Materials Needed
STYROFOAM™ Brand Foam:
Ball, 3″
Other Materials:
Recycled red and green milk bottle caps, 16
Holiday scrapbook papers of choice
Ribbon: red double-sided satin, 1/8″ x 1/4 yd.; holiday taffeta, 1/2″ x 1/3 yd.
Pencil
Ruler
Wooden skewer
Small round paintbrush
Scissors
Circle craft punch, 1″ or 1-1/4″, or compass
Low-temp glue gun and glue sticks
Thick, white craft glue
Instructions
1. Wash and dry all bottle caps. Use glue gun to glue two bottle caps to opposite sides of foam ball, rim up or down as desired. Glue remaining bottle caps to ball, evenly spaced around first two. Fill in empty areas with remaining bottle caps as needed.
2. Punch circles from scrapbook papers to decorate caps; use 1″ punch for inside cap and 1-1/4″ punch for top of cap. Note: If craft punches are unavailable, use compass and pencil to draw circles on back of paper; cut out with scissors. Use white glue to adhere circles to caps.
3. Knot ends of 1/8″-wide ribbon. Place dot of glue on knot and use skewer to push knot into top of ornament. Tie remaining ribbon into bow; glue to base of hanging loop.