On the 5th day of Christmas make these 5 Golden Rings…
Making Christmas decorations is a fun activity to enjoy with your kids in the run up to the festive season. Whether it is making new ornaments for your Christmas Tree or decorations to hang on the wall, it’s a great excuse to bring out the shiny paint and glitter. Why not treat yourselves to a few mince pies as well.
I prepared the materials for this project ahead of time. This meant I was then able to sit down and oversee the whole activity, without having to dash off to fetch something and come back to find that my toddler had wrecked her brothers projects.
Good planning and preparation is key when setting up an activity for more than one child. My own children are aged 2, 5 and 7 and I try as much as possible to sit us all down to enjoy our activities altogether. Things don’t always run smoothly, but most of the time we manage to fun with our projects. Luckily this project ran really well.
An Invitation to make 5 Golden Rings
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I cut out the centre from five paper plates to use as the base for our five gold rings. I then set out a collection of gold materials to be used to decorate the rings after we had painted them. I laid out:
- Gold Buttons
- Pom-Poms
- Tinsel
- Bells
- Baubles
- Ribbon
- Paper
I then poured gold paint onto some more paper plates; made sure I had enough brushes and had a roll of kitchen towels and packet of wipes of standby.
The first task for the kids was to paint over the back of the paper-plate rings with gold paint. I did this just with the boys. We then had to leave the plates to dry for half an hour before we could decorate them. Bella would not have understood the need to wait for this part of the activity.
Once the rings were dry, I let the kids have free reign in decorating them. The kids all had fun searching through and deciding which items to glue onto their rings. The boys had very definite ideas about what they did and didn’t want to include and busily got on with the task in hand.
Bella was fascinated with all of the different materials; she spent a good while just exploring all of the different textures, before picking out a few items that she wanted to glue onto her ring. She really loves gluing and sticking at the moment, so she was well able for this part of the activity.
We were struggling though to get the gold baubles to stay on with glue, so at my son Liam’s suggestion, we decided instead to hang them inside the ring by punching a hole into the top of the plate and hanging the bauble through it.
Who can't resist gold and sparkles at Christmas time. These are lovely
Thank you Louise. This month we are going all out with gold and glitter. It has to be done!
I love free crafts like these, and it's really nice to see a gold craft for Christmas! #PoCoLo
Thanks Tarana. Invitations to create are so much fun and a great way to utilise what you already have in your craft cupboards.
Looks like a lot of glittery fun!
Thanks Emma we had great fun with this!
How lovely! That looks a lot of fun x
Thanks. The kids had a lovely time with this.
These are lovely, and would make a brilliant centrepiece on a large Christmas dinner table. Great to hear the activities went well for all three kids, and I completely agree that preparation is the key to success! Thanks for linking up to #ChristmasCountdown
That's a fab idea for the centrepiece!
What a really wonderful idea for a blog hop – and I love the innovative creation of your five gold rings. Fab! Thank you for linking to #PoCoLo 🙂 x
Thanks Victoria. It's been a great blog hop to be involved in.
It's lovely to give them free reign to create how they want. Their gold rings look great.
It's great to give them the freedom to put their own stamp on an activity. I love to see what each of them come up with as well.
What a great idea, I love the plate you put all your crafty bits and pieces on (I shall definitely be looking onto some of those). It sounds lovely having all of your children crafting together. Happy Christmas.
Thanks. Crafting altogether is not without its challenges but when it works out well there is nothing more satisfying.
What a fantastic idea, so festive as well. I love that you let them have free reign, and their creations are fab 🙂 #MiniCreations
Thanks. They had great fun chatting away deciding how they were going to decorate them. It's great for their confidence to give them free reign over an activity from time to time.
What a lovely idea and sharing it with others too, we have made paper plate baubles but I love this idea #minicreations
Thanks. Your paper plate baubles sound fab as well.
I really do love this activity! In particular I love how you displayed the items available for the craft! Just lovely – thank you for sharing!
I only bought this tray recently Amy but it's already turing into a really useful item in our craft cupboard. I can set up all the bits ahead of time and then just bring out the tray and pop in into the middle of the table.
Grace says – What a great idea for Christmas decorations and hope you enjoyed your first blog hop xx
Thanks for linking to #minicreations
Thanks. It was great to be involved in my first blog hop and something i would definitly recommend.