Totally Glue Ornaments

Just in time to trim the tree!

What you will need:
Colored or glitter glue sticks
Clear sticks for purging
Patterns
Decoration (like more glue, beads or googly eyes)
Wax paper or plastic styrene blank
Wrapping paper ribbon

Patterns can be traced from something like a cookie cutter, something you drew yourself, be creative! Just be sure that the lines are dark and heavy, so you can see them through your wax paper or plastic blank. Remember, the simpler, the better.

1. Heat up glue gun and put in colored/glitter stick of glue. (hint- it's better to start with lighter colors first or the base color of most of your planned creations.)

2. Place your pattern underneath the wax paper or blank.

3. Begin filling in your pattern with glue, use steady, even pressure on the trigger of your glue gun. Try to fill in with a back and forth motion or circular. Drawing an outline of the pattern with glue and going back to fill it in will result in the border drying before the center, so you will have an uneven texture/look.

4. If you have more patterns to fill with that color, keep going until you are either finished or run out of glue. Leave a little bit left in the gun to do the finishing edges of the ornament. Be sure to work in even numbers since you will need two of each pattern to make the ornament.

5. When the glue has hardened, peel it off the paper.

6. Time to decorate!
a. You can use another color glue to add accents or faces
b. Use the Sharpie to draw on faces or stripes
c. You can glue on rhinestones, beads or bells
d. Anything you can think of!

7. Once both side of the ornament have been decorated, cut about a 6 inch long piece of ribbon for the hanger.

8. Apply glue to one end of the ribbon and attach 1/4" to 1/2" to the undecorated side of one of the ornament sides. Once hardened, apply glue to the other end and other side of the ribbon, form a loop and place next to (not on top of) where the first end of the ribbon is attached. This makes for a sturdier ornament.

9. Next apply glue to the undecorated side of the ornament and sandwich with the other undecorated side.

10. Once that has hardened, take your glue gun and go around all the edges of the ornament, sealing the two halves together and giving it a nice finished look.
Hang on your tree, it's ready to go!

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