When Sir O's preschool teacher asked me to take a turn reading a Christmas story to his class, my immediate reaction was to choose Nine Days to Christmas
. It's the perfect blend of culture and festivity and narrative, and we love it around here. It's a cute introduction to the Mexican custom of Christmas Posadas, and centers around a very special star-pinata. 
Because I was supposed to bring a stocking stuffer associated with my book, sir O and I set about making mini star-ornament-faux-pintatas. Other than the 2 times I burned my fingers with the hot glue gun, it was a really easy and fun project.
I bought a tube of mini plastic gold ball ornaments, and a pack of gold birthday crowns at the party store.
I used the points on the crowns to make conical points for the stars. (Use hot glue, not craft glue, fyi).
Then I cut and folded slits to make a flat-ish surface to glue against the ornaments.
5 cones for each star. They were not perfect, but for a project with a preschooler for a sidekick, I thought they were absolutely adequate. And the kids in his class loved them, which is the most important part, right?
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