Recycle materials and objects used to make beautiful Christmas decorations. 10 imaginative ideas to get garlands, festoons, balls and decorate the Christmas tree.
A very important theme in recent years, theecology and the respect for Nature they begin to be dominant in everyday life: maintaining a correct behavior with the living beings of the sea, river, lake, forest and all the other ecosystem environments has become fundamental.
Recover and recycle the materials of industrial manufacture, as much as possible and without resorting to the use of polluting products, is something that is good for the Earth and is also an economic behavior.
Thanks to creativity and to the imagination that each of us has inside, helped by friends and family, we can recover many small objects and materials that would have ended up in landfills too soon.
Instead, by giving it new life, you will still keep a fond memory, but with some new function. The Christmas theme it helps in this operation, being the ideal subject for creating decorations, objects that embellish and color the different corners of the house.
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Try a little to think what could be achieved with a cardboard box rather than a worn leather belt. Or with a tin can that would otherwise have seen its next fate in the aluminum bin.
Here it is many and ecological suggestions to get you ready with some new and fantastic christmas decoration.
Eco-friendly Christmas decorations: tips
Here are some of the thousands of ideas to recycle materials and get fantastic Christmas decorations for the home and office.
Paper
There paper it is the material that we can probably find much easier and perfect for creating all sorts of decorations, even those with a Christmas theme.
The cards of the pastries or sweet chocolates can become a beneagurante garland.
Paper cups or the coffee pods used can give life to a truly original tree.
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The art of origami never sets, especially since folding a piece of paper properly is a very simple thing.
Balls to hang on the tree are simple: placing a glass on top of the paper, just trace the outline with a pencil and then cut with scissors.
Plastic
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The ping pong balls they are very common and then they don’t cost huge amounts: get yourself a play set and then paint nice faces. This will give you cheerful balls to hang on the tree.
Cut out the plastic bottles to obtain lots of pendants that can be decorated inside in an always different way.
Truly industrial Christmas tree, recovering caps and plastic bottles.
With a little glue here is a very special shape that will make your children have fun making it.
Wood
Branches with an important thickness they can become pendants to be painted, with writings and messages of happy holidays.
Instead of throwing theboard with which you cut and slice the cured meats, why not create a cheerful Santa Claus?
This is delicious Christmas tree created with the wood recovered from the beach, smoothed by the force of the sea and bleached colors, almost as if it were a shabby chic style processing method.
Fabric
Fabric, wool, cotton, jute, the possibilities to create small and pretty decorations with fabrics are truly endless.
Characters dressed up in the traditional colors of the event, including red that always stands out for its liveliness.
A consumed string and torn can be the ribbon to close the gift box.
Metal
Of caps we are full every day: set aside a little and you will see what simple decorations to hang with a piece of ribbon and some glue.
THE crown caps they are even easier to decorate: by cutting out a piece of cardboard, write a greeting message and hang them on the tree or in an area of the house that seems anonymous to you.
Proposed only for reliable hands and able to handle the cutting parts, you can create with flexible metal plates saplings to create a Nordic landscape.
Take care to smooth the corners to prevent you and your family from getting hurt.
Foods
Even the leftover food it can be useful for this purpose. Here is a well cleaned and repainted orange slice, truly natural decoration.
With the ginger you can create many tasty biscuits to be enjoyed with the typical hot drinks of winter such as tea, herbal teas, chocolates and cappuccinos.
But to close the gifts of greedy friends, why not use a biscuit as a parcel stop? Rest assured it will be as appreciated as your gift.
Eco-friendly Christmas decorations: image gallery
In the gallery of images many other green proposals, for a Christmas respectful of ecology and the environment.
