12DK #1 Ideas for Ornaments

Hello, deer people!

As our official countdown to the 25th of December starts, we thought maybe you had started to decorate your Kingmas tree already. If so, you probably want to hang things on them to make it more festive. We are decorating our Kingmas tree tomorrow, and in the meantime, we are making special things to hang on it. Here are so of our ideas for ornaments--or as we call them--kingnaments!

1: Make fairly large circles out of clay, and once they've hardened, paint them a royal blue, leaving a white circle in the middle. Then paint your face and the faces of your friends or family on them. We did this for everyone in our kingdom, including our cats, the Duke of Cornmeal Adrien, our Kingetarie Jonah, ourselves, and most of our dear pheasants, like Maïna and Aedem and Taeta and more. They look so royally nice together.

2: Choose a common colour or a colour pallet to decorate your entire tree in. We choose a very royal blue and our kingnaments, tinsel, and other decorations all match.

3: Make sugar cookies and decorate them with icing and sprinkles, then tie a piece of yarn either around them through a hole in the middle, and hang them on your tree. Then at the end of the Kingmas season, you can have a feast! (But only if your immune system is strong enough--ours regularly participate in dulling and fencing, so it is in kingly condition.)

4: Since both of us kings are writers, we made little paper books that went in decreasing height, the last one being only a few centimetres long. Then we arranged them with the largest and the bottom and tallest at the top and glued a piece of looped yarn at the top. That way it makes a little book tree and they are so inspiring. We also put them on a shelf in our closet, the one we write in, that is.

5: We also made little paper snowflakes and tied them with some invisible white tread to our tree and to other things as well.

6: If you have anything around your Kingmas display that you think is ugly or un-Kingmasy, just wrap it in festive wrapping paper. We wrapped some of the boxes we used to store paper and ink and also wrapped our printing press, but Jonah had to take the paper off so that he could print the invitations to our Kingmas party.

7: Candy canes are a very important thing, because they can conveniently be sucked now while you write or draw, and because they are so beautiful. We got some blue and white ones and put them in a jar on our desk and hung more on our tree.

8: Another completely different idea would be to decorate your tree as if it's a snowman. That's what the Duke of Cornmeal did, along with his two advisers, Cayla and Ashley. They wanted to decorate but Mama hadn't taken out the decorations yet. So they decorated with what they found. They put a tuque on the top of the tree, instead of a star, tied mittens on to each opposite side by the strings, put a scrap around him, and put two boots at the bottom. Just keep in mind that if you decorate a tree like this, someone just might be crying in the afternoon because they want to play outside and can't because the tree has all their winter clothing. So maybe you should use spares.

9: Take cotton balls and get onto a ladder, and drop them over your tree so that it looks like it's snowing. It looks so wintery. Just make sure your cats don't eat them.

10: And then, to top it all off, instead of putting a star, we put a big, bright, blue crown. Just like the ones on our heads.

Go decorate your tree now! Even if it’s just a branch you cut from a pine tree, it will make you feel more joyful. (So long as it doesn't fall over every few minutes like ours did last year.)

Yours sincerely and with ornaments hanging off our ears,

(who are in an extremely festive mood…)