My mother made numerous handmade Christmas ornaments and decorations when I was a child.Playing with all of the ornaments and arranging them on the tree was my favorite part of Christmas.
Twenty-five years later, my mother was attempting to persuade me that we should divide all of our childhood ornaments among myself, my brother, and sister.”You can’t split up all those old, tattered memory-filled ornaments!” was all I wanted to say.They should always be on your tree!haha… despite the fact that I have my own children, my own Christmas tree, and my mother hasn’t put up those handmade ornaments in years, I guess that sentimental attachment hasn’t disappeared.
When you were a kid, did you play with the ornaments on your Christmas tree?It was, I swear, one of my favorite Christmas activities!My goal has always been to have a Christmas tree that my children can play with.As a result, I rarely purchase designer boring sparkling balls.I also have nothing that can be broken.My tree isn’t very popular, and it probably won’t be featured in any magazines. However, I really hope that my kids will enjoy it as much as I did our tree when I was a kid!
I’m aware of this.These Christmas ornaments made of pom poms and pinecones are so simple!But what do you know?They are going to look amazing on our tree, and they turned out to be surprisingly beautiful!The best part was that my five-year-old and three-year-old could both help make them.Even for a three-year-old, they are pretty much foolproof!
Pom Poms and Pinecones Ornament Tutorial
These are super easy! And they look amazing! Here’s what you’ll need:
- Pinecones
- Tiny pom poms
- String or ribbon
- Hot glue gun
These pom poms are really small. I got them from the dollar store and they were the perfect size to fit in the pinecones.
Start by adding a small glob of hot glue to the underside of the pinecone “branches”.
Then stick a tiny pom pom onto the dab of glue.
Repeat for all the the pinecone tips. The little pom poms look just like ornaments hanging from a tree!
It goes pretty quick!
Then take about 11″ of string or ribbon and hot glue it to the top of the pinecone. We used this gold chain looking ribbon from the dollar store. I was pretty generous with the hot glue and they feel pretty secure.
Maybe I’m a risky mom here, but I let both my three year old and five year old use the glue gun. They were sooooo excited and they actually did really well with it! It’s just one of those cheap, tiny glue guns, so it doesn’t get very hot.
I had to peel away a lot of glue strands when they were finished, but they cleaned up really well. And now my girls are going to be so excited to hang them on the tree!
It’s still way too early to put up the Christmas tree, so I had to improvise a little bit for the photos. Yup, that’s the kids swing set in the background of this next photo!
And I never realized it, but we don’t have any evergreen trees on our property. So this next photo uses a branch that hangs over our fence by about 18″. Of course our neighbour walked out into the backyard at exactly the same time I was shooting these photos. She probably thinks I’m a bird watcher now. But on the bright side, the branch gives a nice preview of what these ornaments will look like on the Christmas tree.
They’re really simple, but I love how they look natural and quirky at the same time!
