You don’t need expensive decorations to prepare your home for the holidays! Save money and get creative this season by adding your own crafts to your holiday decor. Below, we share ideas for easy DIY holiday decorations that will brighten up your home from Thanksgiving all the way to New Year’s!
Make Giant Outdoor Ornaments
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Looking for unique DIY outdoor Christmas decorations? These giant ornaments are a fun way to decorate your porch, balcony, or patio. All you need is a few giant bouncy balls, a metal pail, and some superglue to create this festive item!
Design Cheery, No-Carve Pumpkins
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Pumpkins make the perfect canvas for fall decorations! Use colorful acrylic paint to draw patterns, or use pom-poms and felt letters to give your pumpkin a beautiful makeover. Try this stylish polka dot pumpkin for your entryway or as a centerpiece on your Thanksgiving table!
Light Up Your Space with Lanterns
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Fill your home with the soft light of DIY paper lanterns. Choose paper colors like orange and red for fall, or use white and blue for a unique Christmas light idea! Print the free template from this DIY paper lantern tutorial on cardstock, add a few LED tea lights, and hang them throughout your home!
Use Wine Glasses for Centerpieces
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Wine glasses aren’t just for enjoying your favorite Pinot. They’re also great for DIY holiday decor! With a little spray paint and tea candles, you can turn wine glasses into your favorite holiday table centerpiece. Surround them with ornaments, pine cones, or greenery to dress them up for the holiday or season.
Hang Homemade Stockings
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DIY Christmas stockings look great on mantels, walls, and stairways. These woodland creature stockings are perfect for kids and adults alike, while these simple felt stockings are a great way to add holiday cheer!
Construct a Rustic Wood Banner
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This DIY wooden holiday decoration is excellent for hanging over the fireplace, along a stairwell, or in a window. All you need are a few wood slices, twine, scissors, a drill, transfer paper, pens and a marker, and a printer for this holiday decorating idea!
Carve Pumpkin Candle Holders
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Pumpkin candle holders aren’t just an easy holiday decoration. They’re also fun accents for any fall party! These mini pumpkin candle holders can be used with a runner for Thanksgiving table decor. Or try this DIY candle holder with faux pumpkins, melted wax, and LED tea lights.
Build Wood Pallet Christmas Trees
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With a little creativity, wooden pallets can easily be turned into decorative Christmas trees! These DIY pallet trees can be made in all sizes or colors and can spruce up your lawn, front porch, or entryway!
Create Sock Snowmen
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Do you love making snowmen? Ditch the snow for a collection of mismatched socks, and turn a few of them into snowmen that will last all season! These DIY sock snowmen are made with rice, rubber bands, and buttons.
Fashion Your Own Cornucopia
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Are you hosting a holiday party this year? Try making this DIY cornucopia! Made with affordable materials like twine, chicken wire, burlap, and raffia, this holiday craft idea is easy to create and will be the perfect centerpiece for your dinner table.
Turn Glass Jars into Snow Globes
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With some festive figurines, glitter, and glue, you can transform ordinary jars into gorgeous snow globes. For a snow globe with water, follow this DIY snow globe tutorial that kids will love! You can also fill any large glass jar or vase with sugar and add plastic trees, reindeer, or a cabin to create a winter scene.
Design Adorable Candy Sleighs
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DIY candy sleighs are cute and delicious Christmas DIY crafts to put together—plus, they make great gifts for teachers, neighbors, coworkers, and kids! Use candy canes for the runners, your favorite mini candy bars for the sleigh, and colorful ribbons to tie it all together. You can even add a chocolate Santa inside the sleigh!
Make Wine Cork Reindeer
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Have you been saving wine corks? Turn them into reindeer! This DIY wine cork reindeer project only requires three corks, sewing pins, pipe cleaners, and glue! These little reindeer can even be paired with your DIY candy sleighs for a complete homemade Christmas decoration!
Decorate with Wooden Stars
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DIY wooden stars make perfect Christmas and Hanukkah decorations! Hang them from tree branches outside to create your own winter wonderland! Or hang them inside on the walls of your entryway, living room, or dining room. All you need to make these holiday crafts are a few thin pieces of wood, string lights, and glue.
Assemble Paper Plate Lollipops
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Giant lollipops are cute and require minimal assembly! Turn your driveway or porch into a candy lane, or prop a few in a large vase near your front door. You just need paper plates, some paint, plastic wrap, and wooden rods to make these DIY holiday lollipop decorations!
Create Presents for Your Yard
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Make your yard festive and bright with these DIY holiday yard decorations that look like giant presents! Spray paint a concrete block and wrap it with textured tape to make your gift box, or you can place plastic containers over lights and add velcro ribbons to get a beautiful light-up display!
Add a Pallet Turkey to the Porch
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Wood pallets are plentiful, affordable, and the perfect material to use for a DIY pallet turkey! After cutting and drilling the wood pallets into a turkey shape, use acrylic paint for the feathers, spray paint for the body, and buttons, cabinet knobs, or felt for the eyes.
Go with Festive Window Decorations
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Need handmade Christmas decorations for your windows? Use colorful ornaments to make a DIY ornament window garland or construct some homemade snowflake window clings.
Create Mason Jar Votives
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Not only are DIY mason jar crafts an elegant and fun way to brighten up any holiday table, but they’re also fantastic gifts to give. All you need are a few jars, some paint, and small tea lights to make this decor item that’s perfect for any holiday!
Have Fun with Tissue Paper
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From a beautiful DIY Christmas wreath to DIY tree ornaments, there’s no shortage of possibilities for holiday decor with tissue paper! It’s incredibly affordable and easy to work with, making it a great project for kids to help work on.
Craft a Few Holiday Trees
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You don’t need real pine to have a tree! Add some festive holiday decor to your home with DIY glossy marbled trees. These black and white paper trees are ideal for modern decor, while these kid-friendly button and yarn topiaries are adorable DIY decorations that can translate to any season.
Give Wine Bottles a Winter Makeover
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Transform empty wine bottles into easy DIY Christmas decorations! With a little paint and a few rhinestones, you can turn wine bottles into a winter trio with Santa, a snowman, and a reindeer!
Make Your Own Tree Ornaments
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One great spot to display your DIY holiday decorations is on the tree! Kid-friendly and easy to make, salt dough ornaments are ideal DIY Christmas tree decorations and creative gifts for family. If you’re looking for an affordable decorating project, try origami tree ornaments! These elegant decorations are a stunning accent to a tree, a wreath, or along a window.
Set Your Table with Seasonal Decor
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Using pine cones, branches, leaves, or fruits on a holiday table is an affordable way to create visually extravagant fall table decor. Put fresh-smelling evergreen branches in a glass vase, or add a few oranges adorned with cloves in a bowl to enjoy the smell of autumn.
Print a Paper Holiday Village
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With just a printer, cardstock paper, and some downloadable templates, you can make your own DIY Christmas paper village! Add a few tea lights to turn this holiday craft idea into a luminary display that’s as festive as it is adorable.
Adorn the Front Door with a Wreath
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Don’t forget about holiday wreath ideas for your door! Keep it natural with this rustic pine cone wreath, or make a beautiful DIY burlap door wreath to give your front door a festive touch. For a softer look, this DIY felt holiday wreath is complete with felt evergreen sprigs and berries.
Stay Warm with a Mini Indoor Campfire
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Looking for easy holiday crafts the kids can help make? Kids of all ages will love creating this DIY flameless campfire! All you need are sticks, small rocks, strips of fabric, glue, lights, and foil!
Drape the Stairs in Garland
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When decorating your home for winter holidays, don’t forget decorations for the stairs! Make a few DIY holiday garlands to adorn the railing like a whimsical star garland made with cookie cutters. Or for a more subtle look, try this DIY gold triangle garland, which is perfect for home decorating even after the holidays.
Celebrate with DIY Party Hats
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Need some New Year crafts? Construct some hats with sparkly tinsel out of leftover decorations, or wow your friends with this paper gemstone crown that won’t mess up your hairdo.
Pour Some Homemade Candles
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Brighten up your table, bedroom, or kitchen with some homemade candles! These multi-colored scented candles, lavender rosemary candles, or pine-scented candles aren’t only gorgeous homemade crafts for Christmas—they also make amazing stocking stuffers for friends and family!
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