Mini Gift Christmas Ornament Craft

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Each year at Christmas time, our kids make a new Christmas ornament craft to add to the tree, so that decorating each year is like a walk down memory lane.

My kids love to remember the fun they had making each Christmas ornament craft they find in the storage bin. Like last year’s tissue paper wreath, or the previous year’s pipe cleaner candy cane ornament.

Looking for your own easy homemade ornament ideas? Here are 25!

It’s a holiday tradition for us and one our whole family looks forward to each year!

Mini Gift Christmas Ornament Craft

We decided to create a fun mini Christmas gift ornament this year. It was a family affair with paint and crafting!

To make this Christmas ornament craft, you’ll need just a couple of materials:

• Thin cardboard (We used cereal boxes, cut so they lay flat)
• Paint (affiliate link)
• Sponges
• Gift bows with sticky backs (affiliate link)
• Clothes pins

Start by laying the cardboard out on a table surface. If using recycled cereal boxes, position them so the outside of the box is laying down on the table.

Then, cut sponges into small pieces and dip them into paint. Holding and dabbing paint with sponge pieces is a great way to encourage kids to strengthen their fine motor skills.

Add more fine motor practice with this fun button ornament craft.

Show your kids how to dab the paint onto the cardboard. Younger kids can create random spots of paint, while you can encourage older kids to try patterns.

While the paint is drying, peel the backs from the gift bows and firmly press them onto the clothed pins.

These will clip onto the mini gift ornament and also attach the ornament onto the Christmas tree.

When the paint has dried, cut the cereal box into small square and rectangle “gifts” and clip a clothes pin each one.

Finally, clip the ornaments onto the branches of the Christmas Tree, stand back, and admire!

Dress up your tree with this yarn wrapped ornament.

If your kids are anything like mine, watering the Christmas Tree is a big highlight. In fact, we had to come up with a schedule so that all the kids could have a turn keeping our tree hydrated.

Do you have a real Christmas tree? Do the falling needles make you nuts too?