If our last list of ideas wasn’t enough to get you started, here are 25 more!

25 more fabulous Christmas Decorating Ideas!

1. Wrap an empty flower pot with bright Christmas wrapping paper inside and out. Tie a ribbon around the pot. Fill with sweets or nuts or biscuits for your guests to nibble on.
2. Dress up your house plants – hang small Christmas ornaments on them. Wrap the pots in Christmas wrapping paper and tie with bows.
3. Tie five or six cinnamon sticks into a bundle using red ribbon. Create a bunch of these bundles and display them in a bowl or place on shelves and in other nooks and crannies to add wonderful scent to any room.
4. Tape a doily to the outside of a glass canister or clean glass jam or mayonnaise jar. Spray the outside of the jar with artificial snow. Dry. Spray the lid also. Remove the doily. Fill the container with biscuits, nuts or sweets, etc. Decorate with doily lid and ribbons. Tie a bunch of cinnamon sticks to the bottle for a lovely scent.
5. Decorate your picture frames with bows and tinsel.
6. Hang a large wall calendar on your wall (at kiddie height). Count down the days to Christmas by letting the kids glue brightly-coloured bows or stars covered in glitter on each passing day.
7. Kids will really believe in Santa with this one!  Just before going to bed on Christmas Eve, let the kids fill a glass with milk and fill a plate with biscuits for Santa. Put the glass and biscuits next to the Christmas tree. It looks great if you take a bite or two out of one biscuits and drink half the milk – after the kids have gone to bed.
8. For easy Christmas tableware, tie red, green, or gold ribbons to the stems of wine glasses or the handles of cutlery.  Tie ribbons around your serviette rings.
9. Use strong tape to hang indoor Christmas lights around the inside of your window frames.
10. Print your favourite biscuit recipe on red or green paper. Roll each recipe up like a scroll and tie with ribbon. Put the scrolls in a decorated basked by your front door so you can give them to your guests as they leave. You can even bake a batch of biscuits. Wrap each biscuit separately in cellophane or plastic wrap and attach one scroll to each biscuit with tape or ribbons .
11. Display coloured ball ornaments or even beads in clear glass bowls instead of hanging them on your tree.
12. Paint the outside of large, clean coffee tins with silver, gold, red or green spray paint and use them as biscuit tins. After the paint dries, you can decorate by gluing Christmas card or wrapping paper cut outs onto the tins. Fill with your favourite biscuits. Decorate with bows and holly.
13. Paint the tips of pine cones with gold craft paint. Place on a piece of wax paper to dry.  Fake spray snow and gold or silver glitter also works well. Display cones in bowls or vases or attach a ribbon and hang them on your tree.
14. Create an inexpensive set of Christmas glassware. Purchase a set of glasses or mugs and paint holly leaves and berries on the outside of each glass or mug using red and green glass paint.
15. Make simple bows from red or green ribbons and pin them to your curtains.  Stick huge bows to all doors at head height – use coloured cellophane for extra sparkle.
16. Purchase small bells from your craft store. Tie each bell to a piece of ribbon. Drape the bells over a door knob so that they ring when someone goes past. Tie bows around door knobs.
17. Cut snowflakes or bells from white paper and hang them in all of your windows. Decorate with silver or gold glitter sparkles.
18. Use red and green fabric paints to trace simple Christmas patterns (like stars, bells, Santas, stockings, etc.) on a white tablecloth.
19. Use Christmas wrapping paper as an tablecloth overlay for your dinner table.
20. Trim door frames, window frames and the edges of mirrors with tinsel (fix with sticky tape).
21. Buy cork placemats or drink coasters and Christmas print stamps and red or green or gold stamp pads. Stamp shapes in the different colours onto your coasters and place mats. You could even stamp the Christmas shapes onto your table cloth and serviettes.
22. Attach a large piece of white posterboard to the inside of your front door and decorate with a large bow. Tie red and green pens to the door handle with long ribbons and get your guests to write a Christmas message on the board as they leave.  Makes for great memories.
23. Put some Christmas cheer into your guest bathroom. Display red and green soaps, bath gels and oils.  Use red or green towels. Decorate the mirror with bows or tinsel.
24. Buy inexpensive white bathroom accessories (soap dish, toothbrush holder, trash can, etc.). Paint simple holly leaves and red berries using craft paints. Or attach bows, sequins, beads, coloured buttons, etc., with glue or sticky tape.
25. Paint nuts gold with craft paint (use a variety of nuts of different shapes). Line a large bowl or basket with pine twigs or other greenery (artificial or real – green tissue paper also looks good), fill the bowl with oranges, apples and the gold nuts. Add a large red bow to the basket or bowl.

Carla

I am a preschool and primary school teacher and mum to 3 children. I have been involved in education since 1997 and have trained in a variety of educational specialist areas. It is with this expertise that I write articles to help parents and educators provide quality learning experiences for the children in their care.