Christmas Decorations the Homemade Way

To begin your search for Christmas decorations just head outside and gather natures goodies. Take a trip with the family to the mountains, lake, park, river, or your own backyard, to search the ground for fallen branches and twigs. Pick up pinecones, acorns, seedpods, late blooming wildflowers, and fallen leaves. Sprigs of evergreen branches like pine, cedar, and fir are choices as well. The best thing about these green decorations is that they leave the green in your wallet.

Once you get your gatherings home, begin the decorating. Fill bowls, boots, baskets, stockings, buckets, wine glasses, or anything else you can think of, with your findings. Hang Christmas stockings (or brightly colored stockings from your own drawer) from the mantel and fill them with greens and pinecones so they stick out the top and spill over. Fill wine glasses with small pinecones, greens, dried fruit and cranberries, and place them on the table or mantle. Make wreaths and boughs with your greens and embellish with bows and large pinecones. Hang wreaths on the front door and windows while placing boughs on the mantel or above doorways.

A dehydrator can be used to make Christmas decorations out of fruit. Slice apples and oranges and place them in a dehydrator. Slice them about 1/3 inch thick and make sure to leave the peel in tact. Slice them in half and continue slicing in the same fashion. These fruit slices can be used in potpourri, to make garlands, to decorate wreaths, to place in bowls, tie onto Christmas gifts, and the ideas are endless.

Fill a wooden bowl or antique wooden trough with nuts in their shells. Use hazel nuts, brazil nuts, almonds, and so on. Place the bowl on the coffee table and surround the bowl with your greens and pinecones. Place a couple of candles with candlesticks on either end of the bowl and light the candles when guests arrive.

Make gingerbread and sugar cookies use cookie cutters to cut them into Christmas shapes and decorate them with frosting and embellishments like gumdrops, raisins, m & m’s, and jelly beans. Place your homemade cookies in bowls and baskets around the house to welcome guests. Send your guest’s home with little goodie bags filled with cookies and nuts. Tie the bags with ribbons and attach your dried fruit to the ribbons.

Making your own Christmas decorations is fun and something the whole family can help with. It takes us back to a time when life was much simpler. It also saves money which is a good thing.

Article by Cheri Barlow

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