Ideas on how to make Christmas ornaments?

Question

Need some different ideas on how to make many different christmas ornaments. Thanks for all the help.

Answer 1

With a gingerbread cookie cutter we made salt dough ornaments one year. They were really cute.


1 cup water
1 cup salt
2-1/2 cups flour

1. Combine salt and 2 cups of flour. Mix in water, and work in additional flour if needed to make a smooth and workable dough.

2. Roll out 1/4 to 1/2 inch thick. Dip cookie cutters in flour and then press into dough. Remove excess dough and put shapes onto ungreased cookie sheet. If making ornaments, use a toothpick to make holes for string to pass through.

3. Bake at 250 degrees for 30 minutes on each side, more for really thick items, less for thin items. Can also be dried at room temperature, time varies according to the thickness of the project- overnight-2 days is normal.

4. Paint and seal with a shellac or other acrylic-type sealer.

Answer 2

My daughter and I were just talking about this very thing. I told her to wait until after Christmas, at which time she could buy the plain ornaments very inexpensively. Then it is up to your imagination! A hot glue gun, some hodge podge paste and the sky's the limit. You could print faces of family and friends from saved photos in your computer on to plain paper and hodge podge them to a Christmas ball, hot gun glue lace around the photo. You can paint on them. Add glitter. There are permanent marker pens with various size tips. You can use remnant lace and cord. Some clear varnish afterward to preserve your art work, and you have wonderful gifts to give the following year!

I remember the old hand painted ornaments my mother had when I was a child. They were spellbinding in their intricacy. The kind of thing you passed down from generation to generation.

One year, I took the rings from around the top of milk jugs and crochet'd around it with a Kelly Green yarn. Then I took a red string and weaved it all the way around and tied a bow at the bottom. Miniature wreaths! I also used them on gift packages. They decorated the gift and the receiver could put it on their tree afterwards.

During the Christmas season a lot of the craft stores sell the small ornaments of plaster that are already shaped, all you have to do is paint. There are also small needle point kits that one can pick up fairly inexpensively that make lovely ornaments. And if you are comfortable with it you can make your own.

You can also take a flour dough and fashion it into small ginger bread men, insert a hoop for hanging, paint and you have old fashioned decorations.

Answer 3

My kids and I always enjoy making dough craft ornaments. To make dough, use 2 cups flour, 1 cup salt, 1/2 cup water (& you could use 100 grams of cornstarch - saw this in a recipe. I have never used it)

You can roll it out & use cookie cutters, mold into shapes, let your imagination run wild. There are books & websites on this craft form as well. It's best if you poke a hole to hang by before letting dough dry. Or, if you have a dremel or the like, can drill a hole afterwards. Most of the time, I use part of a paperclip. Break off a loop of it & press into the back before drying. You can loop ribbon through when its ready to hang.

You can paint or add food coloring to dough. Its best if you seal them when you've finished to help preserve them. Here's a site I found.

www.multihobbies.com/saltdough/

Answer 4

Go buy the cheap clear glass balls, and fill them with confettii or anything that will fit in them in your colors. Take anything from around your home that would hang, put some glitter on it, and a string. If you are real crafty, get some felt, sew some shapes together and stuff them. Like a christmas tree, with red felt circles to be balls.

Answer 5

Go outside and gather pine cones...... You can spray paint them glue things to them or add ribbon to them.

Cut out shapes of Christmas tree, ball, angel etc... with card board....put fabric, felt, paper or what ever over both sides of it, add a picture of yourself or who ever you chose glue it to the cut out shape, then put the year on the reverse side by using puff paints or fabric paint.

take Styrofoam ball, get Christmas flowers from a dollar store, pull the flowers off the stem and pin them to the Styrofoam ball, glue or pin ribbon to it to hang on the tree.

Hope this helps.... Have a fun making your decorations!

Answer 6

you didnt say what age is doing it
you may want to try some of the websites for different ornaments
just type homemade christmas ornaments
and if it is for children add children to that
also check out your local library for some books

Answer 7

flow out and convey mutually some dry pine cones (not the fairway ones). Get diverse colorations of glitter, glue, and some thread or string. Tie a piece of string to the authentic maximum 'leaf' of the pine cone. spread the glitter out on a paper. placed glue on the guidelines of the pine cone leaves (also said as scales) and roll the guidelines by the glitter. carry them as a lot as attempt. they're also cool in case you paint or spray the cones white first.

Answer 8

go to Martha Stewart Living.com