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Craft Stick Christmas Ornaments

Jack in the Box
Reindeer
Snowflake
Christmas Tree

Supplies

5 mini craft sticks
1 oval wooden bead
1 round wooden bead
Craft foam, construction paper or felt
Stickers
Colored paper
Pipe Cleaner
Scissors
Wood Glue

	Take four craft sticks and glue together to form a box shape.  For the really little kids, I find it easiest to place the glue where it's needed and them let them put the stick on top of the glue.   Press down to make sure the glue covers enough to stick.  Set aside to dry.
	Using a pipe cleaner, thread an oval wooden bead down to about the middle of the pipe cleaner.  Simply bend the pipe cleaner back a bit to hold the bead in place.
	Now thread the round wooden bead on for Jack's head.
	Using the craft foam, construction paper or felt, cut out a 1 1/2" diameter circle.  Fold the circle at the top end to end forming a cone shape leaving an opening at the top to thread onto the pipe cleaner. Tip:  If you use craft foam or felt, this will need a glue gun to hold in place. For younger children, let the adults handle the glue gun.  All other kids should be supervised for this step.
	One the glue on the cone hat is dry, thread this onto the pipe cleaner on top of the round wooden bead.  Bend back the remaining portion of the pipe cleaner for hanging on the Christmas tree.
	Now take your box craft stick (make sure glue is dry) and glue on remaing craft stick to form the lid of the box as if it were opened.  Like when Jack comes out of the box.  Once again set aside to let the glue dry.
	Cut a square piece of colored paper slightly bigger than your box.  Glue this to the back of the box and cut off excess paper.  You can use an exacto knife, but again adults only for this tool.  Place some colorful stickers on the paper to decorate the box. Tip:  We used gold wrapping paper to give it a bit more sparkle and shine.
	For the last step, take the pipe cleaner (bottom half) and wrap this through the paper and craft stick to hold in place.  Leave a bit of the pipe cleaner sticking up to make it look like the springs on the Jack in the Box toy.

	Take two of the regular sized craft sticks and glue into a V shape.
	Take the remaining regular sized craft stick and glue this across the V (at the larger end) leaving about 1/2" to 3/4" inches at the top for horns.
	For additional horns, glue the two small craft sticks at an angle out from the V shape.  Glue this behind the V shape for a smoother look to the horns. Tip:  If you only have regular sized craft sticks, simply cut one in half and glue the straight edge (leaving the rounded edge to be seen).
	For some cute character to this reindeer, glue a couple of wiggle eyes just below the forehead (the stick that is glued across the V).  Now glue a colored pom pom (red, brown or black) at the end of the V to make the reindeer's nose. Tip:  If you don't have wiggle eyes or a pom pom, simply have the kids draw this on with a marker.  They still look cute hanging on the Christmas tree.
	Take some ribbon and make a loop and glue the two ends to the back of the craft sticks for hanging on your tree.

Take two craft sticks and glue one on top of the other in the middle with the sticks spread out about 1/4 to 1/2 inch apart. Tip:  Before gluing, do a practice run and put all the sticks together (one on top of the other) to form the eight points of a snowflake.  This will give you an idea of how far apart each stick needs to be glued. Glue the remaining sticks on top one by one until all the sticks are glued together. Tip:  I find that if you glue one right after the other you still have a chance to move them if you need to even out the points. Let the glue completely dry before decorating your snowflake with glitter glue. Tip:  If you want, you can have the kids add the glitter glue first, then let it dry before putting together your snowflake.   Now loop a ribbon and glue the two ends to the back of the star for hanging on your tree.   This Christmas ornaments kids craft is easy but yet adds a nice touch to your tree. Your kids can make several of these and use different glitter glue to add some color. If you don't have glitter glue, you can paint these different colors or just use white to represent the snow falling down your tree.

	Take three regular sized craft sticks and glue into a triangle.  Let the glue dry before moving to the next step.
	On the back of the triangle, glue craft sticks across the triangle, cutting the sticks to size as needed.
	Glue a small craft stick at the bottom of the triangle on the back and facing straight down.  This is the tree's trunk.  Set tree aside and let the glue dry competely.
	Taking 3 small craft sticks, glue together, one on top of the other in the middle, to form a star.  You will need to gauge how much to spread apart to make it look even.  Do a practice run before gluing if you need to.
	Let the glue on the tree dry and then add some green paint or glitter glue to your tree.  As an option you can glue on pony beads for ornaments. Tip:  These pony beads tend to fall off when packed away after Christmas unless you use a glue gun.  We just used Elmer's glue and re-glue beads when needed.