DIY Yarn-filled Christmas Ornaments – Snowman, Santa and Reindeer

These cute DIY yarn-filled clear Christmas ornaments make great holiday craft projects for those who love to knit or crochet and have yarn available at home!

These ball-shaped ornaments make beautiful decorations for your Christmas tree. You can also give them as a little present to kids, teachers, family, and friends.

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These ball Christmas ornaments are easy and fun to make.  Just fill them with yarn, then add a few things to the outside such as eyes, a nose, a belt, etc., and your ornaments are done! It also makes for a very entertaining and fun family activity. 

Those ornaments would be wonderful Christmas crafts to make with kids as they require no special tools.

It is good for the little fingers to practice their fine motor skills by putting yarn inside of the clear balls. Adults may have to help them with a glue gun to ensure they don’t burn themselves.

Making clear ball ornaments is a very popular holiday craft. You don’t need to have special skills to make them and you can use any materials you have in your house. 

You may also like these popular Christmas crochet designs: crochet Snow Globe, crochet Gingerbread Stocking,  crochet Christmas pudding, crochet Christmas emojis, and crochet Christmas Heart Angel.

More of my crochet Christmas designs can be found in the post crochet Christmas Ornaments Free Pattern Collection and under the tag Christmas.

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I made three different yarn-filled ornaments: A Snowman ornament filled with white yarn, a Santa Belly ornament filled with red yarn, and a Reindeer ornament filled with brown yarn.

All those ornaments are very cute and they are a delightful addition to my family Christmas tree this year!

Snowman Christmas Ornament

Materials I used:

• Clear glass ball
• White yarn
• Blue yarn or any other color you prefer
• Googly sticky back eyes
• Small piece of orange felt
• Glue gun
• Black marker

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Instructions:

1. Fill clear ball with white yarn.

2. Wrap the top of the ornament with blue yarn, secure it with hot glue.

3. Attach the eyes.

4. Cut out small triangular from the orange felt for the nose, glue it on.

5. Draw dots for the mouth.

6. Attach the string.

Reindeer Christmas Ornament

Materials I used:

• Clear glass ball
• Brown yarn
• Googly sticky back eyes
• Small red pom-pom
• Glue gun with glue sticks

Instructions:

1. Fill clear ball with brown yarn

2. Attach the eyes.

3. Glue on pom-pom for the nose.

4. Attach the string.

Santa Belly Christmas Ornament

Materials I used:

• Clear glass ball
• Red and black yarn
• White button
• Glue gun

Instructions:

1. Fill the clear ball with red yarn

2. Make Santa’s belt by wrapping the outside middle of the ornament with black yarn.

How to wrap: glue on the end of black yarn at the beginning point, wrap half way around and secure with hot glue, wrap another half until you reach starting point, secure with glue again.

Wrap in this way 3-4 times around.

Before the final wrap, thread a button on the black yarn, then complete the wrap and verify the button is flat and tight against the ornament. Make the final glue joint, then cut the yarn.

3. Adjust button placement and make sure the ends of black yarn are on the opposite side of the button.

4. Attach the string.

 

I hope you enjoyed these instructions on how to make DIY yarn-filled Christmas ornaments!

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