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Have you done Holiday Pops? It's a small styrofoam ball with a lollypop stick glued into it about 1/2 inch. Cut a circle of Christmas print fabric big enough to cover the ball and gather where the stick and ball meet and hang past it several inches. Tie a ribbon around the fabric to keep it gathered. Add a gold string at the center top of the pop to hang it with. (Think of a Toosie Roll pop covered in fabric). I don't think these would be very expensive to do, especially if you find the fabric on sale.

Hope this helps.

I had to hunt these down.

Supplies are plastic spoons, craft paints tiny pompoms for noses, scraps of felt for ears and hats, various ribbons.gold thread for hanger and suckers.

these are fun to make. I showed the back to show how the sucker is attatched with a rubber band. Just follow the painting on the samples.

Here is a link that might be useful:

Minnie those are adorable! I especially loved the dalmations!

Rhonda

Thanks, I don't know where I saw them first, I'd like to give credit where credit is due but I honestly don't remember.

At our family christmas party, I took assorted plastic christmas balls, painted the child's fingers with white acrylic paint and set the ball in the palm of the child's hand. I helped them "grasp" the ball, leaving the prints of each child's fingers and palm on the ball. I helped them to "ungrasp" and let them dry. These prints serve as five little snowmen standing in a line. It is easy to hang them if you use a pipe cleaner as a hook and hang them on a broomstick hung between two chairs making sure they didn't bump each other. When they were dry, I painted scarves about 1/3 down from the top of the finger print. This scarf was just a line at the "neck" and two lines for the scarf streamers. I used a toothpick to dot black paint eyes and the mouth and buttons down the front. I used another toothpick to dip orange paint and drag a nose on the face. I painted the year on back. You could use a paint pen to mark the year and the child's name.
These sound complicated but are really easy once you get going. The key is to have some one helping so they can wash the child's hand immediately, because they want to wipe it on their clothes. LOL
The parents loved these. It serves as a reminder of how little their hands were in the years to come.

I wish I could "see" one of these do you have a photo? They sound so clever.

I'd love to see a photo, too. They sound great.

Thanks for the ideas.

One of my favorite decorations or magnets is to take a wood cut out of a cow and glue a black and white picture of the child on the cow.. To make it look like a Holstein with a face in it.. Clear as mud huh.. I made herds one year for all the grandma's I knew... They were so cute...
grace

Take simple cookie cutters like a heart or star and cut out of felt. Make 2 for each ornament and in the top layer or the front of the ornament cut a square or round hole to put a picture of the child in the sandwich of felt. Make a loop hanger with yarn and your done.