A Baseball Ornament

I made this ornament, because my mom has one similar to this in our living room. She had always talked about how she loves it. I thought for her birthday, I could make one similar to it for her. It was very simple to make and she loved it.

These are the materials you need.

1. 1 baseball

2. 6 Styrofoam balls ( it can be any color, I will be using white and changing them to red )

3. At least 15 white or red ping pong balls ( color depends on Styrofoam ball color )

4. 1 arm's length of yarn ( color of your choice )

5. Hot glue

6. Scissors

7. 1 sharpie ( can be red, white, or cream )

Plug in your hot glue gun to give it time to heat up. It's easier to have it already going, then having to stop working for 20 minutes waiting for it to heat up.

Color the Styrofoam ball, the color of your sharpie. Or color the ping pong balls instead depending on what you're doing.

Once you color all 6 of your Styrofoam balls (or ping pong balls), let them dry for at least 30 minutes.

Next, if you would like, you can clean your baseball while they dry. If not or after you’re done cleaning the baseball, then you can cut out your yarn about an arms length long if you haven’t already.

After they have dried, you can start by hot gluing 1 of your Styrofoam balls to the baseball. I like to glue my first one, on the center of the baseball.

Glue the ping pong balls all the way around the ball. It took me around 5 ping pong balls. It should almost look like a flower when they’re all glued down.

Glue another Styrofoam ball to one of the sides. I found it easier to place it in the grove of the ping pong balls.

Glue the ping pong balls around the Styrofoam ball like you did with the first one. It should only take around 4 of them this time.

On the opposite side of the baseball, glue another Styrofoam ball like you did in step 8 just on the opposite side.

Next glue ping pong balls around the Styrofoam ball like you did in step 9. It should still take around 4 of them.

Continue this process around the entire baseball.

You might come to a point where there is only a little room left and you have 2 Styrofoam balls left. Now, you can glue 1 down, and fill the rest with the ping pong balls. You can also, glue them both down and fill in the sides of those with as many ping pong balls that will fit.

Once you have completed your ornament, you need something for it to hang onto. Take out the yarn you cut earlier.

Take out the string from earlier, and fold it in half.

Next, at one of the ends, make a loop with the string.

Next, take the remaining string at the end of the loop, and tuck it through the hole that you made from the loop.

Finally, pull the string through the rope, to make the tie.

Once you have completed the tie, wrap the string along on of the red Styrofoam balls like done so in the picture. To keep it around there, I just took the knot and pulled it through the other side of the string. There you go! You have completed the Baseball Ornament!