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Handmade Paper Ornaments | 12 Project Ideas

November 12, 2022 Leave a Comment

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These handmade paper ornaments add a wonderful touch of charm and whimsey to Christmas decor. Decorating for the holidays doesn’t have to be expensive to be beautiful!

Projects for Beginners

These are such a beautiful up-leveling of the traditional paper snowflake cutouts, and they take only a little bit more effort to tape the ends together to make them 3D rather than lay flat. What a fun idea to try with kids!

3d paper snowflakes
Available via One Dog Woof.

Another creative source for paper is old books. Look how stunning pinwheel ornaments like these are on Ella Claire’s Tinsel Tree.

ivory christmas tree with paper snowflakes and ribbon
paper pinwheel ornament on a tree made from book pages
Available via Hungry Heart.

These handmade paper ornaments look like they’re right out of a West Elm catalog, but they’re so simple to make! All it takes is cutting out a stack of the same shape, folding it in half, and then glueing one half to another until it forms a 3D shape. Beautiful!

pink and periwinkle handmade paper ornaments
Available via Leelah Loves (use Google Translate to convert from German!)

This paper star is a printable that actually prints out the gingerbread design as well. Wouldn’t these look great on a Nutcracker themed tree as fillers?!

printed and folded paper star ornaments
Available via Etsy ($).

Projects for Paper Craft Hobbiests

This elegant round handmade paper ornament that just requires some creative folding, glue or tape, and a ribbon to hang it with. These would make great fillers on a tree as you start out a new ornament collection!

white origami sphere ornament
Available via Giochi di Carta (use Google Translate to convert from Italian!)

These stars are made with two pieces of paper that have been folded, cut, and glued strategically to make a 3D star. These would look stunning in an off-white as the larger anchor ornaments on a tree or hanging in a window with some lights!

3d paper stars folded from scrapbook paper
Available via Gathering Beauty.

Don’t these little paper houses remind you of a snowy village somewhere cozy? These are made from cardstock and can be cut out by hand or with a cutting machine and held together with a little glue. You could probably also blow up the template and make yourself some larger ones for a side table or mantle!

three white paper house ornaments
Available via Lia Griffith ($).

These birds are so elegant and cute at the same time! These look a little bit more tedious to cut out and glue, and they also require some strategic paper curling. But aren’t they so worth it?

white paper bird ornaments on a tree
Available via Lia Griffith ($).

These are also a deceptively simple craft. All it takes is quite a few circles of paper and some strategic alternating gluing, and you have yourself a great 3D ornament!

spherical handmaded paper ornament from brown craft paper
Available via Lollyrot Scrapbooking.

German stars are a holiday crafting tradition, and you might have even made one or seen a family member make one in the past. Time to try it for yourself!

several german star ornaments in different colors of paper
Available via CraftIdeas.info.

Advanced Handmade Paper Ornament Projects

This is another one from Lia Griffith, and either requires a paper cutter or some really deft hands and small scissors, but it was too beautiful not to include here. The layers! The cute woodland critters! The holes in the back for the light to shine through as “stars”! 😍

white paper cutout ornaments of woodland scenes
Available via Lia Griffith ($).

These are snowflakes are made by using a technique called paper quilling. There are many beautiful applications of this craft, but snowflakes seem like a very festive and fun one to try. If you’ve never tried paper quilling before, you might want to start with a few of her Quilling Basics tutorials first.

blue and white snowflakes made from paper quilling
Available via The Paper Craftery.

Check out some of my other handmade ornament project ideas:

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