Homemade Christmas Ornaments - Rice Wreath Christmas Ornament - Easy Kids Craft

Need an Easy Kids Craft to Entertain Your Kids During Christmas Vacation?

The holidays are filling the air with excitement and anticipation, with children on christmas vacation anxiously waiting to open their Christmas gifts. Maybe, even driving mom or dad a little crazy asking over, and over again how many days 'til Christmas, or if they can please open just one Christmas present. The good news, mom and dad, is that your sanity is safe, as the Christmas season offers many selections of Christmas crafts and holiday baking to keep those anxious minds busy, and kids just love making things.

Christmas ornament crafts have a large selection all of their own, with many projects easy enough for young children to make, you can make different homemade Christmas Ornaments every year. Homemade Christmas ornaments are not only a great creative way to spruce up your Christmas tree with a personal touch, but guaranteed to be one of your family's favorite traditions, if it's not already. These rice wreath homemade Christmas ornaments are one of my favorite Christmas ornament crafts, it is really easy to do, and you're going to love how it turns out.

Rice Wreath Homemade Christmas Ornaments

Here's what you need:

Will make 1 Christmas ornament

* items are optional

• Uncooked white rice
• Clear or white Elmer's glue(white lightens the food coloring so you may need to add more drops to get the desired color. )
• Food coloring(my family experimented with several different colors and they all came out beautiful.)
• Small empty butter or margarine tub with lid(you will need a small lid for each Christmas ornament you plan on making that way you don't accidentally deform your Christmas ornament trying to pull it off the lid before it's dry. )
• 1/4 Measuring cup
• 1/2 Measuring cup
• Spoon for mixing
• Scissors
• Construction paper(you can use any color of construction paper, yarn, or ribbon to give your wreaths a Christmas look)
• Yarn or thin ribbon
• Hole punch
• Hairpin
• Ornament hook
• Pliers
• *Glitter
• *Acrylic

Here's what you do:

1. Shorten the hairpin so that it measures about 1" long using the pliers.
2. Measure out 1/4 cup of glue into the butter tub, then add 3 drops of the food coloring to the glue and mix. If the color is not to your satisfaction, add 1 drop of food coloring at a time until you get desired color. Once you have the desired color of glue, mix 1/2 cup of rice into the glue until all the rice is completely coated with the colored glue.
3. Spoon the rice mixture onto the butter tub lid and shape it into a wreath. Push the hairpin into the edge of the wreath to use as a hanger and let it dry over night.
4. Here's where you can get really creative, you can use the hole punch and punch out red berries from the construction paper, cut out green holly leaves, red and white poinsettias, etc to decorate your wreaths with. Add glitter to your cut outs to give your ornaments an extra eye catching sparkle, but don't forget to spray them with acrylic to ensure your glitter stays on. Tie some bows with the yarn or ribbon to glue on the top of your wreaths, attache your ornament hooks to the hangers, and go hang your new homemade ornaments on your Christmas tree for all to see.

Copyright © 12/16/2011 by A.K. Love (dragnhaze)

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