 Christmas cookie cutters, ribbons, fake pearls and gemstones, pretty papers, silver bottle caps, sweet granddaughters and a heaping helping of love equals a great craft idea and a good deal of family fun! Get together with your grandchildren for a Christmas craft and a wonderful bonding time. What you'll need for the ornaments pictured above:
 The supplies--everything came from the craft store except the cookie cutters. I got those from a kitchen supply shop.  The pretty papers from the craft store. You'll have fun selecting all the needed materials. The procedure: I actually found this craft on Pinterest, but there were no step-by-step instructions. Hence, we just looked at the pictures and decided for ourselves how to do it. I know you can figure that out as well, but here goes. After I bought all the supplies, and gathered my granddaughters around the table, we proceeded. We traced the ornament on our chosen paper, and before we cut, we added a line around the tracing where we actually cut. The first tracing that exactly matched the ornament, we used for the glue line. We didn't care if the backing paper was a tiny bit bigger than the actual ornament--it still looked very good. On the foil paper, we used the white school glue. We tried that on the thinner papers, but it left the ornament too wet. That's when we went to the glue gun. My granddaughters, ages 10 and 12, did great with the glue gun, so there were no worries there. I guess all the ornaments could actually be done with the glue gun. We let them dry and harden, and then added the pretty baubles to add to the festive feel of a traditional Christmas ornament. Before the girls came over, my husband took the cookie cutters to his shop and cut the holes for the ribbon. After we glued in the gemstones, we tied ribbons and we were done. I asked the girls to add their names on the back along with the year. Hopefully the decorations might last for them to eventually put on their own tree! One more added note, some of the foil paper was really heavy, so one of my granddaughters just traced the cookie cutter shapes and cut it out to put on her mother's tree without the cookie cutter--those turned out good as well.  This is one ornament my grand chose to make without glueing the cutter to it. With that pretty foil paper, it makes a great ornament just like that. Add the ribbon and some gemstones and you're set!  Cover the table so not to spill glue on it. We also used heavy books to weigh the ornaments down while the glue dried.  Tracing the cookie cutter on the back of the pretty paper.  My leftie cutting out her angel. (Insert smile here.)  We made name plates for the back and Mod-Podged them.  Setting the timer so we didn't handle them too soon before the glue hardened. Delivering the ornaments to their parents! We put the ornaments in a box stuffed with blue tissue paper and delivered to their parents. Alas, their mother wasn't home, but my sweet Emma filmed the presentation for me when her mother got home. I have the best grandkids!  Finished product. Love the "love" paper my granddaughter picked out for her angel.  We put the finished decorations on a tray as soon as they were festooned with ribbons.  The wrappings for presentation to their mother. Hanging on the family Christmas tree~ Until I got over to their house to see for myself, my granddaughter sent me pictures of their finished creations hanging on their tree.     Final thoughts~ I think the ornaments are super easy to make. And they're pretty classy looking what with all the silver and rhinestone decorations. My granddaughters just looked at the sample pictures and ran with it. As I said, I hope the ornaments last until they have a tree of their own. Who knows? I love the bonding time that working on a craft creates for me and my granddaughters. For some reason, time spent crafting or cooking together just makes for some sweet conversations. I know many of you have made Christmas decorations with your grandkids starting when they were small. And what grandparent (and parent) doesn't have their children's homemade ornaments that they place lovingly on their tree year after year. Please share any ideas or times you've spent Christmas-crafting with your grands. And if you decide to try this one, please share photos of that too. Here's another craft with the grandkids that I blogged about last year. It's a good one too, and one I got from a friend: www.gigisseasonings.com/blog/grandmothers-button-box Happy Christmas season from Gigi of Gigi's Seasonings!
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