The Katies are getting into the Christmas spirit, and painting some Christmas ceramic figures that you can keep year after year! This is a great craft to do with family members, the kiddos, or your friends to celebrate the holidays.
To make your own, you’ll need the following supplies:
- Christmas ceramics (the Katies got theirs from here)
- Paint
- Paintbrushes
- Disposable paper plate to put your paint on
Things to remember as you do this craft:
- Sand your project beforehand so your paint can stick to your ceramic.
- This may take a few coats of paint to really make your colors pop, so be patient!
- Some of these ceramics have a lot of detail, so be sure to have a variety of paintbrush sizes to complete your craft.
- Once you finish your project, take some clear acrylic spray paint to seal in your creation.
Katie Birecki made her ceramic into a gingerbread house. To make yours look like a perpetual gingerbread house, she recommends using the following:
- All of the above items
- Puffy paint
- Baking soda
- Spoon
- Spackling
- Disposable cake icing bags
Katie mixed a spoonful of baking soda into her brown paint. That makes the paint just a little textured to look like a gingerbread cookie! Be careful, it takes a little bit of time for the baking soda concoction to stick to your ceramic. Even if you’re able to get a thin layer down, you can always go back over your surface with more brown paint.
She also used puffy paint around windows and doorframes to give it a bit of pop.
If you want to go all out on the overall gingerbread house look, take some spackling and put it inside a disposable cake icing bag with a bit of water. You can use that around the base of the house, on the roof, wherever you’d like! Once it dries, it really looks like icing!
If there’s a craft you’d like the Katies to try, email them at katywashburn@910mediagroup.com and katiebirecki@910mediagroup.com.