Wood Slice Christmas Ornaments are cute, fun and easy to make – perfect for kids! This post covers a step-by-step tutorial for How to make a Snowman Ornament, How to make a Penguin Ornament and How to make a Santa Claus Wood Slice Ornament! 

Wood Slice Christmas Ornaments: Materials 

Wood Slices (ideally with drilled holes)
Acrylic Paint 
Fine Tipped Paint Brush 
White Pom-Pom
String

Towards the end of this post, you can also download a freebie template to create Christmas Ornament Art with your kids! 

Wood Slice Christmas Ornaments: Tutorials

Let’s prepare the canvas! 

Coat each wood slice with a thick layer of white acrylic paint. 

We’re aiming for a white smooth surface. If this hasn’t been achieved with the first layer of paint, add another and if necessary, another until the surface is a solid white. 

The quality of the finish will depend entirely on the paint. 

How to Make a Snowman Wood Slice Ornament

The Snowman wood slice design is the easiest of the three…

Start by dipping the end of the paintbrush into the black paint. 

Print two dots for the eyes and a few more for the mouth. 

Thoroughly clean the end of your brush and this time, dip it into orange paint. 

Use the end of the brush to create a carrot nose shape. 

When it comes to painting small features, painting with the end of the brush is a safe option for achieving even and round shapes. 

Leave the design to thoroughly dry. 

To protect the ornament, seal the surface of the design with inexpensive varnish or with a thin layer of modge podge glue. 

How to make a Penguin Wood Slice Ornament 

Using black acrylic paint, carefully create an open-ended heart shape (as shown above) and fill in the space around the ‘heart’ with black paint. 

Dip the end of your paint brush into black paint and create a pair of eyes. 

Use the end of your brush to paint an orange beak. 

The Penguin ornament is now complete! 

To protect the ornament, seal the surface of the design with inexpensive varnish or with a thin layer of modge podge glue. 

How to Make a Santa Claus Wood Slice Ornament

Mix the paint to create a skin tone and divide the white slice in half with a line of skin toned paint. 

Fill the upper half of the wood slice with red paint, following the curve down to create a hanging Santa hat. 

Between the skin tone and white divide, add a big red nose! 

Using the end of your paint brush, complete Santa’s face with two black dots either side of the nose.

Complete with a light spread of white paint across the top of the hat and a white pom-pom at the end of Santa’s red hat. 

To protect the ornament, seal the surface of the design with inexpensive varnish or with a thin layer of modge podge glue. 

If you’re wood slices do not have pre-drilled holes for hanging, simply attach a piece of natural string to the back and secure with tape (ideally decorative washi tape).

I hope you’re Arty Crafty Kids enjoy creating their wood slice Christmas ornaments! if they have any left over paint, why not have a go at creating Christmas Ornament Art. 

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For more Christmas Ornament inspiration, check out our popular posts: 

Glitter Handprint Ornament 

Paper Angel Ornament 

Snowman Peg Ornament

Play and explore shapes with this adorable 3D Printable Rudolph Craft.

With bouncy handprint antlers and a big bold red nose, Arty Crafty Kids will love seeing their  Christmasy creations literally  pop out from the page! 

This is a fun and engaging craft for kids, that adds to a growing collection of interactive Rudolph Crafts, including Musical Rudolph Puppets, Reindeer Finger Puppets and Paper Rudolph with a big bouncy red nose and jingly antlers.

3D Printable Rudolph Craft: Materials 

Rudolph Template
Blue Card Stock
Brown, Beige, Yellow and Red Paper
Glue Stick
Paint (optional)
Scissors

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3D Printable Rudolph Craft: Tutorial 

Step 1: Download and print the template via the Arty Crafty Kids Club! 

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Step 2: Cut out the large oval and trace this shape onto brown construction paper.

Cut out the second oval within the first and again, trace onto brown paper.

Cut out the circular nose and trace this shape onto red paper.

Step 3: Cut out the remaining ear and eye elements.

Step 4: Trace around a pair of Arty Crafty hands onto beige paper and cut out. 

Step 5: Glue the ear elements to the back of the small oval as shown above and glue to the blue card stock, leaving enough room at the top of the card for the handprint antlers.

As you can see from the image, we’ve added some snow prints to our blue backdrop.

To create these prints, we simply placed a pen lid into white acrylic paint and printed in a random formation across the card. A similar effect can be achieved with bubble wrap and fingertips!

Step 6: Glue the big red nose to the centre of the large oval. 

Step 7: Take the large oval and create a small fold at both ends, adding some glue along the fold.

Step 8: Position the oval in a horizontal position and gently bend the paper by pulling in the two folds to create an arch. Once your Arty Crafty Kids are happy with its position, stick the folds down to the paper.

Step 9: Add a pair of eyes! 

Step 10: The Accordion Folds! 

Using scissors or a paper cutter, cut out four even strips of yellow paper – ideally, the strips will be fairly wide and for length, I would recommend cutting the paper from the shortest side of an A4 piece of paper.

Take two strips and position them in a 90° angle as shown above. Glue the connecting papers together.

Step 11: Simply fold the bottom strip over the top and crease the fold along the edge. This will make the accordion fold tight!

Step 12: Keep alternating the strip folds until you run out of paper and seal the ends with glue.

Take another two strips of paper and repeat the process to create a second paper accordion.

Step 13: Glue the bottoms of both accordion folds to the top of the reindeer’s head and attach the handprints to the top of each. 

The 3D Printable Rudolph Craft is now complete! 

This craft is a fabulous way to explore and play with dimensions and shape, creating body and depth to the final creation. 

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