Handmade and homemade Christmas ornaments are some of my favorite ornaments to trim the Christmas tree. Each year that we hang our ornaments with my children's pictures, it brings back fond memories and I remember the times when my children were much younger.
Let me share a few simple Christmas photo ornaments you can make. Even your preschool child could make the first one, so it is a great holiday craft idea for preschoolers.
Christmas Tree
With a 3 inch paper tree outline, cut a 1/8 inch green tree from spongeboard. Your child can now participate in decorating here. Use a hole punch to get many, brightly colored dots from spongeboard. These dots can then be glued by your youngster to the tree as ornaments.
Next, cut 1/2 inch hole towards the bottom of the green tree. Tape your photo to the back so the picture shows through the hole. Add a red curling ribbon loop to the top of the tree.
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.
You can attach the photo to the white felt so the picture shows through the hole. Glue the white bell on top of the blue one so there is a blue border all around.
Outline the edges of the white felt with glitter glue pen. Make a hole in the bell top and add a blue ribbon hanging 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.
Voila, you now have the coolest and easiest holiday Christmas ornament using photos to trim your tree this year. Plus you have a handmade and homemade ornament to remember your child for years. - 15359
Let me share a few simple Christmas photo ornaments you can make. Even your preschool child could make the first one, so it is a great holiday craft idea for preschoolers.
Christmas Tree
With a 3 inch paper tree outline, cut a 1/8 inch green tree from spongeboard. Your child can now participate in decorating here. Use a hole punch to get many, brightly colored dots from spongeboard. These dots can then be glued by your youngster to the tree as ornaments.
Next, cut 1/2 inch hole towards the bottom of the green tree. Tape your photo to the back so the picture shows through the hole. Add a red curling ribbon loop to the top of the tree.
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.
You can attach the photo to the white felt so the picture shows through the hole. Glue the white bell on top of the blue one so there is a blue border all around.
Outline the edges of the white felt with glitter glue pen. Make a hole in the bell top and add a blue ribbon hanging 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.
Voila, you now have the coolest and easiest holiday Christmas ornament using photos to trim your tree this year. Plus you have a handmade and homemade ornament to remember your child for years. - 15359
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Kris King gives free advent calendars with daily Christmas projects to prepare your family for Christmas. Your family will learn alot about Christmas around the world with some of the daily projects.
