Have you seen the cute fabric Christmas ornaments that are out there these days!? I stared at a bin of them at Target in the fall wanting to buy them all but knew our poor Christmas tree is already overrun with ornaments. So, I sadly passed them by. Now that Christmas is over, I saw these babies at 50% off, and I snatched them up. If you hurry, maybe you can still find some too.
I knew there had to be another way to use them. After I got them home, inspiration struck and here’s how I turned Christmas ornaments into a wall mobile.
The first step was to cut all the tags off the ornaments-including the fabric one sewn to the ornament. I still fear some of those tags are like the ones on mattresses you aren’t supposed to cut off or risk serving some time in the slammer, should the mattress inspector ever catch you!? Whatever the case may be, remove all the tags… you just didn’t hear that from me. 😉 
The hanger strings are designed to go around a Christmas tree branch and still hang down a couple of inches. For this project, you don’t need that kind of length from the hanger. So, I tied a knot in the hanger string and cut off past the knot to make the hanger “smaller”. All you need is a simple loop to be able to attach your ornament to the mobile.
This is the fun part. I had my girl help me. We used a leftover scrap piece of wood and attached some eye-hooks to it. We used five eye hooks. Three on the bottom to hang the ornaments. Two on the top to eventually hang the mobile. You can simply use a piece of wood. A rustic natural stick would also look cool!
Just get some thin wire, string, or yarn and attach it to the eye hooks and then feed it with beads. You can use a variety of beads to personalize this project to your taste. We love color, so we used a mix of colorful wood beads and shiny glass beads. 
After feeding some beads onto your wire, feed a Christmas ornament onto the string as well. We then put a large bead after the ornament, so the ornament wouldn’t slide down and off our hanger.
You can use your creativity to determine how long you want your pieces to be, how many go along your wood base, and how you want to hang that piece up on the wall. We ended up putting beads on our hanger. You can also do this whole project without beads, if you want it to be more baby friendly for above a bed. Just use the concept of turning Christmas ornaments into a mobile and go crazy making it yours!
If you do use beads, make sure you tie a big knot at the end or wrap the wire around a bead well, so everything stays on and doesn’t slip off or come undone easily.
What do you think!? Is this something you would create? I’ve seen mobiles that cost a lot. Think of how cheap you can make a fun wall piece by using ornaments you already have or you find on clearance? This one has ended up decorating the walls of our art studio and used in a gallery wall with kids art. Where would you put your mobile?
Thanks so much for reading. Happy New Year! We trust you have had a good holiday season with family and friends. We have lots of fun projects planned for this new year, and we can’t wait to share them with you! As always, if you do one of our projects, please tag us on social media and use hashtag #spoonfulproject so we can see it!
There are so many projects that I have wanted to share, but moving has kicked my butt. So many projects but so little time! Slowly but surely this house is becoming home, and I am excited to start showing you all we have been working on.
I started by threading my needle and feeding the styrofoam balls on to the string. I used a couple of difference sizes, and I like the variety that element adds to the finished look.
Once I had a number of styrofoam balls threaded onto my string, I was ready to start hot gluing the fabric on. I cut the fabric into about one inch wide strips and placed a dab of hot glue onto the ball and pressed one end of the fabric into it. I simply then wrapped the ball in the fabric strip, added another dab of glue and placed the opposite end of the fabric strip into it. It was that easy! Two things to keep in mind.
If you keep those two things in mind, then you just keep repeating that step until every ball is completed. I hung this garland up at Christmas with a string of lights. At first we had our stockings tied up on it and then our Christmas cards clipped to it. I wish I could find those pictures, but I think they got deleted while trying to find more space on my phone.
I hope you are having a good week! Thank you so much for reading my blog. I am continually thankful for you all to help me have this special outlet in my life.
Do you miss your Christmas lights?
The next step is to fold one of the pieces of fabric in half and place it behind the strand of lights. Then loop the ends of the fabric around the strand of lights and pull through that top fold in your fabric. The strand of fabric will have tied itself onto the light strand.
That is the primary step! From there it is just repeating of cutting strips and tying them on. I like to create a really full garland, so I place three to four strands of fabric between each light. I think by doing this the electrical wire is really covered well.
This one I am showing you, I mixed burlap with a creme fabric. I made it for a friend at Christmas. I have not found a good place for my lit garland yet, but you may remember seeing it in last year’s Valentine’s Day mantel. Once Christmas was over, I literally switched out Christmas elements and replaced it with winter ones and then just added Valentine’s Day decor like the 
Another inexpensive way to make this lit garland would be to use an old sheet and rip strips of fabric. I made one with this idea to list for sale in my shop. I added a little string to it for another texture. You could add ribbons, strings, beads, feathers, etc., to yours!
I love how the fabric and little lights add a lot of fun to a space. Home decor doesn’t have to be expensive. I tried this garland in my kitchen and was tempted to keep it. The added texture creates some warmth that I just love.
I think it even looks pretty when it’s not lit! Wouldn’t this be so cute in a little girl’s room?
What about you!? Do you have a thing for these fun little lights too? How do you create soft light in your home? I’d love to hear! Find me on Instagram (ericadeuel) and chat with me!
After I made one, I made a few more and made sure to have two different styles cut to add a little variety and fun.
The flags were so cute left like that. I decided to embellish two of mine with some materials I had left over from my 
I love how easy these flags were to create, yet what a fun little embellishment they can make! I see these helping to decorate a food spread. For example, how cute would they be sticking out of a of big bowl of popcorn!?
I displayed my flags by simply adding them to a few recycled crafts. I took an old beer bottle and literally just wrapped a piece of fabric around it. I used some jute rope to hold the fabric in place. This was much easier than trying to peel off the beer label or heating my hot glue gun back up to glue it place. I love how it turned out. I also used a little white acrylic paint and painted a recycled refried beans can. I used a little sandpaper to scratch it up to look a bit more rustic, and it was done! A few of these cute cans would look great holding silverware on a party food table. The possibilities are endless! Have fun creating and using your imagination!