Decorating can be overwhelming if you don’t know where to start.Most of these ideas use things that you already have. By the time you’re done, your home will
be all decked out and ready for Christmas.There are 20 ways of decorating a house for Christmas.
CHRISTMAS TREE DECORATIONS
Most Christmas decorating starts with the Christmas tree. Whether you decorate your tree
traditionally each year or you’re looking for new Ideas, this first set of tips will help you to make
that Christmas tree shine.
1. Have More Than One
If you have room in your house, it’s fun to put smaller trees in other rooms. A smaller tree in
the kitchen, bathroom or bedroom can really unify your home. If you don’t want to buy more
trees, you can just save some branches from your big tree and put them in a
flowerpot or decorated coffee can. Hang ornaments on the branches, and you instantly have a
mini Christmas tree.
2. The More Decorations the Better
There’s no such thing as too many decorations on your tree. If your ornaments are carefully
selected and evenly spaced, the more decorated the better looking the tree.
3. Silk Flowers
Silk flowers are a great way to add color and beauty to your tree. You can choose different
colors, or make them all white for a beautiful snowy effect.
4. Metallic Spray
You can paint pinecones, leaves and seedpods with metallic spray can really add to your
decorations. Then you can evenly space them on your tree for a great new look.
5. Miniature Wreaths
You can find all kinds of miniature wreaths at craft stores. Add greenery, ribbons or berries with
a glue gun, and tie a ribbon for hanging, and you have a great home-made tree decorations.
6. Ribbon Streamers:Instead of garland, try using ribbon streamers. All you do is attach Christmas colored ribbon or
raffia to the top of the tree, then wind them down and around the tree until you get to the
bottom.
7. Tree Topper
Traditional Christmas trees are usually topped with a star or an angel, but don’t let this stop you
from getting creative. Try to find a family heirloom, or an important object that represents your
family, and use that as your tree topper.
8. Replace Wire Hangers
A simple way to make your tree look better is to replace all of your wire hangers on your
ornaments with ribbon loops. You can choose just one color to unify all of them, or you can use
lots of ribbon colors to add variety to your tree.
9. Home Made Garland
There are many creative ideas for making your own garland. Here are a few things you can
use:
• Popcorn
• Floral vines
• Cranberries
• Pinecones
• Seedpods.
10. Christmas Cards
A simple tree decorating idea is to save your old Christmas cards and cut out the images from
them. You can either attach ribbon right to the cutouts, or glue them to a jar lid and attach the
ribbon to that.
11. Cookies
Decorating your tree with cookies is an old tradition, but a good one. All you need to do is bake
gingerbread or shortbread cookies, let them cool and hang them on your tree. Make sure to add
a hole in the top for the ribbon.
12. Glitter
Almost any little toy or trinket can be dipped in glue and glitter and hung on a tree. It’s a great
way to turn “junk” into a great Christmas ornament. Here are some things you can use:
• Keys
• Golf balls
• Small toys
• Paper clip chains
• Corks
13. Toys
Toys are rarely thought of as Christmas decorations, but they can be great on the Christmas
tree. If you go down the toy aisle of your local dollar store, you can get lots of ideas. If it’s
miniature, it’ll look great on your tree.
14. Family Pictures
Make your family pictures a part of your Christmas tree. You can cut out wallet-size pictures
with scrap booking scissors, or cut shapes out of them and hang them on your tree. You’ll find
that this really personalizes your tree, and makes it your own.
CHRISTMAS CRAFTS
During the Christmas season, making your own decorations can be just as fun as displaying
them. This next set of tips will give you some great Christmas crafts to make and display.
15. Snowmen
Snowmen are fun crafts to make, and there are endless ways to make them. Here are some
ideas:
• Use a sock, a rubber band and cotton filling
• Three Styrofoam balls
• A craft's tick, buttons and felt
• Use a cosmetic circle
16. Reindeer
Reindeer can be so fun to make at Christmas time. Here are
some simple ideas:
• Use a clothespin and some googly eyes
• Use an old light bulb and felt
• Use a candy cane and pipe cleaners
17. Santa Clause
Invite Santa Clause into your home this year!
18. Snowmen
Snowmen are fun crafts to make, and there are endless ways to make them. Here are some
ideas:
• Use a sock, a rubber band and cotton filling
• Three styrofoam balls
• A craft-stick, buttons and felt
• Use a cosmetic circle
19. Reindeer
Reindeer can be so fun to make at Christmas time. Here are
some simple ideas:
• Use a clothespin and some googily eyes
• Use an old light bulb and felt
• Use a candy cane and pipe cleaners.
20.Christmas Cards.
This is the last and very important of the decorations,there are lots of fun ways to display your Christmas cards. Here are a few:
• Hang a ribbon from one corner of your room to the other and tape your cards to it
• Form a Christmas tree with your cards on your front door
• Buy a piece of glass to go on top of your coffee table and display your cards under it.
You can also recycle your old Christmas cards and make great ornaments out of them. Here are
some ideas:
• Cut out the pictures on them and make a Christmas collage
• Buy a cheap Christmas photo album and place cutout pictures from your cards in it and
display it.
• Use the cutout images to make gift labels
• Glue pictures from the cards to magnets and display them on your fridge.
Hope you have learnt the 20 ways on how to design your home for this Christmas.Happy Christmas.
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