The journey continues on revealing an ornament from my collection (see related post).

Day 9: 2006 Reindeer

Materials:

• Glass ornament ball
• Styrofoam ball for head
• 2 sizes of round wood plugs to use as mouth and nose
• Wire
• Small light bulbs (typically can find them by mini tree ornaments)
• Ribbon
• Hot glue
• Paints: brown, white, black, glitter, red

Instructions: Start by painting the glass ornament and Styrofoam ball brown. On the reindeer head, paint the eyes with white and black. Add the wood plug for the mouth and paint the mouth on. Paint the nose red and add to the top of the mouth plug. On the body of the glass ornament, paint a glittery circle. Add hot glue to the top of the ornament and secure the head to the body. Use the ornament top to secure to the top of the head with a bit of glue. Cut a piece of wire to fit around the neck, add the light bulbs and twist the wire to keep each of them in place. Feed the wire through the lower, back part of the head to help keep it in place. Cut wire to feed through the head and come out each side for the reindeer antlers. Add a ribbon to the hanger.