One of the favorite Christmas decoration traditions is to have each year an addition to your ornament collection. Some buy a fabulous ornament from a store, but isn’t it much more fun and creative to just make your own? You can make one or more creative DIY Christmas ornaments, depending on the use for the ornaments. Other than decorating your Christmas tree, they are great for giving away, making wreaths, using as decoration for presents and decorate the house with.

Creative DIY Christmas Ornaments

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Decorating Ornaments From The Outside

One of the simplest methods is to buy some clear ornaments and paint them or wrap them with whatever you feel like. You can use glass paint, enamel paint pens or glitter paint for making your own creations. Also, wrapping them with fabric scraps – even from clothing that you love and cherish but no longer use, such as baby clothing – or paper or even yarn is a wonderful idea.

To make such a wrapped ornament you can use Styrofoam balls, paper or fabric, a paintbrush, glue, a ribbon, a bowl with soap and water and a rug. Cover the ball with glue and cover it with the fabric or paper scraps. Paint again with glue and let them dry. Glue two strains of the ribbon to make a loop for the ornament to hang from.

An even easier way is to take yarn and wrap the ball completely, or to use a large piece of nice fabric, using glue to keep everything in place. Just wrap the ball in it, tie the top with a matching ribbon and maybe adding some holy leaves and berries and it can be awesome.

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Decorating Ornaments From The Inside

To do that you will have to buy some clear glass ornaments balls from your craft shop. There are endless things you can fill those ornaments up with. You can fill them with paint or some sparkling nail polisher and shake the ball so the fluid goes everywhere.

Or you can fill them with tiny bells or beads. Other items that are great are sequins, glitter dust, candies, ribbons and whatever else can be fitted through the opening. Even rosemary or lavender branches, branches with holy leaves and berries, or evergreens are a great way to go.

Also, scraps of paper that have meaningful words written on them or even photos can be used as well. That way, you can even create a sort of “time capsule”, filled with notes of important events, pictures or even small items that mean something to you.

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Use Felt And Imagination

Out of colorful felt fabric you can create the nicest ornaments. You can use templates available for free on the internet and follow the simple instructions. There is no end to the ornaments you can create. Just to name a few, you can choose between Snowmen, Reindeers, Santa, Christmas Trees and Angels, which are really simple to make and a lot of fun.

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Up-cycle Items You Don’t Longer Need

There are so many things in our homes that have great potentials we just don’t think off. So, why not take a plunge into your children’s toy box. Maybe you can find some plastic horses, fairies or wooden cubes that can be used as they are or painted on. The wooden cubes can be painted with glitter paint and wrapped with a ribbon to make cute gift ornaments.

Use round bottle caps to paint them white and make some snow men. If you have wooden sticks of different lengths you can easily make a tree.

Even small mason jars can be filled with fake snow and seasonal items to make a nice ornament. To hang them just make a hole through the lid or wrap twine around them.

Add some cute ribbons and you will have all the ornaments you need!

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There are so many great alternatives to buying ready ornaments from the store. They may need some time to prepare, but they will be made by you and your kids, or you can even organize a ornament making party with you friends! Tell us some of your favorite DIY Christmas ornaments!

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