Homemade Christmas Decorations

Many people like to buy beautiful and unusual Christmas decorations. However, homemade Christmas decorations can be a lot of fun to create. This would also be a great way to keep your children busy around Christmas.

Making decorations with your children is the best way to spend time together and recapture the excitement of Christmas from your own childhood. Your children would also be excited at the prospect of decorating their own homes, especially after you’ve helped decorate their classrooms for Christmas.

Simple tree decorations made with pineapples glued together and suspended with ribbons are a good example of elegant decorations that appeal to all tastes, but are also quite easy for children to make. A little more difficult, but just as charming are the little fairies with clothespins, snowmen and Santas. You can still find vintage wooden clothespins at craft and hardware stores. Buy a couple of packs and before you know it you’ll have nativity scenes, angel choirs and multiple Santas created.

Christmas trees, stars and stockings made from felt shapes have real homemade charm, look great on the tree and are incredibly easy to make. While older kids will sew around the edges with bright, contrasting yarn, younger kids can glue the shapes together and decorate them with glitter glue. If you want to keep your kids chill for hours, have them make pom-pom snowmen, which have incredible kitsch appeal.

You can buy pom pom and yarn sets in a variety of shades at most craft stores. All your kids will have to do is make fluffy balls of different sizes. Once they’re done with the balls, glue three pom-poms in decreasing size to form little snowmen and dress them up with felt accessories. For a cute finishing touch, knit tiny scarves and pom-pom hats if you’re good at it.

Ethereal tissue paper snowflakes would make perfect window decorations for children’s rooms. Simply cut several sheets of white tissue paper into squares. Then fold each one in half to create a triangle and repeat to create another smaller triangle. With the long edge on the bottom, fold the left edge to the midline, then fold the right edge in the same way to create a tall, narrow triangle with two tails, which you should cut off. Finally, get to work with scissors and cut the sides of the triangle. Carefully open the tissue paper to reveal a beautiful snowflake.