Glittery Tree Picks- Tutorial

So last year, I was at my parent's house and we went to Cracker Barrel Restaurant (I seem to be mentioning this place a lot lately) but while there I saw some ADORABLE Christmas Tree Picks in their Country Store.

I wanted to buy them but after further examination, I realized that I could just make them.
So I went off to Michael's and bought all the supplies and then NEVER made them!

So this year, I knew I just had to do it and I'm so glad I did... they are so cute!

Here's the simple how-to:

Supplies:
-Glitter in your choice of colors (I used red, green, and silver)
-Glitter glue or glue of some kind
-Styrofoam balls in two different sizes (I bought two packs of each)
-Green Fabric Covered Floral Wire Sticks (the ones in the store were white but I like that the green disappears into the tree)
-Green Floral tape
-Toothpicks
-Styrofoam of some kind (I just used a wreath form I had lying around)


To begin:Push a toothpick into each ball.

Cover each ball completely in glue.
Try not to get a lot of glue on the toothpick where it enters the ball. It can then be hard to pull out the toothpick once the glue dries.

Cover the ball with glitter.

Then, push the other end of the toothpick into the styrofoam to hold it while it dries.

Some of the balls drying.

I made 8 large balls in each color and 10 small balls in each color.

Now, take your 3 floral wire sticks and floral tape. Wrap the sticks together at the bottom a couple inches to hold them together.

All together.

Shot of ends with floral tape.

Now here comes the easy part. Just take your glittery balls when they are dry, and just push them directly onto the wire. 3 balls per wire.

For bottom and middle ball, just push the wire all the way through. Top ball just go halfway.

Space them out a little on each wire.
Either while you are putting the balls on or after you place them and have the correct spacing, you will need to glue the balls to the wire to make sure they stay. To do this, just move the ball a little forward (to the end of the wire) out of position and add hot glue to the wire. Then push the ball back over the glue to dry.

And here is a grouping complete.
I tried to alternate the colors of the sticks in each grouping.

All of my floral picks! I love them!
I created 6 total picks of 3 bunches each. I used a total of 54 balls.

I could probably use a couple more picks but I ran out of supplies so maybe next year I will make some more.

Now all you have to do is just shove them into your tree where there is a bare spot.

I love how they stick out and give another dimension to my tree!

Hope you like my picks! I sure do!

I'll be linking up to some of these parties.