Homemade Christmas Ornaments
"Bubbly the Bottle Cap Snowman"
Submitted by Cindy Hasio of Denton,
TX
I like to recycle bottle caps in a creative
way to show shape and symmetry. You can create several snowmen from
bottle caps by attaching eyes and a piece of ribbon, then creating a hat and a
nose and drawing buttons and a smile.
Materials:
Glue
Bottle caps
Tempera paint
(white or silver) and paintbrushes
Black markers
A pack of "googly"
eyes (Buy at the Dollar Tree)
Red and white
Construction paper or felt
A spool of
colored ribbon (Pre-cut them so each students gets a piece that is 6” long)
Scraps of orange
paper
Procedures:
- Cover the
table with newspapers. Provide yourself or your children with paint and
brushes. Explain to them that they will be painting two bottle caps and
allowing it to dry while they create the hat and nose.
- Cut out a
small rectangle (1/2 inch). Then cut the rectangle in half to make the nose
of the snowman.
- Make a small
red and white Santa hat using red and white construction paper or felt. You
can fold the top of the hat over so that it looks like the top of the hat is
drooping down.
- When the
paint is dried, glue both bottle caps together. You should glue the
edges that will touch (the top and the bottom caps). Allow this to dry then take
two small pieces of ‘googly’ eyes and glue them on the top bottle cap.
- After the
glue is dried, then use a 6” piece of colored ribbon.
- Wrap the 6”
piece of ribbon around the two caps in the middle. Use extra glue to bond
the middle since it is not so strong. Wrap around the middle several times
until it looks like a scarf. You may also tuck the end of the ribbon in the
scarf to hold it.
- Demonstrate
gluing the hat. Finally, draw 3 black dots on the bottom cap for buttons and
a smile on the face.
Note: You can glue a pin behind it to make a pin
or attach a piece of string to make an ornament.
2010
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