornament so your child makes 5 'snowmen' out of their handprint.  Make sure your child's palm and especially their fingers, are completely covered in paint to make the best snowmen.  

 Allow the paint to dry completely.  

(We put our ornaments on a cup to let them dry so we didn't smearing the paint.)

 Once the paint is dry, you can decorate your 'snowmen' with the permanent markers.  We also put the year and our child's name on the bottom so we can remember how big their hands were this Christmas.  That was the part I loved the most about these ornaments, that we can have a precious reminder of how small our children's hands were on Christmas, 2011.

The munchkins ended up making 3 each - one for us to keep and one for each set of grandparents.  Jon and I also made one ourselves.  

By the way, the grandparents loved their special ornaments from the Munchkins.