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We created these Marble Christmas Ornaments as a sponsored craft for Testors®. All opinions expressed are 100% my own. We hope you and your children enjoy making these beautiful DIY marbled ornaments for your Christmas tree this year.
Get ready to fall instantly in love with these gorgeous marbled ornaments we are sharing with you today! Don't be intimidated by their beauty because they are super easy for kids and adults to create. They will make such a fun and festive addition to your Christmas tree.

We made our ornaments with classic Christmas colors like red, green, silver and gold, but they can be customized with any colors to match your Christmas tree and holiday decor.

Our use of cardboard as the base for our marbled ornaments is a fabulous choice for the environment and is a great way to use up those boxes from all of your online Christmas shopping. The flat surface is also perfect for achieving an amazing marbled effect on each ornament.

We've seen tons of DIY marbled ornament ideas out there that require harsh chemicals like nail polish and use glass ornaments which aren't child friendly.

Sure you can use plastic ornaments instead with those ideas, but our marbling technique is so much easier and is safe for children to help you create. Kids and adults are going to love making these beautiful Christmas ornaments!

How to Make DIY Marble Christmas Ornaments

The secret to achieving the smooth marble effect of these DIY ornaments is made easy with Testors® Marbling Medium.

Continue reading our step-by-step tutorial below and watch our video near the end of this post to see how you can whip up some of your own marbled ornaments in no time at all.

Supplies needed to make your marbled ornaments:

Instructions for how to make Marble Christmas Ornaments

Step 1: Begin by downloading and printing out the Christmas bauble template.

Step 2: After cutting out the template, use a pencil to trace it on a piece of cardboard. Cut out each of your traced cardboard ornaments.

Step 3: Choose which colors of acrylic paint you want to use to create your Christmas ornaments. You can make each ornament with different colors, or make several with the same colors.
For optimal marbled effect, I recommend using 3 different colors for each ornament.
Testors® Craft has such a great variety of acrylic paints to choose from, so no matter what color scheme you are looking for to match with your Christmas decor, you are sure to find a pack that is perfect for making your marble ornaments. Look for Testors® Craft acrylic paints and marbling medium at your local craft store.

Step 4: Lay out paper cups for mixing together your acrylic paint and marbling medium. Add equal parts acrylic paint and marbling medium in your cups. Stir the mixture together thoroughly and then let it sit for several minutes to let any air bubbles settle.

Note: We used a 1/8 cup measuring cup and mixed the paint and marbling medium in 5 oz paper cups. (You could also use a plastic cup.) We used five different colors total and had enough to make about 6-8 ornaments.

Step 5: Place a paper cup upside down inside your metal tray. The tray helps collect the extra paint that falls from the ornaments and makes for easy clean up. Lay one of your cardboard ornaments onto the paper cup.

Step 6: Pour lines and blobs of the different paint mixtures onto the cardboard, covering the ornament. Then use the end of a plastic spoon to draw lines up, down and diagonally across the paint mixtures to create a marbled effect on the ornament.

Step 7: Carefully pick the cardboard ornament up and roll the paint around to increase the marble effect and to cover the ornament completely with paint. Some paint will drip off the ornament into the metal tray.

Set the cardboard bauble back onto the paper cup and allow the ornament to dry completely, about 24 hours.

Continue adding another paper cup upside down in your tray and follow the process again, making as many marbled Christmas ornaments as you want.

Step 8: When your ornaments have finished drying completely, use a hole punch to punch a hole at the top of the bauble.

Step 9: Cut a section of baker's twin about 15-18 inches in length. Create a circle for hanging your ornament and tie a knot in the baker's twine to seal it shut. Do not cut off the excess baker's twine at the top.

Step 10: Push the bottom of the hanging loop you just created in step 9 through the hole in the front of the Christmas ornament. Push the opposite knotted end through the loop created at the back of the ornament and pull it tight so it secures the tie onto the ornament.

Step 11: Tie a bow with the excess baker's twine at the top of the ornament.
Your gorgeous finished ornament is now ready for hanging on the Christmas tree.
Video Tutorial: Step-by-Step guide for making marbled Christmas ornaments

Before you get started with this craft, watch the video below for a step-by-step guide on how to make these easy marbled ornaments.

Find more easy kids crafts and Christmas craft ideas for kids by browsing the categories at the top menu bar of our website.
Visit Testors® website for more information about their craft products and to get more Christmas craft inspiration.

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Author: Susie

The best Christmas art project for kids is here: meet the tape resist Christmas trees. This fantastic Christmas craft is absolutely a showstopper. Using cardboard and painter's tape, this gorgeous painting project can be done with all kid ages (from toddlers to big kids).

What are tape resist Christmas trees?

Tape resist art is officially my favorite way to do large art with kids.

The "siblings" to this activity are Spider Web Tape Resist Art, which quickly became the most liked photo I've ever shared on Instagram, and Turkey Tape Resist Art.

What is tape resist art? Tape resist art is a fancy way to say "tape creating negative space on an art project." Even if it's painted over, the tape pulls up to reveal negative space. This negative space could make a name, a stained-glass effect, or lines on a Christmas tree.

RELATED: Looking for more Christmas activities? I have a GREAT list!

It's not as complicated as it looks

There is something so fun about tape resist art and the good news on these tape resist Christmas trees: this was the easiest of them all to set up.

Just a few minutes with making some random lines on a triangular piece of cardboard and we were good to go.
Don't worry: I'll explain the step by step ASAP.
Supplies

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Cardboard - this allows the tape to pull up at the end.

Painter's tape - blue tape pulls up the easiest

Washable paint - the paint we use (and I'll never use another brand again)

Large nylon brushes - I've tried to find these elsewhere, but this is the only place that sells them

Muffin tin - to hold the paint

Wash cloth - for kid drips and hand wipes

Ooof, this list looks long to make a little Christmas art for kids but it's items that most families have lying around the house. Good activities don't need elaborate supplies. Simple supplies are best.

RELATED: Do you love doing Christmas crafts with kids? Me too. Here's a great list of them!

The set-up

Start by cutting your cardboard into a triangle tree (I left the bottom of mine with a little stump).

Start taping.

No really, that's it. Just start taping!

I made criss-cross lines, diagonal, etc all over this cardboard (imagining in a way that they are the strands of lights, but also not really over thinking it).
Trust me. If you've tried the spider web and the turkey versions, this will be a walk in the park.
I hung this Christmas art activity on the wall (I'll get to this in the FAQ) because frankly, it's easier to photograph. I made loops of tape and hooked them to the back to get it to stick on the wall.

RELATED: Looking for a Hanukkah version? Check out this awesome Hanukkah tape resist scene.

Notes (do not skip over these)

You do not need to do this on your wall:

I did because that helps me take better photos to show you (wink). You can do this anywhere that feels right to you. I'd recommend the floor or a table.
Doing an art project on the wall is great for arm strength - but I know it's not for everyone.
Also, just FYI: my kids did not get washable paint on the walls. They know not to. This is a well established boundary and rule at our house ( from toddler painting to today).

Soapbox: I use activities like this to teach my kids about rules and boundaries, and self-control. They know when and where they can paint.

I gave my kids specific paint colors to use

I wanted green trees, but I still wanted variety. So I did a little color hues/shades lesson with my kids and we made different types of green.

We used green, yellow, white, and blue paint to mix up this variety and it was perfection.

My plan was to have them leave the stumps cardboard colored, but I forgot to mention that vision to the 4-year-old and now he's in love with the green stump. Oh well.

How to keep a kids painting space clean:

My secret weapon is always a wet wash cloth.

I set it with the kids and they can monitor their own drips. This starts best around 18 months old - and trust me: it's a game changer. Kids stay 1000x cleaner when they have a wash cloth with them.

RELATED: Are you making homemade Christmas ornaments with your kids? I love doing this each year - here's a list of favorite ideas!

Adjusting for toddlers and preschoolers

Just make the tape resist Christmas trees smaller.

Don't make it giant and overwhelming, Make it a little more manageable for their attention spans.

This activity is multi age and can work with any child who is able to use paint (you as the caregiver can decide that) - what will determine the level of success is the size for a young painter. Smaller will be better and they'll be so proud.

Tips - How to remove the tape

I have learned from the past to WAIT on peeling up the paint. Whenever I rush it, my paint and the cardboard peel.

Rude!

Instead, let the paint fully dry: a full 24 hours just to be safe. I went slowly, varying the direction I was pulling up from and taking my time.

Add a little flair to this Christmas art for kids

To make this Christmas tree trimmed and ready for the big day, we added some ornaments. POM POM BALL ornaments!

Using wet glue, the kids added on "ornaments" to their trees to really make them pop and I'm telling you - this is the magic. We also added construction paper stars to the top.

Don't have pom pom balls? Try dot stickers, regular stickers, or construction paper cut outs. Anything to give my tape resist Christmas trees a little something extra.

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