Craft a quilled poinsettia ornament

The finished poinsettia quilled ornament covered with glitter.

        This is a quilling project for little ones with small hands and limited hand coordination. It looks terrific when the poinsettia is finally painted and covered with green and red glitter! 

       When adults quill ornaments, much finer cut papers are used and it takes much longer for original quill work to be completed. 

       Because the project can take several days to complete, I find it best to use the tacky craft glue. This will speed up the drying time and limit frustrations for younger students. Set the flower over a heating duct or in some other warm area of the home to encourage rapid dry time.

Supply List:

• several recycled toilet paper rolls
• craft tacky glue
• green and red glitter
• green and red paint 
• small, delicate paint brush
• white school glue
• twine or wire for hanging
  

Step-by-Step Instructions:

1. Cut six petal shapes approximately 1/2 inches wide of approximately the same size from the first paper tube. 
2. Pinch these at opposite ends and glue each one to the other, using tacky craft glue, at one end only to form a poinsettia shaped blossom. (see photo below)
   
3. Now cut down the next paper tube to half it lengthwise. 
4. Cut out 1/2 inch paper curls to shape circular cardboard shapes to fill the inside of the poinsettia. I fit 12 of these shapes for the insides of my poinsettia as seen below and above. However, filling the blossom may be done any number of ways by the same methods.
5. Paint all of the dry poinsettia with red paint.
   
6. After the flower is done, cut one or two petal in by the identical process for the leaf segments of the poinsettia. Tuck these between the flower petals and paint them green.
7. Using a small, delicate paint brush, work your way around the flower covering surfaces with white school glue and glitter. It is easiest to due the leafy shapes with green first. Let these selections dry entirely first before moving on to the red flower. This will prevent the glitters from sticking in the wrong places and mixing together.
8. Loop a twine or wire hanger through any place inside the ornament cavities.
   

Left, is paper toilet roll, clean and recycled. Center it the first stage of the instructions described
above. The outside shape of a poinsettia flower. Right, you can see how I filled this in with
additional cardboard circles. Alternatively you could fill in one of these
with large to smaller oval shapes.

The painted ornament before adding the glitter.

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