Handmade Christmas Tree Decorations
Christmas can be a fun time for everyone, and an even more fun time creating the decorations to be put up around your house or on your Christmas tree. Idea Queen has put together several different handmade Christmas tree decorations from us and from our craft collection.Handmade Christmas Decorations by Idea Queen
The two handmade Christmas tree decorations below are by Idea Queen. One is a traditional decoration, while the other is slightly unique. If you have your own handmade Christmas tree decoration ideas, please be sure to submit them!Popcorn Garland
One of my favorite handmade Christmas tree decorations from childhood! We use to sit and thread popcorn as a family before hanging it up on the tree. This craft doesn't get much easier, and you only need two items.
Supplies:
- Needle & Thread
- Cooked Popcorn (no butter or salt)
Make sure you tell your children ahead of time this is not to eat! If doing this with children, your "helpers" may not be able to do much but eat the popcorn. That's alright though, it's part of the fun!
If you've never made Popcorn strings before, simple take your threaded needle, and string the popcorn up. Very easy, but slightly time consuming depending on how long you want your string to be. Make sure you only use stove popped or air popped popcorn without butter and salt. Not only is it less messy, but the kids will be less tempted to eat all the popcorn if it's not buttered!
Snowflakes
Another favorite of mine, and also a great craft for kids. You can hang them up around the house, or on the tree.
What you'll need:
- Blue White construction paper, or felt
- Glue
- Gold or Silver Glitter
- String or yarn
- Paper clips
Cut out a circle on your paper or felt, large enough to be the entire snowflake. Fold your circle in half, then in half again. Cut designs into you snowflake, in triangle patterns all around the edge. You can cut into your folds, but make sure the entire piece stays together. Unfold and you should have a perfectly cut snowflake!
Decorate with glitter, to make it shine like real snow. Use string and paperclips to hang up your snow flakes, or use as ornaments on your tree.
Handmade Ornaments
This is a tradition for us. Every year just before Christmas, we sit down and make our own ornaments to hang on the tree. Sometimes we even give a few decorations away as gifts. Because it's something very special we do, there is an entire page set up on Idea Queen that gives the details and instructions on these particular handmade Christmas decorations.
See "Christmas Ornaments" for details.
Additional Handmade Christmas Decorations
The following ideas were pulled from our collections. Authors are unknown, although we do have reprinting rights. We have not made either handmade Christmas decorations below, but they both look very interesting and unique! One is obviously for a Christmas tree, while the other is a decoration for the house.Angel Christmas Ornament
MATERIALS:
2 Paper doilies of different sizes and colors
Glue stick or glue gun
Picture of your choice
Scissors
Pipe cleaner
INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Fold a doily in half, then fold it in half again.
2. Glue flaps together.
3. Cut out head from a picture and glue onto pointed top of folded doily.
4. Cut a smaller-sized doily in half and glue onto the back of first doily to make angel wings.
5. Wrap a pipecleaner once around your finger to make a halo and glue the stem onto the back of the angel.
Holiday Wreath Ornament
MATERIALS:
Green Liquid Watercolor paint
Clear or white glue
Dry rice
Plastic bag
Plastic lid
Red BioColor paint
INSTRUCTIONS:
Add Dye rice with green Liquid Watercolor paint in plastic bag. Use just a few drops of paint at a time.
Mix in clear or white glue.
Form mixture around plastic lid.
Pucture hole into the wreath before dry.
Let dry 1/2 hour.
Dab with red BioColor for berries.
Also See:
Christmas Crafts for Kids
Handmade Christmas Ornaments
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