102 Easy Christmas Crafts to Make Your Home Merry and Bright

These paper stars are displayed in Waldorf schools to help brighten the space, and they are also a symbol of the Waldorf philosophy of education, which focuses on engaging the head, heart, and hands of children. Try making a bunch in varying sizes to decorate the tree.

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Craft this perfect little toolbelt for the handyperson in your life! Maybe you'll get lucky and they will come to your house and fix something!!

To make: Fold a 13- by 19-inch place mat in half along the long side. Sew the outside edges together with a sewing machine. Sew several tall compartments for holding tools. Attach a long length of twill tape to the top of each side of the tool belt for tying around the waist. Add a twill tape loop for holding a hammer, if desired.

SHOP PLACEMATS

Enlist the kids to help make an extra-large holiday card using paint and household brushes on brown Kraft paper. More is more, right?

To make: Cut a large piece of kraft paper and fold it into a card (you can also make the design on the paper, then use the paper to wrap a present). Dip the tip of a scrub brush in green acrylic print and dab on the paper, creating the wreath; allow to dry. Clean the brush (or use a second one) and dip the tip in white acrylic paint. Gently add “snow” to the wreath. Use red acrylic paint and a round-tipped paintbrush to add ornaments. Once dry, add a bow and greeting.

SHOP BRUSH

Decorate the tree, the sideboard, a headboard, or even around the door with this cute-as-can-be bow garland.

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Now this is a craft that only takes minutes to put together. Simply remove the stumps from bottlebrush trees and place the tree in brass candlesticks. Set them on the mantel, or line them up in the center the table for a crafty centerpiece.

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Deck the halls with sweet little trees crafted from yarn and swatches of felt fabric.

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No flames, no worries. Paper candles with pipe cleaner flames are safe anywhere in the house and will look good, too.

To make: Cut a piece of paper into a rectangle. Roll into a tube, overlapping the edge slightly, and glue it closed with hot-glue. Trace the circumference of one of the open ends on a different, but corresponding color, paper. Cut out the circle about ¼ inch larger than what’s traced. Cut notches from the edge of the paper to the traced circle all the way around. Place the circle on one end of the open tube and glue notches to the tube with hot-glue. Cut drips from the same paper as the top and attach to the tube with hot-glue. Shape yellow and red pipe cleaners into flames, twisting the ends together. Poke a hole in the top piece of paper and insert the flame

Put together jars of fragrant dried fruit and spices—including dried orange slices, cinnamon sticks, whole cloves, and star anise—for simmering and making the house smell wonderful. If gifting, wrap ribbon around the jar and tuck a piece of rosemary underneath it!

Little fingers dipped in red and white paint will help make these cards for sending special sentiments extra special.

To make: Cut cards from brown Kraft paper. Use pinking shears to cut decorative edges, if desired. Dip the tips of your fingers in red, then white paint and dab on the front of the card making a candy cane shape. Once dry hot glue a small bow to each candy cane.

Be the belle of the ball with a headband that's been decorated to the nines!

To make: Attach a putz house, small and mini bottle brush trees, mini holiday baubles, and Christmas ornaments to a wide satin hard headband with hot-glue.

Whether you make these as a gift or stitch up a pair for yourself to add a little whimsy to your holiday outfit you can never go wrong with fancy socks.

To make: Thread two strands of embroidery thread on a needle. Use a backstitch to stitch initials and desired pattern on socks.

Hang these cuties from the tree, make them into a garland, or hang them same tack as the stocking for a little extra mantel bling.

To make: Shape craft sticks into a tree shape, cutting them to size as desired. Glue the sticks together using hot-glue. Paint the trees with green acrylic paint. Once dry, wrap trees with rickrack and decorate with mini ornaments, buttons, and painted wood craft bobbles.

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You've decked the halls now it's time to deck out your holiday sweater! This super duper easy craft simply requires peeling the stickers off the back of store-bought bows and attaching them to a sweater. Self decor, done!

Related: DIY Ugly Christmas Sweaters for Your Holiday Party

Made with colorful vintage bingo cards, these trees will look great scattered on the mantel or holiday table.

To make: Cut three to five half-tree-shaped pieces from matching bingo cards (with one edge flat and the other jagged). Hot-glue the flat edges to a 3/8-inch dowel, fanning them out to create a 3D tree shape. Finish with a bingo tile topper using hot-glue. Place dowels in tall wooden spools for easy display.

For the baseball lover in your life, set out a Mason jar decorated to look like a baseball, with a bat tag, filled with sweet popcorn. They can snack all season long.

To make: Paint the outside of a Mason jar with flat white craft paint. Once dry use a fine grit sandpaper to gently scuff up the paint. Use a fine-tipped paint brush and red craft paint to paint on the stiches of the baseball. Use brown spray paint to paint the metal lid and band of the jar; allow to dry completely. Cut a baseball bat from a piece of brown craft paper and use markers to add details, such as wood grain. Punch a tiny hole in one end of the bat and attach to the jar with a piece of baker’s twine. Fill jar with Cracker Jack and attach lid.

With their snowflake-like appearance, this ladies’ luncheon staple lends wintry whimsy to a wall.

To make: Use double-sided tape to attach paper doilies in a triangular shape, then group smaller ones to create the square trunk.

Stacked in descending size and wrapped with felt garland, weathered flowerpots make for a pretty garden-themed decoration on a porch or in a potting shed.

The ideal gift or decor for the knitter in your life!

To make: Wrap yarn around a clear plastic Christmas ornament, holding the beginning of the yarn in place with a dab of hot glue, until the ornament is completely covered. Thread bamboo cocktail picks through the yarn to mimic knitting needles. Hang as desired.