16 Handmade Christmas Ornaments

Handmade Christmas ornaments are the best! You can involve the kids or even set up an ornament party, giving you a fun way to add decor to your home or turn your creations into gifts for friends and family.

Not only will you get beautiful and affordable ornaments to display on your tree every year, but the memories of crafting with your family will be everlasting.

Ready to start crafting this holiday season?

Ha, I compiled a list of 16 Christmas ornaments I've created over the years. They might be the inspiration you need for this year's ornaments or the starting point for a family tradition.

Let's dive into these 16 handmade Christmas Ornaments!

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1. Little Kids Ornaments

These cute ornaments were some of my kid's creations in grade school.

Oh, I love them!

I still have them and try to use them yearly even though they already show their age.

grade school ornaments - gingerbread man, tree, reindeer

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2. Paper Snowflake ornaments

When the kids got a little older, they were more eager to get into a crafty mode. So long as I bribed them with those fun-hole punchers. ;)

Here, we were making paper snowflake ornaments.

3. Sheet Music Ball Ornaments

Old ball ornaments were transformed with sheet music, adorning my daughter's room, our musician.

4. Angel Christmas ornament

Several years ago, a group of blogging friends and I got into the 12 Days of Christmas Ornament event.

Each of us crafted one ornament every single day for 12 days.

It was a fun and challenging crafting party with over 140 ornament ideas to share. This angel ornament and many of the following came from that event.

5. Popsicle Stick Soldier Ornament

handmade pospsicle stick soldier ornament

6. Yarn Covered Ball Ornament

7. Spiral Christmas Tree Ornament

8. Dear Santa Letter Ornament

9. Embroidery Hoop Christmas Ornament

10. Wooden Snowflake Christmas Ornament

11. Gold Dipped Ball Ornaments

12. Air Dry Modeling Clay Star Ornament

13. Wooden Tag Ornaments

14. Metal Snowflake Ornaments

15. Jingle Bell Star Ornament

Welcome back to another edition of Home & Decor Encore, a weekly series where my friends and I share the best of the best from our archives.

The Handmade Christmas Ornament number 16, and the one that I'm sharing as part of the Home & Decor Encore weekly project, is a cute reindeer ornament that was crafted out of wine corks. Get the complete details right HERE.

Big thanks to Doreen at Hymns & Verses & Lori at The Stonybrook House for organizing this group.