Vacation Christmas Ornaments to inspire wanderlust and celebrate your travels.
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Tis’ the season. Time to remember all the adventures of the past year, and look forward to the new year coming up. Gifting Travel Christmas ornaments is a fun way to comemorate trips taken with friends and family, or surprise someone with a hint of what’s to come.
Sometimes it’s not possible to find what you are looking for on your round the world travels. That is why we’ve put together our list of favourite handcrafted ornaments from around the (Etsy) globe.
Not to worry DIYers, we’ve also hunted down some easy and sweet DIY travel ornaments for you to get your Holiday craft on too.
Whether you have someone special in mind (yes gifting to yourself counts), plan on using it to as a special gift topper or browsing for ideas, these travel Christmas ornaments will put a little merry and bright into your day.
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Travel Themed Christmas Tree Ornaments (For Everyone On Your Nice List)
Personalized Travel Christmas Ornaments
Travel Bauble With Wooden Signs
Commemorate your yearly travel destinations on tiny customized wooden signs, inside a snow or sand globe. You can can personalize up to 10 signs. Give the gift of precious memories with this travellers ornament.
I love this. What’s on your travel list for this year?
Wooden Road Trip Map – USA
A personalized Travel Ornament made of hard maple, is a unique keepsake for your cross country ROAD TRIP. You can customize the engraving to the stops you made a long the way.
No need to get an ornament from each place you visit when you can map your whole trip in one go. This makes me want to go on a USA road trip, just to buy one of these ornaments.
Pewter Suitcase Ornament
This sweet personalized ornament that would make a wonderful gift for the special traveller in your life (Hint Hint to my family members). Choose 5 or 6 cities / countries to have hand stamped on a pewter suitcase ornament. Pack your bags, let’s go!
Whimsical Globe Ornaments
Whimsical globe ornaments with hand lettered customizable writing. What are you waiting for, the Adventure Awaits!
Vacation Christmas Ornaments
Destination Specific Ornaments
Hand Painted Glass Destination Baubles
Magical hand painted glass baubles will sparkle up your Christmas Tree. Choose your own adventure with skylines of Venice, New York, Montreal, Rome, San Fransisco or ask for a custom order of a special place.
Destination Ceramic Ornaments
Simple clean designs, on ceramic ornaments, made with contemporary Eco-Friendly printing techniques, YES. I want one of these for my tree.
Metal Country & State Themed Christmas Ornaments
These metal country or state themed Christmas Ornaments will shine on the Christmas Tree. Pick from countries around the world including this one shaped like Mexico
Nothing says travelling more than maps.
Before the advent of smart phones I spent many an adventure carrying around a worn map to navigate the side streets of many cities, getting lost and found.
Ceramic Map Ornaments
These map wrapped ceramic ornaments, are delightful. You can choose from ski destinations like this cute Ski Colorado Ornament, or various USA cities such as Sante Fe, Chicago, and San Diego.
They can also map anywhere in the world, to celebrate a wedding, engagement, hometown or vacation destination.
You may also want to check out my article on beautiful and fun Places to Visit in Winter in the USA (psst it includes destinations like Keystone, Chicago and Breckenridge and more snowy vacation spots).
Vintage Map Ornament
Vintage maps encased in high quality glass and silver plated frame make these Map Ornaments, another item high on my wish list.
Customized to any destination in the world, they will be sure to impress your favourite travel lovers (who will also be equally impressed that you were actually listening to their many travel tales).
Upcycled Map Christmas Ornaments
Delightful Map Ornaments created from recycled maps and atlas pages, that can be customized.
USA National Parks Ornaments
Visiting National Parks in the USA is a favourite pastime, whenever I am lucky enough to visit the States. Not only that, with travel restrictions this past summer many people were looking to travel closer to home, and national parks were a common place to visit.
USA National Park Christmas Ornaments
I’ve rounded up my favourite USA National Parks Travel Ornaments from Etsy. Away we go.
Yosemite National Park Wood Christmas Ornament
America’s favourite National Park, laser cut and made with sustainably harvested maple wood.
Yellowstone National Park Ornament
Vintage park design, on a ceramic ornament made with eco-friendly printing techniques.
Bryce Canyon National Park
Show your love for your favourite National Park. Many pinewood options to choose from, and 10% goes to the Park. What more could you ask for?
Grand Canyon & Grand Teton National Park Christmas Tree Ornaments
For a unique, more hand drawn look, choose these wooden Christmas tree ornaments that come in three sizes, and offer a wide selection of parks to pick from.
Add to your Christmas cheer with some handcrafted Holiday Decor. Travel beyond the tree.
Canadian Christmas Ornaments
I’m Canadian, so of course I have to include some of my favourite Canadian themed Christmas ornaments. You definitely should put Canada on your bucket list if you haven’t made it up here yet.
Canadian Christmas Tree Ornaments
Maple Leaf Christmas Ornament
There is no more an iconic symbol of Canada than the Maple Leaf (except maybe hockey). This gorgeous Maple Leaf Ornament is made with real maple leaves, dried, then finished in iridescent copper.
Canadian Hand Painted Glass & Felt Ornaments
One of my favourite local artists is Robbie Craig. His art captures the essence of Canada, and while not your typical destination ornament, these gorgeous representations of Canada will be enjoyed for years to come.
We buy one or two a year, and gift these to friends and family regularly. So far we’ve bought mostly his felt ornaments for ourselves ( young kids = safer). This year, I am eyeing his beautiful hand painted glass ornaments. Photos to come!
Vancouver Wooden Christmas Ornament
Oh Vancouver, where sea and sky meet and the houses cost more than is reasonable. It’s a beautiful place to visit though.
Toronto Glass Ornament
Collectible ornaments, with hand painted destinations from around the world, including Toronto, Calgary, and Vancouver. Add sparkle to the Christmas tree.
DIY Travel Christmas Ornaments
If you are feeling especially festive and crafty, I’ve put together a list of easy DIY Travel Christmas ornaments to inspire wanderlust.
Photo: Zolotaosen via canva.com
Easy DIY Travel Themed Christmas Tree
- Souvenirs – take all those trinkets, key chains, and small souvenirs from your travels over the years just sitting in a box somewhere, add some twine, a paperclip and hang on your tree. A Travel Theme Christmas tree made easy.
- Postcards & Photos – Take your favourite travel photos, and/or postcards, pin to a strand of twinkling lights with mini-clothespins and drape around your tree.
- DIY Mason Jar Ring Map Ornament – oh this looks so fun & easy enough for kids to make | Happy Mothering
- Suitcase Ornaments – perfect use for all those empty altoid tins and scraps of fabric. Add a few travel stickers and you are ready to travel! | Sadie Seasonsgood
- Easy Map Ornament Tutorial – commemorate your travels with Maps + Craft Paper tags = sweet memories | Blue i Style
- Salt Shaker Snow Globes – Put in a favourite travel photo, switch out the snow for sand, and make it a travel snow globe |The Soccer Mom Blog
Now that you have 25 beautiful and fun ideas for Travel Christmas Tree Ornaments you are well on your way to making someone’s holiday season. Or maybe you want to decorate a Travel Christmas Tree of your own ( no judgement, I’m almost there myself).
Which one is your favourite? How do you like to incorporate your travels into holiday decorations? Let us know in the comments below, or connect with us on social media. We’d love to hear from you!
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Cool post, I need all the ornaments on the list!! I love them
These are great! I want all of them. I’m going to pin it to my “someone tell my husband to buy me this” board.
Love it! I need one of those boards too.
Wow! What a great list. How would one even choose? I’m definitely partial to those wooden national park ones!
Lots of great products! So many that I would like to receive myself! I need to look at these more closely for my traveling friends.
Great post! We always try to pick up a Christmas ornament when we travel. They can be hard to find when we travel during the summer: thanks for your tips so we canorder on-line.
My husband and I love to grab an ornament from a vacation destination. My current favorite is the one we got from Paris!
Great post and I love all the different travel ornaments. I’m never thought of getting one from a national park but that is happening the next time we go.
I love the idea of a Travel Christmas Tree filled with travel souvenirs and pictures! What a great way to relive those amazing memories!
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I absolutely love this idea and I am not sure why I never thought of it! I love the idea of having all your travel adventures on display. I usually collect key chains and I actually think I want to someday try to unhook them from their ring and tie string instead to use them as ornaments. Thank you so much for sharing this!
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Great ideas and what a wonderful clever post! I love all of these but my favorite is the map made of maple wood. Thanks for sharing!