Craft yarn covered mountains for the tree!

This yarn mountain has yarn snow too.

       For some of our visitors, snow topped mountains, lodges and skying are all apart of winter fun. This year I will be posting more ornaments with sports themes. The first few being related to the mountains: the people who live there, the sports they practice and the landscapes in winter. 

Supply List:

• heavy paper or thin flexible cardboard
• decorative yarn (colorful for the mountain)
• hot glue gun and hot glue
• white school glue or tacky white glue
• masking tape
• thin flexible wire for the hanger
• five or six cotton balls
• white or cream yarn (for the snow toped mountain)
• felt to compliment the color of the yarn for the bottom of the mountain.

Step-by-Step Instructions:

1. Cut out the circle from cardboard that has at least a five inch diameter across it's center.
2. Cut this circle exactly in half.
3. Bent the half circle shape around it's self to form a cone. Tape the cone in place.
4. Cut off the tip of the cone to thread a fine wire up and through. On the inside of the cone bunch up the wire just a bit to sink it into a bit of hot glue. This will hold the wire in place.
5. Wrap the outside of the cone first, starting from the bottom, with the colorful yarn. Squeeze the tacky craft glue around the cone as you do this. Try to keep the wrap as clean as possible.
6. Stop a 1/2 inch from the top, peak of the cone mountain.
7. Continue on using white or cream yarn to represent the snow-caped mountain.
8. Wrap the remaining wire with cotton batting and shape this into a fancy hook.
9. After the yarn applications have dried, stuff the interior with cotton balls to help the mountain ornaments keep their shape.
10. Next using the tacky white glue, spread some generously onto a scrap piece of cardboard and press the mountain's bottom opening on top. Let dry before trimming off the excess cardboard.
11. Cover the bottom of the mountain using scrap felt and glue to finish the ornament.

Left, cut and wrap a cone from cardboard. Center wrap the yarn mountain.
Right, a cotton batting snow cap in this version of the ornament.