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This Christmas ornament kids crafts will take some patience waiting for the glue to dry.  If you have wood glue this works best but Elmer's glue will do the job. Anything you can shape by gluing together popsicle sticks (craft sticks) you can make into a Christmas ornament, so use your imagination and come up with your own ornament kids craft ideas. Supplies 5 Craft Sticks Green Paint Paint Brush Wood Glue (or Elmer's glue) Pony Beads or Glitter Colored Ribbon Pipe Cleaner (optional) Heavy Duty Scissors There are two Christmas ornament kids craft stick ideas pictured here.  The instructions below are for the Christmas tree.   To make the Christmas star ornament, simply shape the sticks into a star and glue together.  Then decorate as you wish. There is no cutting needed for the star. You can even try to make a sleigh, a reindeer, a square snowman or many different Christmas ornaments using craft sticks, some decorative items and glue.  So give it a try to see whay you come up with.

	Take one craft stick and place it on the table vertically.  The other sticks will be glued to this one but placed horizontally. Keep one craft stick the full lengther.  With the remaining two craft sticks, cut about 1 1/2 inch off of one of them (keep both pieces as you will use the smallest for the top of the tree).  Now cut the other stick about 2 1/4 inches off.  Again keep both pieces.  Color these sticks green.
	Now place the cut sticks on top of the first stick you placed vertically on the table.  Glue the largest piece towards the bottom of the stick (leave some room at the bottom for the tree trunk).  Now glue remaining pieces leaving some piece inbetween each going from larger to smaller to where the smallest is towards the top of the tree.
	Make sure the glue is completely dry before you try to decorate your tree. Once the glue is dry, you can glue beads on the sticks to look like ornaments. Now glue on some colored ribbon to make some garland on your tree.
	Now it's time to top the tree with a Christmas star.  I used a pipe cleaner and simply folded it into the shape of a star.  However you can simply use construction paper and glue it to the top of the tree.
	The last step is to glue on some string or ribbon for hanging the tree on your tree.  Simply loop the string and glue the two ends to the back of the stick. You may want to tie the string in a knot before you glue it to ensure it stays on for haning.

Supplies

	Take two pipe cleaners and cut each in half.  Be careful if the scissors are not that sharp it can leave the pipe cleaners a bit pokey at the end.  Moms and Dads, simply feel the edges and bend back a little if needed before the kids start beading the pipe cleaners.
	Now twist two cut pipe cleaners together forming a cross.  Take the other two cut pieces and twist to the other two pieces (in the middle) forming the other points of the snowflake.
	Now bead your snowflake with the colors you want.  You can bead the full length of the pipe cleaner (but leave some room to bend back the so beads don't fall off).  If you want, you can bead only a portion to give your snowflake a different look. Tip:  If you are only beading part way, then you can simply hook together the ends of the pipe cleaners to create a closed snowflake.  You will need one small piece of pipe cleaner to finish off closing it up (see picture above).
	To hang this from your tree, simply tie a string around the center of the star making the string long enough to hang.  If you closed your snowflake with the pipe cleaners, then you can tie the string just about anywhere for hanging.
	To make a candy cane pipe cleaner bead ornament, simply tie off or bend one end of the pipe cleaner.  Now bead the pipe cleaner with alternating colors to make it look like a candy cane.  Leave enough room to tie off at the top as well.  Then simply bend and curve your pipe cleaner into the shape of the cane.  This can easily hang on your tree without the need of a string.
	You can also make Christmas ball ornaments as well.  Using a pipe cleaner (or half for smaller sizes), bead the pipe cleaner and then simply twist both ends together and shape into a circle.   If you want to get fancy with your ball ornament, use two pipe cleaners and bead both.  Then twist both pipe cleaners together with one circle inside the other.  Then shape each circle to make a 3D look.

	Find two round objects to use for tracing, making one smaller than the other.  I used a shot glass and used the smaller top end for the snowman's head and the larger bottom end for the body.
	Trace the two circles on your white paper, one on top of the other.  Now draw a "tab" on top of the snowman's head.  This tab is what you will use to fold over the ribbon and glue to keep the snowman on the ribbon.  Depending on the size of your snowman your tab should be just a bit smaller than his head.
	Cut out your snowmen remembering to keep the tab as part of your cutting.
	Now decorate your snowmen by giving him eyes, a nose, a mouth, buttons and a scarf.  Using the black marker, make two "beady" eyes and several black dots for his mouth (like black coal).   Using the orange marker, give him a carrot like nose.  Lastly draw on some buttons and as an option you can give your snowman a colorful scarf.
	Next you need to give your snowman some stick arms.  For this cut small pieces of the gold or brown ribbon and glue to the body of the snowman.
	The last step is to glue the snowmen to a long piece of ribbon.  Your ribbon should be long enough to hold all the snowmen you made.  Make sure the glue for the arms are dry before you try to attach them to the ribbon. Simply fold over each tab over the ribbon and glue the tab together.  Now you have garland to put on your tree.

	Cut out the inner circle of the paper plate and color it.  You can make it all one color and a combination of colors to make your spiral ornament multi colored.
	Now you will cut the plate in a spiral.  Starting at the outside of the plate, cut along the edge and keep moving inwards until you reach the center of the plate.  Leave enough of the center of the plate to punch a hole.  this is how you will hang the ornament.
	For a longer more springy spiral, make the cuts thinner and for a shorter more compressed ornament, make the cuts wider.
	Punch a hole at the center of the paper plate once it is cut.  Simply tie a ribbon or string through the hole.