Reindeer ornament craft

I woke up in the middle of the night and thought about this ornament. I don't know why it occurred to me in the middle of the night, but luckily, I had all the goodies to whip these cuties up with the kids today.

Here's what you need:

popsicle (craft) sticks

brown pipe (chenille sticks) cleaners

red poms

hot glue gun

no sew glue

brown felt

buttons

brown ribbon

magnets (for second version)
brown card stock (for second version)

We did two versions. The first was the felt reindeer ornament. These is way easy for your four year old. She can do it with simple instructions. The two year old is going to need a teeny guidance.

Step 1: Lay popsicle sticks out in a triangle on the felt to get an idea of how big to cut your felt. Use the first triangle you cut as your guide to cut the other triangles out until you have enough for each kid.

Step 2: Give the kiddos their supplies. To assemble 1 felt ornament, they will need:

1 brown felt triangle

3 popsicle sticks

2 button eyes

1 red pom nose

1 brown pipe cleaner

no sew glue

Step 3: Glue each popsicle stick to the edge of each side of the triangle with no sew glue. The sticks will need to lay directly on felt to stick well.

Step 4: Glue red pom nose on one of the triangle's corners.

Step 5: Glue button eyes on felt.

Step 6: Bend brown pipe cleaner in half and shape antlers however you choose.

Step 7: Once the reindeer is dry, flip it over and hot glue (mom) the antlers to the back.

Step 8: Loop ribbon and hot glue to the back.

Step 9: Don't forget to write your kid's name and year on the back! I just used a sharpie and wrote it on a scrap of white card stock and hot glued to the back when I did the ribbon and antlers.

Version 2

Everything is exactly the same except replace brown card stock for the brown felt. Instead of a ribbon hanger, hot glue a magnet to the back.