Coffee Lid Shadow Boxes

   Here's a fun way to recycle disposable plastic coffee cup lids. Make little Shadow Box Ornaments! Kids love working with miniatures and will want to make more than one, so make sure you have enough lids. These make great teacher gifts, too as they provide an idea they can borrow next year! If you open up the whole where you sip, you can hang it near a light on the tree for a nice effect.
   Here are two ideas: a Deer Scene and a Manger Scene.

MATERIALS:

Great way to recycle all those coffee lids.

  For the Deer Scene:
  White lid
  Blue Paint
  Fiberfill for Snow or Spanish Moss for Hay
  Tiny figures such as trees, wildlife, children, Santas
  Coordinating Ribbon
  Plastic or Foil Star
  Optional: Seam Binding and/or Rick Rack
  Hot Glue or Elmer's Glue

 For the Manger Scene:
 Black Lid
 Baby figure
 Spanish Moss
 Hot Glue
 Coordinating Ribbon

DIRECTIONS:

  1. Wash and dry the lid thoroughly.
  2. With Hot glue or Elmer's glue, attach Seam Binding to outer edge of lid (red for Deer Scene; Blue for Manger Scene). When dry or cool, attach metallic rick rack to the inside of the lid.
  3. Open the sipping hole in the lid and thread ribbon through and tie into a bow at the top.
  4. Attach star, as shown, a little lower on the Manger Scene.
  5. Add Fiberfill or Moss, then figures.

Other ideas: Santa Scene, Scene From Storybooks - like Alice in Wonderland, etc.
 

Make sure you get those high lids so you
have more room to put little things in it.

Hang the ornament so that one of the lights shines
through the hole above the star.