60 Homemade Christmas Ornament Ideas for a Personalized Tree

This year, decorate your Christmas tree with one (or more!) of these easy-to-make DIY Christmas ornaments to give it a personal touch. There is no lack of ideas in this collection of decorations that you may create, ranging from the traditional to the contemporary.

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1. Charlie Brown Christmas Ornaments

Using this simple tutorial, the iconic Peanuts characters come to life! Get the family together and watch A Charlie Brown Christmas as you create these simple felt ornaments. They would look beautiful on any tree, no matter how tiny or sad it seems (after all, due to Linus, we now know that the real spirit of the holiday isn't about decorating the tree!).

2. Clear Ornament Place Card

These easy-to-make decorations also double as place cards. Make one for each of your guests at your next holiday event, and they can take them home with them as party favors to put on their own Christmas trees! Just remember to create one for yourself and your family as well!

3. Ornament for French Macarons

If you like French macarons, why not hang a handcrafted macaron ornament from your tree to bring a smile to your face every time you look at it?

4. Glittery Pine Cone Ornament

Beautiful, to be sure.

Pine cones may be collected outside and embellished with glitter to make decorations for your Christmas tree, which can be displayed inside. Simply said, it's cheap, and it goes with every tree!

5. Ornaments made of paper

It simply doesn't get much simpler than this to make your own paper decorations. To create a quirky Christmas tree, experiment with a wide range of bright colors and patterns.

6. Felt Hot Chocolate Ornament

This lovely cup of hot chocolate may be simply created with a few pieces of cheap craft felt and a few minutes of time.

7. Ornament with Embroidery Hoop

Calling all needleworkers and stitchers! These tiny hoops are lovely and can be easily personalized with any stitching or design of your choice. Make these to hang on your Christmas tree or to give as a gift.

8. Ornament for a Coffee Cup

Coffee cup ornaments are a great gift for the coffee enthusiast in your life.

9. Quilted Christmas Ornament

A quilted decoration is suspended from a tree.

Despite the fact that they are labeled "Quilted," these decorations need no sewing! Learn how to make the classic layered pattern by following the steps in this tutorial. You'll find that after you've made one, the others will come together fast, and you'll be able to create a whole lot of them to give as presents!

10. Forest Animal Ornament Wolves Made

Make these beautiful animal ornaments to decorate your Christmas tree with a theme of forest animals in the woods.

11. House Key Ornament

Make a second duplicate of your house key and hang it on your Christmas tree to commemorate the anniversary of the purchase of your first home together as a couple.

12. Painted Ornament

Fill the interior of a transparent ornament with paint to give it some color.

13. Diamond Ornament

If you are celebrating your first year of being engaged or married, or if you just like diamonds, then this ornament is for you.

14. Crochet Christmas Tree Decorations

These beautiful crocheted ornaments would be a lovely addition to any tree, adding a warm, handmade touch. It will be impossible not to stitch all three of these designs, which range from traditional Christmas icons like Santa hat and bell to more nostalgic winter staples (when was the last time you purchased a pair of mittens tied together by a string?).

15. Scrabble Ornament

Combine scrabble pieces to make decorations that spell out festive words or phrases using a glue stick.

16. Ornament with a Cinnamon Scent

With these festive cinnamon-scented decorations, you can make your home smell like freshly made gingerbread cookies all year long.

17. Broken Jewelry Ornaments made from recycled materials

Take your broken jewelry, from that necklace with the missing diamond that you like and can't stand to throw away to that one earring that has lost its pair, and turn it into Christmas ornaments for your tree!

18. Ornament with a Reindeer in Silver

This easy-to-make DIY ornament will add a bit of glitz to your Christmas tree without taking up much space.

19. Make Your Own Monogram Ornament

Make a monogram ornament to put on your Christmas tree to add a personal touch to your holiday decor.

20. Ornament with a Gingerbread Man

Make these gingerbread cookie decorations to give your Christmas tree a sweets-themed vibe this year.

Christmas is coming! With it comes a lot of crafts, homemade candies, cookies, and other yummies, and even gifts you can make yourself. Ornaments are always fun to do we've collected some DIY ornaments that you can start working to have ready when you decorate your tree this year.

It's so hard sometimes to find ornaments in the exact color you want. You can paint the ornaments yourself and make sure you have the perfect colors. Just clear ornaments and paint colors you want. Just remove the metal lid and then add some paint in the color you want, garnishing rolling around so that covers the entire interior.