Wood Burning Tool ~ Christ Centered Ornaments

I thought I would share this fun little craft I did last month in prep for Christmas. My Christmas tree is a little sparse and at the moment, it needs some ornaments that will not break with toddler hands touching them. After some research, a friend and I decided to make ornaments that have pictures of Jesus Christ's life and a scripture to go with them. I plan to use this as an advent in December.

I learned how to use a new cool snazzy tool. The wood burning tool. I have a close picture of it later. It had a bit of a learning curve, and I was discouraged at first. But you get the hang of it and it actually was fun to use!

Materials:

Wood slices
Pictures of Christ - trimmed to fit the specific wood circles
Wood Burning tool
Tiny little hook screws
Twine
Modge Podge
Sponge Brush
Tracing paper
Printed scriptures on paper to trace
 

DIRECTIONS: 

1- Glue all the pictures of Jesus on your wood slices. I don't modge podge the front yet. I want to wood burn the back with the scripture first. I used a free scripture list and went and gathered my own photos on LDS.ORG where they have free high quality downloads

2- Use tracing paper to make a pattern for you to follow when wood burning on the back of the wood slice.

3-  Use the wood burning tool to carefully follow the pattern you traced. SLOW and STEADY is the trick. Try to apply even pressure throughout so that the lines are not different levels of thickness. Be sure to practice on other wood first.

4- Modge podge the top of the pictures to add texture and secure the pictures in place. Let dry.

5- Screw in tiny hook and tie twine through to hang on the tree. I found that starting a hole with a little screwdriver helped secure the hook, plus helped prevent cracking. If you want you can add a tiny little bow on the top of the wood slice. I saw a bunch of cute little examples of Pinterest.

Happy Christmas Season!