Few things will get you into the holiday spirit like getting a Christmas tree or putting up an advent calendar. But if you are looking to add extra coziness to your home, consider making something yourself, too.Not only will this add personality to your display, but crafting with loved ones is an excellent way to spend quality time together and can even be the beginning of a brand-new tradition.To get you started, we at Bored Panda put together a collection of DIY Christmas decorations. From simple items such as slices of dried citrus to more complex pieces like personalized socks, or stained glass pickles, there’s a little bit of everything!This post may includeaffiliate links.
Few things will get you into the holiday spirit like getting a Christmas tree or putting up an advent calendar. But if you are looking to add extra coziness to your home, consider making something yourself, too.
Not only will this add personality to your display, but crafting with loved ones is an excellent way to spend quality time together and can even be the beginning of a brand-new tradition.
To get you started, we at Bored Panda put together a collection of DIY Christmas decorations. From simple items such as slices of dried citrus to more complex pieces like personalized socks, or stained glass pickles, there’s a little bit of everything!
This post may includeaffiliate links.
This project started with the Ghost of Christmas Present earlier this year, and then I added many of my favorite characters to the collection since then. These are all the characters I have made this year. I hope to add to it in the following year. I hope I did them justice. Happy Holidays.
Our Christmas decorations have their roots in a time long before the advent of Christianity. Plants and trees that remained green all year had a special meaning for people in the winter.Just as we decorate our homes during the festive season with pine, spruce, and fir trees, many ancient communities hung evergreen boughs over their doors and windows. In many areas, it was believed that evergreens would keep away witches, ghosts, evil spirits, and illness.
Our Christmas decorations have their roots in a time long before the advent of Christianity. Plants and trees that remained green all year had a special meaning for people in the winter.
Just as we decorate our homes during the festive season with pine, spruce, and fir trees, many ancient communities hung evergreen boughs over their doors and windows. In many areas, it was believed that evergreens would keep away witches, ghosts, evil spirits, and illness.
In the Northern hemisphere, the shortest day and longest night of the year falls on December 21 or December 22 and since many ancient peoplebelievedthat the sun was a god and that winter came every year because the sun god had become sick and weak, they celebrated the solstice because it meant that at last the sun god would begin to get well again.Evergreens reminded them of all the green plants that would grow again when the sun god was strong and summer would return.
In the Northern hemisphere, the shortest day and longest night of the year falls on December 21 or December 22 and since many ancient peoplebelievedthat the sun was a god and that winter came every year because the sun god had become sick and weak, they celebrated the solstice because it meant that at last the sun god would begin to get well again.
Evergreens reminded them of all the green plants that would grow again when the sun god was strong and summer would return.
Germany is credited with starting the Christmas tree tradition as we now know it today around the 16th century, when devout Christians have been recorded bringing decorated trees into their homes.
However, in 1846, the popular royals Queen Victoria and her German Prince, Albert, were sketched in the Illustrated London News standing with their children around a Christmas tree.Unlike her predecessors, Victoria was very popular with her subjects, and because of it, what was done at court immediately became the new trend—not only in Britain, but with fashion-conscious East Coast American Society as well. Thus, the Christmas tree had arrived.
However, in 1846, the popular royals Queen Victoria and her German Prince, Albert, were sketched in the Illustrated London News standing with their children around a Christmas tree.
Unlike her predecessors, Victoria was very popular with her subjects, and because of it, what was done at court immediately became the new trend—not only in Britain, but with fashion-conscious East Coast American Society as well. Thus, the Christmas tree had arrived.
Last year she said to me that she was going to make a life size reindeer for next Christmas. I didn’t think much of it. She joined a woodworking club this year and learned some new skills. I think it’s pretty damn cool.
This year I wanted to learn to crochet - I designed these fish and added beaded embellishments. I am obsessed. 20 total, was super fun to develop the pattern/process as I went and chose unique colors for each one. It will be hard to part with them, but I am keeping a couple for me and my husband, until next year.
By the 1890s Christmas ornaments were arriving from Germany and Christmas tree popularity was on the rise around the country. It was noted that Europeans used mostly small trees (about four feet (or 120 centimeters) in height), while Americans liked theirs to extend from floor to ceiling.
I used poplar for face and hands, aspen for the whites (I go back and forth between aspen and maple for white colors. Maple is easier to work with but aspen is a bit whiter), yellowheart for the eyes and padauk for the body.
My dad always has the tub of cheese balls around for him and his grandkids, so I saw the ornament and wanted to get it but it was almost $40. So, I decided to make my own. The cost of new materials was less than $13 and they’re not perfect but I feel like if I made them again they would be. I designed the label in Bazaart, ran through Remini to add resolution, and printed it at Walgreens in wallet size. Orange acrylic in a giant ziplock and tossed the styrofoam balls til coated then laid in a parchment paper lined box to dry. Photos I just lined up on some packing tape, took a metal chopstick and put it over the flame of a stove burner, and melted a hole in the middle then used purple acrylic on the lid and then used polycrylic over that. I shoved the crafting string stuff in after tying it off for a loop, after adding in my “cheese balls” I gorilla glued the tops on.
Nothing fancy, but a fun project with my kids. I pruned a cherry tree and made 2 quick reindeer out of the branches. My sons (5 and 7) did the assembly. Used our Christmas tree for the antlers. They are just wedged in there so we can re-use with future Christmas tree branches.
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They are made out of polymer clay, liquid clay and some chalk pastels for shading.
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