Wine Cork Santa Ornament Craft

A fun up cycled project that's very easy for all ages!

You will need:

Corks

Pink, red and black acrylic paint

Toothpicks or bamboo skewers

5 mm. red pom poms

Glitter drape for beards

Felt hats - or felt/paper to make your own hat.

Start by painting the cork with pink 1/3 and red 2/3rds.

Add the two eyes by dipping the end of a skewer or toothpick in black acrylic paint and dotting it onto the dry pink face.

I tried using red and black sharpies and also paint pens, but they kept picking up the paint on the tip and didn't work well at all.  Since I am going to be teaching this to kids I wanted to find a way to create the face that was easy.  The paint on the toothpick works great.

Glue a red pom pom on for the nose.

Cut the beard out of the Glitter Drape, basically a triangle with the top cut down in a curve.

Glue it onto the front of the cork just under the nose.

I bought this at the Dollar Tree and used it folded so it was 2 layers.  I took the glitter off.

You could use cotton wool, but this was really easy to use and very inexpensive.

I found these hats at Hobby Lobby, I had to stretch the bottom a little and then they fit perfectly.

If you want to hang them on the tree glue a thread or wire ornament hanger to the back of the hat.

These would make a cute hostess gift hanging from a bottle of wine!

They're a Jolly Bunch!

Student Santas