Football Ornaments
Set of 3
Scoreboard, Football Field, Football Santa

Materials:

• 2" x 4" chalkboard
• Green spray paint
• Brown craft paint
• Paint brush
• Fine tip white paint pen
• Ruler & Pencil

1) Spray paint the writing area of the chalkboard green.

2) Let dry completely.

3) With brown paint, paint the wooden border.

4) Let Dry.

5) With a pencil, along both long sides, make 9 little marks (on the green field) evenly spaced.

6) With white paint pen, draw a line to connect each pair of pencil marks. (It helps to use a scrap
of cardboard cut to fit inside the area you painted green as a straight edge)

7) Once the lines are dry, number each line as shown in picture.

                         10   20   30   40   50   40   30   20   10
 

Materials:

• 2" x 3" chalkboard
• White spray paint
• Blue Craft Paint (or color of your favorite team)
• Fine tip paint pen

1) Spray Paint the chalkboard area white (don’t worry if paint over-sprays on the edges)

2) Set aside until it is completely dry.

3) Paint the whole wooden frame blue (or your teams color)

4) Let dry.

5) With paint pen, write your message/score on the white portion of the board.
 

Materials:

• Small piece of tan felt
• 3/4" x 7" piece of batting
• 6" x 4" piece red felt
• 1 pair 7mm eyes
• Clear elastic thread for hanging
• Thread
• Hot Glue
• 1/2" white pompom
• White fabric paint
• Pinking shears
• Small amount Fiberfill (stuffing)
• Sewing Machine or needle

1) Trace and cut out 2 hat pieces from red felt.

2) Trace and cut with pinking sheers 2 football shapes from tan felt.

3) With both pieces lined up evenly, sew around the football leaving about a 1" or slightly larger area open for stuffing.

4) Stuff the football then finish sewing the remainder of the way.

5) Sew the 2 sides of the hat piece leaving the bottom open.

6) Right side out the hat.

7) Hot glue the hat in place on top of the football.

8) With craft or hot glue, glue the strip of batting around the base of the hat being sure the seam is in the back.

9) Glue the pompom near the tip of the hat.

10) Glue on the eyes.

11) Thread an 8" piece of clear elastic through the hat at a point that allows the ornament to  balance and not hang off center. After you check for balance knot the two ends. If it doesn’t balance just pull out the elastic and try a different spot.

12) With white fabric paint, draw a line for the mouth and paint two lines going thru it to represent the laces of the football
 

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