A 100% homemade Christmas tree
Immerse yourself in the magic of Christmas by making yourself the decoration of your tree. Let yourself be inspired by our easy-to-make decorating ideas to create a magical world that will surprise your guests. Alone or with your family, make decorations that will make you save money on your holiday budget.
Eyes full of stars
Paper, glitter, glue, salt dough, wire, scissors ... The material to make decorations for the Christmas tree is quite simple and inexpensive. Ideal for fun with children, the salt dough can make beautiful decorations to hang. Malleable, it lends itself to multiple ideas. Use it to make stars.
If you like to bake, you certainly have a star-shaped mold in your kitchenware. Remember when making stars to drill a hole with a needle at a point. You will insert a thread to suspend the star on a branch of the tree. Personalize your creation. Using a knife or a needle, you can draw patterns on the star. Paint your stars with acrylic paint. For a magical result, mix glitter with paint.
A few wooden clothespins glued together will also make pretty stars. Remove the metal clips and glue the pieces back to back to form the star's branches. Assemble the branches together using a glue gun and add a thread to suspend your creation. For the top of your tree, you will need a big star. Take a nice paper and make a three-dimensional star or an 8-pointed star by combining cards with different patterns.
You have certainly seen among the toys of your children these famous elastics of all the colors used to create bracelets. If they do not use them anymore, it's time to give them a second life. These Rainbow Loom are infinitely combinable and are perfectly adapted to realize various shapes to hang on the tree.
A Christmas under the sign of recycling
In Do it yourself, the trend is for recycling. Invent a Christmas decoration both beautiful and economical using the equipment at your disposal.
Start by collecting all your leftover gift wrap. To make paper flakes, some silver gift wrap will be perfect. If you do not have one, you can replace it with parchment paper, tissue paper or tracing paper. Cut a strip of 15 cm wide and fold it in half to form a square. Fold it again in half to form a triangle. Using scissors, cut triangles or semicircles at the tips of the large triangle. Unfold the snowflake and hang it on the tree with a beautiful colorful raffia knot.
With some remnants of wool balls, you can also make pretty pompons to hang. A little imagination is enough to create original Christmas balls. Vary shapes and colors. A few carrots of pine gathered in the painted, varnished and decorated with glitter wood will be the most beautiful effect on your Christmas tree.
Who says Christmas tree, says gifts! Placed at the foot of the tree, these complete the decoration. Personalize your gifts by packing them authentically. Take a strip of bubble wrap around a rolling pin with double-sided tape. Your roll embellished with bubble wrap will serve as a stamp. Brush with acrylic paint and roll on white paper. Once the paint is dry, your personalized gift wrap is ready. All you have to do is find a ribbon with matching colors!
Do you have fairy fingers and adore embroidering ? Use your talents to make small hanging characters or original cross-stitched package labels.