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Hedwig
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A Harry Potter Christmas Tree: Hedwig Ornament

Posted on by Amber

When I began thinking about doing a Harry Potter Tree I knew I wanted a snow owl ornament on the tree. I found the perfect ornament at the Craft Warehouse for about $7 on sale. I just added a letter (made from a paper bag) to the owls beak. It’s simple but it adds so much to the tree. 

I bought my owl at the Craft Warehouse in November of 2018, sadly I couldn’t find this gem on their website. 

  • Letter being folded
    Cut  a .5 inches wide and an inch long piece out of paper bag and fold the top corners down.
  • Letter being folded
    Fold the bottom edge up until it almost meets the corners. 
  • Letter being folded
    Fold down the top portion until it touches the bottom fold. Glue into place.
  • glue on letter
    Place a small dot of E6000 or hot glue on the letter to keep it in place.
  • Attach the letter just under the owl’s beak.
  • Consider putting a scroll in her mouth rather than a letter.
  • Hedwig on the Christmas tree
    Hedwig has around a 6 inch wingspan and is about 3 inches tall
Flying Key
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A Harry Potter Christmas Tree: Flying Key Ornaments

Posted on by Amber

Materials:

  • Dragonfly decorations– found in the floral/craft section of Dollar Tree
  • Vintage keys antique gold- 6 piece found at Hobby Lobby 
  • Ornament hooks found at Dollar Tree or gold wire (Walmart craft section near ribbon)
  • Hot glue gun and at least 1 mini glue stick 
  • Materials needed to make the flying keys
    Materials needed to make the flying keys
  • Materials needed to make the flying keys
    Dragonfly Decoration and Spare Parts Antique Gold Keys
  1. Heat up your glue gun.
  2. Pull the wings off of your dragonflies.
  3. Hot glue the wings to your keys at a slight angle as shown in the pictures below.
  4. Twist an ornament wire around the key or hot glue your gold wire to your ornaments in a loop so that it will hang from your tree. 
  • hooks and gold wire
    hooks and gold wire
  • Flying key being made
    Twisting the ornament hook onto the flying key ornament
  • Flying key being made
    Flying key ornament
  • Flying Key
    Flying key made with gold wire
  • Flying key
    Flying key made with silver ornament hook
  • Flying Key Ornament
    Flying Key Ornament made with gold wire

Inspired by Becca Beach’s YouTube video tutorial on making flying keys

To see more Harry Potter Christmas Tree decorations check out my Harry Potter Gryffindor Scarf and Harry Potter ornaments from Dollar Tree

Gryffindor Scarf
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A Harry Potter Christmas Tree: Gryffindor Scarf

Posted on by Amber

Dollar Tree had a lot of great ornaments and craft materials to choose from. Of course where I live the Dollar Tree is the largest I’ve ever been too. I love it! So when I saw these two colors of ribbons I knew right away what I wanted to make with them . . . a huge gryffindor scarf for my Harry Potter themed Christmas tree! 

Gryffindor Tree Ribbon: for a 5-6 foot tall Christmas tree

Materials:

  • 3 spools of 9 foot wire edged ribbon- deep red/cranberry
  • 2 spools of  9 foot mesh ribbon (no wire)- gold
  • glue gun and glue sticks
  • scissors

Directions:

  1. Let your glue gun heat up.
  2. Cut the gold ribbon into about 1.5 inch pieces (for a tree over 5 feet tall you’ll need at least two spools). 
  3. Make a rectangle of hot glue (about 1.5 inches) at the end of your red ribbon and glue a piece of gold ribbon to the rectangle, being sure the edges of the gold ribbon match up with the edges of the red ribbon. 
  4. Make another glue rectangle about 1.5 inches further down the ribbon and attach another gold rectangle of ribbon. Repeat this process until you come to the end of the red ribbon and then glue the end of another red ribbon to your first, using the gold ribbon piece to cover up where the two attach.
  5. I used four 9 foot red ribbons and about 2.5 gold ribbons for our wide 5 foot tree but for a skinnier tree you wouldn’t need as much ribbon. 
  • Cut mesh ribbon into 1.5 inch pieces
  • Stack the pieces so they’re ready to add to your red ribbon
  • Put your hot glue on the red ribbon
  • Stick the mesh ribbon pieces to your glue square using a glue gun
  • Make sure the pieces lay flat, you may even want to use a popsicle stick to press down on the mesh ribbon ensuring that it sticks to the glue.