Will you be able to resist buying new, but probably not very original Christmas tree decorations? We have thought of giving you some small suggestions to brighten up your tree with decorations and do-it-yourself balls using recycled materials. Not just paper and cardboard, buttons, old scraps of fabric and even popsicle and ice cream sticks can be useful. Here are some ideas that you can put into practice, perhaps involving even the little ones.
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You will be able to resist buying new, but probably very unoriginal, decorations for the'Christmas tree? We have thought of giving you some small suggestions to cheer up your tree with DIY decorations and balls using recycled materials. Not only paper e cardboard, they will be useful to you buttons, old scraps of cloth and even i popsicle sticks and ice cream. Here are some ideas that you can put into practice, perhaps involving even the little ones.
1. With old people fabric scraps you can try to coat your old tree balls, which may have lightened or damaged over time. To decorate them you can apply on the fabric of buttons, sequins or beads.
2. The easiest way to make tree decorations is to cut out shapes of cardboard, which you can recover, for example, by keeping the packaging of some foods. All you need is a little imagination to draw shooting stars, snowflakes and snowmen, reindeer and little angels. Making a small hole in the top of each template will allow you to hang it on the tree with gods tapes or fill the lana.
3. If you have old women in your house bulbs incandescent, turn them into tree decorations. Decorate them with special colors for the glass, cover them with glitter or wrap them with ribbons that reflect the typical colors of Christmas.
4. For your decorations you can use remnants of lace and lace with which to realize two-dimensional balls. Just create a circular support with thin wire and stretch your embroidered remnants on it, fixing them to the edges with glue or with a needle and thread.
5. Con i ice cream sticks, to be colored using markers or tempera, you can create stars and snowflakes, assembling them with glue and decorating them as desired and applying on them buttons or colored ribbons of your choice.
6. If you have kept it over the years postcards and greeting cards Christmas decorations, the time has come to turn them into tree decorations. Just cut out the illustrations on them and decorate the edges with wool thread, after having pierced them, using a crochet hook. THU you will find some beautiful examples.
7. With clippings of foam rubber e fabric scraps have fun making gods stuffed hearts, that will certainly look great in the branches of your tree. You can reuse them throughout the year as perfumers for wardrobes and drawers sprinkling on the padding with natural essences.
8. If you want to make completely natural decorations, decorate some of them tangerines with gods cloves and hang them on the tree using a colored ribbon, which you will wrap around them.
9. With gods old crayons you will be able to decorate pine cones, which you will hang on the tree with the help of a hook. Melt the crayons in a bain-marie and dip the pine cones into the liquid wax. When the wax has cooled and solidified, they will be ready to hang on the tree.
10. Use fabric or wrapping paper to line all of those old cd that have been lying unused for some time at the bottom of one of the drawers of your desk. You can easily hang them on your tree with the help of a string or colored ribbons.
Marta Albè
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