This document provides instructions and ideas for homemade Christmas decorations and gifts, including: - Decorating place settings with ribbon for a holiday meal. - Making cornucopia vessels from paper to hold holly and berries for the Christmas tree. - Decorating foil-covered chocolate coins with thread or ribbon to make homemade ornaments. - Constructing a snowman figure out of oven-bake clay, yarn, and decorations. - Crafting a Styrofoam pinecone Christmas tree by attaching leaves with pins in overlapping rows.

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2.  Diy Christmas Decorations  Christmas Tree Ideas
 Diy Christmas Ornaments  Homemade Christmas Ornaments
 Homemade Ornaments  Country Christmas
 Snowman Crafts  Homemade Christmas Decorations
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3. Gift for the season a simple yet stunning way to dress up your dining room for sit-down
gatherings. It couldn't be quicker just wrap each place setting with a length of wide, pretty
ribbon. Do it in satin for a graphic statement, or in a loose organza for an elegant finish.
Once the meal has ended, save the ribbons (the still-clean ones, anyway) for another party
or for actual presents.
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4. Add little cornucopias to your tree as vessels for sprigs of holly and berries. Use a 12- to
14-inch bowl to make circles on brown paper or brown grocery bags. Cut out each
circle, then cut it in half. Fold each semicircle into thirds so that the “corners” come in to
form a triple-thick flattened cone. Cut through the three layers along the top to create a
scalloped edge. Fold over the scallops in the “front” of the cone (this will be the side that
faces you, if the cone is lying flat on a surface, and the overlapping “corners” are
underneath).
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5. Homemade Ornaments
Use a wooden skewer to make a small hole in foil-covered chocolate coins. Slip a
length of metallic thread or slim ribbon through the hole and cash in on a holiday look
that's as good as gold.
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6. Build a Frosty that will last no matter what the forecast. Roll balls of oven-bake clay (find it at craft
or art supplies stores) into tiered sizes, with the bottom, largest one roughly three inches tall. Wind
white yarn (whatever is in your budget: anything from fuzzy white angora to inexpensive acrylic
yarn will work) around each until clay is completely covered. To connect the snowman, break a
wooden skewer down to size, then spear the top and bottom of the “tummy,” sticking on the “head”
and “bottom” on either side. Give your snow pal evergreen sprigs for arms and a sense of style by
dressing him up with assorted buttons, pins, construction paper, and felt, all from a crafts store.
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7. Take a 6-inch by 3-inch Styrofoam cone (also purchased at a crafts store) and use straight pins to
attach the leaves, starting at the bottom. Cover the cone, placing the leaves so they fall below the
bottom edge, as shown. Work around the bottom row, pinning each leaf at its top center and top
sides to hold it in place. Move up to make the next row and continue until the entire cone is
covered to the top, overlapping the leaves as you go in order to cover the pinheads. As you are
making the tree (or as the leaves dry out) some of the leaves will curl out and some will lie
flat, giving each tree its own shape. Add a small bow of twine at the top and set into a small (3-
inch) terra-cotta pot.
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