How To Make a Christmas Tree Ornament

Knowing how to make a Christmas tree ornament can save you some money, and it’s fun too.  Here are three ornaments you can make from things you’ve got around the house.

Make Ornaments With Items Around Your House: 3 Examples

It isn’t cheap to buy a bunch of decorations or ornaments for the holidays.  There are things you can make at home with less cost, here are three cute ideas for things you can make using things around the house.

1. Paper Tree Ornaments:  Cut a Christmas tree out of white construction paper.  Let your child personalize each one by coloring, adding his name, glitter, drawing, etc to make it look like it has ornaments on it.  You can use these trees and string them together for the tree or make a holiday border in a child’s room.

2. Stocking Ornaments:  You can use whatever material you have on hand to make your own Christmas stocking ornaments.  Using different style and color fabrics will make them very colorful and bright.  Take some ribbons, bows or beads and hot glue them on, personalize it by writing or sewing on the child’s name.  When the stocking is finished, take fabric cut into a loop and sew it onto the stocking for hanging.  Hang them on the tree with pride!

3. Cookie Ornaments:  Bake up cookies to hang on the tree using whatever cookie cutters you have available.  If you don’t have any cookie cutters, don’t worry, you can make your own designs.  For example, a pretzel shaped cookie can be easily hung on a branch or decorated with ribbons.  Take a small piece of your favorite dough and rool it out to about three inches, then take the two ends and overlap them at the top to form an upside down letter ”Q”, or any loop shape.  When you’ve got the pretzel fully baked, you can take some ribbon and tie it through the hole and then hang it on the tree.

It fun to make homemade holiday ornaments, not only does the family enjoy it but it lets your child get creative and work his imagination.  There is always more meaning attached to something that is handmade, and it’s a wonderful way to spend more time with your children.  You can also give handmade ornaments as gifts!

So take a look around your house before you go out and spend cash on Christmas ornatments.  It will surpise you that you’ll have things you can use without spending a cent.