Holiday Cranberry Kissing Ball

Total Time: 30 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• 5 inches foam, ball
• hot glue, gun or glue sticks or wooden toothpick
• 1 (12 ounce) bag fresh cranberries
• ribbon, mistletoe, holly, ivy, bells

Recipe

• 1 paint foam ball with red craft paint. set aside to dry.
• 2 cut an 18" piece of wire and fold it in half. push folded wire all the way through the center of foam ball, leaving a 1â€? wire loop extending at bottom of ball and 3â€? of wire extending at top.
• 3 using hot glue gun or toothpicks, attach cranberries to ball, covering it completely. twist wires at top of ball into a simple hook for hanging. use ribbon to tie mistletoe and other desired holiday trim to wire above and below ball, and hang with hook.
• 4 kissing ball will last several days. discard once berries begin to soften. to extend the life of your decoration, you can spray with an even coating of shellac.