50 Easy Ways To Decorate Your Home For Christmas
Crafts and decorations don’t have to be complicated to be beautiful.
We’re sharing our favorite easy Christmas decoration tips, tricks, and hacks that we use to decorate our home year after year.
They work for EVERY budget, style, and space, and most of them utilize items you may already have around the house.
Use these ideas to repurpose random leftover Christmas supplies like gift wrap, candy, wine corks, or pine cones.
A lot of these are even fun crafts or DIY gifts you can make with family.
Whether you’re throwing an epic Christmas party or wedding, hosting a fun old fashioned family Christmas, or enjoying a quiet holiday in your small apartment–if you’ve taken on the task of decorating this year–we have you covered.
You’re guaranteed to find atleast one idea you can use and keep checking back because we update it every year!
The decorations are organized into the sections below:
1. Dollar Store Diy Lamp Post
2. Wrap Your Doors
3. Garland Or Tinsel On Doors, Windows, Entry Ways, Banisters, and Mantels
4. Hanging Garland for Ceiling, Walls, Windows, and Mantles
5. Fill Your Containers With Christmas
6. Candles And Votives
7. DIY Snowflakes
8. Pinecone Decorations
9. Candy Cane Decorations
10. Cone Decorations
11. Wooden Indoor or Outdoor Decor
12. Claypot Christmas Decor
13. Christmas Branches
14. Vases And Jars
15. DIY Wall Hanging Christmas Tree Ideas
16. Christmas Wreath Ideas
17. Christmas Stockings
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1. DOLLAR STORE DIY CHRISTMAS LANTERNS OR LAMP POST
This is the most popular dollar store Diy Christmas decor idea this year that’s so easy KIDS can help you make them.
We found a few different versions made with different dollar store items that we’ll show you below. The one above is made with the following Dollar Tree items:
- black plastic wine glasses
- a plastic sugar bowl set with a lid (found in the wedding/party isle of Dollar Tree)
- a battery operated votive
- just the lid of another plastic sugar bowl set
- Paint the inside of the wine glass and the stem, tops of the candy dishes and let dry
- Turn the wine glass upside down and glue the candy dish to the base
- Glue the cover of the candy dish to the bottom of the lamp post and cover with ribbon
- Tie a ribbon or decoration of choice around the neck of the wine glass and insert a votive.
Feel free to use any combination of Dollar Tree items like goblets, bottles, vases, or even tin pails for the stem. Here are 4 EXCELLENT tutorials with different versions you can make:
These are great for cozy rustic decor, OR fill them up with candy for the perfect gift everyone will love.
Experiment with different colors, and decorations for every season and style like the beautiful red bird lamps above created by Jamie Lewis on Pinterest.
When Christmas is over you can remove the Christmas decorations and replace them with whatever holiday comes next!
These would even make a great centerpiece for a December wedding or Christmas Dinner.
2. WRAP YOUR DOORS
Our college used to do this every Christmas and we have been doing it ever since!
You can use wrapping paper, construction paper, or ribbon to decorate your doors.
This works for ALL doors including cabinets and even the fridge.
Make a cute design like a snow man, wrap your whole door or put a piece of wrapping paper on just the top half of the door, top it off with a bow or ribbon.
You can also just tie it up with a bow. It’s also great for schools since it’s super easy and uses supplies that you already have.
Wrapping paper can also look great on the face of tiled or wood stairs, just cut the pieces to fit and attach them with double stick tape.
3. Garland Or Tinsel On Doors, Windows, Entry Ways, Banisters, and Mantels
You can really get creative with this. Use store bought garland or tinsel, or make your own. Add lights and bows or ornaments to make it really festive.
We always hang garland above our doors and windows. From the drop ceiling going into the dining room, we hang tinsel with lights and ornaments.
Garland and tinsel work really well above mantels and on stair banisters.
Try different drapes and designs with ornaments, lights and garland on staircases.
Add a wreath to the wall of a garland covered mantle for an added touch.
Hang garland and ornaments in just one corner of your doorway for an elegant look.
Use this cheap and easy trick for hanging garland from wall lights.
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Make super easy cardboard Gingerbread house garland from your amazon boxes.
If you have leftover Christmas tree ornaments string them on some ribbon for your very own diy garland!
String them single file for a simpler look or load them up on the ribbon for a posh look. This looks gorgeous indoors and out!
Having a party? Grab some green solo cups and balloons for faux light garland. Add glitter to the balloons or glows sticks inside for an added touch.
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We found the pic above on Pinterest for purchase through etsy but you can certainly recreate it yourself.
Tie strands of fabric around a string for a beautifully festive Tassel Christmas garland. Buffalo Check and burlap are farmhouse staple fabrics.
Do the same thing with lights. Tie scraps of burlap around string lights.
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Use Dollar Store items to decorate the banister, tie snowflakes and ornaments to the banister with fishing wire.
4. Hanging Garland for Ceiling, Walls, Windows and Mantles
Thread different sized pom poms or cotton balls on fishing wire or clear string for an indoor snow flurry garland! This would make a great Christmas party, wedding decoration, or window decor.
Transform windows, hallways, doorways, mantels, or even walls with hanging ornaments.
String lights hang ornaments beautifully.
Use ribbon or string and even clear fishing wire! Don’t be afraid to use different sizes and shapes.
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Make hanging candy canes for your window using festive colored ribbon.
For a glam look you can even use beads for hanging garland! TIP: Use Styrofoam balls coated in glue and rolled in glitter for larger sized ornaments.
Do the same to mantels and chandeliers for a dazzling centerpiece.
If you don’t have string, just hang ornaments directly on the chandelier with hooks for a winter wedding worthy look.
Hang garland, snowflakes, and ornaments from your Chandelier for easy festive ceiling decor that doubles as a centerpiece.
For more glamour hang DIY or dollar store snowflakes off of chandeliers. This can double as a centerpiece over your table.
You can also use clear thread to make a dollar store hanging snowflake garland!
Thread them with pearls or forego the string altogether and glue or tie them to eachother.
Don’t forget the banister!
Use festive string, ribbon or even burlap!
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Hang garland from a Dollar Store picture frame. Coat everything including the string in glitter for a opulent look.
5. Fill Your Containers With Christmas
Grab a vase, basket, cake stand, plate, or tray and fill it with all things Christmas.
We make decorative trays out of leftover Christmas odds and ends that we can’t find a place for.
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Transform a 3 tier serving tray into a luxurious display using metallic and glitter ornaments in the color of your choice.
A slice of wood can make a beautiful rustic decorative tray for farmhouses.
Have wedding centerpiece vases lying around? Fill them with ornaments and lights!
You can use spray adhesive or glue to coat outside fallen branches with glitter or epsom salt before placing in a vase.
You can use ornaments, pinecones, ribbon, candles, or create a Christmas scene using salt or fake snow as a base.
A black, silver, and gold filling could double as New Year’s Eve décor and hold those NYE party favors.
Store your gift wrapping supplies like ribbons and bows and ornaments in apothecary jars.
Anytime you need a bow, ribbon, or ornament just open up the jars and grab one. If you empty it early on you can always fill it up with other Christmas stuff.
Stack your vases or fill them with your favorite Christmas scene.
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Make easy and cheap realistic looking cardboard gingerbread houses to stand alone or put in your apothecary jars and canisters using white paint, a paint pen, or even white out.
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Don’t stop at houses, you can make complete faux gingerbread villages from cardboard boxes just as easily.
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6. Candles & Votives
Bring out your cake stands and pedestals to fill with candles, pinecones, or anything else that puts you in the spirit.
Roll mason jars in glue, epsom salt, and even glitter for EASY Snowy Mason jar Luminaries and votive candles.
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This super easy and popular craft is amazingly beautiful on a table.
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Can you believe these were quickly made with dollar store votive glasses, glue, and Epsom salt?!
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Here is just another easy yet beautiful variation of what you can do with glue and Epsom salt on glass. This centerpiece is channeling a Frozen theme.
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Do the same with twigs and any vases or votives you have lying around. Just trim the twigs to your desired length, glue on, and you have a beautiful rustic decoration.
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Have any paper cups lying around?! Coat twigs in Mod Modge (or elmers) glue, roll them in glitter, and glue them to the bottom of a paper cup. For the full tutorial click on the “TUTORIAL” link.
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Have battery operated candles hanging around? Make them Christmas candles in MINUTES using paper Christmas napkins and glue!
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Here’s something to do with the left over ends of your candles or wax melts, make easy festive Christmas votives out of cookie cutters!
Turn your wine glasses into containers and candle holders for an instant holiday centerpiece or decoration that costs nothing.
This is what you do to your spare ornaments.
Glue together dollar store candlesticks and glass bowls for beautiful votives and centerpieces you can use year round.
Faux gingerbread villages can be used as votives with battery powered candles and Christmas lights that light them up from behind.
7. DIY Snowflakes
Snowflake decorations are great because once Christmas is over, you can keep them up all winter long.
Buy snowflakes at the dollar store or make them yourself to suit any style from farm house to glam easily.
There are several ways you can make snowflakes yourself. One easy way is to glue together popsicle sticks in the shape of a snowflake.
They can be painted, glazed, or glittered out. Even kids can help!
Make them as simple or intricate as you want and small or large.
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Another way to DIY snowflakes is to cut them out of cardstock and paint, sprinkle with glitter, or decorate it with anything you’d like.
Probably one of our favorite methods is the hot glue gun method. All you need is wax or parchment paper, a printed out snowflake design, and hot glue.
Place the parchment paper over the snowflake design and trace it with hot glue. Once dry peel them off and place on the window or glue to string to make hanging snowflake garland.
You can make them sparkle by painting them with Mod Podge and sprinkling with glitter.
TIP: You can also use puff paint or elmer’s glue. However the elmer’s glue method works best on smaller snowflakes. ALSO try using the new glow in the dark elmer’s glue for glowing night time snowflake ornaments on your tree!
The least messy DIY method for making snowflakes is the pipecleaner method. Just cut pipe cleaner and twist into a snowflake design. Add a little rhinestone in the center for sparkle.
This method is great for kids!
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