Christmas Crafts
Oct 31 2026
Old Christmas cards often have beautiful illustrations, cheerful patterns, and sturdy paper that can be useful long after the decorations come down. A snowy village might become a gift tag, a strip of patterned card can mark your place in a book, and a handful of colorful scraps can turn into a small piece of …
Nov 02 2025
There’s something irresistibly fun about decorating for Christmas with a Grinch theme. Bright green accents, oversized red bows, whimsical ornaments, candy-cane stripes, and mischievous Grinch faces can transform an ordinary holiday display into your own little version of Whoville. You don’t have to redecorate your entire house, either. A Grinch wreath, a few themed ornaments, …
Oct 20 2025
There is something wonderfully Christmassy about candlelight. A few tiny flames glowing on a mantel or dinner table can make an ordinary winter evening feel instantly warmer, quieter, and more magical. Making your own Christmas candles takes that feeling a step further. You can choose fragrances that remind you of fresh Christmas trees, gingerbread, oranges, …
Dec 07 2024
Some of the sweetest Christmas decorations are also the simplest. These DIY circle starburst ornaments turn ordinary pieces of cardboard and colorful yarn into cheerful handmade decorations that look surprisingly pretty hanging from the Christmas tree. The design is wonderfully uncomplicated: a round cardboard base is notched around the edges, then yarn is wrapped from …
Dec 07 2024
Handmade Christmas ornaments have a way of becoming some of the most treasured decorations on the tree. These sweet hand-painted salt dough star ornaments for Mom and Dad are simple, rustic, and wonderfully personal. Made from an easy homemade salt dough, the stars are painted white, edged with shimmering gold, and finished with the words …
Jan 21 2024
Ugly Christmas sweaters have become one of the most playful parts of holiday dressing. The whole point is to forget about understated good taste for an evening and embrace blinking lights, pom-poms, tinsel, oversized reindeer, dangling ornaments and as much Christmas cheer as one sweater can possibly hold. Even better, you don’t have to buy …
Jan 21 2024
There is something especially welcoming about a Christmas wreath made from real evergreen branches. Before anyone sees the tree, the stockings or the presents, a wreath on the front door offers the first little glimpse of Christmas waiting inside. And while professionally made wreaths can be beautiful, creating your own gives you complete freedom over …
Jan 21 2024
Christmas ornaments don’t have to come from a box at the store. Some of the prettiest decorations on a Christmas tree are the ones made slowly at the kitchen table with scraps of ribbon, colorful yarn, buttons, felt, paint and a little imagination. DIY Christmas balls are especially fun because one simple ornament shape can …
Jan 14 2024
Ribbon has an almost magical effect on a Christmas tree. A few carefully placed bows can soften a tree filled with shiny ornaments, introduce a new color without replacing your existing decorations and make even a simple evergreen feel beautifully finished. And Christmas tree bows don’t have to be enormous or complicated. The tree pictured …
Jan 07 2024
There is something particularly special about hanging handmade Christmas stockings each December. Unlike decorations chosen to match a temporary color scheme, stockings often become part of a family’s Christmas story—brought out year after year, filled on Christmas Eve and eventually associated with particular people and memories. They don’t have to be complicated, either. The colorful …
