Clay Pot Reindeer Ornament

Cute Christmas Decoration

This cute clay pot reindeer can be a tree ornament, centerpiece and/or place card holder. Imagine a row of these on your table.

Make eight with brown noses and one with a red nose for Rudolph.

Add a hanger, as for the Baby Snowman Ornament to hang from the Christmas tree or use the reindeer pot ornaments as place card holders by inserting a name card into the antlers.

These make up very fast and if you have a couple of extra hands to help, you can make several in one day.

Reindeer Clay Pot Ornament Materials

• 4-inch clay pot
• Delta Ceramcoat Acrylic Paint in brown and black
• DecoArt DuraClear Poly Varnish
• Liner paint brush
• ½-inch paint brush
• 1 Sparkle chenille stem - example is white with gold
• Brown felt
• 20 mm Googly Eyes
• 1 Copper glittered holiday pick
• Small green bow
• 15 mm red (for Rudolph) and/or brown (for Santa's other reindeer) pom pom
• Glue gun
• Aleene's Clear Gel Tacky Glue

Assembling the Ornament

Paint two coats of brown paint on the pot. When dry, cover with one coat of varnish.

Open a new word processing program document.

Click on the template above and copy. Paste the template into the new document.

Move the cursor over the lower right corner until you can grab the corner and stretch the template so that the antler is approximately three inches tall.

Print.

Use the template to cut out the antlers and ears from brown felt.

Place a small amount of Aleene's glue along the bottom edge of the ears and pinch together to place a fold in each ear.

Use the same glue to cover the back of each antler to stiffen. Let dry for a couple of hours.

Use the glue gun to glue the googly eyes and nose to the pot.

Glue the glitter pick into the hole in the top of the pot. Make two loops from the chenille stem and twist to secure in the center.

Glue the chenille ears in the center of the glitter pick. Glue the bow in the front of the chenille stem.

Using a fine liner brush and black paint, cover just the very top of each eye forming eyelids.

Paint lashes above and below the eyes. Paint on a mouth.

When completely dry, cover these areas with a fine coat of the varnish.

When completely dry, glue the antlers behind the chenille stem and the ears in front of the chenille near the bow.