This Christmas decorate your home with handmade details made with natural and recycled elements. They are easy ideas to create a unique and original decoration. Do you know what a crafty Christmas is? It is the one that we mold to our liking, with our hands, affection, ingenuity and a lot of creativity. And best of all: it is unique. We propose you simple projects, crafts that pamper the details. Choose with what handmade idea you are going to decorate your house these holidays.
HOW TO MAKE DIY CHRISTMAS BALLS
You can start having your homemade Christmas decorations by following this video tutorial to create balls for the tree. You will need different patterned wrapping paper, white craft glue, and clear ball ornaments. To start creating your homemade Christmas decorations. Cut the gift wrapping paper into strips one centimeter thick and about two centimeters wide. Now, with a brush, spread the white glue over the entire surface of the ball and randomly adhere the strips that you have previously cut. Reapply a coat of glue and allow the balls to dry. Observe the result of this decoration and, if you wish, you can add more papers with another coat of glue and papers until this DIY Christmas ornament is to your liking.
Christmas is for many a time of nostalgia, that is why it is very common to remember how we lived Christmas a few years ago and how we celebrate it now. However, do not allow anyone to lose the illusion. The elderly or grandparents can participate in the party if they help with the small details, so invite them to come to your house delighted and help you make some of these 70 ideas to decorate your home at Christmas.
However, the little ones in the house are the real enjoyments. While Santa Claus and the Three Wise Men arrive, they will have a lot of free time. Take advantage of these dates to cook with them, play a lot and feed their ecofriendly spirit with these details that we include in the guide to decorate and spend a beautiful homemade Christmas with children.
DIY GIFT WRAPPING IDEAS
If you are involved in recycling and want to have a #zerowaste Christmas, you will like these tips to wrap the gifts of Santa Claus and the Three Wise Men in a sustainable way. When the economy is not with you, it is very important to do magic with the resources you have, so wrapping a present well takes center stage.
Another great idea is to use the Japanese furoshiki technique , which is very simple and has an incredible aesthetic result. It involves, for example, putting a book in the center of a handkerchief and wrapping it. Take the two ends, perpendicular, and tie a nice knot and voila!
1- FILL THE TABLE WITH FLOWERS
Poinsettia or possenttia in cornet ornaments to dress the christmas table
The Poinsettia is a more than showy plant. In addition to putting pots with poinsenttias on the table or using it to make a flower arrangement, we encourage you to make this original craft. You will only need a card stock or silver-tone paper to make a cone. Surround the container with a cloth ribbon and add a red Christmas ball. Finish the DIY ornament with two or three branches, which you will hang from each of the diners’ chairs.
2- DIY CHRISTMAS BALLS FOR KIDS
The crafts will delight your children. You can go through many video tutorials and you are going to create very original balls to decorate the tree this year. There are many ideas to fill plastic ornaments with packaging paper, ribbons, hearts, bows, paper, paint, pebbles, small rubber toys, salt or sugar, wax paints, beads … Imagination has no limits, get inspired and creates!
3- FROM NATURE TO HOME
Christmas crafts Christmas trees made with branches and sticks
If you do not have much space for your Christmas tree or you want to change it for one with a more rustic air, create your own tree with branches or small trunks. Find a base to support it on, such as a wooden dowel. Choose a branch to act as the trunk of your tree. From this, glue or use invisible nails to put the crossed branches, from larger to smaller, from bottom to top. At the top, place a star carved out of wood or cork. Decorate your creation with small LED lights or hanging ornaments, such as balls of yarn.
4- CROWN YOURSELF THESE HOLIDAYS
Christmas crafts advent wreaths on the window
Welcome your guests with a beautiful Christmas Wreath hanging on the door. The first thing you have to do is choose the base. You can make a cardboard or wire hoop , or use an old hula hoop that you have at home. The more you weigh, the more consistent the hoop needs to be. You can line it with scraps of velvet fabric or hair, also make different colored leaves shapes with eva rubber, or wrap tree branches on the wires and glue pinecones, a bow or a bell with glue.
5- A TREE ON A SHELF
Christmas crafts Christmas tree made with gift boxes
Remove the books from the shelf and make way for the gifts. It is about forming a triangle with boxes of various sizes and finishing them with a star, fixed to the wall. Wrap each box as if it were a gift, with various papers and their ties and labels. It is an original and very attractive solution. You dare? House Doctor atmosphere.
6- ON A BRANCH
Christmas crafts branches with Christmas balls
A walk in the countryside, a dead branch, some pine cones … What can I do? A natural arrangement for the house. Hang the branch with silk thread from the ceiling or place it in a vase (weighted at the base). Glue the pineapples with hot silicone to the branch and hang various Christmas decorations: balls, stars, a textile accessory … It occurs to us to place the already assembled branch in front of a window and even roll up a garland of lights so that it can be seen from the street at night. Ornaments, similar in Greengate.
7- WITH SOME PLANKS
Christmas crafts christmas coat rack
Some pine or DM planks, cut to the same size and joined at the back to a pair of slats, which give consistency to the piece. Attach some handles or hangers to the bottom end and decorate it however you like. Here they have been painted in green and red. Get the faded effect of paint by mixing it with plenty of water. You can also use the slats from a pallet. DMC environment.
8- 2D TREE ON THE WALL WITH WASHI TAPE
At this point, there are few craftyaddicts who do not know the possibilities of washi tape, but if you are one of those who start in handmade tasks , you should know that it is a decorated paper zeal, useful for customizing everything that comes your way. head. Shall we cheer up with this tree on the wall? Simple and light. Use two or three models of washi tape, cut strips of different lengths and mount the Christmas fir tree on the wall, according to this design. It has been made with adhesive tape from the MT firm, distributed by Mandisign.
9- WITH CANDLES AND NUTS
Christmas decoration with pine branches, candles and nuts, with hm styling
The simplest idea often has a brilliant result. This still life proposed by the H&M firm fits in all types of environments. You will only need a few branches of pine or fir submerged in a vase, as a small Christmas tree. The white candles, a symbol of purity, form a very natural center, embedded in a container full of nuts.
10- GIFTS IN A SACK
Christmas crafts christmas sack for gifts
A piece of burlap cloth becomes a sack for storing gifts. But, what do you think if we decorate it to our liking? Place a plastic inside so that the paint does not transfer from one face to another. Make a template with the motif you prefer and transfer it to the fabric with textile paint (better by tapping the brush, without dragging the paint excessively). Let dry and follow the instructions of the manufacturer of the paint you use (some have to be ironed to fix the pigments). Store gifts, charcoal for the little ones or give it volume with crumpled papers inside and decorate a corner or place several sacks under the tree. Sack, sold at Tape Pink.
11- SHOW OFF YOUR CHRISTMAS
Christmas crafts garlands to hang Christmas
This year, do not leave the Christmas greetings that you receive from your family and friends around the house. Use them to decorate by pinning them on a cork and giving them the shape of a Christmas tree, hanging them along the staircase, or creating original decorative objects, such as this lined hanger from which branches adorned with pine cones hang and Christmas postcards hanging from them. Styling: Alex Mata and Lis Engelhart.
12- THE DELICACY OF GLASS AND YOUR CREATIVITY
Christmas Crafts Glass Christmas Balls
Glass is a trend this year to decorate Christmas. If you want a special composition to incorporate into your Christmas accessories, we propose a perfect and simple arrangement. Get several crystal balls, in various sizes. With paint or glass markers, decorate some balls with Christmas motifs. Here, the stars and snowflakes have been dyed red and gold. You can also fill a ball with ribbons or colored beads. Once the paint dries, you will only have to hang them with silk thread or cord in a corner of the ceiling. Affari signature environment.
13- EVERY DAY A SURPRISE
One of the Christmas traditions that little ones like the most is the Advent calendar. Every day, they will be looking forward and nervous to opening a box. If you want to reuse it, make it out of fabric or felt, if not, cardboard, envelopes or glasses. A good idea is to use a board or blackboard, and from side to side, put 4 strings with envelopes taken by tweezers with the number of each day.
14- CHRISTMAS IS ALSO ROMANTIC
Hearts are also a must among the reasons for these holidays. They are mixed with bells, wings, angels, stars, reindeer … This composition gives off a lot of romanticism due to its shapes and the abuse of hearts. It is a hanger, type Advent calendar, which is used here as a wall ornament, with figures and gifts on the hangers. It is from the Hübsch Interior firm.
15- SURPRISES IN THE TREE
A scrap of esparto or sack cloth has inspired this idea: an Advent calendar on the tree. Sew small bags, 10 cm wide x 15 cm high, and embroider numbers on each one with stitches or the cross stitch technique. If you are going to make a calendar, you will have to make one for each day that remains until Christmas (or the date that you want to put, for example, Three Kings Day). Hide inside some candies or chocolates, that the little ones or not so little discover every day. Tie each bag with a piece of string to the branches of the tree. It is also a solution to place those little details for your friends or family on Christmas or Three Kings day. Ikea atmosphere.
16- ORIGAMI GIFTS
Do you want to show off? Then prepare a detail to entertain your guests. Leave a gift on the plate of each of the diners. Take a template and shape some boxes, which you can later animate with written messages, a lace or ribbon and a mini wooden ornament. This year, the most natural trend of Christmas abuses wood. From Micasa we suggest that you choose mini wooden slices to write messages or put the name of the recipient of the gift. You will find them in Holamama Shop. Ib Laursen’s Environment.
17- SIMPLICITY TO POWER TO PACK
Even the least virtuous deserves an ideal packaging result. You just have to get hold of the craft supplies. At this time the stores (physical and online) are filled with all kinds of stationery accessories that facilitate our work. A smooth paper (the craft papers type, in solid colors, are ideal) is animated here with adhesive tapes. You don’t even have to shape a bow with textile or paper tape. It is enough to surround the package with tape, as if it were tape or packing tape. Villeroy & Boch atmosphere.
18- DETAILS MATTER
A gift is always an illusion but it must be noted that it has been chosen with care, thinking of the person who is going to receive it. A good gift is one that is made with love. The gift itself is important but also its presentation. Sharpen your wit, make use of your most creative repertoire and think about how you are going to decorate the gifts this year. Take note of this idea: a nice paper, a colored ribbon, a sticker (it is essential to indicate who the package is for) and a button. It’s a Blaubloom idea.
19- SWEET ADVENT CALENDAR
Do you want a cute and sweet Advent calendar? This do-it-yourself idea involves a session between the stove. Knead and bake muffins, muffins or cakes and store them, once cold, in bags with numbers, one for each day until December 25. Then you just have to hang them with ribbons from a branch. It is an idea of Na Lua Dulce.
20- RECYCLED ORNAMENTS
Christmas crafts window decorations
How about painting or aging ornaments from other years, those that no longer excite you? They will look like new with a coat of acrylic paint or enamel. You can also apply just a gold, silver or copper patina (copper reflections are so trendy) and then varnish to protect the finish. Tie a cotton string to the ornament ring (for a very natural look) and hang several at different heights from a doorknob or in the corner of a cupboard. Ornaments, similar in Greengate.
