" Lovely craft ideas for a merry Christmas "

The house is festively decorated for Christmas. Lights, stars and angels spread a contemplative atmosphere and contribute to the Advent mood. The great thing is that you can easily make creative Christmas decorations and winter decorations with the rightcraft materials yourself. And the children can also get involved in creating fabulous craft ideas.

Anticipation is the greatest joy - especially at Christmas time

Making Christmas decorations with children is a wonderful thing. Naturally, the little ones are excited as soon as the beautiful Advent season approaches. Everything glitters and shines and, of course, the anticipation of Christmas presents cannot be contained.

Anticipation is the greatest joy

When it's snowing outside and the days are gray and cold, cozy craft afternoons are the perfect time to create imaginative Christmas decorations and spend time in a contemplative mood. Whether fir greenery, snowflakes or Santa Clauses - there are an extraordinary number of craft ideas for enchanting Christmas decorations.

With our tips for tree decorations, table decorations or window sill decorations, you can conjure up a suitably festive atmosphere.

Classics for children: little Santa Clauses

Santa Claus figures have become an integral part of Christmas and winter decorations and are wonderful classic decorations that are easy to make.

You will need the following for this Christmas decoration

• a desired number of toilet rolls
• red nutcrackers
• black lentil beads
• white wooden beads in different sizes
• string
• little bells
• absorbent cotton

Wrap the cardboard rolls

To make the Santa Claus look pretty, start by cutting the red nut into strips. These should be as wide as the rolls. Now wrap the cardboard roll in several layers. Fix the first one in place with some craft glue.

Face and details on the Christmas decoration

Simply use the black lentil beads for the eyes. Make the beard using the absorbent cotton, which you simply attach with liquid glue.

Belt made from white beads

For decoration, string white wooden beads into a short chain. Then place these around Santa Claus one to three times, depending on how you like them and the length of the chain. Attach a small bell at the end. That's it!

Christmas candle holders

Sophisticated lighting is an inseparable part of the Christmas season. Fragrant candles can be found on every table setting when the delicious roast is set. To give candles the right place, you should definitely make a few candle holders as Christmas decorations. The children can get actively involved here.

Christmas candle holders for Christmas dinner

We need the following materials for this:

• various empty glasses
• Nuscheli in green, white and red
• Decorative sand or very fine pebbles
• Fir green
• craft wire
• Small lentil beads in a colorful mix
• candles

Wrap jars with fabric

First of all, cut the mumblebees into small strips. You can work with one or more colors at this point. Now wrap the strips of fabric around the glass. You are welcome to wrap them in a criss-cross pattern. This creates a more lively effect.

Fill the jars

Now fill the jars with decorative sand or very fine pebbles so that only a small rim remains.

Candles and fir greenery

Now insert the candle into the sand or gravel. The fir greenery can also simply be inserted or you can simply lay it on top. Now the Christmas decorations are basically ready. Just a few details are missing.

Set accents with a small string of lentil beads

To embellish the Christmas decorations, make small necklaces with the colorful lentil beads. Thread the beads onto the craft wire. You can let your imagination run wild here. At the end, simply place the chains around the glasses. Knot the end of the wire so that the chain holds.

Our tips for successful Christmas tree decorations

Enhance pine cones with beads

Pine cones look beautiful by nature and should not be missing from Christmas decorations or winter decorations. To enhance them a little, take a few small wooden beads in different colors and glue them onto the cones using hot glue. These colorful cones will give your Christmas tree a whole new look.

Crafting with pine cones

Christmas decorations with strings of beads instead of tinsel

The Christmas tree is often decorated with tinsel. How about decorating it with a few chic strings of beads as an alternative? Children can also make these Christmas decorations quickly and easily. All they need is string and various wooden beads. craft beads made of wood or plastic beads in shapes and sizes of your choice.

This is how it's done

Thread the chains to the length you want. The chains are hung individually over the branches. As far as the choice of color is concerned, it is up to you whether you want to create contrasts or match the rest of the tree decorations.

Embellish old Christmas tree baubles with crochet beads

Do you still have Christmas tree baubles that you can decorate? Whether old or very simple baubles. They can be wonderfully complemented with pretty crochet beads. The soft craft beads can simply be glued on. A great, quick craft idea for children.

Making winter decorations: our tip for children

Winter in general is a central theme in all Christmas decorations. That's why appropriate decorations are characterized by picturesque snowy landscapes or fir trees covered in white. For winter decorations, it is a good idea to make snow clouds.

We need the following for this:

• Scraps of fabric/ wool/ socks
• white muslins
• strings
• white crochet beads

Making the clouds for the winter decoration

Take either a few scraps of fabric, used socks or wool and form a cloud by folding the fabric into a shapeless ball. Now take the white ball and place the ball inside. You can use a little more of the ball if you wish. Close the fabric packet and simply attach a small string to the top so that you can hang up the cloud later.

Making snowflakes

It snows incessantly from the thick snow clouds. To do this, string the white crochet beads into chains of different lengths and then attach them to the lower edge of the cloud.

Get inspired - now it's time to start crafting with children

Making winter and Christmas decorations with children is a great activity that is fun for young and old alike. Our versatile craft tips have now provided some input. Now all you have to do is get started and put the ideas into practice together with your children.