Decorate your Christmas tree with handmade and fun old jeans Christmas ornaments! I’ll teach you how to upcycle your old jeans into beautiful ornaments that make a nice keepsake gift.
I love to reuse and upcycle, so I created the old jeans Christmas ornaments 5-Day Challenge. Would you like to join me in making these fun Christmas ornaments out of good old jeans?
Get the patterns and detailed step-by-step tutorials for all five old jeans ornaments delivered right to your inbox. Fill out the form at the bottom of this post and get all the PDF downloadables.
You might already have all the materials needed for the Old Jeans Christmas 5-Day Challenge at home and fully stocked craft corners. But just in case you are missing some items, I posted a shopping list for each ornament. This post contains some affiliate links for your convenience (which means if you make a purchase after clicking a link, I will earn a small commission, but it won’t cost you a penny more)!
DAY 1
Old Jeans Angel Ornament
MATERIALS:
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old jeans
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wooden button (for face) – this particular one I used I got from Walmart
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two seed beads (for eyes)
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1/2 yard white trim
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jute cord
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small heart button or heart bead
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hot glue gun
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basic sewing tools
DAY 2
Spool Ornament
MATERIALS:
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small piece of old jeans
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wooden spool
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1 yard of jute cord
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wooden beads – red and brown or natural color
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white embroidery thread
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hand needle
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hot glue gun
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scissors
DAY 3
Whimsical Heart Ornament
MATERIALS:
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piece of old jeans
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scrap of quilting fabric
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a scrap of lightweight interfacing
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fiberfill
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jute cord
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dowel
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basic sewing tools
DAY 4
Nativity Christmas Ornament
MATERIALS:
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old jeans
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scrap of quilting fabric for the stable
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scrap of lightweight interfacing
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star button
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nativity buttons
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8″ of jute cord plus some more for the roof
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fiberfill
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hot glue gun
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basic sewing tools
DAY 5
Gnome Ornament
MATERIALS:
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old jean
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small piece of cardboard
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white yarn
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1″ wooden ball or wooden knob
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heart bead
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jute cord
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hot glue gun
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basic sewing tools
Free PDF Printables For the Old Jeans Christmas Ornaments 5-Day Challenge
Get the Five free patterns with tutorials here by filling out this form:
I am sure you’ll enjoy upcycling old jeans into ornaments as much as I do. I love reusing old garments so much that I designed more ornaments that you can make out of old jeans. Also, you may like my other old jeans upcycling project idea, but this time, into Christmas stockings.
Happy Sewing!
Love,
Agnes
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Unfortunately the nativity buttons are no longer available on Amazon. Any other suggestions for this ornament?
Jeanne, Hobby Lobby should have them. Especially when they start putting out Christmas crafts.
Agnes I’m sorry I just saw this. Would you please share your gnome jean ornament please?
Karen, just sign up in the sign-up box on the page and you will receive an email with all the patterns.
Thx
I am just finding this app and I know that it is over but can I please get the free pattern for the Jean ornaments if not I understand that you have rules thanks for sharing
Donna, if you go to that specific post on my blog, you will find a sign up box for this challenge. Sign up and the patterns will be emailed to you.
I love these ornaments! Thank you so much for the ideas, what a great way to use old jeans.
Thank you Joy! Enjoy making them and also check out my other post on How to upcycle old jeans into stocking and DIY Easy Denim Christmas Ornaments
I just wanted to let you know that I love the idea of the 5 Day Ornament Challenge. My problem however is that when I try to print the ANGEL pattern, I only get the words. No photos to go by. It would be wonderful is that could be fix so that I have a photo to go by!!! Thanks again for the beautiful Old Jeans patterns!!!!
Thank you Pat for your insight. I will get the photo on the pdf file soon.