Besides the day itself, one of my favourite things about Christmas is the crafting. Every year I love to make a selection of unique homemade Christmas ornaments to add to my collection.
I’m noisy at Christmas and love to check out everyone’s Christmas trees. My favourite is the ones decorated with a miss mash of homemade ornaments.
The tree may not look Instagram-perfect, but they are the most interesting. Often there can be some lovely stories behind the homemade ornaments.
Most of the handcrafted Christmas ornaments I make are from the things around me. I love repurposing old sweaters into felt and use this to create many decorations. Other favourite materials are old denim jeans, tin cans and road maps.
Maps are a great way of adding extra sentimentality to handmade Christmas ornaments, especially if you use maps of places of particular significance to your family.
Not only do you make your own homemade Christmas ornaments to get something unique and affordable for your home, but you can also reap all the benefits of upcycling.
Unique Homemade Christmas Ornaments To Make
A collection of fabulous Christmas crafts. Many are made from repurposed and upcycled materials—an affordable way to decorate your home this Christmas, easy crafts suitable for adults and children.
How To Make A Cotton Reel Map Christmas Ornament
Not only is this homemade Christmas ornament very affordable to make, but it's made from mainly repurposed materials. It can also be personalized by carefully choosing maps of unique places. These repurposed Christmas ornaments would make a wonderful gift too.
Quick Tutorial To Make A Glamorous Oyster Shell Ornament
All you need to make these fun and glamorous handmade Christmas ornaments are an oyster shell and some gold paint. Use a felt ball as a pearl.
How To Make Repurposed Eyeglasses Ornaments
A great way to upcycle and repurpose broken eyeglasses. This can be a very personal ornament and keepsake.
How To Make A Fun Frida Kahlo Christmas Ornament
This is a unique handmade Christmas ornament. It's one for the Frida Kahlo fans. The beautiful flower headband is made from repurposed sweater felt scraps.
How To Make A Vintage DIY Christmas Butterfly Ornament
A great way to repurpose tuna cans and old dictionaries with these butterfly Christmas ornaments.
How To Make A Scrap Denim Angel Christmas Ornament
These cute scrap fabric angel Christmas ornaments are made simply with a scrap piece of fabric and some old wire. The little hook on the top of their heads makes them very easy to hang.
How To Make Christmas Tree Stamp Ornaments
For these handmade Christmas ornaments, make some Christmas tree stamps. Then stamp some scrap fabric and stitch up some cute Christmas tree ornaments. These look good hung in a garland.
How To Make Mini Christmas Wreaths
Make these gorgeous mini Christmas wreath ornaments in about 10 minutes. All you need are some acorn caps and felt balls. The felt acorns can be used for other crafts.
How To Make A Beautiful Angel Wings Christmas Ornament
Another angel homemade Christmas ornament. This time the wings are made from repurposed doilies.
Christmas Pudding Wood Slice Ornament
I only eat Christmas pudding once a year and that's on Christmas day. I thought it would be fun to make these simple Christmas ornament with a wood slice.
Cute Sweater Upcycled Christmas Ornaments
The fantastic Christmas shapes for these ornaments are made using Christmas cookie cutters. All of these unique handcrafted Christmas ornaments are made from old repurposed sweaters.
Upcycled Christmas Shuttlecock (Birdie) Angel Wings
Another set of repurposed Angel Christmas ornaments. These are made from upcycled old Shuttlecocks.
Gorgeous Nordic Christmas Decorations
These beauties have been given the designer touch with some Marimekko decoupage. There is another design on the back of the wood slice ornaments for when you fancy a change.
Unique Easy To Make Handmade Felt Christmas Ornaments
These gorgeous felt ornaments have a cartoonish feel to them with childlike embroidery. There are designs for six of these homemade Christmas ornaments. The stitching is so simple anyone could make them.
Vintage Picture Wood Slice Ornaments
Even a humble wood slice can be upcycled into a beautiful ornament by printing pictures and adding velvet ribbon.
How To Make A fun Dictionary Christmas Decoupage Baubles
Print fun vintage images on old dictionary pages to make these unique upcycled Christmas baubles.
How To Make Heart Map Ornaments & Brooches
Make a personalized gift for a loved one by using maps of places special to them. With these wooden hearts, you can make a hanging map ornament, a map brooch or a map keyring.
Vintage Wooden Thread Spool Ornament
These vintage spool homemade Christmas ornaments are special. Each of the ornaments has the lyrics of one of my favourite Christmas songs printed on the scroll.
How To Make Paper Rosettes Decorations From Old Maps
These paper map rosettes would look lovely hung from the tree. Use road maps printed in reds, whites and greens to give the homemade Christmas ornaments that festive feel.
Learn How To Make Simple Gorgeous Rustic Stars
These rustic stars ornaments made from denim and burlap would look good in those homes that favour a simple farmhouse look.
Repurposed Map Decorations
These lovely map homemade Christmas ornaments almost look like Chinese lanterns. I think it's the red and gold hanging tassels that take a simple paper ornament to the next level.
Recycled Christmas Decorations With Denim Scraps
Who'd of thought you could make a cute Christmas tree ornament out of the hem of an old pair of jeans?
Paper Pine Cone Ornaments
Repurpose vintage papers such as maps and music sheets into gorgeous pine cone ornaments to hang from the tree.
Upcycled China Plate Christmas Trees
All you need is to drill a hole into the tip of these China Christmas tree ornaments to hang them from the tree.
Wonderful DIY Wooden Ornaments From Repurposed Curtain Fixings
Who'd of thought you could turn your old curtain fixings into a Boho Christmas ornament?
DIY Fabric Mushrooms - Free Pattern
Use fabric swatches to make cute mushroom Christmas ornaments. Decorate with sequences and pom pom trim; they also look fabulous in a garland.
Easy DIY Picture Jar Lid Ornaments For Christmas
This is an easy Christmas upcycle, great for adults and kids. Make pretty picture ornaments using jar lids as frames.
Many ornament ideas use vintage images; Pictureboxblue is a good source for free vintage Christmas pictures, including Christmas botanicals and Scandinavian Christmas Cards.
Linda at Mixed Kreations
Sunday 8th of December 2019
What a great Christmas ornament roundup! Their all super cute! My favorites are the China Christmas trees, map spools, and acorns wreaths.
Claire Armstrong
Sunday 8th of December 2019
Thank you, those are all the pretty colourful ones too.
Michelle Leslie
Wednesday 4th of December 2019
Wowzers Claire, that's quite a roundup. LOve that little wood slice cupcake and Frida and the felt trees and the dictionary baubles and the........ well just all of them.
Claire Armstrong
Wednesday 4th of December 2019
Thank you, Michelle. It's actually a wood slice Christmas pudding. Frida is one of my favorites too.