DIY Wood Slice Ornaments that are Easy to Decorate and Beautiful!

Make your own wood slice ornaments quickly with a variety of different craft mediums. Get inspired by some fun DIY wood slice ornament ideas!

It’s that time of year when I start thinking about making Christmas ornaments! Since my kids were little, I have always given them an ornament for Christmas that represented what they were into that year.

The first few years I always bought Hallmark ornaments but then I decided it was getting too expensive. Plus it was hard to get one that really would fit their personality.

So the past 5 years I have made them personalized ornaments for much cheaper and they come out so much cuter.

I showed you how I made DIY personalized glitter ornaments and then the next year we made floating Christmas ornament and buffalo plaid handmade ornaments without a cutting machine.

This past year I was going for more natural Christmas decorations so I decided to make them cute DIY wood ornaments. These are probably the easiest and cheapest ones I’ve made!

The great thing is you can make wood slice ornaments in so many different ways.

I hosted a craft party making ornaments, and the decorating wooden slices station was a big hit. My friends came up with all sorts of way to personalize their wooden ornaments.

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Materials Needed for DIY Wood Ornaments

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wood slices – I used these from Amazon (it’s a nice pack of 30 so you can make some for friends!)
paint – acrylic or chalk paint – whatever you have on hand
paint markers (optional)
Cricut and adhesive vinyl (optional)
fabric and mod podge (optional)

How to Make Painted DIY Wood Slice Ornaments

As I said before, there are so many options when it comes to decorating with these wood slices.

You can leave them with the bare wood and have very natural Christmas decorations by just adding a Christmas vinyl decal and bow from the Dollar Store.

Let’s talk about how to decorate wooden ornaments with some paint and vinyl.

For my kiddos’ ornaments, I painted them first with acrylic paint.

Let the paint dry.

I have a Cricut and love using it for these kinds of projects. Decorating wood ornaments is super quick and fun with an electronic cutting machine.

But if you don’t have a Cricut machine, you can always use paint markers and draw on them or even better use the pencil transfer method as I used in my wood slice budget Christmas decor.

I used Cricut Design Space to design files for what my kids were in to.

I cut most of them out with adhesive vinyl, but for my daughter’s book blog logo and the bulldog, I printed it on printable sticker paper. I applied the vinyl with transfer tape.

If you need help in Cricut Design Space, I have quite a few video tutorials in my CDS 101 series that might be helpful.

Other Ways to Decorate Wood Slice Ornaments

For this wooden ornament, I cut out a circle with fabric and glued it down with mod podge. Once it dried I applied the vinyl decal.

Again if you don’t have a cutting machine, you could always cut a printed image or saying out and glue that on top with more mod podge.

Another option would be to use a wood-burning tool. I’m not the best at using one yet, so I don’t have any tutorials on one yet!

You could have your kids use stickers or color whatever they want with Sharpies. The possibilities are endless and these also make for great Christmas party favors!

I have a huge roundup of over 150 DIY Christmas ornaments that has an entire section on wooden ornaments. Make sure to go check it out!

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