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Tips To Create An Inexpensive Self-Made Christmas Tree Decorations
Having self-made ornaments on your Christmas tree is a lot more sentimental than having commercially made ornaments. It gives your home that warm, traditional Christmas feeling and is a great way to bring the family together for the holidays. Show off your creative side this year! Everyone who comes into your house will feel the "special glow" that the Christmas bring, as they see your tree this holiday season.
Most homemade Christmas tree decorations can be created with items within or around your home, with minimal cost to you. One idea that my family would do each year when I was younger was to gather pine cones from the garden and decorate them. Growing up in the northeast, we had so much! We would pick up a bunch of pine cones and put up different types of ornaments. My favorite ones were the shiny ones. We would get different color glitter paste and put a line of glitter on the top of each sheet on the pine cone. Do all with one color or use new ones. Link string on the top of the cone to hold them with and you get a beautiful, nature-made, homemade Christmas tree ornament. Another pine cone idea is to help make angels with the use of the cone for the body. Just take out some wings with the use of newspaper or foils, create a head and a halo with a hot glue gun and adorn.
If you like to reprocess, there are many things which you can use for homemade Christmas Tree Accessories. Bottle caps and LED light bulbs are a few of the things you can use. Take different colored bottle caps and stick them together into different design with a hot glue gun. For example, use one bottle cap for the center, and glue the others around it in a circle. Then you can use cotton, glitter, beads or other things you'd like to make for a pretty ornament. With the LED light bulbs you can create Rudolph or snowmen! For Rudolph, paint the bulb brown or wrap it in brown felt. Stick on a red pom-pom for the nose, glue on or color on a mouth, some googly eyes, and a few cut-out antlers. Attach a string around the top to hang it up with and you have Rudolph! Use cotton balls or white felt material to make a snowman! Just glue them onto the bulb, add a cotton ball or another piece of felt material for the head and enhance as you'd like. You can even do angels or Santas! With a little creativity, you can make lots of beautiful glass ornaments with recycled LED light bulbs.
Do you have lots of plain, glass ornaments but you desire to spruce up your tree a little this year? Take the top part off of your plain bulbs and swirl some acrylic paint on the inside! You can use a brush, or just put a small dose of paint inside and swirl it around by tilting the glass. Add some glitter if you want. Let dry and replace the cap. Another great idea for clear glass ornaments is to lay pictures inside. One of my favorite gifts I ever received was a snapshot a relative had taken of my child inside one of these ornaments. They just put the photo inside, recapped the ornament, and tied few ribbons around the top. It's an impressive addition to my tree every year! These make great self-made Christmas gifts! They're easy, low cost, and will be kept for years to come.
I really hope you've gathered some creative ideas from these tips! Have a very Merry Christmas!
John Reid is, an electrician and advocate in living Green, been helping to promote aGreenSupply.com high quality LED light bulbs products to consumers in saving energy and money just by changing incandescent bulbs to LED light bulbs. Get the full story and reap the rewards TODAY at http://www.aGreenSupply.com
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