These little tissue covered Christmas baubles are new Christmas tree ornaments we will be hanging on our tree this year with pride.
This year I’m pleased to be participating in 20 Days of a Kid Made-Christmas: Ornaments where over 50 bloggers from around the world are coming together to share crafts their kids have made. Today is day 3 and I’m pleased to share Tristan and Kallista’s craftiness with you. These beautiful little Christmas baubles will brighten up your tree and your children will be proud to have their own creations hanging for everyone to see. This post may contain affiliate links.
These tissue covered Christmas baubles are simple to make and only need 4 supplies:
- A plastic tree bauble, we used matt silver balls
- Tissue paper of various colours of your child’s choosing.
- White glue or Mod Podge
- A paintbrush
- Clear varnish (not a necessity)
How did they make their tissue covered Christmas baubles?
I set the children up at the table, covering it in case of any spills or drips.
I mixed a little water into the glue to thin it out a bit and make it easier to use.
I found it convenient to use a little tea-light candle holder covered in tin foil to hold the bauble so it didn’t roll away.
The children used some squares of tissue paper left over from previous project over the past year that we still had. There’s no sense in wasting those little bits of paper!
Tristan and Kallista used a paint brush to paint the bauble with the diluted glue once area at a time. Then they gently put a square of tissue paper over the glue.
Then they used a little more glue to smooth out and seal in the tissue paper.
They continued this process, slightly overlapping the squares of tissue until the bauble was covered.
Once the baubles were covered with a layer of tissue papers we hung the tissue covered Christmas baubles up to dry. When they are dry you can either cover them with one more layer of Mod-podge diluted glue to seal everything in.
If you’d like your bauble to have a little extra sheen, you can instead paint it with a layer of clear varnish, as we did.
These tissue covered Christmas baubles are lightweight and easy to post, making them fabulous gifts for family and friends across the country or around the world. If you’ve enjoyed this, jingle on over to our Christmas ideas page.
Would you like to have even more fun?!
We made this ornament as part of the 20 Days of A Kid Made Christmas – Ornaments. You can find many more great kid-made Christmas ornaments by clicking on the links below, or on the graphic, which will take you to the home page where you’ll find all of our links, plus many more.
Make sure to pop by these other fabulous bloggers too, that are participating in this series…
December 1st
December 2nd
December 3rd
Crystal’s Tiny Treasures
December 4th
December 5th
December 6th
December 7th
The Connection We Share
December 8th
December 9th
Tutus & Tea Parties
December 10th
December 11th
Glittering Muffins
December 12th
eLeMeNO-P Kids
December 13th
December 14th
December 15th
December 16th
The Eyes of a Boy
December 17th
December 18th
Discovering The World Through My Son’s Eyes
December 19th
Glittering Muffins
December 20th
Rockabye Butterfly
And if these aren’t enough kid-made Christmas ornaments, try our other great ideas:
Carli says
Those are awesome! You guys probably have the best looking tree in the neighborhood!
Crystal McClean says
Thank you. I don’t know if our tree wins any prizes, but every ornament does have a memory attached to it 😉
Jennifer @ Making Our Life Matter says
OOOhhh, these are so cute! I am going to email these to my SIL, she was looking for a craft to do with her class.
Crystal McClean says
I’m really honoured, thanks for sharing our craft! Merry Christmas 🙂
Tanya @ Mom's Small Victories says
What a wonderful idea. Pinning to my gift ideas board!
Crystal McClean says
Thank you very much for pinning! Merry Christmas!
Tammy Doiel @creativekkids.com says
I love your ornament, and I love this idea of linking up homemade ornaments–I’m sure there are a ton of great ideas!
Crystal McClean says
I’m pleased to be included with all the amazing bloggers and children who are so creative. I’ll be checking out the ideas as they go live.
Jessica @ fantabulosity.com says
What a fun craft idea for the kiddos! I love it!
Crystal McClean says
We’ve been doing a lot of tissue paper crafts this year, but this was my favourite!
Tulip says
Love how those turned out! Handmade Christmas Ornaments made by the kids are the best.
Crystal McClean says
They really are the best, aren’t they! Do you have any you made as a child?
Rebekah says
These are so cute! My son would probably love to make these and I’m sure the grandparents would love to receive them. 🙂
Crystal McClean says
Thank you 🙂 Grandparents always love gifts the children have made, and I love that these are pretty and practical and can be used every year.
Stephanie @ Twodaloo says
These are GORGEOUS! Another type of ornament to add to our list- our tree will never be finished this year 😉
Crystal McClean says
I don’t think any of us bloggers will EVER be finished our trees-even if we had the largest tree in the world and Christmas was year-long! Have fun 🙂
Tess says
I love that idea. Im doing it for my daycare kids.
Crystal McClean says
Awesome, Tess, you’ve just made my weekend 🙂 Have fun and I’m sure it will be fun to see all the different ways they’ll come up with to be unique.
TheBargainBabe says
Those look like a lot of fun for kids to make. 🙂
Crystal McClean says
They had so much fun, we’ve used this process for another couple of crafts you’ll see over the next year 😉 If given the chance, I’m sure they’d paper a wall-hmm, there’s an idea!