Snow Flakes- You remember making the paper snowflakes in elementary school? Take a piece of plain white paper (for smaller snowflakes, cut a standard piece of paper into fours), fold it have several times so you have a small square (about the size of a credit card). Cut small triangles out of each side, snip the corners if you want and unfold. You’re left with a beautiful, unique and homemade ornament, add glue and glitter if you like.

Bake Gingerbread cookies to hang on the tree. You can’t eat them but they sure smell delicious!

Craft Stick Ornaments: There’s a lot you can do with a few craft sticks (popsicle sticks). Paint one white, take black or brown paper and cut out a small hat. Glue the hat to the top of the stick, draw a face and a few buttons down the middle and tie a ribbon like a scarf, and you’ve just made yourself a snowman ornament. Glue a string to the back and hang on your tree for everyone to enjoy.
To make a reindeer, glue the ends of two craft sticks together in the shape of a V. Glue another one across the middle of the V so the ends stick out on either side, and the V ends are sticking out of the top. Draw an eye on each side of the V just below where the stick crosses, draw a red nose, or glue a red craft ball at the bottom corner of the V, and you have a Rudolph. The first year I was married, we were really broke so we made ornaments like these to give as gifts, thoughtful and inexpensive

Puzzle Rudolph- Paint 5 puzzle pieces brown and glue them together as shown. Glue google eyes and a pompom nose or paint them on. Glue a ribbon to the back and hang on the tree.

Foot and Hand Print Rudolph- Trace and cut out your child’s foot print on brown construction paper, Trace and cut out your child’s hand prints on yellow or tan construction paper. Glue them together so the footprint is the reindeers face with each hand being the antlers. Draw or glue eyes and a nose and hang on the refrigerator.  (In years to come when you take these out of your ornament storage box, you will marvel at how tiny their hands and feet where and how much they have grown)