Making your home look cosy and Christmassy is one of the best parts of the festive season! So if you’re looking for some inspiration and ideas for how to make cute Christmas decorations, you’ve come to the right place. From nature-inspired wreaths and fun garland strings to creative ornaments, here are our favourite decorative Christmas crafts!
Our top Christmas decoration ideas:
1. Wreath Ideas
Wreaths are a wonderful way to make your home look festive, and because they’re usually displayed on the front door, they’ll be the first thing your visitors see.
To make a basic wreath, you’ll need to start with a circle fashioned from thin wire. From there, you can let your creativity take the lead. Many people enjoy making traditional nature-inspired wreaths — do a bit of foraging for materials, shape twigs or greenery around your wire circle, and add pops of colour and texture with berries, pinecones, flowers and more.
However, there are also loads of other cool and unique wreath ideas floating around on the internet. Fancy making a wreath from Christmas baubles? Check out the instructions for that project here! Or maybe a pom-pom wreath is more your style? How about a wreath made from green and red balloons? The possibilities are endless…
2. Garland Ideas
Garlands are another super cute and incredibly easy Christmas decoration. Making them is also a great family activity and something you can all do while watching Christmas films or drinking hot chocolate and chatting around the fire.
Basic Christmas garlands can be made by looping thin strips of paper and connecting them in a chain. You can do a DIY version at home, or many supermarkets and shops sell kits for these types of garlands during the Christmas season. You can also cut out shapes — stars, hearts, snowflakes, gingerbread men — and then use a hole-punch to create holes to feed a string through. Instant Christmas cheer!
Of course, many of us will remember turning food into garlands as children! Feed popcorn or fruit like cranberries through a threaded needle until your garland is long enough to wrap around the tree or across the mantelpiece. The biggest challenge here is not eating all the popcorn as you go!
That said, there are many other more creative garland ideas online. For instance, if you have an old jigsaw with missing pieces, you can turn it into this incredible garland! For a slightly more advanced garland project, try these candy cane garlands — this one involves using the oven, so adult supervision is required.
3. Ornament Ideas
Making some fun ornaments is also a great way to make your home feel more festive. Of course, ornaments aren’t limited to being hung on the tree. You can also display them on the mantelpiece, in the windows or on the tabletop for Christmas dinner.
Many young children enjoy making ornaments from salt dough — the BBC has full instructions here. If you fancy something different this year, these Rudolph Twig Ornaments are easy to make but also look adorable. These Mini Yarn Hat Ornaments are a cute and original way to spruce up your tree. And if you want a keepsake ornament, these Clay Handprint Ornaments are a brilliant way to make things merry and bright this festive season and beyond…
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Why did Father Christmas attend music lessons? So he could improve his wrapping!
