Merry Christmas Eve! Similar to my Halloween Yarn-Wrapped Letters, I made Christmas yarn-wrapped letters into objects related to Christmas.  I made two different variations for the word “JOY”.  Read below if you are interested in making some of your own!

 

General Materials:

– Wood Craft Letters J, O, Y

– Hot glue gun/glue***

– Scissors

– Yarn in various colors

***You will need a lot of glue for this! I did not expect to use as much glue as I did.

For the letters shown in the top picture, I started with the wooden letters below that I picked up from Michaels.

For the letters shown in the second picture, I started with the wooden letters below that I picked up from Michaels.  The only difference is the J which I picked to look like a candy cane.

“Stocking” J Letter

Materials:

– White yarn (I used Loops & Threads Impeccable Glitter yarn in Ice Queen)

– Red yarn (I used Caron Simply Soft yarn in Red)

Directions:

1. Wrap the top of the J with white yarn. Use hot glue to help hold the yarn in place as you wrap.  It may even help to cut small strips to fill in areas that are missed by wrapping.

2. Wrap the rest of the J in the red yarn.

“Candy Cane” J Letter

Materials:

– White yarn (I used Loops & Threads Impeccable Glitter yarn in Ice Queen)

– Red yarn (I used Caron Simply Soft yarn in Red)

Directions:

1. Use a pencil to draw candy cane stripes on the J.

2. Alternate wrapping the stripes with the white and red yarn.  Use hot glue to help keep the yarn in place.  It may even help to cut small strips to fill in areas that are missed by wrapping.

“Wreath” O Letter

 

Materials:

– Green yarn (I used Loops & Threads Impeccable yarn in Kelly Green)

– Red felt

– Thin red ribbon

– Optional: Mini decorative lights

Directions:

1. Wrap the O with the green yarn.  You may need to use hot glue to help keep the yarn in place in certain areas.  It may even help to cut small strips to fill in areas that are missed by wrapping.

2. In order to make the bow, cut three rectangular strips from red felt like shown in the picture below.

3. Hot glue the ends of two of the rectangular strips together as shown in the picture below.

4. Take the thin red ribbon and wrap it tightly around the middle of the three pieces of felt so it pinches them together as shown in the picture below.

5. Tie the ribbon tightly in the back of the bow to keep it together and cut off the loose ends.  Then cut the ends of the bottom piece of felt at a diagonal to resemble the ends of a real ribbon.

6. Hot glue the bow to the top of the O.

7. If you want to add the red “berries” to your wreath (as shown in the top main picture of this post), simply cut small circles from the red felt and hot glue them onto the O.  I also found a cute necklace with small Christmas lights that looked neat wrapped around the O.  The wreath is also nice when left plain as well.  The first picture below shows the wreath with the light necklace and the second picture shows it plain.

“Ornament” O Letter

Materials:

– Silver yarn (I used Loops & Threads Impeccable Glitter yarn in Sterling)

– Pipe cleaner

Directions:

1. Wrap the O with the silver yarn.  You may need to use hot glue to hold the yarn in place in some areas.  It may even help to cut small strips to fill in areas that are missed by wrapping.

2. Cut and bend a pipe cleaner to form a loop to represent the top of the ornament.

3. Wrap the pipe cleaner with the silver yarn and hot glue the ends in place.

4. Hot glue the pipe cleaner to the top of the O.

“Reindeer” Y Letter

 

Materials:

– Brown yarn (I used Red Heart Super Saver yarn in Coffee)

– Beige yarn (I used Red Heart Super Saver yarn in Buff)

– Two googly eyes

– Red pom pom (medium size)

Directions:

1. Wrap the two top short sections of the Y with the beige yarn.  Wrap the bottom long portion of the Y with the dark brown yarn.  Use hot glue to hold the yarn in place when needed.  It may even help to cut small strips to fill in areas that are missed by wrapping.

2. Glue two googly eyes about two-thirds of the way up on the dark brown section.

3. Glue the red pom pom at the bottom of the Y.

 

“Holly” Y Letter

 

Materials:

– Green yarn (I used Loops & Threads Impeccable yarn in Kelly Green)

– Three red pom poms (small & medium size)

 

Directions:

1. Wrap the Y with the green yarn.  Use hot glue to hold the yarn in place when needed.  It may even help to cut small strips to fill in areas that are missed by wrapping.

2. Glue the three red pom poms in place where the top two sections of the Y meet the long bottom section of the Y to form the holly berries.

 

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This is the reason I have been MIA lately! We just had our baby girl right before Thanksgiving! Once things settle down again, I plan to post more regularly. I thought I would share our pregnancy announcement photo with you. I tried to come up with something clever for a third baby. I ordered the   sombreros from Amazon. You can also order the mustache pacifier from Amazon that my son has too.

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If you are trying to find a last-minute gift to make for Father’s Day this weekend, try this simple idea! Take a picture of your kiddo(s) holding a letter to spell out “DAD” (or whatever name they use for their father). You can buy fancy letters from a craft store (if you are spelling out “DAD”, you only need to buy the letters D and A), or simply make them yourself by cutting them from cardstock. Buy or make a frame with enough picture spaces for each letter of the name. This is a great way to even get babies involved in making their own Father’s Day present.   I did this with my two little ones last year and my husband has it displayed on his desk at work. I used a cute little film roll frame with three picture spaces that I found at Michaels.

Materials

– Letters (I used white wooden letters I bought at Michaels)

– Camera

– Picture frame with enough picture spaces for each letter of the name (I found mine at Michaels)

Directions

1. Take one picture for each letter of the name you are spelling (if it is a long name, you might want to put more than one letter in the pictures so you don’t have to find a really big frame). Get creative and have fun putting your kids in silly poses.
2. Develop or print the pictures. We needed square pictures for our frame so we were able to get them at Wal-Mart.
3. Place the pictures in the frame in the order that the name is spelled.
4. That’s it! The frame is ready to be gifted. It is sure to be a special gift for the lucky dad that receives it 🙂

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