This week we’ve been making this GORGEOUS YARN WRAPPED CHRISTMAS BAUBLE CRAFT. We just adore how bright and colourful they are!
These homemade baubles are super simple for little hands to make and kids will be delighted at how pretty they turn out.
The cutting out and yarn wrapping also gives little fingers lots of opportunity to develop their fine motor skills too.
We just love making our own Christmas ornaments to decorate our tree. It’s so fun to snuggle up together on cold Winter afternoons and enjoy some Christmas craft time together.
We’ve made these pretty Christmas baubles with some old cardboard boxes and lovely rainbow coloured wool. It’s a great recycled craft to make use of old packaging and yarn scraps!
We love the rainbow yarn because our tree is full of an eclectic mix of ornaments in every colour you can imagine and these homemade baubles finish it off nicely.
However, if you’re a bit more organised than us and have a colour theme for your Christmas tree, you can of course make your DIY baubles with coloured yarn to match your other Christmas ornaments and decorations.
It’s amazing what crafting magic you can create with a bit of yarn isn’t it! We’ve got lots of other yarn based Christmas activities you might like to take a look at while you’re here too.
More Yarn Christmas Crafts:
- Trim Santa’s Beard Scissor Skills Craft
- Yarn Wrapped Reindeer Ornaments
- Yarn Wrapped Candles
- Stick and Yarn Christmas Trees
- Yarn Wrapped Stars
- Scrap Yarn Christmas Trees
How To Make Yarn Christmas Baubles
Christmas Bauble Craft Supplies:
- Scrap Cardboard Packaging
- White Paper
- Rainbow Yarn
- Gold Glitter Cardstock
- Gold Glitter Pipe Cleaners
- Scissors
- Sticky Tape
- Glue
DIY Yarn Bauble Craft Tutorial
1 – We wanted a white background to our baubles so we glued some white paper onto our old cardboard packaging and then cut out a circle. You can make the circle any size you like. Ours were about 8cm across.
2 – Next we cut a gold glitter pipe cleaner in half and bent it in the middle. We sticky taped an end onto each side of the cardboard circle to make a loop for hanging your bauble on the Christmas tree.
(If you don’t have pipe cleaners you could use a loop of yarn or string instead.)
3 – To decorate our cardboard bauble we sticky cut a length of rainbow yarn and sticky taped one end next to the pipe cleaner loop. Then we started to wrap the yarn all around the bauble.
4 – When we’d covered the bauble ornament with a good colouring of yarn we taped the loose end under next to the pipe cleaner. If you’re making this Christmas ornament with young children you might like to cut little notches around the edge of the cardboard circle to help them keep the yarn in place as they wrap.
5 – Next, to hide the ends of yarn, pipe cleaner and sticky tape we cut two rectangles out of gold glitter card. Then to make them a little more fancy we cut a scalloped edge along one side.
6 – Finally we glued the gold glitter card pieces onto the either side of the bauble.
We think these yarn wrapped ornaments look so colourful and cheerful and the pipe cleaner loops at the top make them really easy for little hands to hang them on the Christmas tree!
You can print the craft instructions below.
More Fun Christmas Crafts To Enjoy:
Yarn Wrapped Christmas Bauble Craft
Make colourful Yarn wrapped Baubles for the Christmas tree.
Materials
- Scrap Cardboard Packaging
- White Paper
- Rainbow Yarn
- Gold Glitter Cardstock
- Gold Glitter Pipe Cleaners
- Scissors
- Sticky Tape
- Glue
Instructions
- Glue some white paper onto old cardboard packaging and then cut out a circle.
- Cut a gold glitter pipe cleaner in half, bend it in the middle to make a loop and tape it to the circle.
- Sticky tape one end of a length of rainbow yarn onto the top of the circle. wrap and wrap it around and then sticky tape the other end to the top of the circle too.
- Cut two gold glitter rectangles and scallop along one edge.
- Glue them back to back onto either side of the bauble to hide the sticky tape.