The holiday season is a wonderful time to create lasting memories with your children. What better way than with some cute and easy keepsake Christmas ornaments!
I don’t know about you, but I’m always baffled by quite how fast my kids grow. I love capturing a moment in time with an adorable footprint or handprint craft. They’re such cherished mementos that I will look on with love and affection for years to come.
Here you’ll find plenty of easy DIY Christmas ornaments with a keepsake element. Suitable for babies, toddlers and bigger kids too, they’ll add a festive sparkle to your tree.
From clay and salt dough creations using your little ones hands, feet or fingerprints, to photo ornaments and more, these ornaments make the perfect gift for friends and family. Why not treat the grandparents to a cute homemade Christmas gift?
Join us as we share the best Christmas keepsake ornaments for kids to make that your family will treasure forever.
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Salt Dough Handprint Ornaments
Perfect for the littlest hands, try these homemade salt dough handprint ornaments from the Best Ideas For Kids. A gorgeous keepake Christmas ornament to make with toddlers and babies.
If only I’d come across these when my two were a bit smaller. My eldest’s hands are a little big now. The Christmas ornament would knock our tiny tree down for sure!
Thumbprint Christmas Lights Ornament
This thumbprint Christmas lights ornament from The Moody Blonde will be fun to make with toddlers, the whole family even. Each family member could add a print or two. Very pretty and a lovely memory for many years to come.
A clear plastic bauble, paint, a marker pen and some steady finger print makers are all you need! To make it white, fill with faux snow.
Christmas List Ornaments For Kids
I love this idea from The Gifted Gabber for these Christmas list ornaments. Write up your child’s wishlist onto some paper and then pop it into a clear plastic bauble along with some festive streamers or tinsel. Done!
When they’re older, they can write their own list of course. That’s sure to keep the kids busy.
This is going to be a lovely Christmas ornament to make with toddlers and then through the years. It’ll give you a lovely keepsake of your kids’ changing interests.
That’s if my son does ever find anything other than diggers and dump trucks interesting! We shall see.
Shrink Film Christmas Ornaments
From Creative Green Living is this shrink film Christmas ornament– they’ll make such cute memorabilia for years to come. It’ll transform your kids squiggles into something colorful and perfect for the tree.
If you don’t have a Cricut you can just cut a circle of shrink film and use a shaped hole punch to add a decorative touch (this set of hole punch shapes includes a Christmas tree and snowflake). Easy peasy and, even better, another mess-free ornament.
Handprint Snowman Christmas Ornament
Turn your little ones’ handprints into cute little snowmen with this keepsake snowman ornament from Simple Fun For Kids.
So simple and so effective – not entirely mess-free but looks worth a little bit of clean up! (Just be sure to use plastic baubles, not glass for obvious reasons.)
Thumbprint Salt Dough Christmas Ornament
Another DIY salt dough Christmas ornament, this time from Mess Little Monster. Make a cute gift for the grandparents, using your kids’ fingerprints to make the Christmas lights. A fun keepsake Christmas ornament to make with your toddler. Very sweet!
Chalkboard Keepsake Christmas Ornament
This cute chalkboard Christmas ornament from Fireflies & Mudpies will be fun for kids to make. Better for older preschoolers and first graders who are able to draw some sort of picture, stickman, house, car or anything more than a squiggle. Way beyond my two at the moment but I’m definitely going to be trying this in a few years!
(Grab some wood slices, chalkboard paint and chalk pens here.)
Thumbprint Rudolf Christmas Keepsake Ornament
A fun Christmas ornament to make with toddlers – turn their thumbprint into Rudolf with this thumbprint Rudolf ornament from @cristynsharkey. Just a steady hand from mom or dad or an older kid to finish this one off. Click the link above for the full tutorial.
Cookie cutter keepsake Christmas ornaments
Rather than salt dough, these cookie-cutter Christmas ornaments from Red Ted Art use store-bought air-dry clay reducing your prep-time to almost zero! Aren’t they just so simple and effective? Such a simple Christmas ornament that’ll make a gorgeous keepsake.
Fingerprint clay Christmas ornaments
These fingerprint clay ornaments from Thimble & Twig are just gorgeous, aren’t they? These are a must-try this year. I may even add the year to mark the occasion. Time to invest in some number and letter stamps!
Want to try some handprint craft templates?
We have a few templates that are free to download:
- Cute Free Fall Handprint Craft Templates
- Free Father’s Day Handprint Craft Templates INSTANT DOWNLOAD
- Adorable Valentine’s Day Handprint Craft (Free Templates)
Wrapping up these keepsake Christmas ornaments
Well, you should be spoilt for choice now when it comes to choosing a keepsake Christmas ornament to make with your kids. There are so many adorable ornaments to choose from!
Let me know which you try – I’d love to hear from you.
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