DIY Giant Christmas lawn ornament

That one time when I had a sudden light bulb moment and thought I had figured out the CUTEST Christmas porch decoration for super cheap.

I had driven past Thistle and Honey, the local floral and decor store in town. Given the cuteness of the name of her store, the trinkets and treasures in her store are just as cute. Her front door was festively decorated for Christmas with two giant, bright, life-size tree ornaments. I wanted them. I NEEDED them. But alas, I price checked them on Amazon and Walmart and I wasn’t about to pay $30 per ornament!!

Then a “light bulb” moment went off when I saw the giant, soft balls at Walmart in vivid and festive colors. Pretty much any color you could think of. I immediately grabbed the most festive and brightest colors because I wanted them to POP from my front porch.

I found two old spray can tops and some zip ties. The spray can tops were the perfect proportion to the balls to make them look like real life ornament hangers.

Oh, but what color to spray paint them? Some sort of metal color…

Oh but gold, of course! The more festive and tacky, the better!

I was so excited… This was going to be BRILLIANT.

Oh, but wait. How am I supposed to attach it to the ball… Hmm…

This was where I fell short.

Hot glue was my only option that I could think of but, of course, that would pop the balloon. But I literally couldn’t think of anything else. I had to follow through since I was this far anyway.

Maybe if I’m just careful with the glue and try to not to melt the softness of the ball… And it would be SO cute with the red, too!

So I sort of managed to here. I was able to glue the caps on without either ball popping or leaking. However, once I put them outside in the cold…

The red one started to do funny things and lost its air really within 2-3 days! They both eventually deflated, the green one took 1-2 weeks. I wonder if I had found a way to attach the tops without using the glue gun I would have had better results?

It would have been SO stinking cute next to my Nutcracker.

But for a $5 experiment, it was worth the try!