The Boones: Marbled Ornaments

I have a very crafty friend who can do it all. Last year, around this time, she made marbled ornaments with her daughter and they turned out really cute. This year, I thought that this project would be a good craft project for Maddie and I to do together and a great inexpensive way to make gifts for family members. I will admit that it was a little harder than I thought, but they turned out so good. Maddie had so much fun and thought she was Miss Independent trying to do this herself!!! Jeff and Maddie got to do a few ornaments this weekend, as well.

This project is a fun activity to do and will mean so much to those on the receiving end of it. To start off with, we chose to do plastic clear ornament balls. I didn't want Maddie to break these in anyway. We grabbed some different paint colors, newspaper, and paper towels. Since we chose to do the plastic ornaments, we had the dilemma of trying to get the paint bottle's opening into the ornament. Some of these ornaments were really closed off and made for quite the mess. Needless to say, I had to toss Maddie's shirt because she wiped so much paint on it.

We took the caps off of the ornaments and played around with the first ornament. What was the best way to make it have the marbled look, but not an entire streak of color. We finally figured it out. After pouring all of the paint directly into the bottom of the ornament, we were able to swirl it and get all of the inside covered with the 4 paint colors of our choice. Daddy had it a lot easier on his day because I figured out all of the tips and tricks to doing it and not making a complete mess! We set them aside to dry and they are now ready to be shipped off!

Enjoy the pictures!