Last night, my galpal Hillary and I had craft night. She wanted to make these cute Reindeer ornaments for her tree and to give a couple as gifts. Her inspiration was this
cutie from Craftelf.
So we took a quick spin over to Michaels and got our supplies for 8 ornaments. We couldn't find red ball ornaments so we had to get creative and we decided to get some styrofoam balls and wrap them with yarn. We bought a big skein of red yarn and two packages of 6 4inch styrofoam balls, some black pipe cleaners, brown felt, pop poms and small gold jingle bells as well as some red glitter ribbon. We also got some googly eyes (in hindsight we should have gotten bigger eyes...)
So basically we (well, Hil) wrapped the balls with yarn. I cut out the antlers from the felt using the antler pattern from the craftelf website (I had to resize it to make it smaller..) and we hot glued those on. Hil made these cute little corkscrew tufts from the black pipe cleaners by wrapping it around a glue stick and the pinching the ends together to make it round. We glued one of those between the antlers. We hotglued jingle bells to the inside of each antler. We strung a jingle bell onto a length of glitter ribbon (getting glitter everywhere, fyi) and tied the ends to make a hanger. That was hotglued behind the antlers. Then eyes and a pom pom for the nose. As you can see, we probably should have used larger eyes. But they have a lot of homemade character!!
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