3 Easy Homemade Christmas Tree Ornament Crafts for Kids

Homemade Christmas Tree ornaments are the perfect craft for keeping kids busy during Christmas break. These easy homemade Christmas Tree ornaments can be given as gifts or made during kid's holiday parties. The skill level is low enough that even very small children can do these crafts with very little supervision.

Styrofoam snowflakes

Materials Needed:

1 six package of 1 inch Styrofoam balls

1 package multicolored chenille pipe cleaners

Glitter glue (optional)

Scissors

Instructions:

1. Paint Styrofoam balls with glitter glue. This step is optional.

2. Cut chenille pipe cleaners in different lengths.

3. Randomly shove chenille pipe cleaners into Styrofoam ball

4. Cut one chenille pipe cleaner longer than the rest on your ball and insert into Styrofoam

5. Fold the top of the chenille pipe cleaner you just cut into a loop.

6. Hang on Christmas tree.

Snowman Socks

Materials Needed:

1 pair of white infant socks

A handful of cotton balls

2 wiggle eyes

1 small piece of yarn your choice of color for the snowman's mouth

1 four inch piece of yarn your choice of color (this will turn the sock into a hat)

1 five inch piece of yarn to hang snowman

Glue

Instructions:

1. Stuff the foot of one infant sock with cotton balls.

2. Wrap rubber band around the ankle of the sock the keep the cotton balls inside

3. Wrap four inch piece of yarn around the ankle of the sock to hide the rubber band

4. Tie the yarn into a bow.

5. Fluff open end of sock so that it resembles a hat.

6. Glue wiggle eyes onto the sock ball

7. Glue small piece of yarn beneath the eyes to create a mouth

8. Tie the five inch piece of yarn, in a loop to the yarn that makes the snowman's hat.

9. Hang snowman on the tree.

Jingle Bell Elf

Materials Needed:

1 Large jingle bell

4 ¼" colored craft pom poms color of your choice

1 piece green felt

1 piece white felt

1 small piece of yarn

Glue

1 Wire ornament hanger

Instructions:

1. Cut green felt into 2 triangles large enough to fit on top of jingle bell and glue both sides together.

2. Cut a small strip of white felt as wide as the base of your green triangle. This is your Elf hat.

3. Glue the white strip of felt along the bottom edge of the green felt triangle.

4. Glue one ¼' pom pom to the tip of the green triangle felt Elf hat.

5. Glue two pom poms to the front of the jingle bell. These will be the Elf eyes.

6. Glue small piece of yarn on the front of the jingle bell beneath the pom poms to make a mouth for your Elf.

7. Glue the wire ornament hanger to the back of the green triangle felt hat and hang on the Christmas tree.