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 of festive decorations.
Most of the handcrafted Christmas ornaments I make are from the things around me. I love to repurpose old sweaters into felt and use this to make many ornaments. Other favourite materials to use are old denim jeans and out of date road maps.
Maps are actually a great way of adding extra sentimentality to handmade Christmas ornaments. Especially if you use maps of places that have special significance to your family.
Not only by making your own homemade Christmas ornaments to you get something unique and affordable for your home, but you can also reap all the benefits of upcycling.

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Unique Homemade Christmas Ornaments To Make
A collection of fabulous Christmas crafts. Many are made from repurposed and upcycled materials.
How To Make A Cotton Reel Map Christmas Ornament
Not only is this homemade Christmas ornament very affordable to make as it's made from mainly repurposed materials. It can also be personalized by carefully choosing to use maps of special 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, some gold paint. Use a felt ball as a pearl.
How To Make Repurposed Eyeglasses Ornaments For Christmas
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 definitely 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 too.
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 really good hung in a garland.
How To Make Mini Christmas Wreaths
Make these gorgeous mini Christmas wreaths ornaments in about 10 minutes. All you need are some acorn caps and felt balls.
How To Make A Beautiful Angel Wings Christmas Ornament
Another angel homemade Christmas ornament. This time the wings are made from repurposed doilies.
How To Make A 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 wonderful Christmas shapes for these ornaments are made using Christmas cookie cutters. All of these unique handcrafted Chrismas 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.
How to Make Gorgeous Nordic Christmas Decorations
Another set of wood slice Christmas ornaments. 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 the childlike embroidery. There are designs for six of these homemade Christmas ornaments. The stitching is so simple anyone could make them.
How To Make A fun Dictionary Christmas Decoupage Baubles
Print some 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 map keyring.
How To Make A Vintage Wooden Thread Spool Ornament
These vintage spool homemade Christmas ornaments are special. Each one 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 favours a simple farmhouse look.
How To Make 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.
How To Make Recycled Christmas Decorations With Denim Scraps
Who'd of thought you could make a cute ornament out of the hem of an old pair of jeans?
How To Upcycle China Plates With A Ryobi Rotary Tool
All you need is to drill a hole into the tip of these China Christmas tree ornaments to be able to hang them from the tree.

Linda at Mixed Kreations
What a great Christmas ornament roundup! Their all super cute! My favorites are the China Christmas trees, map spools, and acorns wreaths.
Claire Armstrong
Thank you, those are all the pretty colourful ones too.
Michelle Leslie
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
Thank you, Michelle. It’s actually a wood slice Christmas pudding. Frida is one of my favorites too.