Christmas is a great holiday for doing kids crafts. There’s always a card you could make, a gift for someone special, or ornaments for decorating a Christmas tree!

This pom pom ornament craft is easy for toddlers to do and you get to make something pretty for Christmas.

We’ve never made ornaments together before, so both my two-year-old and I were excited to do this craft.

Our first attempt turned out so well, that we used the mini pom poms in a popsicle stick ornament craft as well!

Some people have a Christmas tradition of making all the decorations for their tree. That just seems too hard for me! As much as I love crafting, I don’t know if I could make a whole tree’s worth of decorations. There just aren’t enough pom poms in the closet!

I did, however, enjoy doing this craft with Ella, so this could be a new Christmas tradition for us!

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How We Did It: Making Pom Pom Ornaments

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The supplies we used were:

– pom poms
– cardboard cut into wreath, Christmas tree, and candy cane shapes
– glue sticks
– pipe cleaners (for hanging the ornaments)
– mini bows

I sketched a wreath, Christmas tree, and candy cane on the cardboard and cut out two of each shape.

There are two sets so that I could model the craft for my daughter, Ella, without getting in the way of her crafting.

Kids craft supplies including pom poms, ribbon bows, glue sticks, pipe cleaners and cardboard cut outs of christmas wreath, christmas tree, and candy canes

I showed her how to smear the glue on the cardboard shapes, which was really easy because we used the color-changing glue that goes from purple to clear when it dries.

Then it was time to put the pom poms on. I let Ella put whatever color she wanted on the wreath so she could get the hang of gluing and sticking pom poms. Once the glue on the pom poms dried, I glued a little red bow to the top of the wreath.

The next one we did was the candy cane. I instructed her to use a red and white pom pom pattern on the candy cane. She followed direction well, but didn’t put the pom poms close enough together at first.

Finally, we did the Christmas tree. Again I instructed her to put a yellow pom pom on top for the star and use lots of green pom poms for the rest of the tree.

She added a few mini pom poms for ornaments.

I hooked the short pipe cleaners around the wreath and candy cane to make ornament hangers. Then I punched a hole in the back of the Christmas tree ornament (sounds violent, but the ornament survived!), and put the pipe cleaner through the hole.

These pom pom ornaments were fun and easy to make. I loved that it was so simple that toddlers would be able to participate with a just little direction and modeling.

Ornament-making was such a hit, that we made more ornaments later in the day! See how our button wreath ornament turned out HERE!

Your Turn to Make Pom POm Ornaments

Is making ornaments one of your Christmas traditions? Or are you thinking of starting a new one?

We just decided to start a new tradition with our family this year. It involves unwrapping presents before Christmas, so naturally, our toddler loves it!