The best Christmas gifts are homemade – try one of these DIY Christmas ornaments! Everyone appreciates sentimental gifts and one of these homemade Christmas ornaments is sure to make someone smile.
Materials for DIY Christmas Ornaments
Clear Plastic Ornaments – BUY THESE!
Fillable plastic clear two-piece ornament
Paint Markers
Faux Snow
Faux Snow Paint
Christmas Mix Pom Poms
Christmas Glitter
Salt Dough Ingredients (see DIY Salt Dough Ornament post here)
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Make sure you buy THESE CLEAR PLASTIC ORNAMENTS for all of your DIY Christmas Ornaments!
A Variety of Homemade Ornaments to Give as Gifts
- Salt Dough Ornament – These salt dough ornaments are easy and fun homemade gifts to make and decorate using acrylic paint.
- Wish Ornament – Write a wish on a piece of paper and put it inside a clear plastic ornament. Fill with glitter, fake snow, confetti, etc.
- Handprint Snowman Ornament – Fill a clear plastic ornament with white pom poms or fake snow. Draw a mouth, nose, and eyes on the outside of the ornament using paint pens.
- Handprints – Use colored acrylic paint to make a handprint on a clear plastic ornament. Write the name and date of your child. Each year make a new ornament to document their growth!
- Sentimental Ornaments – Use a fillable plastic clear two-piece ornament. Put something sentimental inside. Examples include: baby hat, hospital bracelet, cut up wedding invitation, etc.
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Auntie M says
LOVE these ideas! Can’t wait to try them. I really think the sentimental ones are going to become favorites in our family!
Mary says
Thanks for the gift ideas! My son is already being quite curies about wanting an Christmas tree for Christmas.
Auntie M says
The DYI ornaments are so precious! Thanks so much for the ideas on making them. They seem easier than I imagined.
ornamentsbyelves says
Oh my goodness! That was seriously mind blowing!! Awesome! It almost put me in the Christmas spirit lol!!