DIY, easy, simple Holiday decorations for your room
So, the holidays are coming up right around the corner, and you are too lazy (or you don't have money) to buy Christmas decorations (or other holidays), although you really want to spice up those plain walls. Here are some really, really simple holiday decorations. Some are for Christmas, Valentine's Day (hey, it's never too early to decorate), and just winter-ish (I know it's not a real word) looking decorations.
1. Merry Christmas letters:
Things you'll need to make it
-scissors
-any kind of paper you want to use (for the color of the font, i choose red)
-scotch blue painter's tape (this tape does not take off the paint on your walls)
-pencil, sharpie, printer, ink, computer (all optional depending on what you want to do
How to make it
1. decide on what you want the letters to say, like Merry Christmas, Merry X'mas, Happy holiday, and etc.
2. decide if you want to draw the letters yourself or print the letters out and trace it on some festive paper and cut it, or you can just print the letters out on the festive paper.
-Drawing the letters~ use a pencil to draw out the letters on the festive paper, cut them out, outline the insides of the letters with sharpie (like for O when you draw it, outline the inner little o, idk if i'm making sense here), attach the letters with tape, tape the letters however you like on your wall with the painter's tape
-Printing out the letters~take festive paper and put them in the printer on the right direction, choose some nice letters online, print them out on the festive paper, attach tape to the back, and attach the letter however you like on your wall with the painter's tape
Here's what my finished product looked like:
2.Christmas tree and dots (optional) on wall
3. Reindeer paper figurines
4. Flower Wreath
Thing you'll need to make it:
-green construction paper or whatever color you want the back of the wreath to be
-other colors of construction paper depending on what colors of the flower you want
-scissors, scotch blue painter's tape, bows/ribbon
How to make it:
1. cut a circle out from the construction paper according to how big you want the wreath to be
2. then draw or trace a flower on your colored paper, you can go back and forth with the colors like yellow blue yellow blue or you can just do whatever color flower you want
3. tape the flowers onto the circle construction paper
4.(optional) decorate the wreath any way you want to
5.Attach painter's tape onto the back of the wreath and hang it in front of your door or wall
Here is just a picture of what a flower wreath night look like:
5. Candy cane heart for winter(candy cane for Christmas, peppermint for January, heart for Valentines Day)
6. Snowflake and Snow (winter decoration)
1. Merry Christmas letters:
Things you'll need to make it
-scissors
-any kind of paper you want to use (for the color of the font, i choose red)
-scotch blue painter's tape (this tape does not take off the paint on your walls)
-pencil, sharpie, printer, ink, computer (all optional depending on what you want to do
How to make it
1. decide on what you want the letters to say, like Merry Christmas, Merry X'mas, Happy holiday, and etc.
2. decide if you want to draw the letters yourself or print the letters out and trace it on some festive paper and cut it, or you can just print the letters out on the festive paper.
-Drawing the letters~ use a pencil to draw out the letters on the festive paper, cut them out, outline the insides of the letters with sharpie (like for O when you draw it, outline the inner little o, idk if i'm making sense here), attach the letters with tape, tape the letters however you like on your wall with the painter's tape
-Printing out the letters~take festive paper and put them in the printer on the right direction, choose some nice letters online, print them out on the festive paper, attach tape to the back, and attach the letter however you like on your wall with the painter's tape
Here's what my finished product looked like:
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| I put this above my desk and it just looks really nice, I picked the drawing letter option |
Things you'll need to make it:
-green and red construction paper
-scissors and scotch blue painter's tape (tape that does not rip off the paint from your wall)
-glitter, pompom, tinsel, Christmas lights, etc. (optional)
How to make it:
1. Draw or print out some Christmas trees with green paper
2.Cut them out
3. (optional) decorate the Christmas paper trees with whatever you would like or the art supplies listed above
4. cut out some read dots according to how much trees you have. I had 5 trees so i cut out 9 red dots.
The red dots are place one under the tree, one in the middle of two tress, and then again with a red dots under one tree etc..
5. Attach painter's tape on the back of everything and place on wall in the desired area of you wall.
Here's what my finished product looks like:
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| I only took a photo of 3 trees and not my all 5. |
Things you'll need to make it:
-long reindeer paper cutouts, a dum-dum
-hot glue gun, scissors, hard paper
-felt, pipe cleaners, pom-pom (varies in size), ribbon, bells, googly eyes
How to make it:
1. cut out your long reindeer cutout and punch a hole on the reindeer's head and one around his belly button
2. stick the dum-dum through those two holes, thus creating an s shape on the side of the reindeer and to glue the dum-dum onto the feet so it can stand
3. Attach pipe cleaners by wrapping around the dum-dum stick and cut the rest off, use the excess to bend together, making the antlers
4. glue goggly eyes, use felt to cut a mustache (if you want), put pom-pom as its nose, glue bigger pom-poms as the paws/hooves, tie a bow and glue it on, glue a bell to the middle of the ribbon, glue colorful pom-pom all over the antlers
Here's what my finished product looks like:
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| MUSTACHE REINDEER |
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| colorful reindeer |
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| plain reindeer |
4. Flower Wreath
Thing you'll need to make it:
-green construction paper or whatever color you want the back of the wreath to be
-other colors of construction paper depending on what colors of the flower you want
-scissors, scotch blue painter's tape, bows/ribbon
How to make it:
1. cut a circle out from the construction paper according to how big you want the wreath to be
2. then draw or trace a flower on your colored paper, you can go back and forth with the colors like yellow blue yellow blue or you can just do whatever color flower you want
3. tape the flowers onto the circle construction paper
4.(optional) decorate the wreath any way you want to
5.Attach painter's tape onto the back of the wreath and hang it in front of your door or wall
Here is just a picture of what a flower wreath night look like:
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| I did not make this, this was just a picture I found online. |
Things you'll need to make it:
-two pieces of white paper
-one piece of red construction paper
-scissors, scotch blue painter's tape
How to make it:
1. take one piece of white paper and draw half of a heart
2. staple another piece of white paper where you didn't draw the heart and cut the half of the heart out
3. take the red construction paper and cut out a bunch of red sticks that are around 4in. long and 1in. thick
4. attach tape on all and tape those on both half of hearts
5. cut the access off, attach painter's tape on the back and tape on wall in desired area
Here's what my finished product looks like:
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| I put this heart underneath the Christmas tree and dots decoration. |
Things you'll need to make it:
-lots of different colored paper and some scrapbook paper
-blue construction paper
-scissors, scotch blue painter's tape
How to make it:
1. take your different colored paper and scrapbook paper and cut how many snowflakes you want
How to cut snowflakes~first make sure your paper is a square or a circle
square~fold it into a triangle and keep going until it's like pretty small and just cut random patterns such as triangles or diamonds or circles
circle~fold circle in half and in half and in half until it's pretty small and just cut random patterns such as triangles or diamonds or circles
2. draw a circle and just cut a bunch of those out
3. put painter's tape on the back of the snowflakes and snow
4.Attach these anywhere on your wall
Here's what my finished product looks like:
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| snow on the bottom of snowflakes |
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| snowflakes surrounded by snow |
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| snow on the top of snowflakes |
so, that's it I hoped you guys liked it and if you want more posts for DIY decorations just leave a comment below and yeah, Thanks for reading! =]
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