How to Make a Dear Santa Ornament

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Dear Santa ornament

This personalized Dear Santa ornament is quick and easy to make. The cost is nearly free if you have most of the items at home. Otherwise, you may have to invest approximately $5 to make at least a dozen and you will have a lot of material left over. Here are instructions to make a Dear Santa ornament.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

1" tall plain wooden craft spools
red latex craft paint
small craft paint brush
green (22 gauge) floral wire - 24" per ornament
small silver jingle bells
computer & printer
computer paper
needle-nose pliers
scissors
pencil
ruler
double-stick tape

Step 1

Paint red; let dry.

Paint wooden craft spool red with latex paint. If doing more than one, all the better. Let spools dry.
Step 2

Go to the computer to use the word processing program. Choose any font, but remember it must be size 8 to fit on the spool. I used Jokerman font. Before beginning to type the Dear Santa letter, set the top margin at 1 1/2".
Step 3

Print letter & trim to fit.

Type the Dear Santa letter. Write as a child would write to Santa; some misspelled words are fine.

The width is important; the letter must fit in a 3/4" wide space on the spool. Print the letter; trim sides to fit. Leave a 1" to 1 1/2" margin at the bottom of letter.
Step 4

Attach letter to spool.

Attach the tiny Dear Santa letter to the tiny red spool with a tiny (I mean 2" long) piece of double-sticky tape. Lay tape down the center of spool. Place the top of trimmed Dear Santa letter at the beginning of tape and wind around.
Step 5

Overlap wires.

Cut two 12" length pieces of green floral wire. Holding two ends firmly in your needle-nose pliers, begin to tightly overlap the wires with your free hand.

When finished, thread twisted wire through spool. Join ends together into a loop. Twist raw edges over and crimp with pliers. Slide joined ends into spool to hide.
Step 6

Pinch wire together.

Pinch wire together to approximately 1 1/2" down the length of wire. Thread the jingle bell onto the pinched wire. Make sure loop of jingle bell is facing towards the back of the Dear Santa letter.
Step 7

Dear Santa ornament.

Hold jingle bell in place and twist wire above it and below it one time each. Reshape pinched wire above the spool into a loop.

Gently wind a short portion of the bottom of Dear Santa letter around a pencil to make it curl slightly upwards. The Dear Santa ornament is ready to hang.