easy and homemade christmas ornaments

Wrap twine around a blown up balloon and set the shape in place using Mod Podge. Remove the balloon after your project dries to create a glittery Christmas ornament for your lights to shine through.

Turn old clothespins into snowflake ornaments by taking them apart, and reassembling with a glue gun.

Recycle your old paper maps by turning them into ornaments! Simply follow this blogger s surprisingly easy folding technique, then loop with a ribbon to finish.

We turned old night light bulbs into festive ornaments, but any size will do. Just brush on glittering glue, roll the bulb in glitter, and let dry for 15 minutes. Then hot glue a loop of metallic embroidery floss to the bulb s base.

Scraps of wrapping paper look pretty as a picture when tucked inside nickel frames.

Attract blue jays and goldfinches in winter with this frozen birdseed ornament, adapted from Ernst Kirchsteiger s Swedish Christmas Traditions

Vintage baking molds add a sweet touch to any tree; simply hot glue ribbon loops to their backs and hang.

At around a dollar each, these empty orbs offer an affordable catalyst for creativity. Fill one with small wooden chips, another with a single stunning peacock feather (attached to the ornament s top with hot glue). Or compose a more obvious Christmas scene by dropping a model fir tree into a globe dusted with artificial snow. You can also use tweezers to position branches inside and even hot glue a tiny cardinal in place.

A tree is trimmed with vintage letters found from old signs, printers type, and alphabet teaching aids.

Grosgrain ribbons become eye catching bows.