Sewing Lover's Ornament and Love to Teach Ornament

These personalized hobby ornaments make great gifts. Create and decorate them using STYROFOAM™ Brand Foam, craft paint and ribbon and give them as gifts. Sewing enthusiasts will love the stitching ornament.

Sewing Lover's Ornament

Materials:

• STYROFOAM Brand Products:
  • Ball, 3"
  • Block, 2" thick
• Acrylic craft paint, purple
• Ribbon: 1/8" x 2/3 yd. yellow satin; 1/4" x 12" red satin; 5/8" x 1-1/2 yd. measuring tape print
• Dollhouse miniatures: spools of thread, scissors, patterns, buttons, thimble, needlepoint needle
• Fabric, 1" x 1" scraps
• Quilt pins with colored heads
• Thick white craft glue

Steps:

1. Insert skewer in foam ball to use as handle while painting; paint ball purple. Insert skewer in foam block while paint dries, or, place skewer in cup.
    
2. Hang selected miniatures, such as spools, scissors and needle, from 1/8" ribbon. Glue 2" - 3" lengths of ribbon to mini spools; pin ribbon ends to top of ball so spools hang down side of ball. Tie a short length of ribbon to scissors and pin to top of ball. Thread ribbon through needle and pin to top of ball. Glue remaining miniatures to ball, using photo as a guide; when gluing, gently press objects into surface of ball.
    
3. Make a small hole at top center of ball with skewer. Tie 1/4" red satin ribbon in loop; add glue to hole and insert ribbon ends and knot.
    
4. Make bow with eight loops from measuring tape ribbon; glue to top of ball, covering hole.

Love to Teach Ornament

Materials:

• STYROFOAM Brand Products:
  • Ball, 3"
  • Block, 2" thick
• Ribbon: 1/8" x 2/3 yd. violet; 1/4" x 12" red satin; 7/8" x 1-1/2 yd. purple with wired edges Acrylic craft paint: red
• Quilt pins with colored heads
• Dollhouse miniatures: A, B, C buttons; 1, 2, 3 buttons; clock and star buttons; dictionary; crayon box; books; scissors; apple; chalkboard (See NOTE for creating your own miniatures)
• Skewer
• Paintbrush
• Low temperature glue and glue gun

Steps:

1. Insert skewer in foam ball to use as handle while painting; paint ball red. Push skewer into block of foam while drying, or place in cup.
    
2. Glue 2" - 3" lengths of 1/8" ribbon to backs of books and crayon box; pin ribbon ends to top of ball so books hang down side of ball. Glue remaining miniatures to ball, using photo as a guide. When gluing, gently press objects into surface of ball; if necessary, slice off a tiny portion of ball to create a flat surface for gluing flat items, such as the chalkboard.
    
3. Make a small hole at top center of ball with skewer. Tie 1/4" red satin ribbon in loop; add glue to hole and insert ribbon ends and knot.
    
4. Make bow with eight loops from wired ribbon; glue to top of ball, covering hole.

NOTE: If you prefer, have fun creating your own miniatures:

Books - Glue miniature book advertisements to 1/16" scraps of balsa wood
Pencils - Cut 1" lengths from wooden skewer, whittle point, paint light orange with brown point
Ruler - Cut strip of 1/16" balsa wood and mark measurements with fineline marker
Blackboard - Frame small piece of black mat board with strips of 3/16" balsa wood; write message on board with white pencil; glue miniature apple to frame
Chalk - Cut 1/2" lengths from toothpicks; paint white

®™ Trademark of The Dow Chemical Company ("Dow") or an affiliated company of Dow. For more project ideas, please see styrofoamstyle.com.