15 Easy Handmade Christmas Ornaments to Make with Kids

Handmade ornaments are the ones people keep. Make a few, not all fifteen, and leave room on the tree for the ones from other years.

Ideas to try

• Salt dough stars. The recipe is in the salt dough post.
• Paper snowflakes with a thread loop.
• Painted wooden slices.
• Cinnamon applesauce shapes, if you want the kitchen to smell like the holiday.
• Bead and pipe-cleaner candy canes.
• Photo ornaments: a small picture glued to cardboard and covered with tape.
• Yarn-wrapped cardboard rings.
• Clothespin reindeer with paper antlers.
• Dried orange slices on a ribbon.
• Felt hearts, two shapes stitched around the edge.
• Thumbprint lights painted on a paper circle.
• Pinecone with a ribbon, the fastest one.
• Paper chains made into a ball.
• Initial ornaments, one letter each.
• A tiny envelope ornament with a wish inside.

Want the mess to stay at the studio? Open Studio in Milton is a drop-in hour for this kind of making. Weekend sessions are on the events page.

Colouring pages from the shop can be cut into circles and hung the same day.