Splendid Photo Homemade Christmas Ornaments
Christmas ornaments you’ve made yourself are some of the best loved ornaments to trim the Christmas tree. Every year that we put our ornaments with my kid’s photos on the tree, I treasure those memories very much. It makes me remember the times when my kids were younger.
Here are some simple Christmas photo ornaments you can design. Even your youngest kid could make the first one, so this ranks as an excellent holiday craft idea for preschoolers.
Christmas Tree
Using a three inch tree template, cut 1/8 inch green spongeboard. Let your preschool child help you decorate the green tree ornament. Punch brightly colored dots from spongeboard. Your young child can blue these dots on to the tree as ornaments.
After that, cut a 1/2 inch hole at the bottom of the green tree. Place the photo to the back using sticky tape so the picture shows through the opening. Then add a red ribbon loop at the tree’s top.
These holiday Christmas ornaments using photos are so affordable and easy to make, you can design one for each family member. To add a personal touch, have each child write his name and year on the back with a black felt pens.
Felt Bells
One of my favorite Christmas ornaments using photos is the one I received from my son’s first year in Mother’s Day Out. His teacher cut blue felt in the shape of a three inch tall bell. A smaller white bell was cut with a hole in the middle for the photo.
Make your picture show through the hole on the white bell. Then, glue the white bell with your child’s pictue on top of the blue one. Now you have a wonderful blue border around the white bell.
Decorate the edges of the white felt with glitter glue pen. Make an opening in the bell top and thread blue ribbon to make a loop.
You’re almost done. Make another bell from blue posterboard. Add it to the back of the bell to stiffen this delicate holiday Christmas ornament. Attach a small jingle bell to the ornament’s bottom. The teacher wrote my son’s name and the year on the back.
Wow, now you have an easy and cool-looking holiday Christmas ornament using photos to beautify your tree this season. And as an added plus, you have a handmade and homemade ornament to remember your child.
