DIY Mickey Bell Ornament for Christmas
These easy DIY Mickey and Minnie Bell Ornaments will look great on the Christmas tree.
Yield: 2 ornaments
Cost: $5
Equipment
- Scissors
- Paintbrush
- Pencil
- Painter’s Tape
Materials
- 2 Mini Bells
- 2 1-inch Terra Cotta Pots
- 2 ½-inch Yellow Buttons
- Red Acrylic Paint
- White Acrylic Paint
- Black Acrylic Paint
- 1 ¼-inch Red Ribbon
- 2 Wire Ornament Hangers
- Black Craft Foam
- Small amount of embroidery thread
Instructions
- Start by making the bow for the Minnie ornament by tying your red ribbon into a small bow about 1 inch across. Set aside.
- Use the bottom of your bottle of acrylic paint as a guide or make a ¾ inch circle to draw 4 circles on the black craft foam with the pencil. Cut out the four circles and set them aside.
- Tape off the bottom half of your pots with painter’s tape.
- Thread a bell onto a small amount of string then thread the ends through the center of the pot, through the hole in the bottom of the pot. Tie the ends of the thread onto the ornament hanger. Hot glue the string in place on the inside of the pot. Repeat with the second pot.
- Paint the non-taped end of each pot red. Allow the paint to dry completely.
- Remove the tape then paint the remaining portion of two pots black. Allow the paint to dry completely.
- Cut off about ⅛-inch of each of the black craft foam circles on one side, making a flat place.
- Hot glue one of the black craft foam ear shapes to each side of each painted pot in the black painted portion of the pot.
- Hot glue the two yellow buttons to the front side of one of the pots, side by side, in the red-painted portion of the pot.
- Using the end of your paintbrush, make polka dots with white paint on the remaining pot in the red-painted portion of the pot. Allow this paint to dry completely.
- Hot glue the bow onto the front of the white polka-dotted pot. Hang from the tree!