Create fun holiday yo-yo ornaments for a homemade gift for a teacher, music instructor or bus driver.  A nice sewing craft for older children to learn some basic sewing skills, even how to sew a button.  You can make it even faster with some hot glue at the finish.  Plan an afternoon to put these together for holiday gifts or your own homemade decorations.

Materials needed:

• 1 giant yo-yo (6 inch circle)
• 1 large yo-yo (4 1/2 inch circle)
• 1 button
• 12 inches of ribbon
• Thread
• Needed
• (hot glue optional)

Directions:

1. First make your yo-yos.  Take the 6 inch circle of holiday fabric.
2. Carefully fold over the raw edge (wrong sides together) about 1/4″ and baste all around.  You can use pretty large basting stitches – yo-yos are pretty forgiving.
3. Once you have basted the whole circle, pull the thread to gather the yo-yo tight.
4. Tie a sturdy knot and bury the end of the thread in one of the folds of the yo-yo.
5. Make the 4 1/2″ smaller yo-yo in the same way.
6. Assemble the ornament together.  Loop the ribbon to form a hanger and tack it in place with thread at the center of the giant yo-yo.
7. Layer the large yo-yo on top of the giant yo-yo and tack or sew it to the center of the giant yo-yo.
8. Finish the ornament by sewing a button to the center of the large yo-yo.

Tip:  You could have ready made yo-yo’s and just hot glue the ribbon, yo-yos and button together to make them up in a jiffy.  

CAUTION:  Hot glue is HOT!  Protect your fingers and have an adult help and supervise children.