Christmas Table Decorations

Making your own Christmas table decorations is a super effective way of bringing a bit of festivity to your home. By using natural resources, any broken ornaments that you may have, and a few items picked up at a charity shop, you can create fabulous table decorations. I found that once I started, I couldn't bring myself to stop until I had used up two whole packs of hot glue sticks.

You will need:
Hot glue gun
Hot glue sticks
Broken ornaments

Natural Resources:
Use whatever you can find in your environment. I used:
Pinecones
Acorns
Driftwood
Conifer leaves and seed pods
Bark
Apples that had been blown off the apple tree
Spray of red berries from the garden


Lay out some newspaper or large sheet of card to work on, to protect your worksurface from glue.

Begin by laying out your materials. Start with a central item, such as a pinecone, a large ornament or a piece of driftwood, and begin placing smaller items around it and glue into place. You might like to start playing around with placement of items before starting to glue them together, to create pleasing arrangements.

Hot glue is easy to pull apart when cooled, so don't worry if you decide you don't like something - you can always pull it back off and start again.

Start off with two items, applying glue to the point where they touch.

Build up by surrounding your central items with a range of materials, filling up gaps with small items such as seed pods, acorns and berries. These berries, apples, ornaments and leaves are a perfect complement for a red, green and gold colour theme. 

 I found it easier to add the conifer leaves last, and to hot glue them to the bottom of the arrangements.

 This arrangement above uses a plastic lid as the base, with everything glued onto the lid.

 A large broken ornament is the centre of this arrangement, with windblown apples, fake apples, seed pods and conifer leaves glued around it.

 Conifer leaves form the base of this arrangement to create a full look, with a range of broken ornaments and natural resources glued on top,

 A range of broken ornaments were glued together to form a base, with small berries, seed pods and tiny apples filling up any gaps. Conifer leaves with seed pods were glued underneath the ornaments.

 This arrangement uses bark, apples, small conifer leaves and tiny seedpods to fill up the gaps.

Have fun creating your own table arrangements - there is no right or wrong way. I hope these ideas help to inspire you to reuse your broken ornaments in new ways, and to create your own stunning displays as you celebrate Christmas with your friends and families.

If you are interested in checking out my other Christmas crafts and tutorials, please click on this link here.

If you would like to check out my other craft tutorials, please click on this link here.