Homemade Ornaments ~ Recycled Stained Glass Ornaments
Christmas is my favorite holiday. Â I love white lights and how cozy my house feels all decorated for Christmas. Â Kids love making special homemade ornaments to hang on the Christmas tree. Â Our little stained glass ornaments look great and are super easy to create.
To make these simple Handmade Ornaments, you will need:
- Recycled plastic – we used the top and bottom from a plastic fruit container.
- Sharpies – I have shared my love for sharpies before.  Sharpies are permanent, come in so many bright colors and are are great on non porous surfaces.
- black paper – to make the frame for your stained glass.
- white glue
Cut your plastic into a circle, this will be the basis for your stained glass ornament. Â I pulled up a few images of stained glass for my kiddos to see. Â This gave the kids a basis for designing their ornaments. Â Have them draw the outline straight onto the plastic with black sharpie.
Color in the design using sharpie markers. Â Notice that some of the lines got removed in the coloring process. Â It is an easy fix by simply retracing the lines again with your black sharpie.
Glue the black paper frame onto the plastic and your ornament is all finished. Â I love how easy these little stained glass ornaments were to create and wonderful they look hanging on my tree!
These simple stained glass ornaments would look great as gift tags on your Christmas presents, or as a special gift to the kids grandparents.
Here is a link to another simple stained glass project that I my kids enjoyed creating.
I also have a Pinterest board to showcase some easy homemade ornaments perfect for creating with the kids.  Don’t forget that homemade ornaments make thoughtful gifts or a cute present topper.
These are just beautiful! And I love that they use recycled items! A new add to our holiday list this year – thank you 🙂
Thanks! We love creating from our recycle bin.
These are beautiful! I’m hosting an ornament craft day, so this will make a great addition to the ornaments the kids are making. Thanks for the great idea! I’m a new follower via facebook 🙂
Thanks! Ornament craft day sounds delightful!
I love how cute they are. I’ve actually been thinking about doing a very similar project for a while. Great idea.
I would love to see how your ornaments turn out! It is such a simple idea, but they look so cute.
I love using recycled objects!
Me too!!!!!
Very nice. I think all three of my kids could make these. I had just posted about my tot making decorated business magnets as gifts, but these would be awesome to make and hang in kitchen windows!
They would look great hanging in a window:)
I love that you used recyclables! They look great too.
Thanks:) We love creating from out recycle bin!
These are really wonderful!! I love that you made them from recycled items.
I would love for you to link this up to the Holiday Hop of Goodies on my site. http://www.jdaniel4smom.com/2012/11/holiday-hop-of-goodies-introducing-our.html
Thanks for the invite!
Ooh these turned out so lovely!
Thanks for sharing on Kids Get Crafty!
Maggy
PS We have ANOTHER Ornament Linky and an Exchange, if you fancy joining: http://www.redtedart.com/2012/11/14/homemade-christmas-decorations/
Thanks for the invite:)
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Very cool! I LOVE that you used recycled plastic. Thanks for sharing at the Sunday Showcase. I’ve pinned this to our feature board. 🙂
Thanks so much! I love your Sunday Showcase!
Thanks for sharing on Tuesday Tots! I am featuring your ornaments on In Lieu of Preschool this week: http://www.inlieuofpreschool.com/2012/11/christmas-crafts-on-tuesday-tots.html Please feel free to stop by and grab a featured button! Off to pin now. Thanks again! 🙂
Thanks for the feature!
These are beautiful! My kids are still too young for this, but I’m going to make a note of this post for a future year.
These really turned out so clever and will be something to treasure over the years ahead. Thanks for linking up over at PreK+K Sharing.
Debbie Clement
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These turned out so beautifully! What a fun, clever project =-)
Thanks for linking up & sharing on TGIF!
Beth =-)
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