Usually around Christmastime, I don’t decorate a lot, but this year, I was bitten by the holiday bug.
Exhibit A: Our Paper Cone Christmas Wreath.
Exhibit B: Our 6.5 foot Christmas tree.
Undecorated Christmas tree
This tree is pretty old and has some branches that aren’t quiet connected like they should be … but this is the first traditional Christmas tree that I or Zach has had in years.
Exhibit C: Crafting ornaments.
Homemade Musical Ornaments
These ornaments are not based on any other design in particular. They are just something that I decided to experiment with after I put up the Christmas tree.
What you need:
Ingredients for Ornaments
- Sheet Music (3-5 pages depending on how many ornaments you want to make)
- Craft glue
- Small cookie cutters
- Cardstock in your colors of choice
- 1/4″ inch ribbon
- Scissors
How to do it:
- Pick out your cookie cutters and trace them on to your sheet music.
Ready for tracing
- Cut out the design.
Christmas tree ornaments ready for cutting
- Flip your cookie cutters over and trace the design on to your cardstock. Cut out the design.
Trace again
There should be a little extra cardstock on the sides of the sheet music
- Cut a length of ribbon to hang your ornaments.
- Glue the sheet music to the cardstock with the ribbon in between them.
Almost finished ...
- Let completely dry and decorate your tree!
Ta-da!!
The tree topper is simply a free-handed star cut from two pages of sheet music and glued together.
The other ornaments are gold bells with red ribbon.
Bells and Ribbons
The best part about these decorations is that I didn’t have to buy anything! I already had everything that I used on the tree!
