The Christmas Pudding Bauble

Funky Christmas Ping-Pong baubles are simply made from Ping-Pong balls. There are five different designs you could make a Christmas pudding, a Christmas Robin, a sprig of holly, a sparkly bauble or an apple.

To make Christmas Ping-Pong Baubles you will need... Ping-Pong balls, poster paint, glitter, scraps of card, PVA glue, twigs, and Parcel ribbon to make hanging loops.

To start with you will need to make a ball stand to top the Ping-Pong balls from rolling around as you work on them. Cut a piece f card about 7cm by 2 cm and wind it around a pencil to make it curl. Unroll and bring the two ends of the card so that hey meet and staple them together. This is the ball stand.

The Glitter Bauble

Paint the Ping-Pong ball in any colour you choose. Metallic colours look Nylon taffeta great. Leave the paint to dry.

Using a corkscrew gently push a hole in to the top of the ball. Take a length of parcel ribbon and fold it in half to make a loop. Fold the ends length ways a little, this helps when feeding the ribbon into the hole.

Cover the top half of the ball and the hole with PVA glue. Push the ribbon inside the ball leaving a hanging loop sticking out. Sprinkle the top of the ball with glitter and set aside to dry.

The Christmas Pudding Bauble

Paint the Ping-Pong ball brown and leave to dry.

Add a dollop of thick white paint to the Slit-edge polyester stain top of the ball and spread around a little to look like cream or brandy sauce. Allowing the edges to dribble adds to the effect. Leave to dry.

Cut out two small holly leaves from scraps of green card. Glue the leaves to the top of the Christmas pudding add three or four blobs of red paint for berries.

Make a hole in the top of the Christmas pudding and glue into the hole a hanging loop as before.