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Simple, handmade and homemade Christmas ornaments are some of my favorite ornaments to adorn the Christmas tree. Each year we hang our ornaments with my children’s photos, I reminisce about those memories, especially when I remember my kids as a youngster.

Let me share a few simple Christmas photo ornaments you can make. Even your preschool child could make the first one, so it is a great holiday craft idea for preschoolers.

Christmas Tree

With a 3 inch paper tree outline, cut a 1/8 inch green tree from spongeboard. Your child can now participate in decorating here. Use a hole punch to get many, brightly colored dots from spongeboard. These dots can then be glued by your youngster to the tree as ornaments.

Next, cut a single 1/2 inch hole towards the bottom of the green tree. Glue your photo to the back so the picture shows through. Thread a curled ribbon loop at the treetop.

These holiday Christmas ornaments using photos are so affordable and easy to make, you can design one for each family member. To add a personal touch, have each child write his name and year on the back with a black felt pens.

Felt Bells

One of my favorite Christmas ornaments using photos is the one I received from my son’s first year in Mother’s Day Out. His teacher cut blue felt in the shape of a three inch tall bell. A smaller white bell was cut with a hole in the middle for the photo.

Make your picture show through the hole on the white bell. Then, glue the white bell with your child’s pictue on top of the blue one. Now you have a wonderful blue border around the white bell.

Outline the edges of the white felt with glitter glue pen. Make a hole in the bell top and add a blue ribbon hanging loop.

You’re almost finished. Cut blue poster the same size and shape as the blue bell. Glue it to the back to stiffen the holiday Christmas ornament. Attach a small jingle bell to the bottom of the ornament. My son’s teacher wrote his name and the year on the back.

Wow, now you have an easy and cool-looking holiday Christmas ornament using photos to beautify your tree this season. And as an added plus, you have a handmade and homemade ornament to remember your child.