-Solid ornament
-white paint
-colored paints (Although I've heard of people using colored sharpie markers)
-Tinsel (optional)
-Black sharpie
-Clear acrylic spray
I painted the kids hands really good with white paint. I used crayola paint. I let that dry overnight before even touching them again. The next day I took an old medicine dropper and put paint in it, then put it inside the ornament and shook it up to coat it whatever color I wanted. I used green for Cole's and red for Eva's. It took quite a few times of putting more paint in to get it completely coated. For Kennedy's I put red and green tinsel in them. I'm glad I didn't do this for Cole and Eva's because it took forever.
I used a black sharpie marker for the eyes and mouth and wrote his name and year on the palm of the hand. I then took a really thin paint brush and painted the nose and scarf on the snowmen. I'm no artist by any means, so don't mind my "scarves."
I tried to paint Eva's little hand, but she still keeps her hands in a fist and was not happy I tried to pry them open:) So I ended up painting her feet. I've seen cute ideas where you paint their feet brown and made them into reindeer, but I already had these done. I just wrote her name and year on the opposite side of the ornament. I didn't realize how big her feet were until I did these. Girlfriend has some long feet:)
(Don't mind the picture quality. For some reason I didn't get them in focus when I took them)
| Before we painted the inside. |
| This is what it looks like with tinsel in it. |

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