Tis’ the season to be jolly! This does not mean you need to shell out loads of money to make your home look its festive best. We’ve come up with a bunch of cost effective ideas that you can use to make your house look fabulous, without having to break the bank. These homemade Christmas decorations are for kids and can be made by them too.
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Homemade Trees
This one is a fun project for the entire family. All you’ll need is some twine, colour paper, scissors and tape. Get the kids to create their very own decorations from the colour paper or even felt and then, tape it on to the tree as shown in the image below.
Fake a Fireplace
If you’ve always admired those stunning fireplaces that you’ve seen in the movies, we’ve got good news for you. Now you can have your very own fireplace at home and you can even make it yourself! All you need for this is Blackboard Removable Vinyl Wall Sticker Decal or any roll-up chalkboard you can find. Some chalk and some creativity. Draw a mantle and some firewood as well as flames on your chalkboard and hang it or paste it on a bare wall. Now you can dress it up even more by adding Christmas stockings to the faux mantle.
Advent Calendar
All you need for this advent calendar is a bulletin board, some coloured envelopes or even plain ones will do, board pins, paints or crayons and some tiny treats. Draw or stick on the numbers on the envelope, fill it with tiny treats such as candy, hair clips, movie tickets and so on. Now pin your envelopes onto your bulletin board and you’re good to go! If you want something a bit more colourful use colours to decorate your envelopes, this can be done by the kids too.
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A Centrepiece That’s Captivating
If you have extra ball ornaments or ones that are not good enough for the tree, just place then in a bowl! For this, all you need is an ornamental bowl, Christmas ball ornaments and some ribbons or some Rattan Pendants or greens to add to the bowl. Place it on a table and you have a lovely centrepiece that took about 2 minutes to throw together.
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Sparkling Candle Holders
These beautiful and cheap candle holders can be made within minutes! All you need are a few empty glass jars, glue, glitter, and some tea candles. Clean the jars thoroughly and then coat the insides with a layer or glue, once done sprinkle glitter onto the glue and let it set. Now all you have to do is place the tea candles inside and you’ll have an expensive look candle holder that costs close to nothing!
Mason Jar Snow Globes
We all have mason jars around the house and you can now turn them into a snow globe with ease! Was out the jar and let it dry, then use salt or mix of glitter and salt to create the snow. If you’re using a large jar, then thermocol balls could also be used. Place a small sized Christmas tree or snow man etc. in the jar and fill it with your ‘snow’ now, your snow globe is ready.
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Ice-Cream Stick Snow Flakes
You can buy ice-cream sticks at most local craft stores, or you can buy ice candy and have some fun while trying to get ice-cream sticks! Use cleaned stick and excellent quality glue to stick them together to form any shapes that look like snowflakes. Once the glue has dried, you can either paint your snowflakes, wrap them in ribbons, cover them in glitter paints or combine all three options. Once done, you can use them as tree decorations or stick them to the walls with Blu-Tack. If they are large enough, you can even hang them on doors, on the staircase etc.
Spoon Christmas Tree
For this one, all you’ll need is a cone-shaped object to use as a base and some plastic spoons of the same size. You can make the cone shape from slightly stiff cardboard or thermocol. Once the cone is ready you can start prepping the spoons. You’ll have to cut off the handle of the spoons at its neck, once done either hand paint or spray paint them in a colour or your choice like green, gold, red etc. Once the paint has dried start sticking the back of the spoons on your cone from the bottom to the top, in different layers. Once done, you can top it with a star or leave it as is.
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