Recycled Christmas metal ornaments

While making some cinnamon pretzels the other day, I noticed that this nice piece of metal came in the middle of the packaging to separate the icing and the dough. I knew that this would come in handy and saved it. I then found a similar piece of metal at the top of some orange juice concentrate. I decided to bang shapes into these pieces of metal to make ornaments. These pieces are ideal,because they do not have sharp edges and they are easy to work with.

OJ concentrate metal ornaments (for a lack of a better name)

Items needed

• metal rounds which can be found on top of juice concentrates and inside of cinamon roll tubes
• nail
• hammer
• piece of wood (A surface to bang on so that you do not ruin your counter tops)
• Marker
• piece of recycled ribbon or other piece of material to hang your ornament

Directions

1.  Decide on a design for your ornament 
2. Draw the design using small dots
3. Place metal round on top of old piece of scrap wood (or whatever you are using as a barrier)
4. place your nail on top of one of the dots you have drawn and gently hammer it a few times in order to make an impression
5. Continue this until all the dots you have drawn have been hit
6. place the nail at the top middle of your design and hammer until you create a hole. This will be how you hang your ornament
7. tie your recycled ribbon to the ornament via the hole at the top 

 Tip: get creative with what you use to hang your ornaments. I used a piece of wire from an old planner and a piece of stretch cord off  of a bamboo spoon set we got for our wedding. Many things can be made into something from the packaging off store bought items. Begin to try and look at packaging differently :) HAVE FUN!