23 Homemade Ornaments for Christmas
We Heart Homemade Ornaments! We now have an updated Christmas Ornaments DIY page, with 50+ ideas to keep you busy – organised by age group this is a great resource to check out! We also have an easy to print (great as worksheets) 30 Ornament Ebook you can download here.
You may have noticed that we go Homemade Ornament crazy around from now until December. I am not sure what is about Autumn but all the nature crafts and walnut crafts lend themselves perfectly for Ornament making, which make dear little gifts in the run to Christmas.
So.. .without further ado:
Our Homemade Ornaments
Our Favourite Paper Ornaments to Make
Paper Crafts are magical and so so sooo versatile. Again, we have a whole set of Paper Ornaments to explore and browse. But 3 of our favourite include:
Mickey Mouse Ornaments! So easy and fun!
A set of Princess Paper Dolls Ornaments (free to download!)
Fabulous Paper Folded ornaments
DIY Walnut Ornaments are gorgeous
We LOVE crafting with Walnuts and have a great Walnut Crafts Round Up for you to explore.. but in the meantime – 3 favourite Walnut Oranment ideas:
Dear Walnut Owls (Granny got some for her Birthday)
Walnut Raindeer – eat the nut AND make your reindeer!
In this Walnut Ornament range – we also have a Walnut Fox and a Walnut Penguin design!
Easy Ornaments to Sew with Felt
Christmas Ornaments Sewing is a great way to get kids to give hand sewing a go. They are small projects, quick to make and finish and wonderful to give. For Christmas, our favourite Sewing Projects include:
Felt Hearts (also usable as key rings!) – grandparents will love these as a keepsake
Explore basic shapes with these adorable Felt Penguin Ornaments
Animal lovers will love this set of felt Pet Ornaments. Customise these to suit your own pets!
One more: nordic inspired mini pixies – my (then) 10yrs old made these last year with a little help (cutting) from me!
More felt sewing with these basic shape Felt Reindeer Ornaments (similar to our penguins above!)
DIY Yarn Ornaments for Christmas
Fun with Yarn Wrapping! Check out our newspaper and Yarn wrapping technique to make our cute Yarn Wrapped Snowman and….
… similarly the Yarn Wrapped Knitting Ball ornaments!
Next have a go at our Yarn Wrapped Trees!
Recycled Ornament Crafts for Kids
During a time of plenty (and ahem excess!!), why not give recycled crafts a go. There are plenty of wonderful Recycled Ornaments to try, including:
Snowflake Ornament (use up those old puzzles)
“Stained Glass Baubles” made from pringles lids
Upcycled shirt button snowflakes
Keepsake Ornaments (aka recycled cardigans)
How about recycling old dinosaur toys to make these fabulous dinosaur ornaments!
Corks make wonderful recycled ornaments.. I could do a whole row of Cork Christmas Ornaments for you – we have everything from Penguins, to Gingerbread Men and Snowmen… but continuing on the general upcyceld theme – Cork Santas (we also played some Santa bowling) and…
…Cork Mushrooms (we love our little corks and play with them too)
Beaded Ornaments/ Pipecleaner Ornaments for Fine Motor Skills
How about some cute Pipecleaner Crafts for Christmas Ornament Making?! Again, our favourites include:
Super simple Bead Wreaths (great for keeping young hands busy whilst you do other things)
Pipecleaner Snowflake Ornaments – these are soooo pretty! The key is to find some LOVELY beads. The rest is super easy! This set of beads is by Kids Made Modern.
Pipecleaner Christmas Trees – fantastic for fine motor skills!
Recycle Popsicle Stick Christmas Ornaments
We have a set of Popsicle Stick Ornaments made using our recycled ice lolly sticks from the summer..
First up, we have the super simple craft stick star ornaments. These are a real “craft classic” now for using up popsicle sticks at Christmas time. A super versatile craft that is easy to embellish with buttons, pom poms or yarn. We have more coming soon!
Nature Ornaments for Christmas
Nature crafting is super fun! And crafting with nature is of course fabulous for Christmas too. We particularly love dried orange slices for that rustic look, but you may also like:
Stick Santa (you know how we love Sticks!!)
Pom Pom Pine Cones Trees (fabulously tactile for small hands)
Angel Ornaments made from pine cones (these are also on auto play!)
Dried Orange Slices really are the best.. how about turning them into Orange Slice Fox Ornaments
NEW: We also have a super cute Dried Orange Slice Reindeer!!!!
Nature Crafts Angel (made purely from things found in nature)
Ice Ornaments (why not decorate the great outdoors too?) – certainly a different type of nature craft!
Homemade Clay Recipes to make Clay Ornaments
Finally.. make your own “doughs” or clays. Salt Dough is amazing (we particularly love Salt Dough Santa Stars) – but you can go right back to basics too:
Saltdough Hearts (such a classic!) – take your favourite cookie cutter shapes and get cutting. Make hearts, stars, moons and more..
White Clay Hearts (though make them any shape!)
Similarly we have these beautiful Cornflour Ornaments! Love the combination of nature finds on these!
Papier Mache Baubles (yes, a bit random, but wanted to see if it would work!)
Example of how we like to give our Homemade Ornaments in the RUN up to Christmas including some yummy recipes:
(we also like to put them in Granny’s and Auntie’s Christmas stockings).
Here is the COMPLETE list of our 50+ Ornament Ideas for kids and grown ups:
Right. That should keep you busy making homemade ornaments all Autumn!!!
Now our FAVOURITE 30 DIY Christmas Ornament is available in this handy download as an ebook:
Only $7.99