40+ Christmas Ball Ornament Ideas For You to Try This Year! (Plus Free Digital Download)

Create memories making your own ornaments with over 40 easy to make Christmas Ball Ornament Ideas! Free printable, easy to find supplies.

I don’t know about you, but I’ve come to really enjoy making Christmas ornaments over the last few years. Of course there are so many ornaments that you could create. But my favorite quick and easy Christmas ornament crafts are the ones where you “just” add fill to those clear Christmas ball ornaments, or give them a bit of embellishment. The ideas are endless!

40+ Christmas Ball Ornament Ideas For You to Try This Year!

Making ornaments using clear glass or plastic ball ornaments is so easy you can even do it with the kids. Here are more than forty ideas for making your own Christmas ball ornaments.

Filled Ornaments:

Simply remove the top, fill each ornament with the items listed below, replace the top, hang and enjoy!

If your chosen fill is larger than the hole in a normal clear ornament, buy the ornaments that split in two. 

• Bottle brush trees and fake snow
• Glue and glitter
• Strips of sheet music or old book pages
• Mini jingle bells
• Rope, twine or jute for a beachy look
• Pieces of real or faux pine or cedar greenery
• Faux cranberries
• Scrabble tiles, either individually or glued together to make a short word like joy or noel, etc.
• Birch bark
• Mini pennant banners
• Confetti shapes
• Sprinkles
• Candies such as Smarties, M&M’s, jelly beans
• Dry hot chocolate mix and marshmallows
• Sequins
• Roll a mini ball of yarn and two small stick pins to look like knitting needles
• Fabric shreds, maybe from an old well-loved child’s blankie, or from fabric the color of your decor scheme
• Pip berries garland pieces
• Old kids’ Christmas lists
• Faux snow and mini pine cones
• Beads or pearls
• Feathers
• Faux snow
• Lego pieces
• Mini dinosaurs or animals
• Photos
• Miniature maps of places you’ve visited
• Steampunk scrapbooking bits like gears, etc.
• Sand and mini seashells
• Buttons
• Twigs from your yard or the cottage
• Pipe cleaners twisted into any shape
• A layer each of dirt, moss and then faux snow to look like the ground at Christmas
• Popcorn kernels or popped!
• Cloves and/or cinnamon
• Paper clips or staples for an office tree

Embellished Ornaments:

Just add the decorations as described, hang and enjoy!

• Santa’s Belt: fill with red tinsel or fabric, add a strip of black velvet and a pop can tab
• Winter Scene: draw snow covered pine trees with a white marker on outside of ornament, fill with faux snow
• Snowing: draw snowflakes with white marker on outside of ornament and fill with sparkly faux snow
• Snowman Head: glue two mini buttons and an orange triangle of paper onto outside of ornament, then draw black “coal” for a snowman mouth
• Glitter Monogram: draw a nice big monogram on the outside of the ornament, fill with glue and then sprinkle with glitter

I’ve even created a free printable, so you can print off all the ideas and craft your very own ornaments!

Click the image and print. Take with you to find supplies, or keep it handy while you order supplies online. Then just fill your ornaments, hang and enjoy. Make some yourself to give as gifts, or start a new family tradition of making ornaments together each year!

Just click on the image above and then print the PDF!

Happy Creating friends!