7 Best DIY Christmas Decoration You Can Make From Recycled Items
Best DIY Recycled Christmas Decorations
Calling all eco-conscious Christmas lovers! If you want a way to decorate for the holidays that isn’t going to take away from your natural love of the holiday season, these 7 Best DIY Christmas Decorations You Can Make From Recycled Items are ready to help you out with just that!
These wonderful patterns will help you make your holidays more sustainable.
If you’ve got a lot of paper clutter, such as magazines, one of the best options to focus on will help you make use of those pages.
You can make a Christmas tree out of your favorite pages from an older magazine and decorate it with a bow on top!
These are vintage-inspired and perfect for those little areas in your home that just need a bit of dressing up.
Another paper option is a Christmas wreath that rolls up colorful and holiday-themed pages out of your magazines to create your unique wreath!
This is a fun and exciting way to really transform your own paper projects and create a wreath that no one else can replicate.
For those that want something more natural, you can use sticks and thread to create fun Christmas tree ornaments.
These are great for decorating your tree or stringing up in those spots that need some festive spirit.
Another thread option helps you create snowflakes in the bottoms of plastic water bottles for a winter theme.
For Santa vibes, you can make a pair of Santa binoculars using some classic art and craft supplies and some imagination.
This is the perfect way to bring the kids into your arts and crafts time if you want.
If you want sustainable decorations, you can use water bottle bottoms to make themed planters for those little plants.
These also make great gifts if you want to give a plant to someone during the holiday season.
You can also design a snow globe out of a mason jar and some fun decorative Christmas trees, and whatever else you want to put in there for the fun diorama design.
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Check Out These DIY Recycled Christmas Decorations Below
If you are enjoying the idea of making Christmas crafts for recycled items, then you’ll want to keep on scrolling down below to take a look at just what’s waiting for you in this list of choices.
There’s a lot of variety here, so look closely at each listing!
All of these fun and exciting recycled Christmas decorations make great gifts and fun options to decorate your own space when looking specifically for something more eco-conscious and helpful in using what you already have in your home.
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Yarn and Stick Christmas Tree Craft
This Christmas Tree Craft uses twigs or sticks you can get outside your house or garden. Decorated with bright yarn and colorful materials, this cute Christmas tree makes a beautiful nature craft for the festive season.
Designer: Emma Smith of Kids Craft Room
Materials Used:
- Sticks, Glue Gun
- Green Yarn
- Mini Pom Poms or Buttons
- UHU Glue
- Yellow Card Scraps
- Scissors
Completion Time: 1 hour
Size: Unspecified
Format: Written
Waterless Snow Globes
These Waterless Snow Globes are fun and easy projects that you can gift this Christmas. It’s a great holiday craft to do with the kids too.
Designer: Cheryl of Tidy Mom
Materials Used:
- Glass jars
- Artificial Snow
- Hot glue gun and glue
- Assorted mini Christmas Trees and mini snowmen
- Spray Adhesive (optional)
- glitter (optional)
- Krylon Glitter Blast (or white spray paint)
Completion Time: 2 hours
Size: Unspecified
Format: Written
Recycled Magazine Christmas Trees
This vintage-looking Christmas Tree, made from folded recycled magazines, is ideal if you want to make small Christmas trees for table decorations.
Designer: Unspecified through Golden Carers
Materials Used:
- Old magazines
- Glue and paint brushes
- Construction/kindergarten paper
- Felt off-cuts in Christmas colors for decorating
- Christmas Decorations
- anything you have: paint, glitter, buttons, beads, ribbons, knitting wool, cotton wool, ‘faux’ pearls.
Completion Time: 2 hours
Size: Unspecified
Format: Written
Santa Binoculars DIY Craft
These Santa Binoculars are perfect for Christmas crafting, sensory play, and activities.
Designer: Katie Chiavarone of Views From A Step Stool
Materials Used:
- 2 Empty TP Holders
- Red Felt
- Gold Scrapbook Paper
- White Faux Fur
- Black Tape (I used Gorilla)
- Ribbon or String
- Hot Glue Gun, and Scissors
Completion Time: 30 minutes
Size: Unspecified
Format: Written
Christmas Recycled Bottle Planters Craft
This Christmas Recycled Bottle Planters Craft makes fantastic home decor and handmade gifts for your loved ones.
Designer: Agnes Hsu of Hello, Wonderful
Materials Used:
- Plastic bottle
- Marker
- X-acto knife
- Pencil
- Acrylic paint
- Paint brush
Completion Time: 2 hours
Size: Unspecified
Format: Written
Stunning Snowflake Ornament
These stunning Snowflake Ornaments from upcycled plastic bottles will surely complement your Christmas tree. You can effortlessly create and add unique designs with the art materials of your choice.
Designer: Unspecified through DIY & Crafts
Materials Used:
- Empty plastic bottle
- White craft paint
- Silver craft paint
- Blue craft paint
- Colorful ribbon
- Scissors
- Craft knife
- Paintbrushes
Completion Time: 1 hour
Size: Unspecified
Format: Written
Homemade Paper Christmas Wreath
This homemade Paper Christmas Wreath from recycled magazines has the potential for working those important fine motor muscles in the small hands of your kids.
Designer: Christie Burnett of Childhood 101
Materials Used:
- Recycled Magazines
- ruler
- scissors
- glue
Completion Time: 2 hours
Size: Unspecified
Format: Written
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