| Kommentar | (ball-shaped/round) Christmas(-tree) ornaments
~ (glass) (Christmas-tree) balls
There seems to be an AE/BE difference here. For us, 'bauble' is an old-fashioned word now used only figuratively, for shiny, frivolous decorations that have little intrinsic value. We don't use it for any literal modern ornament, AFAIK. If I heard someone use it in relation to a Christmas tree, I personally might picture something much smaller than a full-size ornament, more like the kind of tiny shiny balls (1/4 - 1/2 inch) that sometimes come in chains, like garlands.
If the context was already Christmas decorations, the word for the spherical Christmas-tree ornaments, as opposed to other ornaments, would just be, well, ornaments. Or maybe also just balls. Here, you take this box of elves and I'll do the red ornaments/(glass) balls.
To me an ornament is anything that hangs from or perches individually on one branch, like a ball, a star, a bird, an angel, an elf, a candy cane, etc. Other things that go on the tree I would call decorations, like tinsel (what some people call garland -- fuzzy metallic ropes), icicles (what some people call tinsel -- thin metallic individual strands, used to be real foil), and (strings of) lights. But in general, yes, decorations is the broader category that includes tree ornaments.
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