If you’re looking for some ideas to fill out your Christmas tree a little bit more, try some of these homemade Christmas ornament ideas:
A Button Wreath. Use a piece of craft wire and string up any buttons you choose (you will need approximately 50-80 depending on the size of the wreath), create a wreath shape and hang with a ribbon.
Cookie Cutter Ornaments. Back a cookie cutter with whatever style scrapbooking paper you’d like and hang with a piece of ribbon.
Santa Belly. Use craft paint to paint a black Santa belt around the center of a red Christmas ball. When it dries use a white, silver, or gold paint pen to draw on a belt buckle and you’ve got a cute Christmas ornament in a short amount of time.
Glitter Ornaments. Take a clean, clear craft ornament and put in enough drops of Murphy’s Oil Soap to swirl around and coat the inside of the entire ornament. Once it’s coated, drain the excess back into the container and pour glitter into the ornament – enough to more than coat the inside. Once it’s coated, dump out the excess glitter and place it to dry with the top off. Once dry, use a ribbon to hang or use paint markers to decorate the outside however you’d like.
Bottle Cap Snowman. For this one all you have to do is take three bottle caps, paint them white and attach them by hot gluing a ribbon up the back of them (use enough ribbon to loop over and hang). Decorate the insides (front) of the top and middle with markers to make a face, carrot nose and buttons and hang.
Fill An Empty Ornament. An easy way to make an ornament is to purchase a container of empty clear glass ornaments at the store and fill them with whatever you’d like. Some easy ideas are: a spring of evergreen, colorful craft pom poms, small photographs, loose leaf tea, dried flower petals, cranberries, baby’s breathe, dried herbs, bath salts, extra Christmas light bulbs, feathers, cut up strips of literature or sheet music, beads, or really anything you can think of!
Have fun and Merry (almost) Christmas!!
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