Tiger's Crafts

House Mouse Ornaments

Supplies:

clear plastic ball ornament
tweezers with long, thin pincers
thin object, such as knitting needle to arrange objects inside ball.
small cotton ball
8 1/2 x 11 white cardstock
glue
snow glitter
house mouse christmas stamps
small house fronts, hand drawn or look up putz houses online for ideas.  (These are available for free online and may be printed and reduced in size.)
other background scenery as desired.
coloring tools, pencils, watercolors, markers.
Mod Podge modeling paste to simulate snow on houses.

Instructions:

With tweezers, and small cotton ball dab inside of clear ornament with glue in small dots.  Insert snow glitter and shake.

Sprinkle glitter on cotton.  Add to bottom of ball with tweezers

Stamp house mouse stamp on paper.
On printer, reduce image to size to fit into ball.
Cut out image, leaving tabs at each side so that image can stand up.
Color as desired.  If Stickles or other embellishments are used, be sure to let them dry thoroughly.
Roll up the image and insert into ball with tweezers.  With knitting needle, arrange image into place on cotton.  You may put small amount of glue on end of needle and place on tabs of image to secure it on the cotton.

Hand draw houses or use any background scenery.  If using putz houses, only use the fronts.  Cut out with tabs at sides to stand up.
Color background scenery.  If Stickles or other embellishments are used, be sure to let them dry thoroughly.  
Roll up and insert into ball with tweezers. Arrange into place with knitting needle.  Apply small amount of glue to secure image on cotton.

Attach top to ornament.

Tie small bow to top.