Paper Strip Ornaments

Our fourth ornament project of the season was a kit from Alex that uses decorated paper strips to create balls. It looked easy enough, but it was a little tricky. First the children blinged up eighteen strips of paper. Then they placed the strips of paper on a spindle provided in the kit. This was the tricky part: you had to place the strips on one at time putting one end of the strip on one end of the spindle and the other end of the strip on the other end of the spindle all the while preventing the strips you've previously placed on the spindle from popping off.

Bentley and I did the first one together and I was skeptical that the children could do one on their own. Viva, as usual, proved me wrong and did hers all by herself. Bentley took some coaxing to make a second one on his own. Jake did a great job after seeing Viva do hers. Viva and Jake have not yet made their second ornament although they said they wanted to. (Really?) The finished product looked nice, but I don't think we'll be purchasing this kit again.