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Home » Christmas Crafts » DIY Christmas Ornaments

DIY Christmas Ornaments

December 6, 2022 By Jamie Dorobek 3 Comments

If you’re looking to trim your tree with adorable DIY Christmas ornaments, here are 17 unique 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 crafts to do with kids!
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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 to make with kids! Kids can make these ornaments and wrap them up as a gift to their parents. Kid made ornaments are such a special keepsake.

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 mimic snowflakes and are perfect for the kids to make. Use yarn, embroidery thread, or twine and up cycle card board to make these snowflake ornaments. 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

7. Wood slice ornaments

For my son’s holiday class party, I bought this pack of wood slice ornaments and painted the center of each one white. I had the kids use paint markers to draw a Christmas tree or snowman scene on their ornament. For older kids or adults you could leave the wood slice natural and let them use acrylic paint

DIY Wood slice ornaments

Recycled Christmas Ornaments

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

8. DIY Ornament wreath

Not only are these little wreaths made with peels that would likely be thrown in the trash, but they look so cute too. My 4 year old son loves oranges and enjoyed tearing the peels into tiny pieces and threading them onto wire.

DIY Orange peel ornament wreaths

9. Holiday card ornaments

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

DIY paper Christmas ornament

10. Walnut turned strawberry ornaments

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

Recycled Christmas Ornaments

11. DIY Snowmen ornament

Who would have thought that two small pieces of PVC pipe could make such a modern snowman ornament?! Use a peice of scrap fabric or ribbon to make a cute scarf.

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12. Gnome ornaments

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

DIY Cork ornaments

13. 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 DIY ornaments are cute, simple, and made with simple supplies you likely have on hand like red paper and sphere ornaments!

14. 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. Here is a set of unfinished wood ornaments to decorate.

Toddler friendly Christmas decorations

15. Wood bead ornaments

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

DIY Wood bead ornaments

16. 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

17. 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!

18. Ugly sweater ornaments

Craft up ugly sweater ornaments with card stock, markers, buttons, 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

19. 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

20. 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 homemade Christmas 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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