Sequin and bead Christmas ornaments

[Tiff]

Way back when I was in high school I made Christmas ornaments with simple foam balls, and you could use pins, sequins, and beads to make beautiful things like this:

For the past several years, I keep looking in the craft stores but I never see the foam ornaments. They were foam and had a very sheer kind of thread wound all around. Does anyone remember them? Or, more importantly, know where to buy them?

 

[jenn mccabe]

like these? http://www.ebay.com/itm/like/361040479276

i don't know if they still make them but ebay has vintage ones ...

 

[Nemla]

Most people here use styrofoam shapes to make the sequence ornaments with . Perhaps you would like to try with that if you can not find exactly what you are looking for
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_fro...yrofoam+shapes&_nkw=styrofoam+shapes&_sacat=0

 

[lorryfach]

I have made so many of these using kits they sold in the 70s (handed down from my mother who was overly optimistic about how many she could make with three kids ) and they never had any thread wound around them. I don't know how hard it would be to find the fun shapes they used to do back then, but for normal round balls, any craft store should have normal styrofoam balls. I've done this too when the kit was incomplete. They don't come with the loop on the top, but the ones in the kit never did either so I never really thought about it. They make long wires with a loop on one end, available in the jewelry making section of a craft store. Throw a little superglue on the end and stab it in the styrofoam ball. Done.

 

[Tiff]

Oh! I never thought of using just a regular foam ball. I'm pretty sure I've seen that kind at the craft store. Thanks!!

 

[staciahall]

I have a box of these in my Christmas stuff that my mom made back in the 70's. It's meant to be for my daughter when she starts putting up her own tree. Mom used to go to craft parties and I remember going with her and making these. Brings back a lot of memories!