Are you still missing a clever idea for a Christmas decoration that not everyone has? Have a look in your yellow bag or waste paper bin! The keyword is upcycling. You can make chic Advent decorations from used packaging material. You can find numerous instructions for „DIY“ Christmas decorations made from packaging material on the Internet. We have put together some of the best links for you.
During Advent, we like to put „knick-knacks“ in Christmas colours in our homes to get us in the mood for the approaching Christmas celebrations. Advent DIY decoration ideas with a high feel-good factor, Tanja Klindworth has Article about homemade Christmas decorations on her wellness blog. All you need for this are old Jam jars, newspaper cuttings, some decorative ribbons and the odd twig. These can then be turned into „wish fulfilers“, Christmas tree vases or „Waiting for Father Christmas“ glasses.
Tanja Klindworth pursues a similarly decorative approach to the picture collection with Christmas craft ideas from old wine bottles.
Advent calendars made from tea bag wrappers or with spices
It's actually already too late, because the first doors of the Advent calendar have already been opened. If you still want to make one spontaneously, have a look at the Five creative ideas from utopia.de for advent calendars based on the DIY principle. Four of these ideas are based on upcycling. From old Toilet rolls or jam jars to create pretty calendars for small gifts. How about a spice calendar, for example? You can fill 24 empty jars with different Spices and provide suitable recipes at the same time. Or do you prefer the tea advent calendar? Tea bag wrappers of tea packaging are put to new use here.
You can also make fancy stars out of tea bag wrappers as Window decoration tinker. You can find out how to do this on the YouTube channel „Making stars“.
Do you like Chocolate kisses do you like it that much? Then you should buy another pack quickly. Because the inside of chocolate marshmallow boxes likes to shine in gold or silver. This is used on the YouTube channel „El*Ke“ extraordinary Christmas baubles made. This will be a radiant eye-catcher on your Christmas tree!
Pipe cleaners do a good job for Father Christmas
Only a few days to go until St Nicholas' Day. You can easily make your own Advent figurine of the holy man with his beard and crosier by using toilet rolls, a favourite in DIY circles, as a base. Add some red paper, cotton wool, pipe cleaners and aluminium foil and your pre-Christmas gift bringer is ready! Here you can find the Video instructions for Father Christmas.
Finally, we present you with a tip for the Christmas season. Table decoration. Or do you already have Christmas-appropriate Napkin rings? How to turn simple Cardboard rolls - either the toilet paper rolls already mentioned several times or cardboard rolls of wrapping paper - make Christmas napkin rings and two other ideas are shown in this video. It's in Spanish, but easy to understand without words.
