These DIY black and white polka dot ornaments are super easy and inexpensive to make. Perfect for a black and white Christmas tree, wreath or garland.
Cook Time 1 hourhour
Drying Time 1 hourhour
Total Time 2 hourshours
Servings 12ornaments
Author Wanda Simone
Equipment
1 spray paint trigger (optional)
1 small round paint brush
Ingredients
123"glass ball Christmas ornaments
12wood skewers or small round dowels
2 or 3piecesfloral foam, styrofoam or a box
1canblack matte spray paint
1canwhite matte spray paint
1cangold metallic spray paint(optional) to paint the tops if desired
1bottleblack glass paint
1bottlewhite glass paint
12hooksfor hanging the ornaments
Instructions
Spray paint the ornaments
Remove the tops from the ornaments. Keep them in a safe place.
Push a skewer into a piece of the floral foam. Put a glass ornament over the top of the skewer.
Attach the spray gun trigger to the spray paint can, and then shake the can for about a minute.
Paint the ornament, making sure to cover the top and bottom.
Move the skewer with the ornament to another piece of floral foam to allow it to dry.
Repeat this process to paint the rest of the ornaments. Make sure they aren't touching while they are drying.
Paint the ornament tops (optional)
Push the pins from the ornament tops into a piece of floral foam.
Spray paint the tops gold, or any other color you would like them to be.
Paint the first row of polka dots
Make sure the spray paint has dried on the ornaments before starting this step.
Put the tops back on your ornaments.
With your non-painting hand, hold the ornament with your index finger on the top and your thumb on the bottom
Paint a black polka dot about half an inch from the top of a white ornament. The dots should be about ΒΌ inch across.
Rotate the ornament around to the other side and paint another dot directly across from the first one, also about half an inch from the top.
Between those two dots (on one side), paint two more dots that are about equal distance apart and the same distance down from the top of the ornament.
Paint two more dots directly on the other side of the ornament, directly across from the last ones and the same distance down from the top. You should now have 6 dots in a circle around the top that are pretty evenly spaced apart.
Paint additional rows of polka dots
For the next row, move down about an inch from the first row.
Then paint a dot half way between two of the dots on the upper row.
Continue around the ornament painting dots about an inch down and between the dots in the row above.
When you get back to the first one (you should have six dots on this row), move down another inch and repeat the process, painting dots between the dots on the row above.
Keep painting rows of dots about an inch apart until you get close to the bottom of the ornament.
Hang the ornament to dry.
Continue painting the rest of the ornaments the same way, switching to white paint for the black ones.
Notes
Make sure the drying ornaments are stored away from the area where you are spray painting. Otherwise, they may get overspray on them.
Don't worry if the dots aren't perfectly round. When they are all on the ornament, the pattern will still look like polka dots.
If the paint doesn't cover as well as you would like it, go back over it with a second coat.
Spray paint can scratch, so don't store the ornaments in a package where you have to push them in.