My good friend Minhee helped me plan Charlie’s birthday party, and she came up with the idea to let the kids make their own polaroid ornaments as favors. Each kid had a mini polaroid taken of themself, and then put it inside their ornament and filled it with fun little bobbles.

I thought this would also be a great family project to do each Christmas as a DIY time capsule ornament. You could fill an ornament with a family picture, little trinkets that represent each person or what happened to them that year, and even a little note! I can imagine how much fun it’ll be to make these every year and reminisce on ones from years past when you pull them out each Christmas.

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Though it’s always fun to use a polaroid camera, you can always print a picture on your computer or use one of the Instagram printing services.

This is what you’ll need:

  • polaroid instax camera & film
  • clear ornament (we used the 60mm size but there are other sizes available)
  • ribbon (to hang the ornament)
  • pom poms, bells, paper, ribbon, etc. to decorate the ornament

Then just fill the ornament with what you’d like and hang on your tree! Happy crafting!

party photos: Marc Goldberg Photography