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Home » Christmas Crafts » DIY Christmas Ornaments

DIY Christmas Ornaments

November 28, 2020 By Jamie Dorobek 3 Comments

If you’re looking to trim your tree with adorable DIY Christmas ornaments, here are 17 clever ideas. This list includes everything from a paintbrush Santa Claus to up-cycling old Christmas cards into 3D paper ornaments. These DIY ornaments make the perfect Christmas craft to do with kids!
 
17 DIY Christmas Ornaments 
 

DIY Christmas Ornaments for kids

With a little help from an adult, any of the ornaments on this list can be turned into DIY ornaments for kids! My very favorite ornament for really young ones are the scribble ornaments!

1. Paint brush ornaments

I love the idea of kids turning paint brushes into silly faced ornament. Santa Claus is adorable, but I am 100% sure kids could come up with all kinds of silly faces! Best part? Just add a ribbon through the already punched hole in the top of the paint brush and hang on the Christmas tree.

DIY Santa paintbrush ornaments

 

2. Glitter reindeer

My crafty friend, Annie, made these with her preschool class a few years ago. Aren’t they cutest? Simple cover a bulb in glitter, add eyes, a red pom pom nose and hot glue antlers! I originally shared the glitter reindeer ornament on C.R.A.F.T. facebook back in 2010!

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Easy DIY Christmas ornaments that kids can make

3. Scribble ornaments

This is my all time favorite DIY ornament for kids 2 and under. All you need is card stock, crayons, and a cut out!

Easy DIY ornaments

4. Yarn ornaments

These colorful, fun ornaments are fun to make with kids and use recycled material! What’s not to love? Find the complete tutorial and lots more pretty pictures on Tauni Co.

Yarn ornaments

 

5. Glitter ornaments

A hot glue gun and glitter takes these popsicle sticks to modern ornament masterpieces in no time. Best part? These Glitter Dots are easy to use and mess free. 

DIY Ornaments for kids

6. Nature ornaments

Use sticks, hot glue, and yarn to make adorable Chrsitmas trees! (Or teepees!)

DIY ornaments for kids

Recycled Christmas Ornaments

They only thing bette than DIY Christmas ornaments are those made with recycled materials! This list covers everything from mandarin peels to old Christmas cards and everything in between.

7. DIY Ornament wreath

Not only are these little wreaths made with peels that would likely be thrown in the trash, but they looks so cute too. My 4 year old son easily strung the peels and wooden beads on the wire.

DIY Orange peel ornament wreaths

8. Holiday card ornaments

Turn old holiday cards into adorable 3D sphere ornaments of any size!

DIY paper Christmas ornament

 

9. Walnut turned strawberry ornaments

All you need for these cute strawberries are walnuts, paint, beads, felt, and ribbon!

Recycled Christmas Ornaments

10. DIY Snowmen ornament

Who would have thought that two small pieces of PVC pipe could make such a modern snowman ornament?!

DIY Christmas Ornaments (1)

11. Gnome ornaments

Turn a cork, felt scrap, and a little fake fur into these adorable gnomes in less than an hour! 

DIY Cork ornaments

12. Scrabble Ornaments

These scrabble ornaments are perfect for the game lover in your life. Consider spelling out grand kid’s names or Santa’s reindeers! For the complete tutorial hop on over to Decor on a Dollar.

DIY Christmas ornaments for kids

DIY Christmas Ornaments

The following DOY ornaments are cute, simple, and made with simple supplies you likely have on hand like red paper and sphere ornaments!

13. Paper ornaments

For a super simple, inexpensive DIY Christmas ornament use card stock. I love that you can make the spheres as big or as little as needed.

Toddler friendly Christmas decorations

14. Wood bead ornaments

All you need to make these wood bead ornaments are wood beads and fishing line! 

DIY Wood bead ornaments

15. Cactus ornaments

How fun are these cactus ornaments made from a simple green ball ornament? For the complete tutorial on the cactus ornaments check out My Poppet Makes.

DIY cactus ornament

 

16. Family tree ornaments

These adorable family tree ornaments were inspired by a fancy version from Pottery Barn. All you need to make these are foam board, XACTO knife, glitter, and glue! They will be loved year after year by the whole family.Family tree ornaments

Ugly sweater ornaments

If you love ugly sweater parties as much as I do, this is the best part of the list!

17. Ugly sweater ornaments

Craft up ugly sweater ornaments with card stock, markers, cotton balls and stickers. Best part? Make tiny DIY hangers out of paper clips to hang the sweaters on the tree!
Ugly christmas sweater diy ornaments

18. Ugly sweater inspired ornaments

For a simpler version of tacky sweater ornaments you can buy precut wooden shapes at your local craft store and use red washi tape to create ugly sweater inspired patterns on the pre-made ornaments.

Ugly Chrsitmas Sweater Inspired ornaments

19. Ugly sweater photo ornaments

I love the addition of the photo faces to the ugly sweater ornaments! How fun is that? For the complete tutorial check out Cul de Sac Cool.

Ugly sweater ornaments

Do you and your kiddos make DIY ornaments? What was your favorite DIY ornament on this list? I’d love to hear…

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Comments

  1. Neil, Amy and The Girls says

    December 23, 2010 at 5:36 pm

    Thanks for including my girls' photo ornaments!!! I LOVE this post…I am always looking for projects my girls can do :o)

    Reply
  2. Saraccino says

    December 22, 2010 at 4:07 pm

    Oh, how cool! Thanks for featuring my little bird! 🙂

    Reply
  3. Melissa says

    December 22, 2010 at 2:14 pm

    Thanks for including me! And seriously how freaking cute is that bacon ornament!

    Melissa
    http://burstsofcreativity.blogspot.com/

    Reply

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