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Ah bit “early” I do know.. however summer season is a pleasant time to dry orange slices if you wish to – as a result of you possibly can bake these slices within the scorching scorching solar! As you could know, we love making dried orange slices right here at Purple Ted Artwork. Such a gorgeous and straightforward conventional Christmas decorations to make. We’ve a terrific tutorial for drying orange slices for you. Based mostly on this, we additionally share the newest within the collection of dried orange slice decoration concepts! Dried orange slices reindeer for youths†

These little dried orange reindeer have been on my to-do checklist ever since I made our orange foxes… look actually carefully and you will find some similarities. Nonetheless.. I simply did not get an opportunity to make them. Life has been busy! Particularly with our very particular Sky Youngsters Christmas Finest Makes Ever.
Nonetheless, my expensive good friend Anita from Gracious Rose Designs and her women (11 and 6) tried it out. And I am SO excited that they let me share THEIR reindeer ornaments.
We agreed to make our personal Christmas wreaths and we had all introduced various things to make them with – some wire rings, some holly and fir branches. Anita had tried methods to dry orange slices and despatched me photos of how they seemed lovely within the oven. After which… catastrophe structuring. The oven had turned up by chance and a few of the orange slices had been a bit burnt! Concern not.. we will use them for reindeer, I mentioned!
And we did not as a result of we had been so busy making the wreaths.

However Anita did. And her women made a WHOLE set of implausible ornaments from dried orange slices… most of which they gave to their academics. How candy! I additionally love that they used up each final slice of orange – even the small finish to make a child reindeer decoration…so cute.
So. How did they make them? Learn extra!
Orange Slice Reindeer Ornaments – Provides
- You will have dried orange slices – selfmade (finest) or purchased]
- Just a little white and black acrylic paint
- Some brown felt (or you should use brown paper, cardstock or building paper and even make twiggy antlers)
- Purple pom poms (though you can too squeeze tissue paper and make a pom pom nostril)
- Ribbons/string/rope for hanging
- Scorching glue gun
- Scissors
- Knife (for chopping your oranges)
- Oven
Drying orange slices – 3 strategies
There are three primary strategies of drying orange slices:
Personally, we choose the Easy methods to Dry Orange slices in an oven methodology. So bounce over there, put together your oranges, then come again to learn the ultimate steps.

Prime tip when baking your oranges for Christmas crafts
Personally, I at all times take my orange slices out of the oven a little bit “earlier” than everybody else.
This may hold your oranges CLEAR orange for longer. If you happen to cling them fastidiously, they are going to dry out fully (and darken over time) over the Christmas season and might be effectively preserved for future use.
Make sure that the orange foxes are certainly be fully dry earlier than packing. Utterly dry principally means your orange slice ornaments will not be sticky!

Now to show your dried orange slices into reindeer decorations
I am borrowing a few of my images of the dried orange fox decoration for this step – simply because they’re certainly the identical to start with… and the remainder you possibly can simply put collectively your self!

It is a easy portray job! Acrylic paints work finest for this. Though you possibly can experiment with gluing on white felt as a substitute.

Paint two white areas in your orange. Let dry.
Discover how the identical primary “white bits” work for each a fox decoration and a reindeer decoration shared right here right this moment!

Add some black eyes. In these photos we additionally added a black nostril for the FOX.. in case you are making a little bit orange Rudolph decoration, you possibly can paint on a crimson nostril with some crimson paint.. or as the subsequent photograph suggests glue on the pompom nostril.

Anita additionally added some tremendous cute little reindeer freckles (impressed by this felt reindeer decoration). SO CUTE!

Lastly, add your baker’s twine to your orange fox decoration/rudolph ornaments for hanging. (Photograph borrowed once more from the Fox publish!).
Need extra nice concepts for dried orange slices? Try these Dried Orange Garlands:

Extra nice methods to make use of dried orange slices

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