83 Best Easy to Make DIY Homemade Christmas Ornaments

We have found 83 of the absolute BEST DIY Homemade Christmas Ornaments that you have to make this holiday season!

These easy DIY Christmas ornaments aren’t just great for gifting, that are also perfect for selling if you are a maker! Most are really simple and can be created in 30 minutes or less. The sewing and felt projects are easy enough that beginners can learn in no time.

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We hope you absolutely LOVE our huge list of handmade Christmas ornaments. They are fun, fast, easy, and perfect for gifting or selling! Merry Christmas ya’ll!

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Add green pom poms to a glass ornament, place a few hearts on the outside, and add ribbon to the top of the ornament for a fun Grinch inspired idea.

Instead of running out to buy new ornaments, distress your old ones for a trendy textured look. These look high end and would be great sellers at craft booths!

Learn the art of resin and let your creations go wild! These are always sentimental favorites and will remind the new couple of their first home every time they put it on the tree.

Make these cupcakes, along with the sprinkled donut and felt candies above for a dessert themed holiday tree this year!

Here’s another great way of making fabric ornaments and it includes a no sew option!

Have old garland that isn’t in it’s best shape anymore? Turn it into mini Christmas trees while using cinnamon sticks for the bottom of the ornament. Embellish with buttons, pom poms, and more depending what’s in your stash. Plus, they smell good too!

Disney figurine ornaments are made with materials from the dollare store and make great gifts for the little ones, or a first Christmas ornament.

Ready to get to sewing? These felt stars come together in only 15 minutes and cost just $1 to make! Talk about budget friendly and they look amazing! 

I LOVE this fun idea as a keepsake! Eventually as the young kids get older, you could gift them all of their wishlists over the years in ornament form for their on trees.

If you have a cutting machine (like Cricut) you can really crank out the Sesame Street characters, while staying on budget! Grab some glass or plastic ornaments from the craft store, different shades of crinkle paper, and use her SVG files to cut out the faces. If you don’t have a Cricut or Silhouette, you could add googly eyes instead or great creative with hand drawing.

Where are my vino lovers? Start saving those corks now to make these precious little snowmen!

Nothing feels like holiday spirit around Christmas time other than acts of kindness! Use the free printables, along with small wooden blocks or Jenga blocks. This is perfect for kids of all ages, and even adults too!

This is such an easy way to use up those broken crayons you already have at home! Not to mention, the marbled colors come out beautifully.

Grab your cookie cutters and get ready to make 2 ingredient cinnamon ornaments! Even the littlest elves can help with these.

The whole family can join in on the crafting fun making felt gingerbread houses! She has a free printable template that you use hot glue with, or sew if you prefer.

Gnomes are trendy, cute, and depending on your color scheme you can easily swap the colors.

This little project looks totally store bought and gives any tree a fancy Victorian look.

Bella made these amazing air dried clay gift tags, but you can totally follow the same process to make personalized ornaments for the whole family. The little bells are super cute and the alphabet stamps add an elegant touch.

Call all Disney princess lovers, these adorable ornaments are so much fun to make and you could easily use what you have on hand in your craft stash to customize the ornaments.

Use fabric scraps to wrap around a foam ball with little pins to make fun ornaments! The options are endless based on your patterned fabric or you could go with solid color as well.

DIY salt dough ornaments are great for any age group to make. Use her salt dough recipe, cut out with a cookie cutter, and bake on a baking sheet to make cute DIY Christmas decorations.

Make each little gingerbread house and string onto a garland for a fun addition to your holiday tree. These would also be an easy craft to use as an advent calendar.

Yarn wrapped letters are made by using air dry clay. Add these to gift bags as a tag and let others keep them for an ornament on their tree!

Here’s another great idea to use up those leftover wine corks to make the cutest little gingerbread men.

Kids can use their handprints to their own homemade salt dough ornament as a great keepsake for other family members.

These are easy ornaments that anyone can make! While she spray painted the outsides, you could also add a little acrylic paint to the inside and swirl it around.

Rustic fabric scrap Christmas tree ornaments come together in no time and perfect for those who like farmhouse and a more natural theme.

Gwyn  will show you how to make oversized signs using dollar store supplies to add a but more flair to your tree this year.

Make a whole batch of Santa’s reindeer in just a few minutes using a little hot glue, clothespins, ribbon, and paint. These also make fun Christmas crafts for kids because they are easy and require minimal supplies.

If you already know how to crochet, grab her free patterns to make the whole set of animal ornaments.

Fabric Christmas trees are a great craft for the one who can already use a sewing machine. If you have some time to take up a new hobby, the DIY ornament tutorial is really easy to follow.

This Mickey is so cute! Any Disney fan would love these and it would be a fun way to surprise kids with a trip.

Making felt snowflakes have never been easier! Her tutorial walks you through step by step and it’s very easy to follow along.

Ready to start sewing? These would go great with the other fabric and felt ornaments we shared as a set.

I love how simple but elegant that the macrame ornaments are! Once you learn the technique, you could use it to make keychains, earrings, and wall hangings!

These little sleds are made with acrylic paints and popsicle sticks. Plus, whoever you gift it too also gets a pack of gum!

Learn how to decoupage your cookie cutter ornaments using air dry clay, printables, wooden beads, and Mod Podge. This vintage set is beautiful, but since you can decoupage with paper and napkins, the options go on and on!

How cute are these Starbuck’s ornaments?! Whether you are crafting to sell or gift, everyone will want one of these. I think this is one of my favorite Christmas ornament ideas yet!

Once you learn how to do a simple stitch, you can use any pattern and size of embroidery hoops to make more ornaments or other holiday decor.

I love how cute the reindeer are that gives all of the woodland vibes! You could totally make a full set using other patterns.

Easily use up wine corks making snowflakes! You could paint these so many different ways and even add more bling by using glitter and jewels.

I will never buy glitter ornaments in the store again! This is the best way to create your own set on a budget that actually looks store bought.

These are really unique and great for the person who likes something different. You can use any patterned paper you would like, but I think these would be really cool in a vintage style.

If your tree has a sweet treat going this year, then you have to use these no sew felt candies!

Use old mason jar lids to turn them into fun and festive DIY Christmas ornaments!

Kids will love ringing these bells and will think about Santa every time!

How cute are these little frosted stars? Another great beginner felt stitching project that is fun and festive.

While the design is simple, it’s perfect for those who like a natural, rustic, or farmhouse look.

Coffee filter angels are sweet and so pretty to look at! The best part is that they come together quickly without needing fancy supplies.

Talk about fancy! These homemade ornaments are absolutely stunning and can be created with any color you would like!

With just a few wooden beads and some twine, these come together in no time and also great for kids to help with.

Create Mickey using wooden slices, ribbon, and a little bit of paint! It’s simple, but so cute in the end.

Follow this tutorial to create holiday angels that will brighten up any tree! These have a vintage vibe, so pair it with some of the others we listed above.

Add these diamond sewing ornaments to your collection if you plan on stitching a few. Make tons of different designs by using other fabric choices.

These are the cutest mini ornaments I have ever seen! The little embellishments are added to the inside of the matchbox and she walks you through step by step on how to make them. This would be a great project for older kids and adults of course.

Transform the average mini clay pot into a full on Ruldolph using just a handful of supplies!

Mix the vibe of the beach with Christmas and you have seashell snowmen!

Here’s another run, rustic ornament idea and a great way to use up wood rounds if you already have them.

Sprinkle donuts look store bought but are so simple to make using a little paint and clay sprinkles.

She provides you with the patterns of the faces and hats, and the rest is done with markers and paint. What a cute idea!

Create DIY ornaments using Scrabble tiles! These are fun and totally customizable based on what you would like for them to say.

Made from up cycled cans, these ornaments look like a little shadow box and can be personalized for the whole family

It’s so easy to make ornaments that look professional when using printables!

Believe it or not, these eye catching ornaments are made from toliet paper rolls!

Is it just me or is everything cuter when it’s mini sized?!

Add more bling to the tree with rhinstone snowflakes! These are actually forms that you can get at the craft store. If you wanted to make these with kids, make the snowflake part out of popsicle sticks.

These mini wreaths would go great with the natural stars and fabric scrap ornaments that we shared above!

Kids will love turning their wishlists into an ornament so they can go back and read it in the future.

Let little ones use their fingerprints to make the penguins! Talk about another sweet keepsake.

I am totally making some ugly sweater ornaments this year! The best part is that this time, no sewing needed.

Create your own mini farmhouse signs by using dollar tree supplies or Jenga blocks glued together and her free printables.

Bell wreaths come together in no time by using a pipe cleaner to string them on. How cute!

If you love drawing and painting, these will be your favorite. Even if you are a beginner, she provides an easy to use template with the sizes and colors of paint needed.

Another great way to use wine corks and turn them into vintage style ornaments.

I love that they used mini pots to make the gnome heads, these are great!

DIY twig birdhouses would be a great addition to a farmhouse themed Christmas tree and only minimal crafting supplies required.

These Santa ornaments are super cute and googly eyes make them that much more animated.

Cork candles are simple, uses easy supplies, and comes together fast for an easy ornament idea.

DIY Disney Princess Ornaments for Christmas

Here’s another great set of Disney inspired ornaments for all of the princess lovers out there.

Polish stars are an easy paper crafted ornament! We would love to see these in different colors.

Does your child have tons of Hot Wheels they no longer play with? Upcyle those with these cute ornament ideas.

Need more small projects to use up your jingle bell stash? This is perfect and they look cute too.

You might be addicted to making pom pom ornaments once you get started! They are trendy, cool, and were sold at Anthropologie!

Another simple way to make Mickey Mouse ornaments, possibly even using those that you already have on hand.

We hope you absolutely LOVE our huge list of handmade Christmas ornaments. They are fun, fast, easy, and perfect for gifting or selling! Merry Christmas ya’ll!