Make Your Own Christmas Ornaments
With a little creativity and some inexpensive materials you can make your own Christmas ornaments. But making your own makes them uniquely your own. The ornaments described below are low cost and take less than an hour each to make. Kids and parents can make these into fun shared projects.
Christmas Stars
This is a really easy one! Cut out some Star shapes from some gold cardboard, Yellow Cardboard, or plain carboard. Make up the first one and use it as a stencil to make more. Decorate with glitter, ribbons, paint and punch a hole for hanging. Attach some string or curling ribbon and hang from your christmas tree, doors or whereever you want.
Carboard Roll Reindeer
These are so easy to make using materials already on hand or a few that are easy to buy. We use a cardboard roll that had wrapping paper on it and cut it into smaller sections.
1. Cut a piece of Cardboard roll and stuff it full of tissue. This gives it support.
2. Cover the roll with felt.
Cut some strips of brown felt the same width as the cardboard roll and spread a little glue and roll on the felt. Don't worry if it isn't exactly flat. Deer skin is wrinkled near their arms, legs and neck anyway.
3. Head -
Use an ice cream stick to make a support for the neck, then bunch up some felt for the head or and wrap it for the neck. Attach with glue. Then get some small black buttons for the eyes. Use brown or gray pipe cleaners for the legs and tail. To give the legs some thickness, just spiral the pipe cleaners around some brown tissue paper.
More Homemade Christmas Tree Ornaments
Listed below are some fun family projects during the break to make your own Christmas tree ornaments. Have fun making these ornaments.
Pinecone Ornaments
Supplies:
- Pine Cone
- Paint
- Beads, glitter or sequins, yarn and small buttons to decorate with
- Ribbon
- Glue
Instructions:
- Cut a 6" length of ribbon.
- Tie into a circle and glue the tied part to the pointy tip of the pine cone.
- Paint the cone green
- While the paint is still wet sprinkle with the glitter.
- Once the paint is dry you can decorate with beads and sequins to look like ornaments on the tree.
- You can paint the tips white to look like snow.
You can hang on your Christmas tree as an ornament or you can place it on a shelf by putting it into a small clay decorated pot.
Ice Cream Cone Ornament
These are fun to make and children over 3 yrs of age can make these.
Supplies you will need:
- Either the cake or the sugar ice cream cones
- A solid colored ball ornament big enough to sit on the cones
- White acrylic paint
- Tiny glass beads
- Glue or hot glue
- Spray acrylic
- Ribbon
What to do:
- Hold the cone by the base
- Place glue all along the inside rim of the cone.
- Place the ball ornament on the cone with the hanging side up
- Make sure the ornament is dry before doing the next part. (hot glue works faster).
- Drizzle white paint on top of the ball
- Sprinkle glass beads on top of the wet white paint.
- Let this dry overnight
- Lightly spray the cone part with acrylic. DO NOT GET TOO CLOSE TO THE CONE WHILE SPRAYING as this may melt the cone. This will seal the cone.
- Tie a colorful ribbon through the loop of the ornament
Your ornament is done!
****NOTE***** if you want to write the child's name and date on the base of the cone before spraying with acrylic it is a nice touch.
Balloon Tree Ornaments
You will need:
- Balloons that are small and round
- Liquid Starch
- Newspaper cut into little pieces
- Corn seeds
- Glue
- Gold paint
- Matches
- Lace
- Pin
What to do:
- Blow up the balloons until they are the size to fit into the palm of your hand.
- Smear the starch all over the balloon (you can use paper mache if you want)
- Put the pieces of newspaper all over the starch and then let dry
- Repeat this procedure until you have 3 layers.
- Once the newspaper is completely dry you can use a pin to pop the balloons.
- Decorate using the seeds and glue.
- Paint it with the gold paint.
- Tie lace onto the match
- Put the match inside the ornament to be the hanger.
Tie the ornament onto the Christmas tree. |
