Christmas Tradition

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Each year, since my daughter’s first Christmas, I have gotten an ornament for the tree to represent something special for each of the kids.  As babies a “baby’s first Christmas” ornament worked out… But as they have gotten older, it has been fun looking for just the right ornament.

Last year it was Lightning McQueen for my car-obsessed son and a Tinkerbell ornament for my daughter to remind her of her first trip to DIsney World.  The year before that it was a Tonka dump truck (the back even tips!) and a beautiful princess dress on a hanger for my little girl who loves dressing up.

 

I knew just what I wanted to find this year:  Spiderman (Monkey is just starting to get into superheroes) and something in cheetah print (check out my little cheetah from Halloween this year).  While I was having no trouble finding Spiderman, they were all ones that could easily break, not ideal for a 3 year-old.  And there wasn’t a cheetah print ornament to be found anywhere.

Thankfully inspiration hit when I least expected it — in the form of cheetah print tissues.  I was just leaving the craft store when I spotted them next to the cash register.  I had already seen the plastic bulbs that you can fill to create your own ornaments, but at that point I had been trying to figure out if I could find a small enough Spiderman or cheetah to stick in them.  The tissues gave me a whole new idea.

I picked up a pack,  a pack of fabric flowers with a few cheetah print ones in it, and 2 plastic bulbs.Christmas traditions

Once home I cut strips from the tissues and used a chopstick to push the strips all the way into the bulb.  Then I used the hot glue gun to apply the flowers on the outside and tied a black ribbon on for a hanger.cheetah ornament

 

As for Spiderman, I grabbed some blue and red tissue paper from the craft box, cut it into strips to fill the bulb and applied some flashy hologram Spiderman stickers to it.  A red ribbon completed the ornament.ornament tradition

 

My daughter was thrilled with her cheetah ornament, and little guy was all excited when he realized he had a special ornament, too.  Not bad for something so simple and under $4.

 

Do you do something similar for your kids?  What kinds of ornaments have they gotten over the years?

 

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Comments

  1. For my younger siblings I’d always pick an ornament out for them every year. I stopped doing it the past few years, they’re older now, but I always enjoyed looking through the ornaments.

    And they will all have enough ornaments for their own trees when they move out on their own. =)

    A great tradition!

  3. Four years ago our oldest got us an ornament for our Christmas tree, one that represented something important in his current life. That was a really nice thing.

  4. My mom always did this for us too when we were growing up. When I got married she gave me 21 ornaments (one for each year) and they were the first ones to go on our tree. My husband and I get ornaments at each place we travel just as a fun memory of the trip. 🙂 And when we have kids someday we plan to get them an ornament for each year as well. 🙂

  6. First off, I LOVE the tradition of buying an ornament every year! Second, I would have NEVER, thought to make my own! The cheetah one is ADORABLE! this tradition is DEFINITELY something I am going to consider for next year!

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