Hammered Silver Ornaments

Cut Ornament shapes (bells, balls, trees, stars, squares, whatever) out of old pie tins or other assorted “disposable” heavy aluminum foil baking pieces that you didn’t dispose of. You could also use tin ashtrays. Show the kids how to “draw” designs on the foil with the end of an orange stick, wrong end of a plastic utensil, whatever you have that works. Stars, spirals, squiggles, encourage a wide variety. Remind them that if they write letters or numbers, they’ll appear backwards. Turn the ornament over show them how to decorate the ornaments with felt tip markers. Color over the marks they made, go around them, have fun with it. Make a hole with a hole punch or whatever. Thread some found scraps of ribbon and, you got it, hammered silver ornaments.