Give your Christmas tree a heartfelt touch of homemade with these fun ornament craft ideas. Plus, make our favorite DIY Christmas decorations, salt dough ornaments, and more creative holiday crafts!
For these winter wonderland globes, you'll need plastic old-fashioned light bulb ornaments, white glitter, mini bottle brush trees, red and white striped baker's twine, and a hot glue gun.
What you'll need:Clear Plastic Lightbulb Ornaments ($20 for 12; amazon.com), Spectra White Glitter ($9; amazon.com), Mini Sisal Bottlebrush Trees ($19 for six; amazon.com), Red and White Baker's Twine Cone ($6, amazon.com)
Make your favorite holiday memories last a lifetime with these quick personalized ornaments. Grab your photos, cut them into circles, and apply to wood slices using Mod Podge.
These charming crafts are made with twigs and decorated with button stickers, pine needles, berries, twine, and felt. They can even be used for festive wall art this holiday season.
To create this rustic ornament, paint a wood slice gold, then use a wood burner to draw a pretty snowflake.
What you'll need: Bellcork Winery Grade Natural Cork Stopper ($11 for 72; amazon.com), Chenille Pipe Cleaners ($3 for 100, amazon.com), Decora Black Wiggle Googly Eyes ($5 for 500, amazon.com)
What you'll need: Touch of Nature Feather Value Pack Natural Mix ($8, amazon.com), Natural Wood Round Spacer Beads ($6 for 200, amazon.com), 100% Natural Hemp Cord ($7 for 400 ft., amazon.com)
What you'll need: Unfinished Round Wood Christmas Ornaments ($9; amazon.com), DecoArt Titanium White Craft Paint ($10, amazon.com)
A dime a dozen at flea markets, a few of these amateur paintings can yield scads of one-of-a-kind tree trimmers. "I've always been inspired by the shape of vintage ornaments," says the creator, who cut out the silhouettes using heavy-duty scissors. (Get her template here.)
Craft Stick Skis: Paint two wooden craft sticks. Adjoin sticks with hot-glue making an X. Paint two toothpicks white. Hot-glue metal snaps (we used size 1) to one end of each stick. Color opposite ends black. Hot-glue a ¾" piece of twine in a loop to each black end. Hot-glue one pole to the top ski. Glue second pole at center of first. Glue twine to ski tops to hang.
Ribbon Candy: Coat a 24" piece of ribbon in fabric stiffener. Hang to dry (about an hour). Fold ribbon into loops as shown above, adding a dab of hot-glue between each layer. Glue a bead to the top and bottom. Add an extra dab of glue on the top; affix loop of string to hang.
Button Snowman: Glue three white two-hole buttons (turn top one perpendicular to create eyes) to white felt; trim felt, leaving a ⅛" edge. Wrap with a piece of rickrack. Cut small hat shape from gray felt and adhere to top with hot-glue. Then glue ribbon behind hat to hang.
String Starbursts: Trace a 2 ½" circle on a 3" birch slice. Mark eight evenly spaced points around the circle and insert small nails. Wrap embroidery floss around nails, making square and star shapes. Add a nail to the top; tie on a loop of string to hang.
Fabric Tree: Use pinking shears to cut two triangles measuring 4 ½" H × 2 ⅜" W from fabric. We used Scoot Fabric ($9/yard; deenarutter.com). Hot-glue long edges of triangles closed and stuff with batting. Insert cinnamon stick in opening at the bottom of triangles and glue fabric closed around it. Thread a loop of string through the top to hang.
Felt Deer Head: Download our template,then trace crest portion of the template onto a cork coaster and cut out. Trace head portion of template onto felt and cut out. Repeat with cardboard, then trim so it's slightly smaller than the felt. Hot-glue felt to cardboard, then glue cardboard to cork crest. Paint thin sticks white (or leave brown) and hot-glue between the felt and cardboard layers. Glue a loop of twine at back to hang.
Music Sheet Tassel: Cut a two-sided page of sheet music featuring a favorite holiday carol into ¼" strips. (You can also print your own.) Next, glue a ¾" wooden bead to the end of a wine cork (this will help create dome shape at top of tassel). Bend strips over the bead and cinch around the cork with a rubber band. Cover exposed rubber band with a spare strip. Curl ends of paper around fingertip to fan. Loop string through strips at top to hang.
Painted Walnut: Coat a walnut with acrylic paint. Once dry, apply a layer of clear nail polish for a shiny finish. Glue a bead to the top and bottom. Add an extra dab of glue on top; affix loop of string to hang.
Sweater Hoop: Fit the inner circle of a 3" embroidery hoop over the desired section of an old scarf or sweater. Cut out section, leaving a ½" edge. Fold excess fabric over hoop and hot-glue in back. Attach outer hoop and thread ribbon through hardware at top to hang.
Turn a three-dimensional paper craft from Michaels into a hanging ornament by mounting it to a plaque ornament, then using woodstain to finish.
Original article and pictures take www.countryliving.com site
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