This 10-sided variation on the 20-sided Christmas Card Ornament will fit more snugly against your full-branched Christmas Tree. The 20-sided variation makes a huge, bulky ball and the 8-sided variation doesn’t have the cheery rosette-pattern we’re going for in this ornament. Also, the 10-sided variation is slightly easier and takes less materials and time; so, if you’re running out of Christmas cards to recycle, this is a good choice.

You’ll start in the same manner as the 20-sided ornament, by using a circle cutter to make 10 circles from your Christmas Cards and then creating a triangle template to score those circles with your bone folder:

After scoring and folding, you just glue a set of 5 circles together using regular Elmer’s glue and then continue on the back in the same pattern:

This takes a lot less time and is less likely to be squashed in storage than the 20-sided variation, so it might be the project of choice for younger kids. Here is the result on my ‘tin-foil’ tree:

Over the last couple of weeks we’ve focused on ways to display or recycle your Christmas cards into beautiful ornaments and decorations for your home. Check out some of the other posts that cover this subject: Christmas Card Door Hanger, Pyramidal Christmas Trees, Woven Ornaments, 20-sided Sphere Ornaments, Christmas Card Mosaic, Christmas Card Wreath

Merry Christmas!