45 Amazing Christmas DIYs Everyone Needs To Start Doing
Many individuals want to start decorating as soon as possible at this special time of year. It’s time for candy canes, wreaths, lights, and other holiday decorations, and we want to help you try out some seasonal crafts. These Christmas DIYs can be completed alone, with a small group of friends or family, or with more advanced tools and techniques. You can create a festive atmosphere with just some cards, glitter, and a few mason jars.
Glittery Christmas Bulbs
Old light bulbs occasionally appear in most residences; keep them and put them to good use over the holiday season. A plain, old light bulb may be transformed into a festive Christmas ornament with just little glitter and glue.
Glittery Christmas Bulbs
You might also try painting Christmas patterns on your light bulbs if you want to express your creativity more. To hang on your tree, you may build Santa, a snowman, or even a penguin.
Decorate Christmas Branches
Many individuals enjoy using Christmas branches to adorn their banisters and stairs. Around the Christmas season, you may purchase fake branches at a variety of shops or just use the trimmings from your own tree. Whatever you choose, you can use a variety of Christmas decorations or toys to adorn your branches.
Decorate Christmas Branches
For this DIY project, twine is a suitable seasonal material, and numerous web tutorials demonstrate how to tie it to decorations. Craft wire is a fantastic substitute.
Festive Glitter Jars
Making this adorable Christmas craft is fun, especially with young children or teenagers. You need to start by removing the jar’s sticky label. There are several different methods for doing this; some involve using baking soda and others involve simmering the jars in water with dish soap. In any case, refrain from just ripping the label off with your fingers.
Festive Glitter Jars
You can start once you have a clean jar! This festive glitter jar is embellished with a snowflake, icy blue snow, and a silver ribbon.
Garlands on Everything
This is more of a DIY idea than a DIY project. There’s no reason to be restricted to your usual holiday activities. Consider every item and surface as an opportunity, and don’t just think about putting holiday garlands on the Christmas tree.
Garlands On Everything
Garlands placed around a mirror or encircling a door look stunning. These garlands can be built by hand, bought, or they could just be a string of beautifully placed Christmas lights.
Snowy White Vases
Similar to the holiday jars we’ve already seen, only a few supplies are needed to make these dazzling white vases. In the days before Christmas, save some glass bottles for yourself, and in advance, take off the labels.
Snowy White Vases
When it’s time to get creative, paint your bottles white and, before the paint has dried, sprinkle them with coarse salt. You will have vases that appear to have recently been caught in snow if you do this. For even more holiday spirit, you could even add a little glitter.
Cinnamon Button Christmas Trees
Cinnamon is unquestionably one of the season’s aromas. You may create these charming small Christmas tree ornaments as a way to include the fragrant spice in your holiday decor.
Cinnamon Button Christmas Trees
Simply use a cinnamon stick for the bark and several real or fake spruce twigs for the decoration to make them. Then, look in your button collection for some adorable embellishments to affix to the top. This is a fantastic method to use buttons, especially for those who don’t like to discard them.
Cookie Tin Candle Holders
Here is another wonderful Christmas craft that you can do with supplies you already have at home. Save those large, round cookie tins for a stunning, glowing wall display in this situation.
Cookie Tin Candle Holders
Cleaning out your cookie tin is the first step. Next, wrap it with festive patterned paper or a gorgeous ribbon. Before hanging, place tea candles inside the tins to prevent any unanticipated emergencies. The candles will be held by the cookie tins after they are in place, creating a wonderful, made-at-home wall display.
Glowing Christmas Lamps
These brilliant Christmas lights bring a touch of glitz to your home over the holiday season, from one shining DIY project to another. Find a dark glass bottle and remove the label to create these beautiful, glowing bottles.
Glowing Christmas Lamps
Make a hole in the bottom of the bottle with a drill so that the Christmas lights can be inserted. Just add the lights after that, and have fun! Other festive objects, like beads, ornaments, or buttons, can also be added to the bottles.
Snowman Place Settings
These snowmen place settings are fantastic, aren’t they? This is a great project to make for Christmas dinner or any other special occasion throughout the holiday season. As you can see, the dinner plate and side plate used to create these snowmen place settings are combined.
Snowman Place Settings
These beautiful snowmen come in a variety of designs, but the majority have carrots for noses. You may also add gummies for the eyes, a napkin cap and scarf, and the arms of a spoon and fork.
Baubles on the Windows
We advise utilizing Christmas ornaments somewhere other than just on your Christmas tree, similar to how we advise using Christmas garland. For instance, this guy hung Christmas ornaments from a branch at various lengths to decorate their window.
Baubles On The Windows
This exhibit is brought together with a huge bow, which also lends another touch of holiday cheer. This outside-viewable Christmas decorating concept transforms an ordinary room into something much more spectacular. What’s the harm in trying something new?
Bicycle Wheel Christmas Wreath
A little more work goes into this Christmas DIY project than the others we’ve seen so far, but it’s well worth it. You’ll need a bicycle wheel if you want to construct one of these inventive bicycle wheel Christmas wreaths. This makes it a fantastic crafting choice for riders.
Bicycle Wheel Christmas Wreath
After getting your wheel, wash it with dish soap and start decorating. Using a glue gun, attach flowers and/or ornaments after wrapping a garland around the rim.
Drinking Straw Stars
These straw stars aren’t quite eco-friendly, but we believe paper straws would work just as well in their place. Get yourself about 30 drinking straws, some zip ties, and a pair of scissors to make these awesome-looking straw starbursts.
Drinking Straw Stars
Your straws should be trimmed to the same length after you snip off the bendy end. 30 straws should be collected, bundled, and secured with a zip tie. Then, fold back a few of your straws so they meet one another in the center. I’m done now!
Clothes Hanger Christmas Wreath
Christmas wreaths don’t have to be expensive; they simply give warmth and charm to a space. You only need a wire hanger, some spruce twigs, a ribbon, and a few sets of low-cost Christmas ornaments to construct this vibrant design. Pick ornaments with a variety of hues and sizes.
Clothes Hanger Christmas Wreath
Start by unfolding your hanger and adding the ornaments one at a time. When the wreath is completely full, glue the ribbon and some spruce to the top. Get hanging now!
Cute Bobble Hat Baubles
Would you believe us if we said that making these adorable little bobble cap tree ornaments requires absolutely no knitting expertise? A toilet paper tube, some yarn, scissors, a tape measure, and a pen are all you really need.
Cute Bobble Hat Baubles
To create a base, cut your toilet paper at a 2 cm interval. Then, trim your yarn to a 25 cm length. The cardboard will finally be completely wrapped in the yarn loops. Create a pompom top by tying the loose threads together with another string.
Familiar Faces Decorations
It can be a wonderful idea to include some pictures of the people you love when you’re already making adorable new Christmas ornaments and decorations. Purchase clear plastic or glass ornaments that open in half if you want to create these personalized ornaments.
Familiar Faces Decorations
Place the photos within the clear decoration, and for the snow effect, add tinsel, lights, or salt. Use ornaments that don’t open instead because you can just wrap the photo up and insert it inside before adjusting with tweezers.
Stunning Wooden Snowflakes
Popsicle sticks have long been a favorite crafting material and they still give us a cheap way to construct things out of wood. Wooden popsicle sticks can be used in a variety of ways to create snowflakes, so it’s a good idea to look up various patterns and directions first.
Stunning Wooden Snowflakes
You can paint the sticks to match your house after you’ve adhered them into the desired snowflake pattern. Consider incorporating some glitter flecks as well for even more sparkle. Your snowflakes can be hung with a ribbon.
Sparkly Christmas Ornaments
These beautifully sparkling Christmas decorations are simple to make and resemble little presents. The square dowel on a saw was used to cut the square pieces of wood that were used to make these ornaments.
Sparkly Christmas Ornaments
Apply adhesive to one side of the wooden cubes. Then add your glitter, mixing up the colors and textures as you choose. To assist the glitter cling to the wood, repeat the process on each side. Add a few tiny mirrors with glue for the finishing touch.
Car in a Mason Jar
This automobile in a mason jar is so adorable, and it’s actually rather easy to construct. A mason jar, a white napkin, a toy vehicle, a toy Christmas tree, and some red and white string are needed to get started.
Car In A Mason Jar
To begin, use the twine to fasten the tree to the vehicle. After that, put some fake snow to the jar by using salt or shredding up a napkin. The last step is to add your car to the jar. This is a sweet souvenir or present.
Upcycled Rocking Horse
For less than $15, a fantastic repurposed rocking horse was created. For those who enjoy a good craft and are comfortable using some sandpaper, this Christmas DIY is for you. Starting point for this project was a depressing rocking horse made of wood from Goodwill.
Upcycled Rocking Horse
It was painted white and given a rustic touch with sanding to create this festive foal. A Christmas sign, a wooden Christmas tree used as a seat, some lace ribbon, a plaid bow, and of course, glitter have all been added to the horse’s decor.
Decorative Window Art
Many families enjoy using a Christmas scene to adorn their windows throughout the festive season. Depending on your level of artistic ability, painting on your windows is actually not all that tough.
Decorative Window Art
Gouache, an opaque form of watercolor, or toothpaste diluted with water work best for painting on windows. It’s toothpaste, that’s correct. Paper stencils in the form of stars were cut out, placed over the glass, and then the minty mixture was sponged on. You’ll be left with a beautiful view of winter.
Candy Cane Tennis Racket
For the cyclists among us, we had a Christmas craft project, and now we turn to the tennis players. As you can see from these pictures, you may transform a vintage tennis racket into a Christmas decoration based on candy canes.
Candy Cane Tennis Racket
Start by spray painting the tennis racket white to give your unwanted athletic gear a festive makeover. Add red paint stripes, then a bow and flower accents. These can be joined together with wire or a hot glue gun.
Snowy City Winter Lamp
Are these lamps not lovely? They have been transformed from plain candles in jars to endearing and moody Christmas decorations. Get a jar, a piece of thick paper, and a candle to create your own snowy city winter lamp. Some people choose to use white paper to create a snowy image, while others choose black to create a nocturnal atmosphere.
Snowy City Winter Lamp
Draw and cut out a winter or Christmas skyline after measuring the paper’s circumference around the jar. Light the candle and fasten the paper to the jar.
Floating Winter Candles
Similar to the winter lamps we just saw, these floating winter candles demonstrate the variety of crafts that can be made with just a jar and a candle. It makes sense that these floating candles need tea lights or tiny candles to float on the jar’s surface.
Floating Winter Candles
Similar to the winter lamps we just saw, these floating winter candles demonstrate the variety of crafts that can be made with just a jar and a candle. It makes sense that these floating candles need tea lights or tiny candles to float on the jar’s surface.
Christmas Painted Spoons
Some cultures decorate boiling eggs and roll them down a hill during the Easter season. Young children will have a terrific time doing this because everyone becomes extremely invested in their own design. These Christmas-themed painted spoons can be said to be similar.
Christmas Painted Spoons
Kids can paint their own metal or wooden spoons with acrylic paints if you sit them down. Fold the handle of a metal spoon to create a hook if you wish to hang your spoons from the tree.
Festive Christmas Chandeliers
We’ve already suggested that those who decorate their houses for the holidays use the many affordable ornaments that are widely available at this time of year. At Christmas, we proposed hanging ornaments from the windows, but why not also hang them from the light fixtures?
Festive Christmas Chandeliers
The lighting fixture may be transformed into a genuine Christmas chandelier by hanging some holiday decorations from it. This one is made with red, silver, and white decorations and is supported by Christmas trees with berries.
Christmas Decorative Lamps
The assembly of these festive Christmas lamps is incredibly quick and easy. These elegant-looking lights, as you can see, are built with a transparent vase, though they may also be made with a glass bowl or jar.
Christmas Decorative Lamps
Simply place a number of ornaments, branches, and cones within the glass container and add a string of lights to create your own Christmas lighting. This craft hardly counts as one because it’s so simple.
Woolen Christmas Stars
These tiny knitted Christmas stars look lovely strung from the tree, the lamp, and pretty much anything else. You’ll need a wooden cutting board, knitting wool, glue, nails, and these materials to build them. To begin, arrange the nails on the wooden board to form a star, then dunk your yarn in a solution of glue and water.
Woolen Christmas Stars
Feed the wool around the nails to form a star shape, then repeat the process until the star shape is thatched and layered. Trim, then hang to dry.
Origami Star Decorations
Okay, let’s be clear that words alone cannot adequately describe how to fold an origami star. We humbly refer you to an origami tutorial video or a set of instructions with accompanying images for it. We’re here to reassure you that you can succeed! A star made with origami is possible!
Origami Star Decorations
For this Christmas DIY, all you’ll need is some tissue paper, a pair of scissors, and some origami abilities.
A Snowman Refrigerator
This Christmas DIY is incredibly easy to make, but it will make everyone grin over the holiday season. Small children will really enjoy making this craft, especially those who are learning how to carve out shapes with scissors.
A Snowman Refrigerator
Cut out circles for the eyes, the mouth, and the buttons for the coals to make your own refrigerator snowman. Create the scarf out of wrapping paper, and make the nose out of some orange paper. The design can, excitingly, be applied to doors.
Miniature Christmas Trees
For family and friends, these handcrafted tiny Christmas trees are wonderful presents. Who wouldn’t want a small tree on their coffee table, after all? Anyone would want one on each windowsill, right?
Miniature Christmas Trees
Create a simple cone shape out of card to use as the base for your own little tree. Choose from green pompoms, velour, sequins, or tinsel for your base. Use hot glue to secure the material of your choice, and then embellish with puffy paint or small pompoms.
Mason Jar Snow Globes
Speaking of adorable Christmas presents, check out these incredible mason jar snow globes. When creating one of these, be careful to pencil-mark the front of your ornament and jar.
Mason Jar Snow Globes
Next, glue the paper you traced around the jar lid to the top of the jar. After that, put your chosen accessories inside the globe and cover them with glitter or fake snow. The ornament’s edges are hot-glued, and the rim is then wrapped in a ribbon. Put chocolate powder, candies, or a candle within.
Almost Glowing Embers
Another practical Christmas project that produces stunning effects is this one. Simply add a strand of Christmas lights to a basket or bucket full of logs, pine cones, twigs, or branches to create the blazing embers look.
Almost Glowing Embers
This is a fantastic DIY project that provides for some enjoyable planning. You may go for a stroll and gather some eye-catching logs and pine cones before assembling these. Because of this, kids will love doing this DIY.
Upcycled Christmas Terrarium
This recycled Christmas terrarium may contain almost anything, unlike the last DIY project, which incorporated certain outdoor elements. Generally speaking, terrariums are plant aquariums that people set up to resemble their own own private gardens.
Upcycled Christmas Terrarium
This terrarium was converted into a holiday decoration after being discovered in a thrift shop. Use a sanding sponge to paint and distress the surface, add craft letters and ribbon, then fill with low-cost Christmas ornaments to achieve the similar look. For a finishing touch, include candles and pinecones.
Fabulous Festive Pillow
Spending money over the Christmas season might be enticing, especially when stores are stocked with expensive new decorations. But if you already know how to sew, it’s not that tough to make your own holiday decorations.
Fabulous Festive Pillow
Finding your preferred pattern, expanding it, and cutting it out are the first steps in creating this attractive reindeer pillow. Cut the pillow fabric to the correct size, then affix the design on a piece of red felt. Create the pillow using a pattern, then sew the reindeer on.
Sweater Christmas Tree Pillow
As an alternative, you can turn unwanted pieces of clothes into cute, cuddly Christmas trees if you have some fabric laying around. You’ll need a sweater that has at least 70% wool for this, and you’ll also need to shrink it in a hot wash.
Sweater Christmas Tree Pillow
On your sweater, draw a tree design, and then cut it out. After that, stitch up the hole and stuff with fiberfill. As an alternative, construct a trunk out of a brown sweatshirt. Created pompoms can be used to adorn your plush Christmas tree pillow.
Snowy Candle Holders
Another type of candle holder created with a jar and salt is seen here. In this instance, clean a glass jar, take the label off, and put a little candle inside. Next, add coarsely ground salt to simulate snowfall.
Snowy Candle Holders
This gorgeous candle holder features lace trimming around the top of the jar and a pretty ribbon fastened with brown twine. The pine cones and this together create a charmingly rustic atmosphere.
Scrap Wood Christmas Tree
For those who feel comfortable using power tools, here is another larger Christmas DIY project. Using pieces of wood discovered in dumpsters and old cabinet knobs, this individual constructed an amazing Christmas tree out of scrap wood.
Scrap Wood Christmas Tree
Use a reciprocating saw to cut various kinds and sizes of wood into a triangular form to create your own. Then, paint various knobs green, apply a dark wax finish, and let that dry. Finally, put everything in place and tighten the screws. The knobs can either be embellished or left plain.
Cone Beaded Christmas Trees
You may use these gorgeous cone-shaped beaded Christmas trees as-is or turn them into festive lamps by adding lights inside. Take a styrofoam cone and wrap it in parchment paper to get started. Pin the paper down first, then add more pins sporadically without pressing them all the way in.
Cone Beaded Christmas Trees
Wrap the pins in Christmas wire, twine, and sequins beginning at the bottom. When the textile adhesive is dry, remove the pins and cover the twine and wire. After that, replace the pins with pearls and stars.
Traditional Paper Snowflakes
How could we overlook the traditional paper snowflakes made for Christmas in a list of holiday crafts? These symmetrical decorations can be made by simply folding and cutting paper, but there are also more intricate patterns available.
Traditional Paper Snowflakes
Look online for snowflakes with six points, three-dimensional medallions, and even gingerbread men. Nothing will stand in your way if you have some paper and scissors! Remember to hang some in your windows as well.
Sweet Sock Snowmen
These little snowmen are really cute, aren’t they? To make your own, take an outdated pair of white socks, cut off the toe, and tie a length of thread around the remaining portion. Tie a second length of thread around the snowman after adding rice to give it a round tummy. Create a second rice ball, and then tie it closed, for the head.
Sweet Sock Snowmen
The next step is to attach your snowman’s eyes, nose, and scarf using fabric. Use the sock tip as a hat and fasten buttons to his front.
Christmas Cutlery Stockings
These Christmas cutlery socks are something we really like, especially because they don’t require a lot of work. It’s true that you could simply purchase little stockings from the store, but if you’re handy with a sewing machine, it’s preferable to make your own.
Christmas Cutlery Stockings
There are other design alternatives available, however this Christmas cutlery stocking is constructed of red felt and embellished with red beads. Cutlery might also be placed inside cream-colored wool shirts with red wool socks. Visitors will adore it!
Glowing Photos and Pictures
The majority of people consider their loved ones over the holiday season. Those who are fortunate enough to be there will eat and exchange gifts with their loved ones, while others will browse through old pictures and remember times past.
Glowing Photos And Pictures
Use Christmas lights to frame family portraits, snapshots, works of art, and kid’s doodles as a small craft project. Christmas lights can be decorated with pictures that are simply attached using clothespins.
Sock Advent Calendar
Every year, advent calendars are a lot of fun, and this one made of socks is especially adorable. Stock up on Christmas socks after the holiday season when you can buy several pairs for just a few dollars to create one on your own.
Sock Advent Calendar
Use a noticeable color of thread to embroider each month’s date onto the top or bottom of the socks. Use puffy paint or gift tags as an alternative. Place a tiny gift in each sock, then sit back and enjoy the show.
Hershey’s Kisses Christmas Trees
This Christmas activity is really simple to complete and is a fun DIY to do with children. Simply use colored paper, cardboard, or scraps of wrapping paper to cut out some bright Christmas trees. Use a piece of tape to attach a toothpick to the back of each tree, and then insert each toothpick into a Hershey’s Kiss.
Hershey’s Kisses Christmas Trees
Of course, you may use any sweet to create these tiny trees. Once finished, they make scrumptious little decorations for the Christmas table.
Glowing Christmas Sign
Grab yourself a piece of wood, a drill, some chalk, a set of Christmas lights, and whatever you wish to use as decoration to construct one of your own spectacular luminous Christmas signs.
Glowing Christmas Sign
For this DIY, we advise using a printed template unless you’re a real artist. Prior to drilling the holes and staining the board, mark the locations of the lights, and then trace the words with a white chalk paint marker. Add the lights, then hang.