Ornaments Only A Parent Could Love: A Collection Of Kid-Made Ornaments

How many handmade holiday ornaments have your kids brought home this month? How many will you keep? 

Whether you made it 30 years ago or your kids made it last week, we’ve all got ornaments that we treasure forever. Some are beautiful, some are terrible, but they all come out of storage year after year. 

Share your favrouite kid-made holiday ornaments with us on Twitter, Facebook or Instagram with the hashtag #cbcornament love. We'll gather them all and post them here!

Thanks daycare...We can still smell the gingerbread scent 5 years later. @CBCParents #cbcornamentlove pic.twitter.com/5m6j7HVPRt

— Kara Jessop (@karajessop) December 12, 2015

A tree topper forever! @CBCParents #CBCOrnamentlove pic.twitter.com/vjep0PjxwQ

— Rachel Hasegawa (@RLHasegawa) December 13, 2015

From Kids' CBC Producer Gill: Missing one holder, but still goes out every year. It is also a fire hazard, even though it is meant to hold candles. #sketchymenorah

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From CBC Parents Producer Vanessa: My sisters and I all made these ornaments in nursery school—a picture glued on to a styrofoam meat tray, with glitter and dried pasta glued around the edges. Then my sister went through a phase where she liked to eat dried pasta, and she ate all the pasta. So now they're just plain meat trays with pictures in the middle. Every year, we put them on our Christmas tree. This year is the 30th year that mine is on the tree.

A paper angel made 13 Christmases ago! @CBCParents #cbcornamentlove pic.twitter.com/hS7zoglOwP

— .~*~.E.~*~. (@hookwitch) December 12, 2015

From Amanda: My very first kid made ornament. It has lots of company on the tree now! (Source: Facebook)

From Kids' CBC Unit Manager Bev: This is an ornament made for Christmas 1980, when my sister was in grade 2.  It's an angel made of two pieces of felt sewn together, stuffed with pantyhose and decorated with glitter.

@KidsCBC @CBCParents One of my favorites! My daughters hand print at a year old. #cbcornamentlove pic.twitter.com/kV7guhUnz5

— Kristen (@WhiskTangoFox) December 12, 2015

From Kids' CBC Producer Cheri: The glitter star was made when my son Alex was 4. It is now all bent up at the corners, but it still goes on our tree every year, because it was his first of many homemade Christmas ornaments.

 

This was made by my son, Ben in December of 1996!!! He was 6 years old. Isn't it BEAUTIFUL!!! @KidsCBC #cbcornamentlove

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@CBCParents Our top 3 (only a parent could love--all the memories!): pic.twitter.com/ZSexpHg61X

— Jean Oram (@KidsPlay) December 14, 2015

Charlie just made this Nutcracker ornament. #cbcornamentlove pic.twitter.com/K5yAZdOu8O

— Matt HoHoHo Skinner (@KrankyKanuck) December 12, 2015

@CBCParents my kids made these a few yrs ago! They smell lovely! They sparkle! #perfection #cbcornamentlove pic.twitter.com/zcjbuiGkT7

— sonia (@beg_sonia) December 12, 2015

 

Things I do on Christmas Eve and morning - My daughter Megan wrote this story in December 2001. She was 8 years old. I loved it so much that I printed a smaller version and made it into an ornament. @KidsCBC #cbcornamentlove #christmas #ornaments

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Dec 12, 2015 at 5:10pm PST

An ornament only a parent could love. And I DO ❤️ it! @cbcparents #cbcornamentlove pic.twitter.com/HmPGjvEzv3

— Erin Wilde (@Wilde_One) December 12, 2015

Sharing a ornament #cbcornamentlove @CBCParents pic.twitter.com/I99p8pmnyv

— Linda Kettlewell (@lkettle6) December 12, 2015

@CBCParents Many ornaments like this. #cbcornamentlove pic.twitter.com/SJti6Zsg2g

— Kathryn (@Kathryn82460342) December 12, 2015

From Kids' CBC Production Coordinator Linsday: My mom found this beauty I made in the early 90's! It's supposed to be a Christmas caroller (with the longest neck)! Terrifying.

Used my son's art for holiday door decoration contest #CBCOrnamentLove pic.twitter.com/R8XSNjQwZG

— Jenny P (@jennyput3) December 16, 2015

Kids made these cute, holiday milkweed mice! Share your favourite kid-made holiday ornament. #cbcornamentlove pic.twitter.com/ogp8avSKT4

— KIDS LINE (@KIDSLINEOnline) December 16, 2015

@CBCParents My favourite ornament is the star my son made his first year at school. And it's my favourite colour too pic.twitter.com/qlsomrfpop

— The Mommy Mix (@TheMommyMix) December 17, 2015

@CBCParents, a cpl treasures from yrs past. My son had a rough day in gr2 when they made the angels #CBCOrnamentLove pic.twitter.com/dgYx8fbkdf

— Scottie Frostad (@scofro14) December 20, 2015

@CBCParents, here are my 9 y/o's & 6 y/o's additions to the #Christmas tree this yr. #lovethem #CBCOrnamentLove pic.twitter.com/tKAjXQnIGk

— Scottie Frostad (@scofro14) December 20, 2015

Best ornament ever!! #cbcornamentlove #ranecancolor #loveit pic.twitter.com/6vvOMM8C8B

— Krista Mcleod (@tagirl2011) December 23, 2015