The Haldeman Holiday Ornament

Hello friends! We are just days away from Christmas, so there is still time to make a keepsake ornament! Last year we did cinnamon ornaments, and salt dough ornaments for our ornament tradition. 

This year for our 2015 keepsake ornament, we made Snowmen Handprint Ornaments! 

This is a pretty simple craft. You'll need the following items:

- Glass or plastic ornaments: shiny coating only. Do not purchase the matte ornament balls (ex purple, blue, red etc) as they will bleed through the paint. 

- Craft paint - black, brown, and orange, paint brush

- Toothpicks

- Fabric 

- Pencil

- Ribbon

- Glue stick

- Your child's hand :)

Step 1: You'll want to paint the palm of your child's hand with white craft paint. Gently place the ornament in your child's palm and have them "hug" the ornament. I had to gently press their fingers flat up against the ornament to ensure that the snowmen would appear ;)

Step 2: While the ornaments dried, I cut out small little "scarves" from some left over holiday fabric. Truth be told, the process of cutting and gluing the little scarves took the most time. Helpful hint: USE WASHI TAPE for the scarves. By doing that, you'll cut your cutting-perfectly-small-sized-scarves time in half ;) ;) And you'll save your sanity in the meantime!

Step 3: Take a pencil and draw out your snowmen faces, noses etc. You can totally skip this step, but I'm just way too anal about how my snowmen look - good grief! LOL

Step 4: Take the bottom of a toothpick and gently dip it into black craft paint, and place it on top of your pencil marks. This is how you'll make the eyes/mouth/buttons. Do the same thing with orange craft paint to make the noses. You can also use a toothpick to make stick arms and hands.

Aren't they SO cute! They have so much personality, don't they? Side note: I'm super proud of myself at this point in time, FYI.

Step 5: Take a glue stick and glue the back of your fabric scarves, then stick them on your snowmen any way you like! Dip the end of a paintbrush into the white craft paint and "dot" around the ornament to make it look like falling snow. And voila! Add a pretty ribbon on top and you've got your Snowman Hand print Ornament! WOOT! 

No matter how you decide to spend these last few days before Christmas, do so with your heart and soul! Make it a memorable and wonderful holiday with those nearest and dearest to you! 

Happy Holidays, 

The NorCal Contessa