If there is anything more wonderful than your house being decorated for Christmas, it is making the decorations yourself. Handmade Christmas decorations can be really sophisticated, elegant, and longer-lasting than the shop-bought kind. The joy of crafting and decorating during the holiday season is half the fun, plus it gets children using their creative skills.
In this article you will find handmade Christmas tree ornaments, Christmas Tabletop Trees, Gingerbread houses, Wreaths and garlands. There are some truly amazing decorations you can make!
Christmas Tree Ornaments
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Salt dough Ornaments
Making things for Christmas such as ornaments is a wonderful way to enjoy the simple aspect of the season. Salt dough ornaments is perhaps one of the most gratifying handmade Christmas decoration. Here’s how to create beautiful salt dough ornaments with pantry ingredients, and it is so simple! Make sure you have a beautiful mold, to ensure your ornament turns out dainty!
Gingerbread Cookies
Gingerbread cookies cut into interesting and festive shapes is the perfect activity you can do with your Children to spread christmas cheer. They will love mixing, baking, and cutting them, but the piece de resistance will be icing them. Get a Gingerbread cookie recipe here, plus some decoration inspiration! They will make your tree smell and look so good! Make sure you have cookie cutters to make beautiful and intricate shapes!
Dried Orange Slice Ornaments
Handmade ornaments add that old-world feel to your home this time of year. That touch of whimsical and those feelings of nostalgia are what Christmas is all about. Orange slice ornaments are one of those little details that help to cultivate the coziness you’re striving for as well.
Pinecone Ornaments
Create a one-of-a-kind holiday decoration with this easy rustic style pinecone star ornament craft. This festive project is perfect for kids and adults alike. All you need is a few simple supplies, some creativity, and your holiday spirit! I love how this brings the outside into your holiday decorations!
Burlap Ornaments
These Burlap flowers are rustic and beautiful. The burlap compliments the Christmas tree really well, and with hints of sparkle and glitter, they really do add a touch of sophistication. Learn how to make them here.
Handmade Ornamental Christmas Trees
Recycled Book Christmas Tree
Decorating your home for Christmas can get a bit pricey, can’t it? Especially if you are like me and have to have every surface Christmas-fied. What I like to do is recycle and transform things that may be headed for the rubbish into something magical and festive. These miniature Christmas Trees are perfect – they make these recycled book pages into a piece of art! Learn how to do it here. It’s so easy, your kids could do it!
Beaded Christmas Tree
This beaded tabletop Christmas Tree is a beautiful, elegant Christmas decoration. The iridescent pearls catch the light and bring a bit of sparkle and magic to your decor. Learn how to make them here.
Yarn Christmas Tree
These Yarn Christmas Trees are super elegant, minimal, and festive. Your kids can help you wind the yarn while you glue, and the best thing is that you can adapt the colours based on your Christmas Palette.
Gingerbread House Construction
Simple Graham Cracker Gingerbread Houses
Decorating gingerbread houses is a fun holiday tradition, and now, it’s even easier with this simple step-by-step tutorial for How to Make Graham Cracker Gingerbread Houses – a quick and easy, fun activity that’s perfect for school parties, large groups, or at home with your family!
Mini Gingerbread Houses
This homemade gingerbread house recipe comes together quickly and has a wonderful flavor thanks to the full-flavored molasses that’s used. While this is a flavorful gingerbread recipe that can be eaten, this tutorial is really meant for those who are creating gingerbread houses that will be used as a fun display in your home.
Gingerbread Log Cabin
This building tutorial uses pretzel sticks, brown royal icing and jelly beans to create a cosy log-cabin inspired gingerbread house that makes you just want to snuggle up inside! Finish it of with oodles of white royal icing for snow, and this log cabin becomes a decorative masterpiece!
Christmas Wreath Crafts
Recycled Book Wreath
DIY book page flowers are not complicated to make. You and your kids can make simple book page roses in less than one minute per rose, which can be used to make a paper wreath or garland. How beautiful does it look? And not too over-the-top Christmassy, either.
Dried Orange Wreath
This handmade wreath is very easy and cheap to make. The only slightly tricky part is drying the oranges, which you do have to keep an eye on. Kids could help with foraging for branches and foliage and the piecing together. Find out how to make it here.
DIY Wreath Frame out of Branches
There’s something so unique and beautiful about handcrafted homes, furniture and décor. This is an easy, DIY project that anyone can do – making a wreath frame out of branches. From here, you can let your foraging and artistic wings take flight.
Burlap Wreath
A burlap wreath with rustic burlap ribbon, is quite a sophisticated decoration that can be made quite inexpensively. This article has three different and very easy step by step tutorials to choose from. Burlap wreaths are the perfect base wreath for any seasonal embellishments.
Festive Garland and Banners
Orange Garlands
Making a handmade dried orange garland is easy, inexpensive, and helps to create that lovely old-world charm in your home that we all long for this time of year. Simply dehydrate orange slices in your oven and string them up!
Paper Garlands
Add character and sparkle to your holiday decorating with this easy, budget-friendly DIY Paper Star Garland. You only need a few items and a little time to craft this unique and festive strand of stars.
Evergreen Garland
A fresh Christmas Evergreen garland is the perfect way to add that natural holiday charm to your house. With a mix of different types of greenery like boxwoods, pines and juniper, you can make a truly wonderful Christmas garland that will bring amazing scents into your home.
Conclusion
There is so much joy to be had and memories to make with handmade Christmas decorations. Kid-friendly Christmas decor is not only charming and decorative, but inexpensive, too. I encourage you to embrace the spirit of creativity and togetherness during this holiday season. Not only will your home look and smell lovely, but you will draw closer to your loved ones, too.
