Each Christmas many families begin decorating for Christmas by getting the perfect tree, decking it with lights, and then beginning to pull out all of those special and nostalgic homemade Family Christmas Ornaments.
There are the “Our 1st Christmas” ones, and special ones from parents, or those that represent pivotal times in our lives – like graduations, babies, new homes, pets, and angels in heaven.
These bring back ALL the memories as we prepare to celebrate the Christmas season.
One of my favorite boxes is the one with all my children’s ornaments. These are the messy crafts my little ones have created, and the ones with just their headshot on an angel, or the fun ones they have received as gifts.
My kids love to look at all that they have created too.
Several years ago our family began a new tradition by making special ornaments with a little piece of each child for our tree and for their grandparents.
We have incorporated this right into our annual Advent Activity calendar.
These homemade Family Christmas Ornaments are something that the kids enjoy creating as much as they love giving.
Many years we do fingerprints with each child having a different color representing their current favorites. These are something that our family can look at and recall the memories of making them in the prior years, comparing fingerprint sizes, and see how they have grown.
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One year we filled clear glass ball ornaments with glitter and fake snow, then made a “string of lights” with fingerprints going around the bulb. Prior years we have done fingerprint snowmen, salt dough Christmas tree’s strung with colored fingerprint lights, and bells with fingerprint holly.
Make this simple Reindeer Food this year too! [FREE Printable]
Check out our samples below, with some basic instructions to make your own!
This past year we did something a little different and the kids LOVED putting them together. We took fun photos and put them into these simple “snow globes”. They looked like this:
I hope you are inspired to begin a new tradition with your little ones too!
Check out these simple Snowman Stones we made too!
Christmas Blessings,
SNOWBALL WITH CHRISTMAS LIGHTS
- Fill a clear plastic or glass ornament with artificial snow and glitter.
- Using acrylic paint, have each child paint a fingertip and depress it onto the ornament going in a circle.
- Once the paint is dry, add the string for the lights with a Sharpie marker.
- Add your Family Name and the Year.
FINGERPRINT CHRISTMAS TREE ORNAMENT
- Use your favorite salt dough recipe (or 2 cups flour + 1 cup salt + 3/4 cup water) and add green food coloring.
- Roll dough to appx. 1/4 inch thick and use a cookie cutter to make your trees.
- Use a straw to put a hole in the top for a string.
- Using acrylic paint, Have each child paint a fingertip and depress it into the tree.
- Bake at 200 degrees for 20 minutes and let cool.
- Touch up the paint and use a Sharpie to draw in the sting for the lights.
- Add your family name and year.
- Add bakers string to hang. up
SNOWMAN ORNAMENT
- Choose a dark colored ornament with a flat surface.
- Paint the bottom of your ornament with white acrylic paint as a snow base.
- Cover a finger of each child with white acrylic paint and press the imprint where you want it.
- Once the paint is dry, then paint on hats & scarves, and add buttons & facial features with a Sharpie marker.
- Add your family name and the year on the bottom.
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