We spend the fabulous period of Christmas with our loved ones, talking and relaxing, but also preparing the entire Christmas setting.Handmade Christmas decorationsare a great idea for original and cheap decorations. We can make them from paper, peanuts or dried oranges. Seehow to make Christmas decorations yourselfand what you will need for it. Here are 3 great ideas forhandmade Christmas tree decorations !
Peanut Christmas decorations
Peanuts seemingly small and inconspicuous, are the perfect material forhandmade Christmas tree decorations ! The advantages of this material include interesting shapes and texture, and at the same time its natural color.Here, the decision is up to us - whether we want to leave the peanut in nature or give it a color, a new face. Our only limit is our imagination.
Handmade Christmas decorations made of peanuts
To make colorful peanuts, you will need nail polish or oil paints. The first ones dry faster and cover the surface perfectly. You can also use glitter. It will look great in the lights of the Christmas tree lights.
We start preparingpeanut Christmas decorationsby selecting nuts that are not broken and have an original shape. Looking at them, you can quickly see that everyone is different. The more elongated ones will look good as reindeer heads, but the more round ones as snowmen.
Having already selectedpeanuts for Christmas decorations , we move on to painting.They can become Christmas characters such as: santa, reindeer, angel or snowman. We can also simply paint them in different colors and decorate with glitter. Finally, let the peanuts dry and stick a ribbon to the top to hang on the Christmas tree. In this way, we have ready-made, very original and rarehandmade Christmas decorations
Christmas decorations made of peanuts and dried oranges
Dried orange Christmas decorations
Dried orange fruits are a perfect idea forHandmade Christmas tree decorationsOranges are cheap and, most importantly, easily available during the holidays. It is very simple to make such decorations. Oranges just need to be sliced, dried and decorated. To prepare Christmas decorations made of dried oranges, you will need colorful ribbons, glue or varnish and glitter.You can also leave a dried orange without decoration, as it looks great and smells wonderful on its own.
Handmade Christmas decorations made of colored paper
Withcolored paper Christmas decorationseveryone met in childhood. So it is easy to conclude that making them is child's play.
To prepare suchhandmade Christmas decorationsyou will need colored paper, scissors, glue and possibly colored ribbons to hang. Although for this purpose we can also use paper from which we make decorations.
An interesting idea is to use gift wrapping paper. Various motifs on paper - Christmas or shiny-winter - will look great as an element of decorations hanging on the Christmas tree.
The very creation ofChristmas decorations from colored paperconsists in cutting out strips of paper or geometric figures and combining them into various shapes.We can create colorful chains, hearts, garlands or Christmas trees. Let's invite our relatives to make Christmas decorations, so the time spent in this way will not be wasted!
MSc Eng. Joanna Białowąs
