Make Your Own Beaded Christmas Ornaments

There are many different kinds of beaded Christmas ornaments from the simple ones for children to make to quite complex ones that are challenging for adults. The styles can be as simple as threading beads on a wire or bead weaving or brickwork beading. The types of ornaments that can be made with beads include angels, Santa's, trees, balls, snowflakes, icicles and anything else that takes your fancy. Whatever kind of beading level you are at there is an interesting beading Christmas ornament for you to make.

Simple Bead Christmas Ornaments

An easy bauble can be made by threading matching beads of different sizes on wire that has been twisted into a bauble shape. This type of Christmas bauble can be effective especially if gold or silver beads are used with coloreds such as red and bells. Or seed beads can be strung on wire and twisted to make spirals and hung on the tree. Children like pony beads and they can be used to make Christmas decorations following simple patterns. The beads are just threaded onto string or wire with the thread going through the beads in both directions to keep the beads in place).

Another simple beaded Christmas ornament is making snowflakes where the beads are placed on wire, and the wires wound together to make the snowflake shape. There are even preformed snowflake wires available to make it easier.

More Complex Beaded Christmas Ornaments

Slightly more involved beaded ornaments can be made using safety pins to hold the beads then an angel can be made using a number of safety pins linked together to form a skirt. Using this technique you can make angels or Santa's to sit on table tops.More complex snowflakes can be made using pins glued into cork; the cork can also be covered with seed beads to hide it.

Challenging Beadwork Ornaments

The more challenging beaded Christmas tree ornaments require more knowledge of beading techniques such as brick work stitch or more confidence working with wire. Most of these ornaments are made following patterns- for bead weaving or freestyle for some of the wire work. There are some lovely designs available using beads of varying sizes to create interesting patterns on snowflakes or angels.

Whatever kind of beading you like doing there is a beaded Christmas ornament for you to make. Most beaded Christmas decorations can be enhanced by the quality of the beads you use, for truly stunning bead ornaments use beads such as Swarovski crystals - there is little to beat the reflections from good crystal ornaments on your tree.  Discover the pleasure of making your own beaded Christmas tree ornaments today.