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These cool ornaments impressed all of B’s relatives when we gave them as presents last year. Plus, I love the idea of still having two-year-old B swinging on my Christmas tree in 20 or 30 years.
![](https://www.livehoppy.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/finished-laminated-swing-ornament-on-christmas-tree-2.jpg)
This is a fun laminator project and slightly older kids could probably even help make them.
Yes, I know it is no where close to Christmas time right now but I thought this might be a good project to do for people that have extra time at home right now.
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Supplies needed includes:
- A laminator – The budget models are super cheap on Amazon. You can get them starting at like $20. If you think you might really be into laminating though I’d recommend one like this with a wider input. I have a 9 inch one. Even though it works fine, I find it’s hard to feed everything in perfectly straight sometimes. I wish I had the extra room so I didn’t have to be so careful with things. The laminating sheets go a little past the thing you want to laminate so with a 8.5 inch paper there’s not much room to spare with a 9 inch input.
- Laminating sheets – I use these ones.
- A utility knife
- A cutting mat
- Ribbon or string to be the new ‘chain’ for the swing.
You’ll also need a picture of you child on a swing. The background doesn’t matter since we’ll be cutting it out anyway. For mine, I just printed these out on photo paper, but you could order prints at Walgreens, Walmart or another store. Here’s the one I used.
![young child on a swing](https://www.livehoppy.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/original-b-on-swing-picture.jpg)
If you want to make multiples so you have some to give away, you’ll need a picture for each ornament. I decided to save on ink by cropping the images and putting them side-by-side.
![duplicate swing pictures](https://www.livehoppy.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/b-on-swing-multiples-236x300.jpg)
Then I carefully cut out each one with a utility knife. I cut the chain off above his hands because the ribbon will be the new ‘chain’.
![swing picture with background cut off](https://www.livehoppy.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/b-on-swing-picture.jpg)
Once I had them all cut out, I laminated them. This serves to protect them forever and also to make them stronger for threading the ribbon through. I then cut around the image, leaving just a bit of the clear edge.
![laminated child on swing image for making a christmas ornament](https://www.livehoppy.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/front-side-laminated-ornament.jpg)
Next up was making some small slits for the ribbon to go through.
![](https://www.livehoppy.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/front-side-laminated-ornament-with-ribbon.jpg)
I wanted to make it look like he was holding onto the ribbon so it goes behind the ornament where his hands are.
![](https://www.livehoppy.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/back-side-laminated-ornament.jpg)
Then we had to get a tree to hang it on! (We picked one from our land that was too crowded and would have to be thinned out anyway.)
![a toddler with the smallest christmas tree](https://www.livehoppy.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/christmas-tree-with-b-225x300.jpg)
Here’s the final look.
![](https://www.livehoppy.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/finished-laminated-swing-ornament-on-christmas-tree.jpg)
These were fun to make and I’m super pleased with how they turned out. Plus they made great gifts for the grandparents.
Here’s a few other laminated Christmas ornaments I made the year before. For these ones, I used pictures from the previous Christmas.
![](https://www.livehoppy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/laminated-christmas-tree-ornaments-1024x683.jpg)
And for this one, I used one of B’s handprints.
![](https://www.livehoppy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/laminated-christmas-tree-ornaments-2-1024x683.jpg)
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