Make your Christmas decorations more unique with some simple DIY ideas
One of the most enchanting features of the Christmas festivities is their ability to envelop everything in magic: from the streets to the shops, and on into everyone's homes, Christmas decorations of all kinds are put up: the tree, the lights, the garlands, and more. However, there's always room for a bit of creativity, for DIY projects that allow us to personalize every detail of the Christmas decorations at home.
Various objects and materials - natural or not - can be used to create DIY decorations. Below, we provide some inspiration for unleashing your creativity and adding a unique touch to your home:
Branches for natural and elegant Christmas decorations
If you have a garden or a nearby park, it's easy to find dry branches in wintertime. If you've done some pruning, this is an even easier to source. And, with branches, you can create a bit of everything for your Christmas decorations. You can make entire Christmas trees, but also suspended decorations to hang up various ornaments above the dining table, for example.
A sturdier branch can serve as a support for hanging up Christmas stockings for Santa to fill. And a string of lights always adds a nice finishing touch.
Branch arrangements in vases can be a very elegant and creative alternative to more traditional combinations of leaves and berries. Alternatively, they can replace the small Christmas trees that you might sometimes place on furniture tops or on shelves.
With the right branches - especially flexible ones - you can make a wreath to hang on the front door, and its add-on decorations can be chosen according to your personal preferences.
Popcorn festoons
Wrapping the Christmas tree branches with a tinsel festoon or draping one around the fireplace mantel is a traditional decoration that never loses its charm. However, wouldn't it much more fun (and tasty!) to make one with popcorn? You can also alternate the popped corn pieces with red berries, orange slices, or cinnamon sticks!
Christmas candles with spices
Cinnamon sticks are perfect for decorating regular candles, whether white or colored. Encircle the candle with the cinnamon sticks and use twine to bind everything together, and you're done!
And staying with spices: have you ever thought that the Star Anise is a perfect decoration, with its unmistakable shape, is perfect to decorate candles with?
Paper stars for Christmas
For those who enjoy working with paper and cardboard, there are a thousand ideas to create decorative stars to hang up wherever you like: on the wall, on the tree, in the windows, or even suspended from the ceiling. The color of the paper, as well as the use of glitter or paint, can be customized in a myriad ways.
They may look like complicated objects, but often it's just a matter of folding and cutting the paper in the right positions, and these paper stars quickly come to life!
Red berries for your Christmas decorations
If there's one color we associate with Christmas more than any other, it's red, and red berries are widely used in decorations (often believed to be a symbol of good luck). With branches of berries - real or fake - you can create, for example, a beautiful wreath.
Branches full of berries are beautiful in flower vases: you really don't need anything else to liven up the atmosphere.
And they work great to decorate shelves and countertops, not just on the mantlepiece. Given their vibrant color, if the house is furnished in white, the contrast will be dramatic... But this doesn't mean berry-laden branches won't look great with other background colors too!
Ready to decorate Christmas at home with some DIY?
