Creating Holiday Ornaments with momstown Mississauga

Since many of our Moms mentioned they were putting up their Holiday & Christmas decorations already, momstown decided to start the seasonal crafts early and made some holiday ornaments last week. We met at Let's Have Fun, an indoor playground on the east side of Mississauga.

momstown Mississauga loves a good recycling craft so we created holiday trees and snowmen out of Egg Cartons. We also recently received a large donation of egg cartons thanks to a member!  To prep the egg cartons, trim off the sides and top until you are left with only the circles where the eggs sit. Cut them into strips. taking care not to cut off too much of the top.

For the trees, cut a row of cups into segments, 3 cups, 2 cups and a single. The 3 cup is the bottom row of the tree, attach the 2 cup strip on top using a stapler. Next secure the single cup. Punch a hole in the top for the ornament hanger.

Next paint the egg cartons green and let dry. The cartons are porous so it doesn't take long. Now the fun part- get busy with the glue and add decorations. We used pom poms, strings, sparkly pipe cleaners but you can be creative and use anything!

crafting fun! 

For the snowmen, trim the egg cartons as above, this time taking care to trim them quite closely so they are tidy. Hole punch at the top for the hanger. Fill the cups with fluffed up cotton balls, and then decorate with hole punch eyes, black construction paper hat and a yarn scarf!

playing at Let's Have Fun! 

As always there was lots of free time to play and explore at the indoor playground Let's Have Fun.
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