Enhance your Christmas table with a magical DIY project you can create with your family. Wood, pine branches, stars... Discover all our tips for creating a unique decoration and welcoming your guests to the heart of an enchanted forest.
Much more than just an aesthetic touch, making a pretty Christmas table decoration yourself is also a way of rediscovering your inner child and awakening the creativity of young children. Assembling, cutting, gluing, coloring... An ideal activity to keep siblings and cousins entertained after a refreshing walk in the forest, hands full of little treasures.
Here are the different steps to create your DIY Christmas table decoration:
The necessary equipment:
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The downloadable model of the stars
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Wooden sticks (collect sticks or buy them in craft stores)
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Foam board or foam board or basic corrugated cardboard
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Fir branches
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A hot glue gun
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A pencil and a ruler
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A pair of scissors
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Wooden logs of different diameters
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Sticks collected during your walks
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Small ornaments, mini Christmas balls, lollipops…
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Artificial snow spray (optional)
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A string of lights
The stages of implementation:
Step 1: Creating the stars
Create the wooden stars using the downloadable templates. To do this, glue the wooden sticks together using hot glue, following the outline of the star drawn on the template. Trim to the correct length if necessary. For "solid" stars, you will need to cut the star template out of a piece of foam board (available in craft stores).
Step 2: Decorate the stars
Glue fir branches on the wooden stars on both the front and back of the star. Completely fill the stars made with the sticks and those made from foam board with fir branches, without forgetting to cover both sides.
Step 3: Making the bases
Cut (or purchase) different diameters of wooden logs as well as sticks of varying heights.
Make the tree bases by gluing the stick to the base of the star and then gluing it to the wooden log using hot glue. If the diameter of the stick is not at least 1cm wide enough, then lightly drill the wooden log with a drill before gluing the stick that will form the trunk.
Step 4: Decorating the star trees
Decorate star trees with small ornaments, mini Christmas baubles, or even candy and lollipops. Sprinkle some spray snow on top for a wintery look.
Step 5: Table arrangement
Arrange the star trees on your Christmas table on a carpet of eucalyptus, branches or artificial snow, not forgetting a string of lights to bring magic to your forest of star trees.
And there you have it, your DIY Christmas table decoration is finished!
DIY Christmas centerpiece: get their creativity flowing
All that's left is to set the table with your most beautiful tableware. Children can add a finishing touch to the decoration by arranging small animal or elf figurines, wandering through this enchanted forest. Creating this easy-to-recreate Christmas table DIY is the perfect opportunity to let their creativity run wild!
Create a Christmas table decoration to learn to share
What a joy to set a beautiful centerpiece for your guests. A place of warm reunions, passionate discussions, and gourmet pleasures, the Christmas table is at the heart of the festivities. Young and old alike gather there to share a festive moment, where the pleasure of the senses blends with the joy of being together.
DIY created by Ouiouiouistudio.
