Styrofoam Initial Ornaments for Toddlers to Make

Toddlers and preschoolers can make this easy styrofoam initial ornament using a styrofoam produce tray, paint and dollar store gems.

Here’s a quick and easy Christmas craft for your toddlers to make today.

One of the things you’ll find with most of our crafts is that we keep things really simple and budget friendly.  We almost always craft with materials from our recycle bin, and we keep a supply of inexpensive dollar store craft accessories on hand as well.  I get a kick out of making really cool, beautiful stuff out of things that were bound for the trash.

Today’s initial ornament is a perfect example.  Let me show you what went into this little project.

You may also like our yarn wrapped initial ornaments and our painted initial ornaments.

Older kids will like our Cardboard and Button Initial Ornaments.

To make our Styrofoam Initial Ornaments, you’ll need:

Supplies:

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• metallic paint – we used Creatology brand, but I couldn’t find those on Amazon, so here’s a set by Plaid.
• styrofoam meat or produce tray (always sterilize in the dishwasher first)
• paintbrush
• Glitter Glue
• craft gems and sequins
• large traceable letters or letter stencil
• hole punch
• cording or ribbon to hang your ornament

Instructions:

I started by tracing everyone’s first initial on the bottom of my styrofoam meat tray.  The hooligans were all learning their letters at the time, and took great pride in recognizing their own letters when I held them up.

Then each hooligan used the end of her paintbrush to add texture to their letters.  They pressed dots into the styrofoam and made lines and squiggles for the paint to settle into.

And then, they decorated their letters, first with a coat of paint,

and then with the glitter glue.

Then they pressed sequins and craft jewels into the glitter glue.

When our ornaments were dry, I punched a hole in the top of each initial, and threaded a length of cording through as a hanger.

See More of our Initial Ornaments here:

Painted Cardboard Initial Ornaments

Yarn-Wrapped Initial Ornaments

Styrofoam Initial Ornaments for Toddlers to Make

Easy Initial Ornaments for Preschoolers to Make

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