Love decorating for Christmas? If you are looking to make some of the best holiday decor around, think DIY Christmas decorations this year. Perfect for anyone on a budget and trying to save money or those in search of unique decorations that don’t look like everyone else’s, these cool homemade Christmas centerpieces, tabletop ideas, mantle decor projects and other creative crafts all belong in your home during this holiday season. If you don’t have much money, try out the dollar store crafts, which can really be made for only a few dollars.
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1. Pinecone Garland
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This pinecone garland looks great on stair rails, decorating the holiday mantle or wrapped around a chair. Plenty of other places in your home to put these, too! An easy Christmas craft idea made with pinecones, this looks great with most all decor. Add red velvet bows or white, any color to match your decor.
2. Winter Wonderland Evergreen Trees DIY
Little tiny Christmas trees are one of the best things to decorate with during the holidays. These cute mantle decor ideas would also look great on your holiday dining table, and I think you could probably add some little ornaments if you wanted to. My best friend has all white farmhouse decor, so she adds lots of green to her home during the holidays, and this idea is one of the best Christmas decorating ideas she has tried.
Easy Christmas Decor Ideas
3. DIY Ribbon Star
For a festive holiday craft to add to rustic farmhouse decor, learn how to make this holiday decoration, a DIY ribbon star. Celebrate the Christmas season with this easy rustic craft idea that should not take long to make.
4. Paper Star Ornaments
I had a stack of old books at home that nobody was ever going to read again, and this is what they turned into. Each 3D star folds up out of book pages, so you get that soft aged cream color you cannot buy in a craft store, and it costs you nothing but an evening. I hang them on the tree and line a few along the mantel. I take you through every fold in the tutorial.
DIY Christmas Decor Ideas
5. DIY Snow Globe Jars
Make a glittery Mason Jar Snow Globe for Christmas this year! This little Christmas craft is a great way to bring holiday cheer to your home in a big way quickly, easily, & for little money if you use what you already have. This would also be one of those DIY projects you can involve the kids on which is a fun way to hang out together while decorating the house for Christmas.
6. Reindeer Mailbox
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Turn your mailbox into a rustic rope-covered reindeer with this easy, step-by-step tutorial. Give your mailbox a festive holiday makeover and make a playful curbside statement during the holidays. For finishing touches, add festive embellishments, like a red Santa Claus hat or knitted scarf, to give the reindeer a more playful look. During the day and night, your mailbox will be a showstopper.
7. Rustic Twig Christmas Ornaments
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These ornaments really are very simple to make. They’re great to get the kids involved with too! Head out on a short nature walk to collect stick and then make these ornaments together. When creating an outdoor themed Christmas tree, what else can you do but bring some elements from nature indoors! Right? So take inspiration from nature and get started with this creative DIY tutorial from Simple As That Blog.
8. DIY Evergreen Christmas Centerpiece
Are you looking for a beautiful centerpiece for your Christmas table? This DIY Evergreen Christmas Centerpiece arrangement is designed to last if you keep it watered so you can enjoy it throughout the holiday season. Should you want, you could switch out the pinecones or ornaments for different holiday picks. You could even add fresh flowers. The best part is that the entire arrangement only costs $18. What a value for your money!
9. DIY Boxed Lights
Fill up that rustic box with ornaments, pinecones and Christmas lights for a quick and simple Christmas decorating idea. Take inspiration from this creative post from Unskinny Boppy and you’ll have an unconventional Christmas decoration that will be the envy of all. What a tastefully done junk vignette!
10. Origami Christmas Trees
Christmas is hands down my favorite time of year, and my family starts decorating early enough that we get to fuss over the whole color theme. These 3D origami trees are what I reach for when I want something modern and handmade on the table. Fold a few in different shades and you have a little forest for a shelf or a place setting. My full step by step is right this way.
11. Tin Can Snowman
You do not need a single flake of snow to build a snowman, which is exactly why I love this one. Empty tin cans get stacked and painted into the cheeriest little character, and it is about the clearest case of turning trash into treasure I can show you. He is cheap, he is beginner friendly, and he never melts on the porch. Here is how I put mine together.
12. Copper Splatter Painted Modern Christmas Trees
These copper splatter trees are the perfect combo of color, metallic, and modern and I just love them! They are another one of those crafts that look really complicated but are just so simple to do. Not only are they simple, but the supply list is minimal too! Just 3 supplies are all you need to make your very own modern splatter paint trees. And with a simple tutorial from A Kailo Chic Life, you will definitely never go wrong.
13. Classic Cuffed Stockings
Amy made eight of these at once, for a growing family plus holiday visitors and the pets, and that’s the correct instinct. People put me on decor committees because they’ve learned I’ll go overboard and never stop. The pattern is free, so print it at 100 percent and tape the pages, or your printer will shrink it into a doll stocking. Clip the seam allowance around the inside curve before you turn it, or that curve comes out lumpy. Stockings are the DIY Christmas decorations that actually get handed down.
14. Snowball Garland DIY
I love this Snowball Garland DIY! I think this looks whimsical and magical at the same time. With the materials already available at your home, you can easily recreate this ensemble to spruce up your holiday spirit. All you need is some twine and cotton balls and voila, you have an instant Christmas décor! This is without a doubt, one of the easiest DIYs to date.
15. Pom Poms and Bows Crochet Garland
I keep these on the mantel because they bounce instead of shattering when they get knocked down, which happens most years. Crocheted pom poms and little bows, strung along a line. Flamingo Toes worked out the sizing so the shapes stay plump rather than going floppy by New Year.
16. Honeycomb Tree Ornaments
These honeycomb trees open out into the prettiest dimensional shape, and each one takes me only a few minutes. I hang them on the tree, but they also string into a garland or tuck into a gift bag as filler, so I always end up making more than I planned to. Printed cardstock or a few pom poms take them somewhere special. The whole tutorial is waiting for you.
17. Christmas Mason Jar Luminaries
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Jars, lace, twine, a candle. That’s the whole materials list, and the light it throws is the best thing about my kitchen in December. Maison de Pax has the step by step, which helps if you hoard jars the way I do.
18. Pine Cone Owl Ornaments
Pine cones already look like feathers, so felt eyes and wings are genuinely all it takes. Lia Griffith walks through the shaping and the gluing. Mine still has one lopsided owl from the first year that I refuse to throw out.
19. DIY Christmas Tree Glitter Sign
Seal the glitter. I cannot stress that enough, or you’ll still be finding it in June. It’s a stencil and a pot of glitter on a plain board, and A Shade of Teal lays out the stencil work properly.
20. Gift Wrapped Front Door
Twenty minutes and the front of the house reads as a wrapped present. I like that it handles weather far better than a wreath does. Liz on Call shows how she anchored the ribbon so it doesn’t sag in the rain.
22. Tuna Can Ornament Display
Do not toss those tuna cans just yet. I turned mine into tiny scenes that hang right on the tree, and I made three designs: a Christmas sweater, a tree with a snowman, and a gingerbread house. A little artificial snow, some fiberfill, pom poms and faux pine, and your recycling bin hands you ornaments nobody else has. I put the free templates in the post along with the full how to.
23. DIY Christmas Sign
Ours comes out every December and goes back in the same box afterwards. Spoonful of Imagination kept the lettering simple, which is exactly why it reads as handmade rather than homemade. Warm lights behind a wooden JOY, and that’s the whole thing.
24. Easy Paper Christmas Wreath
Our holiday setup always felt like it was missing something until I got a wreath on the door. I made this one entirely from colored paper rosettes, so you can size it up or down to suit your space and dress it up as much as your style calls for. It cost me a fraction of a store bought wreath and looks far more personal. Come see exactly how I made mine.
25. Hallway Twinkle Lights
This is the cheapest change on the list and the one guests always mention. Warm white lights down a hallway do more for a house in December than most of my furniture manages all year. Nest of Posies explains how she hung them without wrecking the paint.
26. Reclaimed Wood Christmas Tree
No floor space? Here’s your tree. Funky Junk Interiors has the cuts and the finish for a flat one built from old boards. Ours leans in a corner and goes up in about ten minutes now that we’ve done it once.
27. Santa Hat Door Hanging
It’s a santa hat that gave up on being a hat, and I mean that fondly. A cone of red fabric packed with poinsettias, hung where a wreath would usually go, holding its shape without any form inside. The Spohrs Are Multiplying has the assembly.
28. Candy Cane Wreath
Red and white wound around a wreath form, with small jars tucked in to hold candles. It reads candy cane from the street without tipping into cartoon, which is a narrower line than it sounds. Denise on a Whim breaks down the wrapping.
29. Ice Lanterns
Garden greenery, berries and small branches frozen into a block of ice with a candle glowing in the middle. I’ve lived in Austin for over 30 years, so a decoration that needs nights below freezing is not exactly in my rotation, and yes, I’m bitter about it. Where the cold holds, these light a walkway for days. Garden Therapy has the how to, from John Gillespie and Christina Symons.
31. DIY Christmas Kissing Ball
Mistletoe’s more generous cousin. I hang ours in the kitchen doorway, and the fresh greens smell wonderful for roughly a week before I give up and swap to faux for the rest of the season. View Along the Way covers the wiring.
32. DIY Merry Christmas Garland
Hand lettering looks intimidating until you realise a faint pencil line underneath fixes nearly everything. Vicky Barone has the letter sizing worked out, which is the part I’d have got wrong. Burlap triangles, one letter each, strung along the wall.
33. Holiday Door Mat
Swapping the doormat is the least effort in Christmas decorating for the biggest hello. Carrie went retro sunburst instead of the usual black script. The surprise is that coir drinks paint, so you’ll load the brush heavier than feels right, two coats for most colors and three for white. Use outdoor paint, and if it has to be craft paint, I only buy DecoArt Americana or FolkArt, best coverage.
34. Pretty Burlap Garland
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Neutral enough that I leave it up through January and nobody comments. Ruffled burlap along the mantel gives you texture without adding another color to argue with everything else already up there. Simply Notable has the gathering technique.
