Looking to spruce up your home with some holiday cheer without breaking the bank? With websites like Pinterest and the DIY Network, ideas for ways to make your home holiday ready are bountiful. A quick DIY project is more than just a way to make your home beautiful for the season; it’s a way to spend time with your family making something unique and special. Try these DIY holiday projects this year:
- Decorate with nature. Go out into a wooded area and gather up branches, pinecones, and anything else you find unique or decorative. Bring them back to the house and place them on a mantel as is or spray paint them with sparkly red, gold, white, or silver. It’s an easy way to add holiday flair that is simple and unique. Add a bunch of painted twigs to a vase for a vertical display, and hang some ornaments in a nouveau tree design.
- Create snowflakes with clothespins. Take apart some of the cheap clothespins that you can find at almost every big box or grocery store, and pull out your hot glue gun. Glue the flat pieces of the clothespin back to back, and then glue 6 of the pairs in a circle with the rounded pieces toward the center. Paint your snowflakes white and hang them in windows or throughout the house for your very own winter wonderland.
- Customize your candles. Pick up any candle, and glue cinnamon sticks or painted or natural branches vertically around the edges. The cinnamon will give off a lovely scent, and the branches make a natural and unique pattern that is a great addition to any centerpiece. Paint with glitter paint directly on the candles to create season’s greetings to place on a welcome table, mantle, or windowsill.
- Turn your door into a snowman! Cut out black circles and an orange triangle and create a snowman on your door. Add a scarf made out of wrapping paper, and your door will be ready to green everyone who comes or goes during the holiday season.
- Make easy votives. Fill mason jars, clear glass containers, and bowls with seasonal berries and leaves. Then, fill them with water and float a votive candle on top. The design is bright and festive while warming up your home with candlelight.
- Create a scent-sation! There’s nothing like the smell of the holidays wafting out of the kitchen on a cold winter day. Simmer cinnamon sticks, apples, oranges, and cloves in a pot with some water to warm up the house with the wonderful smell of the season.
- Design a unique holiday town. Instead of purchasing expensive premade sets this year, make a shadow box filled with snow and miniature fir trees highlighted by lit wire “snowflakes.” Place small homes and trees in apothecary jars with fake snow and light strands for a unique and sophisticated snow globe village.
- Turn an old coat hanger into a wreath. Stretch a wire coat hanger into a circular frame and attach garlands, bows, ornaments, or pine cones with wire and glue to create a one-of-a-kind wreath that is 100% customizable.
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