Show HOME HOMEMADE MADE ORNAMENTS FOR THE CHRISTMAS TREE TREEBy TREEBy TREEBy By A. A NEELY HALL Suppose that you prepare some homemade tree Christmas-tree ornaments ornament like Uke those in the illustrations to go with the ornaments which you have for this years year's tree They will help III fl i Q 4 Q j C II to cover the tree and not only that they will make your tre tree more Interesting inter Inter- interesting esting eating because they will be different from anything you can buy The pretty spear top ornament ir it Fig 1 is made of a sheet of letter paper rolled into a cornucopia with a thread spool glued in the open end Figs 2 and 3 and a small spool silk slipped over the small end Figs 3 and 4 r then all is covered with tinfoil tinfoil tin tin- foil fOU and a tassel made of pieces of red white and blue paper slashed into fringe Fig 5 is fastened in the apex apeL Tinfoil can be obtained from froma a a l florist Unless you can have bave electric lights it it is better not to light the tree at all than to run jun the risk of its catching fire But unlit candles s make pret pretty l O ri I r rl l ornaments so 60 1 I have shown a homemade homemade home borne made b holder lder in Fig 6 This Is made by wrapping a cl clothespin with tinfoil tinfoil tin tin- foil so the upper edge of the tinfoil projects to form a cup for the candle Fig 8 Wrap the end of the candle with tinfoil to make it fit the cup Fig 7 The clothespin sets nets down over the tip Up of a branch as shown in Fig 6 6 and the weight made of a marble or piece of clay wrapped in tinfoil Fig 9 is suspended by thread from one leg of ot the clothespin Fig 6 to balance the holder Little Santa Claus Glaus dolls like that shown in Fig 10 to straddle the tree branches are pretty and easily made The bodies bodles are clothespins with trouser trouser trou trou- ser legs legs' of red paper A A. A Fig 11 slipped over the ends Fig 12 a red paper coat B and C Fig 11 glued close to the head of the tho pin Fig 13 cotton whiskers D Fig 11 a 11 red paper peaked hat lint E and eyes marked marked mark mark- ed with ink upon the clothespin head The airship in Fig 14 has a balloon balloon bal bal- loon with ends made of the halves of an shell egg A Figs 15 and 16 rJ A A A u A c J rI I I or The ends are connecter connected by a u cylindrical cal al piece B rolled out of cardboard to which the they arc are glued and a strip of cardboard 0 C is glued along each side The Tho car is a small swall box and the tho propeller D Is ia pivoted to Its end with witha a pin piu Threads suspend the car from rom the balloon and others suspend the tho balloon from tho the Christmas tree Paint the balloon red and the car y Probably you have prepared colored lored popcorn strings but I 1 wonder IS U you yon have made strings of ot cranberries and gl glass ss beads bead T Fig 17 suggests a way to alternate the beads and they will Rill present the tho form of glass ball st strings Ings To make the tho cranberries cranberries cran berries sparkle like glass balls coat some with glue and sprinkle with the powdered mica sold for imitation snow and gild gUd others with gold bronze ronze the the kind sold for decorating radl tors 0 or wrap la Ia tinfoil |