Mexican Tin Ornaments
copyright (c) 2003 by Celeste Gryniewicz

Mexican tin ornaments date back to the
1930’s when craftsmen made decorative ornaments in the shapes of animals and nature images -- the sun, the moon and stars -- and painted them in bright colors. 

We used aluminum (from the lids of baking pans) that I precut into assorted shapes. Taking these precut shapes, we taped a corresponding paper pattern onto the tops of them.  A selected ornament was then placed on stack of newspapers for padding and the pattern from the paper was traced with a pencil to emboss the metal.  The paper was removed, and the design was painted with translucent paints.

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