Hanging on the tree Christmas baubles do shine
Especially these ones with home-made designs!

Isabella Longmore, age 6

What Isabella told us about her decoration: “Christmas bauble decorated with different colour tissue paper.”

Image description: Isabella has cut out a large bauble shape from white paper and has coloured it in bright purple. She has scrunched up balls of brightly coloured tissue paper in yellow, pink, blue, purple, red and green and stuck them to the bauble. The decoration is photographed hanging on a pine tree branch.

Lucas Meehan, age 7

What Lucas told us about his decoration: “A bright and colourful tree decoration. Made with lots of shiny items and different textures.”

Image description: The centre of Lucas’ bauble has a shiny transparent surface over some brown card. He has used a pipe cleaner to give the ornament a red edge and then decorated his bauble using glittery shapes, shiny sequins and a shiny silver pipe cleaner.

Ayushi Devkar, age 9

What Ayushi told us about her decoration: “I used toilet roll cardboard to make cut-outs and painted them, added glitter for star stickers and stuck them together to make a bauble. I added bells inside for beautiful jingling sound.”

Image description: The effect of the strips of toilet roll card looks like stripes of card weaved together to form an orb. Ayushi has coloured these strips in red, white and green and decorated them with silver glitter.

Om Devkar, age 9

What Om told us about his decoration: “Om used toilet roll cardboard to make cuttings and painted with hand over hand help and stuck them with glue to make a bauble. We added bells inside the bauble for jingling.”

Image description: The effect of the strips of toilet roll card looks like stripes of card weaved together to form an orb. Om has also coloured these strips in red, white and green and decorated them with silver glitter. The white strip has gold stars stuck on. Inside you can see the red bell.

Maisie Doswell, age 17

What Maisie told us about her decoration: “Glitter butterfly ball created by Maisie and her siblings.”

Image description: Maisie’s bauble is white and shimmery. It is made of material with what looks like hundreds of white/silvery shimmery sequins. Attached around the bauble are clear plastic butterflies. It is attached to the tree by a white ribbon.

Alexander Wigg, age 7

What Alexander told us about his decoration: “Alexander wanted to join in with the Christmas cheer!”

Image description: Alexander has neatly coloured in a picture of a bauble with a pattern of wavy lines and dots.

Zachary and Zoe Wilkins, age 4 and 2

What Zachary and Zoe told us about their decorations: “Zachary’s circular hand-painted bauble, combined with his sister’s for the tree!”

Image description: The first three images show the baubles they have made. The starting base is a wooden circle. They have painted the circles with different coloured paints and stuck shiny shapes on top. The fourth photo shows Zachary and Zoe sitting together with their finished decorations.

Adam Makdar, age 4

What Adam told us about his decoration: “This is Adam and his big brother Anwar. He was very excited when we told him he could create his own Christmas decoration. With Anwar’s help, Adam chose to create a Christmas bauble. He loves anything with bright colours, glitter and vivid patterns and he used all of these in abundance in his creation. The Christmas fairy arrived early, sprinkling her glitter joy covering Adam and Anwar with it from head to toe. This bauble will look spectacular on any Christmas Tree.”

Image description: The first photo shows the decoration – a big bauble cut from white card. It has patterns on it and has been coloured in with bright colours. It is decorated with lots of shiny glitter and Christmas tree and snowflake shaped confetti. The second photos shows the two brothers holding their decoration together and smiling.

Dexter Ward, age 5

Image description: Dexter has made a hanging Christmas mobile! He has made the hanger out of card and painted it different colours. It has two big heart shapes cut out of it. Dexter has decorated different Christmas shapes and hung them from the mobile using red string. There are two yellow stars, a stocking, a heart and a Christmas tree.