Make Feather & Snow Glass Ornaments, step by step

We are so caught up in the Christmas spirit that we chose to try our hand at creating a few custom ornaments this year. Ornament decorating can be as complicated as you make it, but of course we hoped to tackle something straightforward and especially low-cost so we headed over to Michael’s and grabbed a six pack of empty glass ornaments ($2.49), some white glitter ($1.30), and a bag of feathers ($2.49). Then we pulled out our craft glue and got down to business.

It was truly more of a trial and error process. We originally planned to stuff some of the ornaments chock full of feathers but realized less is more once we saw how sweet and plain one fluffy feather looked inside the glass orb (the silver top slips off for straightforward ornament filling). The result is delicate and delightful. And certainly worth the $1.04 per ornament that we spent.

We also used a q-pointer to spread craft glue around the top of a few other ornaments, which we then coated in sparkling white glitter for that fresh & fluffy snow look that is charming and kinda pricey looking in fact:

The finishing touch was to use some thin white ribbon that we already had around the house to create classy little loops to hang each ornament from the tree with style. They in fact look so elegant that we are debating eliminating green wire ornament hangers altogether and adding thin white ribbon to each and every ornament on the tree. It truly elevates them in a you’d-think-they-were-a-splurge-but-they-were-truly-a-steal way.

So how do we like our feathered and glittered creations? They are our new go-to ornaments! Not only because we made them ourselves, but because they in fact look better than most of our store picked up ones. And the whole project took simply fifteen minutes and only cost a little over $5. Score! This whole ornament making thing simply might become a family tradition…

Do you folks have any Hands-on ornament crafts that you happily take on each December? From cookie ornaments and popcorn garland to painted ceramic and felt creations, we’d enjoy to know what you folks throw together when the Christmas spirit moves you.

Update: You can check out all of our go-to holiday decor finds here – many of which are under $15!