38 Beautiful DIY Homemade Christmas Ornaments

It's simple to adorn your Christmas tree with DIY homemade Christmas ornaments. Simply take your baking sheets, hot glue gun, and ribbon and get started!

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Cookies with a Chevron Pattern

Making this eye-catching chevron design in the dough is a lot of fun. Choose a traditional mitten or Christmas ornament-shaped cutter, or any other seasonal form. Simply create a little hole at the top to hang them.

Gift Ornaments with a Kick

This Christmas, give the gift of cooking. Fill each of the clear plastic ornaments with a different spice mixture. To construct a hanger, loop a piece of festive ribbon through the top, add a label, and sew a button at the end. Recipes for spice mixes may be found here.

Photo Ornaments Made of Wood

These memento ornaments are perfect for adorning the Christmas tree, but they also look great on wrapped gifts and centerpieces. Coaster-sized wood pieces, pictures, spray glue, glitter, and ribbon are all required. This is a great opportunity to use your antique Christmas images!

These simple projects may be used as tree decorations or gift toppers. Wrap metal cookie cutters with yarn or ribbon and fix using sticky glue at the ends. Before hanging, let the adhesive dry.

Ginger Cookies for the Holidays

Hang your gingerbread family as decorations on your Christmas tree with a colorful ribbon. The cookies also make a lovely garland when strung together. If you want to add some diversity, use various shapes of holiday cookie cutters.

Ornaments with Shining Stars

These DIY Christmas decorations are surprisingly simple to create. 10-star points may be cut out of old Christmas cards. Fold the middle down. Make a star shape out of five points and tape them together on the back. Rep with the rest of the star points.

Tape the two stars together on the inside of the card. Allow drying after applying glitter glue to the edges. To make a loop, thread a narrow ribbon through the top.

Ornaments for Santa Gnomes

With these creative decorations, you can put fallen pine cones to good use. Attach a 1-¼ inch wooden ball to the flat bottom of each pine cone using a hot glue gun. Make a beard out of yarn and a nose out of a wooden half ball.

To make a pointed hat, roll felt into a cone shape and glue the seam and bottom together. To hang the hat on the Christmas tree, thread string through it.

Christmas Card Ornaments with a Twist

Some Christmas cards are just too adorable to throw away! Repurpose them into holiday decorations that you can use year after year. Flatwood rounds (available at craft stores), glitter, and twine are required. Reduce the size of your card to match the size of your wooden disc. Use decoupage glue to adhere it to the wood (regular school glue works OK, too).

Once dried, add a sprinkling of glitter to the edges for more glitz. You're ready to deck the halls now that you've glued a loop of twine to the back!

Ornaments with Gift Tags

Use these charming cutouts to decorate your parcels, then keep them to hang on the tree. Make Christmas forms out of cards or scrapbook paper by tracing and cutting them out. For a creative effect, layer different patterns and colors together. Make a hole at the top and tie a lovely ribbon around it. Make ice marbles for even simpler DIY decorations.

Paper Ornaments for Wrapping

Do you end yourself with a lot of small pieces after wrapping gifts? Make the most of them! Shreds of glittering present paper and filler are stuffed inside a transparent acrylic ornament. More kid-friendly Christmas projects may be found here.

Ornaments made with twigs

Arrange twigs in snowflake or star patterns, pruning with pruners as required. Using a hot glue gun, adhere the parts together. Wrap the ends in colorful embroidery floss if desired.

Sequin Ornaments with Beads

These elaborate ornaments may take a little longer to make, but the end product will be treasured decorations for years to come. A foam ball, sequins, seed beads, and sequin pins are all required. Pick up a sequin and a seed bead with a pin.

Push yourself into the ball

Continue to add sequins and beads in rows around the circle of the ball, gently overlapping them. We're reminded of old Christmas decorations by this DIY!

Ornaments for a Snow Scene

With these stunning snow globes, you can capture the season's playful mood. Clear two-piece fillable ball decorations, a little plastic foam ball split in half and decorated with fake snow and glitter, and miniature trees and figurines of your choosing are all required.

Door Hanger in the Shape of a Horseshoe

Hang a festive horseshoe on a door to hear the pleasant ring of the bell as visitors arrive and go. To connect the giant jingle bell, thread rope through the holes and tie a knot and a loop.

Garland of Paint Chips

Turn paint chips from the hardware store into a garland that makes any room fa-la-la fabulous. Trace a lightbulb design onto each paint chip, ensuring that the chip's white lines are evenly spaced throughout the bulb. Cut them out and tie them together with thread or twine. If desired, use letter stickers.

Ornaments for the Christmas Tree Made of Felt

The trunk and branches of this cute miniature tree are constructed of felt, which was cut into circles for the trunk and squares for the branches. To make the tree trunk, stack brown felt circles and sew them together using embroidery thread. Stack four pieces of green felt and one square of white felt on top of the trunk. Stitch all the way through to keep it secure. Keeping the pattern going, crisscross the corners.

Finally, at the top, stack five little green squares. To attach the layers, stitch across the middle of each stacked felt square. If desired, sew a star bead to the top.

Editor's Tip: Use a rotary cutter and a quilter's ruler on a cutting mat to rapidly cut squares.

These colorful snowflake cookies will sparkle on your cookie platters and Christmas tree. If you can keep yourself from nibbling long enough to exhibit them, they make lovely decorations. Try to make each ornament unique, exactly like actual snowflakes!

Paper Ornaments from the Past

This craft is simple to do, but the end product is elegant. Cut double-sided cardstock into 12-inch squares (one sheet makes four ornaments). Cut one 411-inch strip, two 511-inch strips, and two 611-inch strips for each ornament. The smallest strip should be in the middle, followed by two medium-length strips on each side, and the two longest strips on the outside layer.

Arrange the stacked strips so that one short end is aligned with the other. Staple all of the layers in place at the flush end. Pinch the opposite ends of the longest strips up toward the stapled end with your other hand until all ends meet at the end of the shortest strip, then staple in place.

Add this charming cookie press ornament to a cookie gift tin for a friend. Apply decorations using a hot glue gun. To join the beads together, use jump rings (jewelry-making supplies). To hang it on the tree, loop a bright ribbon through the top.