Stylish handmade Christmas decorations
These days, it feels like handmade crafts are more accessible thanks to the wide variety of parts and materials available at 100-yen shops.
Plus, there are many people on social media who share easy tutorials and creative ideas for making all kinds of things.
Why not try making some lovely Christmas items by hand—things you may have avoided before, thinking, “I only use them once a year…”?
We’re sharing lots of ideas you can make using things you already have at home, as well as projects using items that are easy to find at 100-yen stores.
We especially feature simple, beginner-friendly projects that are great even if you’re not very handy.
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Stylish handmade Christmas decorations (21–30)
Cute mini Christmas tree
Let’s make a mini tree that’s small and easy to display.
You’ll need a pine cone, decorative parts, paint, and glue.
First, paint the pine cone in your tree color.
If you paint the whole cone green and then add white just to the tips, you can create the look of snow on the tree.
After that, use glue to attach the decorations, and you’re done.
Use any parts you like—decorative balls, beads, pipe cleaners, and more—to finish your tree beautifully.
Cute! Pine cone ornament
How about decorating your Christmas tree with pine cone ornaments? This simple idea involves decorating pine cones with decorative balls and beads, then attaching a looped ribbon to the base—perfect for a parent–child craft time.
You can keep the pine cones’ natural color or paint them with acrylics.
Changing the decorative parts will also change the look, letting you create a variety of lovely ornaments.
Hanging type using beads! Pinecone tree
Here’s a handmade pinecone tree idea that radiates chandelier-like glamour when hung.
Simply glue your favorite beads onto a pinecone for decoration, drill a hole in the base, and attach a screw eye—it’s very easy to make.
You can use the pinecone as is or paint it with acrylics.
Choose any beads you like and decorate freely.
Embellishing the hanging base with beads or ribbon makes it even more festive.
Even without attaching a screw eye and just displaying it as is, it looks adorably like a sweet treat!
Cute little doll made of a pine cone
Glue a larger wood bead, which will be the doll’s head, to the bottom of a pine cone.
Insert wire wrapped with jute twine into the pine cone to create arms and legs, then wrap a scarf knitted from yarn around the neck and put on a hat made from jute.
Draw the face with a pen and glue the figure to a base.
Give the doll a dried flower to hold, and it’s complete.
Since jute has a natural color, adding a brightly colored pom-pom to the tip of the hat will make the doll look more festive.
The doll’s impression will also change depending on the expression you draw and how you have it hold the flower.
Animals of Pine Cones
When it comes to Christmas crafts with pine cones, trees are the classic choice, but you can make many other creations too.
This time, I’ll show you how to make animals.
Place a large pine cone, which will be the body, on a clay base, then use clay and glue to attach a smaller pine cone on top for the head.
Once it’s dry, use felt, clay, beads, and similar materials to create the animal’s face and ears.
Decorate the body with pom-poms.
Instructions for making a tree and Santa Claus are also included, so give them a try if you like.
Let’s try making a pinecone tree!
Here are some DIY Christmas decoration ideas using pine cones and acorns you can pick up on a walk.
Be sure to sterilize the pine cones and acorns in boiling water before using them.
Paint the pine cones in any colors you like, decorate them with beads, pom-poms, pipe cleaners, and ribbon flowers, then glue them onto a coaster to serve as the base.
Next, color the acorns with markers to make Santa and a reindeer.
For the reindeer’s antlers, cut them out of origami paper with scissors.
Glue Santa and the reindeer onto the base, fill any gaps with cotton, and you’re done!
Stylish and cute advent calendar
Here are some stylish advent calendar ideas you can make using patterned paper and black construction paper.
Fold the patterned paper into a small bag, add the contents, then close it by forming a 3D triangle.
Cut the black construction paper into tag shapes, stamp the dates with gold ink, then punch holes in both the triangular patterned paper and the tags and thread them together with string.
You can display the finished pieces in a basket, or hang them as ornaments on your Christmas tree—they’ll look adorable either way.
Semi-transparent and metallic patterned papers are especially recommended!