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:

First make your yo-yos. Take the 6 inch circle of holiday fabric.
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.
Once you have basted the whole circle, pull the thread to gather the yo-yo tight.
Tie a sturdy knot and bury the end of the thread in one of the folds of the yo-yo.
Make the 4 1/2″ smaller yo-yo in the same way.
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.
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.
Finish the ornament by sewing a button to the center of the large yo-yo.