Not sure what to do with the graduation tassel you have saved from your big day? Are you tired of it hanging from the rear-view mirror or adorning a doorknob in the house?
Making your own Graduation Tassel Ornament is a wonderful way to re-purpose your graduation tassel as well as commemorate a graduation from grade school, high school, college, or even an advanced degree. It’s really easy!
If you’re not sure about making your own DIY Graduation Tasset Ornament, we provide a wide selection of graduation ornaments. Each ornament is personalized for free to include names, dates and brief messages to perfectly fit your graduate this year.
Tassel Ornament is a Unique And Practical Gift!
Supplies Needed for a graduation tassel ornament:
- Graduation Tassel
- Clear Glass Ball Ornament (purchased at any craft store)
- Paintbrush or Straw
- Glue
Optional Supplies:
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- Paint Marker in school colors (purchased at any craft store)
- Paper Confetti in school colors (cut your own from scrapbook paper)
- Curling Ribbon in school colors
- Decorative Ribbon in school colors
Let’s Get Started to Make a Graduation Tassel Ornament!
Step 1: Carefully take the cap off of the ornament and cut a slit from hole to hole in the cap with a pair of scissors. The metal is thin and will cut easily. Add school colored paper confetti and curling ribbons into the glass ball before gluing the cap on for a burst of fun and color, especially if you have a generic gold colored graduation tassel!
Step 2: Feed the graduation tassel strands into the hole.
Step 3: Push the remaining strands of the tassel into the glass ball using a paintbrush handle or straw if you need some leverage to get it all in.
Step 4: Thread the graduation tassel’s loop through the hole on the cap of the ornament.
Tip: Be careful! Use caution because the metal may be jagged where you cut it.
Step 5: Squeeze some glue along the inside rim of the cap. Replace the cap back on the ornament and let it sit to dry.
Step 6: Pull the loop end of the graduation tassel completely through the top and replace the metal hook back in the cap.
Step 7: Using the metal hook at the top of the ornament, tie school colored ribbons in a bow.
Step 8: Using a paint marker, personalize the ornament with a name, school name and/or degree and then your graduation tassel ornament is ready to hang on your Christmas tree!
That’s all you need to make your very own graduation tassel keepsake!
Put it in a gift box and you have a memorable, unique and practical gift for your graduate. Anything that you can do to turn memories into keepsakes is a great way to prevent storing a pile of memorabilia that never gets looked at again. Now, every Christmas you can reminisce about your educational achievements and experiences.
Why Graduation Ornaments?
Graduate hat and tassel Christmas ornaments are great for high school, college or any graduation in which you remember the proud moment of switching your graduation tassel from the right to the left during the commencement ceremony, signifying your big accomplishment!
Some graduates might also like an ornament to represent their college, such as a glass ball ornament or hoodie ornament with their college’s emblem. We offer a selection of many college and university ornaments. We also offer teacher and school ornaments for gifting ornaments to students or teachers around the holidays. These make wonderful Christmas gifts that can be personalized to fit your friend, child or loved one this Christmas season.
If you’d rather get an ornament personalized with all of your graduate’s essential information, check out our selection of personalized graduation ornaments and we will do the work for you!
I wish I knew where my graduation tassels are so I can do this project!
If your tassel has a year of graduation charm attached, the charm may not fit through the opening of the ball. Still a great idea, and someone more crafty than I could probably find a pretty way to connect the charm to the bow.
Alison: You are right! Some of the charms might not fit through the glass ball graduation ornament. I have found that the holes on some of the plastic clear ornaments (rather than glass) are a bit wider. Sometimes it is easier to shimmy them through those. Or, you could open up the ring holding the charm to the graduation tassel with a pair of pliers, then close the ring around a part of the ribbon. Add a little touch of glue to ensure it holds and voila!
What size ball do you use?
We used a 3 1/4″ glass ball ornament for our DIY graduation ornament in order to have a larger opening at the top to fit the metal year dangle through the hole.
Awesome! I am definitely going to try the same at home. Making Graduation Tassel Ornament is the great idea. I loved it. Thanks for sharing such idea.