Every year around Christmas I feel pressed for time and trying not to break the family budget? Is that familiar to you?
Well, there are many things you can’t avoid spending upon (such as presents for the kids), however, you can easily find some DIY craft ideas for inexpensive festive decoration that will turn your home into a magical place.
Still, don’t believe me? Let me help you skip all the expensive store-bought decorations with the help of these 25 easy Christmas decorating ideas on a budget. 😉
1. Transform Your Tree with Hand Painted Snowman Ornaments
2. Create an Elegant Fireless Pit with String Lights
Here is something that will surely give your home an additional warmth and coziness.
This DIY frameless fire pit is made of dry tree branches wrapped in aluminum foil and some Christmas string lights. It’s a time-saving, eye-catching, and most importantly – low-priced project.
3. Add Festive Cheer to Your Home with a DIY Elf Family
Speaking of great Christmas ideas on a budget, this adorable elf family displayed on the mantel will surely turn into the centerpiece of the living room space.
All you need for each of these cheap and kid-friendly DIY elves is craft paint, jingle bell, one felt triangle, two wood beads (one larger for the body and one smaller for the head).
4. Make a Christmas Tree Centerpiece with Toilet Rolls
This DIY Homemade Christmas tree made of simple toilet paper rolls is something that everyone should include in their list of ‘Christmas on a budget’ ideas! 😉
Thanks to the shimmering ornaments it doesn’t look cheap and boring.
Pressed by the time? Can you believe that this project will take less than 5 minutes? All you need to do is adding some greens to a crystal ornament and arranging with tweezers if necessary.
It’s not just budget-friendly but also time-saving!
These cute handmade paper ball ornaments are made from strips of scrapbook paper that are formed into spheres.
I love the fact they are one of those Christmas decoration ideas on a budget that can be easily adapted to any style of festive decor depending on the paper you choose.
9. Create a Magical Christmas with DIY Underwater Forest
I found this beautiful project, called DIY Underwater Forest, in the Make + Haus blog.
All you need to re-create it is a couple of mason jars, plastic/coated ornaments, or faux flowers and garland, primitive glitter or snow confetti, hot glue, liquid glycerin, and distilled water.
That’s one of the coolest and most romantic Christmas gift ideas for the family on a budget.
14. Show Your Creativity with DIY Wire Star Ornaments
Following my collection of ‘Christmas decorating on a budget’ ideas, these wire stars might not be exactly the easiest DIY project to make but if you find the right amount of free time and enthusiasm, you will end up with some appealing ornaments.
If you like the delicate type of Christmas decorations, this tiny origami Santas (each of them folded from two 1 1/2 inch squares of red paper) could be a cute addition to your Christmas cards and gift tags.
These romantic snowy luminaries made of Mason Jars, snow texture paint, and some pinecones collected from the nearest forest, will bring an additional warmth to your holiday home.
The dried orange or lemon slices would be a good alternative to the pinecones. 😉
Ivo is the owner of Decorhomeideas.com – he started the site back in 2013, when he was still working in a Home Decor company, but the passion for interior design and decorations lead to creating the site and following his own dream of creating a great Home Decor, DIY and Gardening online-magazine.
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