5 Christmas decorations with wooden logs

For this Christmas decorate your home with original decorations that you can make with your own hands, by recycling wooden logs. Find out with us which are the decorations that you can create easily without too many puzzles.

Christmas is getting closer, so time is running out to set up the house in theme, decorate the tree, make the nativity scene and choose the right Christmas decorations to make the house festive and more beautiful.

Self for this year though, do you want to decorate with of the theme decorations that they are original, but above all created with DIY, you’ve come to just the right place! Today in fact with our article we will help you create 5 different Christmas decorations with wooden logs, for handmade and super original decorations! The proposals we will make you are from the simplest to the most creative. If you are curious and can’t wait to get started, you just have to keep reading.

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Table of Contents

1. The centerpiece

Making a centerpiece using a wooden log could be really simple but of great effect. You can use this type of centerpiece to decorate the table in the living room during the holiday season, a corner of the fireplace or it can become the perfect centerpiece for Christmas lunch.

To make it happen you will need it:

a log of wood
pine branches
pine cones
holly or fake red berries
saw
chisel.

With the saw cut the upper part of the trunk to flatten it. In this way, in fact, you can arrange the trunk on a plane without it rolling, but on the contrary it remains firmly in place. Dig the inside of the trunk with the help of chisel because then you will go there to insert the different decorations.

At this point you can start with the decoration of the trunk, so here the choice is completely yours and you can customize the trunk as you like. You can use a base with sprigs of pine e then to add pine cones, red berries and a candle thin and long, to be able to turn on during the Christmas evening.

2. The candle holder

With a technique similar to the one we proposed above, you can also make a candle holder. It too can be a perfect centerpiece for your Christmas parties or it can become the decoration for your fireplace floor, to which you can add fake trees to the side to complete the whole.

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With the help of a chisel, make holes along the trunk, distancing them from each other with the same measure to avoid a messy effect. You can make only 4 as for the Advent candles or, make as many as the trunk is long to make it richer.

Inside the holes at this point you can insert the white or red candles if you prefer, and arrange the log on the table or fireplace. To complete the decoration, you can add gods pine branches to surround the trunk is of the small ones pine cones here and there, or red bows to tie to the pine.

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3. Christmas characters

If you have at the disposal of trunks of shape perfectly roundabout, you can use them to decorate the entrance for example or a corner of the house that is still bare and too anonymous.

Just clean the trunk of any imperfections and then unleash all your creativity. You just have to choose the characters you want to make, buy suitable colors and paint!

THE colors righteous for wood are those tempera, oil or acrylic. Before make a white base on the whole trunk, so it will be easier to draw the faces of the different characters then. At this point you can proceed with paint eyes and the rest of the body, or make a light sketch with a pencil first so you will have the easier work.

In this way the your trunk so it can become a nice snowman, or Santa Claus. add then hat to Santa is there scarf to your puppet and you will see how much fun they will be!

4. A particular garland

With thinner trunks you can even make a wreath really special with which to embellish the front door of your home, and why not even your bedroom!

To make it happen you will need it:

4 thin logs of wood
wire easy to shape
pine branches
Christmas decorations.

System the 4 trunks of wood on a floor to form a rectangle. Wrap the wire between one trunk and another so they don’t move.
Wrap the branches pine around the wooden frame and stop them again with wire.
Decorate then with stars or red berries pasting all with hot glue.

To hang the wreath you just made, you can make a wire loop or use a ribbon to wrap over the top, tie a bow and hang it on the door.

5. The minimal do-it-yourself nativity

If you are tired of the usual crib, you can make a nativity altogether different from the original, simply using small wooden logs.

It’s a completely simple job so it won’t even take a long time to do it.

With the saw make a small cross cut on the top.
With a fine-tipped brush, realizes the faces and details of the characters of the nativity. For the baby Jesus character, choose the lower trunk or alternatively give it the right size and cut the rest with the saw.

Now your nativity is ready to make a good impression.