Easy Homemade Garden Ornaments

Beautiful and easy homemade garden ornaments for kids to make.  Terrific decorations for your own backyard, porch or patio, or for kids to make as gifts for parents, grandparents, teachers or neighbours!

We’ve made some gorgeous homemade ornaments for the garden in the past few years. They’re all hanging ornaments that can be displayed in the garden, in a tree in your yard, or to add a bit of colour and charm to a patio, deck or porch.

Flower Drop Ornaments

Flower Drop Ornaments are super-easy for any age to make, but they’re particularly great for toddlers because they’re so easy!

CD Wind Spinners

Turn a bunch of old, scratched CDs and DVDs into garden art!  Our CD Wind Spinners look great hanging from a tree branch in the yard, and you should see the way they spin in the wind!

Bead and Bauble Sun Catcher

makes a lovely gift, and it was really easy to make.  This is another great fine-motor craft for little hands.  We hung our sun catcher in the kitchen window all winter, and the hooligans loved how the prism scattered light all over the kitchen walls on sunny days.  

Rainbow Wind Chimes

Our Rainbow Wind Chimes continue to be one of my favourite homemade outdoor ornaments ever. We made them out of a bunch of sticks we’d collected on a walk one day.

Summer Stars Twig Ornament

Here’s another gorgeous garden craft you can make after going on a stick hunt with your kids.  These twig stars are so simple to make, and again, great for really young children as there’s no rhyme or reason to how you decorate them

Pringles Can Wind Sock

Our Pringles Can Wind Sock was fun and easy to make, and the ribbons look wonderful fluttering in the wind.  This is another project that can brighten up a little spot in your child’s outdoor play area.

Patriotic Wind Twirlers

we have a couple of patriotic garden crafts.  You can make these Patriotic Wind Twirlers for Canada Day or for the 4th of July.  Actually, you could make them for any patriotic holiday as long as you paint them in your country’s colours.  You can hang these ornaments all in a row to form a twirling banner on your front porch!