Day 27 at Beccy's Place - X is for X-treme

  I'm playing along with the

Ninth Annual Month Of Holiday Cards

at

Beccy's Place

I'm not colouring at the moment but I am working on Christmas craft projects for creative little hands around our neighbourhood ... the endless months of Covid-19 lockdowns has brought our community much closer and I look forward to sharing more crafty adventures with them over the coming weekends and school holidays now that restrictions have eased.

Beccy's prompt for Day 27 is the letter "X"

(Beccy's post with "X" inspiration words and delightful

X-Press It blending card kangaroo card to inspire is HERE)

My "X" kids Christmas activity kit is for X-treme snowflakes.

These snowflake ornaments are X-treme because, apart from being X-tremely beautiful, they start with four craft sticks glued to make two X's and they're X-tremely fun to make.  The X's are glued together to make the snowflake base and your imagination is stretched to the X-treme with all the embellishment options at your fingertips!

I was quite conservative with my design, painting the craft sticks white, topping with white glitter paint They needed to be painted white underneath because the white glitter paint I have is almost transparent and I didn't want light brown snowflakes.

   

I punched a bundle of snowflakes from white and silver glitter cardstock, layered them together, then adhered them to the sticks.  ... I was going to add a sparkling rhinestone to the middle of each snowflake but the sparkle already made it look like we were having a disco, so I decided that maybe we could try adding some when little hands wanted to play.

Make a loop to hang the ornament and glue to the back

of what you decide is going to be the top of the snowflake.

I used a shimmering ribbon with silver edges to add

X-tra sparkle to my X-treme snowflake ornament.

Although my snowflake ornament has lots of sparkle, I'm sure there will be amazing designs created from the rainbow of sticks, paints and embellishments in imaginative little hands.  I hope to share some here soon...

*** INGREDIENTS ***

craft sticks - plain or assorted colours - four per snowflake

paint - to make your own coloured snowflake sticks

glue

assorted embellishments

rhinestones, glitter, glitter glue, sequins, pom poms, stickers, punched

shapes, beads, bells, the options are limited only by your imagination

assorted punches & papers - I used snowflake punches

twine/string/cord/ribbon - to make a hanging loop

*** REFERENCE ***

This project was inspired by the "Popsicle Stick Snowflake Ornaments" post on "The Best Ideas For Kids" blog HERE.