Decorating Ideas
Dress up your mantle piece with a trailing garland of eucalyptus branches wired together with floris t wi re. Add interest with teasles or even the eucalyptu ss eed pods, spray them gold for alu xurious effect.
Handmade decorations or parcel labels can be made from salt dough. This is afunp roject for the childr en a s well. To make, combine 4 cups all-purpose flour ,1cup salt, and 1 1/2 cups of warm water inami xing bowl.
Knead until the dough is firm and smooth. Roll out dough and cut desired shapes (us ea straw to poke a hole for hanging). Bake at 300°F until dry, approximately 1 hour; cool completely.
Wooden pallets can be recycled to make a great wooden outside Christmas tree which the children will just love to paint and decorate.
Your local thrift shop probably ha ss ome old saltshakers ,g roup them together, add some salt and go through your drawers or even your box ofb roken decorations and find small Christmas items that will fit inside the shakers… you may even have some cake decorations that y ou a r eno longer using. They make a great display.
Bird no longer around, spare birdcage, decorate it and hang on your porch, will look great filled with something Christmas themed.
If y ou a r et rimming shrubs, trees or bushes in your garden, strip off the leaves and make decorations with the branches. Add red, white, and green buttons from your button box and you could use small pieces of hessian as a backing, or oddments of ribbons to make icicle looking decorations.
You can spray paint small pinecones and add ribbon as a hanger, fill glass domes up with baubles ,u s ean y garden frame ss uch as a tomato frame to hang decorations from, make ad riftwood tree fo ry our porch, recycle old Christmas cards into a door wreath, hunt out old small baking moulds and add ribbon to hang them, recycle your old scrabble set and use the blocks to spell out Christmas messages, the lis ti s endless.
I know we all struggle for that bit of spare time, but even if you manage to make one homemade decoration fo ry our home this Christmas ,Iam sure it will be appreciated b yy our family, and you will feel so pleased with yourself.