silohette ornaments

This was a fun & easy craft for the kids, great for this time of year, and a great memorium for years to come.
You simply choose a base, I used a cardstock circle, about 4inches accross. I punched a hole in the top of the circle to hold a ribbon. If you would like something a little more sturdy you could use cardboard, wood, or foam.
I had the children decorate both sides completely. The silohettes would be glued to the front, and there name & the year written on the back center. We used crayons, but you could use markers or paint as well. However if your doing the paper version, the markers will leak to the other side.
TO MAKE THE SILOHETTES
To make the silohettes of the children, i hung up a solid blue poster board on the wall, and had marked a x on the floor linned up with the center. I then had each child stand sideways on the X while I took there pictures.
THERE ARE TWO METHODS
*The method I used, I loaded the digital prints into a paint program & filled in the entire head/shoulders of each child with black. This could be done with a paintbrush, a fill tool, or a colorchanger. Leaving the background blue, you would print them all on 4x6 and you would have your physical black sillohette to cut out and glue.
*The second method would be to print the pictures as is without editing them, and then when they print, you would cut out th head/shoulders and trace it directly onto your circle & clor it in black, or trace & cut it out of black contruction paper for glueing.

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Frosty the Snowman snowglobe craft

I had a ton of these storage buckets, so in the spirit of the holidays i decided to have the kids make there own frostys.
Each frosty used

* a felt snowman cut from a sheet of white felt

* a black felt hat

* a felt strip for a scarf

* black seed beads for the buttons/coal on the face & body

* a piece off orange cut from a fuzzy metal strand ( the nme has skipped my mind!)

* a foam or felt handprint, i used green to look like a tree.

* glue & a popsicle stick or tounge dispenser.

BUiLDiNG FROSTY

Frosty himself is built onto the front of the popsicle stick, and the tree handprint covers the stick from behind. This will make a puppet version or a hanging version. I found liquid glue like elmers works best.

TO MAKE A SNOW GLOBE OR STAND UP VERSION

For the stand up version you will also need puddy, 4 cotton balls, a plate, and a dome.

Place the puddy in the middle of your plate, and stick your dried frosty stick in the middle of it. This will help it stand straight while you glue your cotton balls, two in front & two in back. More cotton can be used if desired.

Your dome will then fit over the top to make him look like a snowglobe. in my version the tops were removable, yours could be the same, or you could perminently attach the dome & add glitter or something for effects when shaken.
ENJOY!

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Your dome will then fit over the top to make him look like a snowglobe. in my version the tops were removable, yours could be the same, or you could perminently attach the dome & add glitter or something for effects when shaken.

ENJOY!

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