Christmas is a magical time of year filled with happiness and being surrounded by loved ones. This year to save money and cut out pointless waste make your own decorations! Here are some Christmas decorations you can make from recycled items.
With a mason jar, mini Christmas tree ornament, clear glue, a hot glue gun, warm water, glitter, and a sppon you can make your own snow globe to put around your home!
Recycled Christmas card garlands
Instead of throwing away your Christmas cards or storing them away somewhere where you will never look at them again, reuse them! All you need is a hot glue gun, ribbon, scissors and old Christmas cards! They can be hung on your wall or pinned across a window.
Don’t throw away your bottles, save them to create reindeer decorations! You can either hot glue googly eyes and a red pom pom on the bottle to create a face or use puffy paint to create the eyes and noes. Wrap a brown pipe cleaner below the cap of the bottle bending notches in them to make them look like antlers!
Cork wreath
Collect your wine corks and create a decorative wreath out of them! Be creative! All you need is a straw wreath, a hot glue gun with glue sticks, a ribbon, and as many wine corks as you can save.
Remember the days of making paper snowflakes? Use coffee filters instead to save paper!
Bottle cap wreath ornaments
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Keep your bottle caps and string them together with a festive ribbon to create a Christmas ornament!
Light bulb ornaments
With used light bulbs, paint them with Mod Podge glue, and put glitter on them. Lay the bulbs on wax paper for them to dry then hot glue gun ribbon or string to the socket and create a loop so they can be hung on your tree. You can create designs like these snowman!
Puzzle Ornaments
If you have puzzles you no longer use they can come in handy to make great holiday ornaments! Paint the back side of your puzzle pieces red or green and use a hot glue gun to glue them together. You can glue them into shapes of candy canes, stockings, anything you’d like! Glue a Christmas ribbon or string on the top so they can be hung.
These are just a few ideas to make crafty decorations for the holiday season!