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Christmas Decorations with Recycled Objects

Impress Santa with your Christmas decorations and your respect for the environment all in one! These homemade decorations, from a gingerbread town to snowflakes, all use common recyclable materials.

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Christmas Decorations with Recycled Objects

Impress Santa with your Christmas decorations and your respect for the environment all in one! These homemade decorations, from a gingerbread town to snowflakes, all use common recyclable materials.

Supplies

Orange Hangers

  • Oranges
  • Acrylic paint
  • Cookie cutter
  • Mallet
  • Piece of card and heavy plate /slate

Cardboard Gingerbread Town

  • Cardboard
  • White chalk pen
  • Scissors
  • Blade
  • Tracing paper
  • LED string lights

Bottle Snowflake Hangers

  • 6 assorted clear plastic bottles
  • White chalk pen
  • Scissors
  • Fishing wire
  • Blue acrylic paint

Steps

Orange Hangers

  1. Peel an orange peel by cutting both ends and slicing either side with a thin blade, and peel off sections. Then flatten with a mallet and take away leave to set overnight.
  2. Bring back into the shot, and being painting with gold acrylic paint.
  3. Thread through with a fishing wire and hang on to wooden sticks.

Cardboard Gingerbread Town

  1. Take a leftover cardboard box and measure out in inches how wide each building will be, and then begin drawing your little gingerbread houses.
  2. Cut out the shapes of the gingerbread town that you want to create.
  3. Cut out the pieces in the cardboard to create the windows.
  4. Then draw the detail in the town using white chalk pen.
  5. Stick on the pieces of tracing paper on the other side and display in front of LED string lights.

Bottle Snowflake Hangers

  1. Cut the base off of the plastic bottles and draw a snowflake on the outside of each with a chalk pen.
  2. Use blue paint to make patterns on the inside of each of the bottle bases and leave to dry.
  3. Using fishing wire, string together the bottle bases and display.