I am absolutely in love with these twig ornaments. I don’t think we’ve ever done a craft this easy that’s produced such pretty results. 
There was a wee bit of prep involved, so get your boots on and get out there and collect your twigs. If your Hooligans are like mine, they’ll love this part. You can go for a nature walk to collect your sticks or you can just have a “treasure hunt” in your yard. Whatever you do, involve your child and have fun! Twigs that are a wee bit smaller in diameter than a pencil are perfect.
I cut all of the sticks to be the same length and then let them dry out by the fire for a day or two (we’ve had a lot of rain here lately).
Then, with my glue gun, I turned those sticks into stars.
Today, I gave the Hooligans three long strands of raffia: one red, one green and one natural. I tied the raffia to the star and then they wrapped and wound it all around the star.
Tada….
I just love the look of these rustic twig ornaments! I’m thinking of all the possibilities here. And I”m guessing you may see more twig ornaments from us next year!
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So cute!!!
Very pretty. I like this.
I love how the kids used raffia to decorate the stars. We made twig stars, too, but I wasn’t sure how to have the kids help decorate them!
I was kind of stuck on what to use when I was coming up with my plan, and then I ran across the raffia in my cupboard and thought “bingo”!
I’d thought of wrapping them with wool, or painting them and gluing jewels on. I actually had some artificial berries to add to them, but didn’t bother because they looked so pretty as is, and I didn’t know how well the jewels would adhere to the sticks.
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So pretty! I love all your ideas and great photography too!
Thanks, Melissa! That’s so sweet! Your photography comment is such a compliment!! I’m taking my first photography class and I’m really enjoying it! Nice to hear my pics are lookin’ good!
What a great idea! I really like the natural look. Thank you for sharing.
Beautiful stars! I can feel how cold it is in the pictures
I loved these ornaments and I will definitely make them for Christmas!
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Awesome idea! Where did you find the different colored raffia? I only found the natural color.
I got a bag of red, green and natural raffia last year, and I think I got it at Michael’s Crafts (in Canada). I was there today, and I saw a bag of about 6 colours, browns and purples and natural, and I saw some individual bags of red and green and natural. I was looking (and crossing my fingers) for a slivery blue today, but no luck.
They are so pretty!!! Great gift idea as well. Thank you.
Love them! It is now Christmas 2012 and I am trying to make some of your crafts for my tree!! Fun times…….and you are right….these are PRETTY! I have some of the raffia, just need twigs and I’m good! Maybe I’ll throw on some glitter?…….glitter is my best friend this year for some reason…..gettin my bling on I guess!
Wow, these are awesome! Thanks for sharing & am pinning now to my Eco Christmas
Thanks for pinning! I’m so glad you liked them! Dod you see our Twiggy Trees as well? They’re quite similar.
Just love all your crafty suggestions. Thank you so much. Myself and my girls have a ball recreating them at home.
Xx mandy
You’re so welcome, Mandy! I just love hearing that you’ve been inspired to try something that we’ve done here. And I really love that you get crafty with your girls. Making memories!
I love these! The daycare kiddos helped me gather some thin branches the other day and I will be turning them in to starts this weekend. They know there is going to be a project using their sticks, they just don’t know what it is yet and are super excited!
How fun that you kept it a secret! Hope they enjoy making their stars!
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just made a whole bunch of these plus some of your twiggy trees – they are so simple and naturally beautiful – thanks for sharing with us!
Aren’t they fun to make, Jennifer? I’m so glad you liked them!
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I love all of your ideas!!!!! The the stars