Tips To Make A Better Value Self-Made Christmas Tree Ornaments
Having self-made stuff on your Christmas tree is much more sentimental than having factory manufactured stuff. It gives your home that warm, ancient-fashioned Christmas feeling and is a fantastic way to bring the family together for the holidays. Show off your creative side this year! Everyone who comes into your home will feel the “special glow” that the holidays bring, as they see your tree this holiday season.
Most homemade Christmas tree decorations can be made with items within or around your home, with small or no cost to you. One thought that my family members would do each year when I was younger was to get pine cones from outside and decorate them. Growing up in the northeast, we had a lot! We would collect a bunch of pine cones and make different types of stuff. My favorites were the sparkly ones. We would take different color glitter paste and place a line of glitter on the end of each piece on the pine cone. Do all with one color or use new ones. Attach string on the top of the cone to hang them with and you get a gorgeous, nature-made, homemade Christmas tree ornament. A further pine cone thought is to make angels using the cone for the body. Just take out some wings with the use of papers or foils, add a head and a halo with a hot glue gun and accessorize.
If you like to reprocess, there are many things which you can use for homemade Christmas Tree Decorations. Pot caps and LED light bulbs are just a few of the things you can use. Take a variety of colored pot caps and stick them together into different design with a hot glue gun. Such as, use one pot cap for the center, and glue the others around it in a circle. You can then use cotton, glitter, beads or other things you’d like to make for a pretty ornament. With the LED light bulbs you can make Rudolph or snowmen! For Rudolph, color the bulb brown or cover it in brown felt. Stick on a red pom-pom for the nose, glue on or color on a mouth, some googly eyes, and some cut-out antlers. Attach a string around the top to suspend it up with and you have Rudolph! Use cotton balls or white felt material to make a snowman! Just glue them onto the bulb, add a cotton ball or one more piece of felt material for the head and enhance as you’d like. You can even do angels or Santas! With a small creativity, you can make plenty of gorgeous glass decors with recycled LED light bulbs.
Do you have lots of plain, glass stuff but you want to spruce up your tree a small this year? Take the top off of your clear bulbs and twirl a small acrylic paint on the inside! You can use a brush, or just place a few drops of paint inside and twirl it around by leaning the glass. Add some glitter if you like. Let dry and replace the cap. A further fantastic thought for clear glass stuff is to place pictures inside. One of my very favorite gifts I ever received was a snapshot a relative had taken of my kid inside one of these stuff. They just place the picture inside, recapped the ornament, and tied a small ribbon around the top. It’s an impressive addition to my tree every year! These make fantastic homemade Christmas gifts! They’re simple, inexpensive, and will be kept for years to come.
I really hope you’ve gotten some creative thoughts from these suggestions! Have a very Merry Christmas!
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