Silver Starburst Ornaments

These ornaments can be used any time of the year if you use different colors of beads and sequins and they are lots of fun to make!

Approximate Time: 1 hour per ornament

Supplies:

• 2 inch Styrofoam balls or whatever size you would like to make (old vintage satin covered balls work well if you still have any and sometimes you can still find them at thrift stores.)
• 1 inch straight pins
• silver bugle beads
• silver seed beads
• silver rocaille beads
• size 8mm silver sequins
• *Elmer's glue (optional)
• silver thread

Instructions:

1. Put your supplies in this order:
   pins
   seed beads
   bugle beads
   rocaille beads
   sequins
   glue poured into an old flat lid (optional)
   Styrofoam ball
    
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2. First of all put a seed bead onto your straight pin, then a bugle bead, then a rocaille, and last of all the sequin.

 
3. *If you want to make sure the pins stay in place well, put just the very tip of the pin into the glue, then stick into the Styrofoam ball.

 
4. Continue this same procedure, making sure you overlap enough to completely cover the ball, so you don't see any of the Styrofoam.

 
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5. For hanging, place a length of thread on one of the pins with some glue to make sure it is secured well.

Note: The ornaments are also very pretty when used in an arrangement, wreath, or garland. For an arrangement use a skewer and either stick it right into the Styrofoam or wire the ornament to it, then place into your arrangement or carefully wire the ornaments to your wreath or garland.

By CDC from FL