Greener Christmas decorations

Wooden figurines to decorate, for hanging on Christmas trees or curtains, or to create a whole mobile... To cut out and carve yourself: the word "Christmas", for the pleasure of handling wood chisels and smelling the good aroma of sawdust. Cut-your-own wooden creations include an original wooden frame in the shape of a reindeer's head, and a black reindeer silhouette as a wall decoration.

Dare to change the way you decorate your walls for a few days by replacing paintings with Christmas frames, modern paintings for a black-and-white Christmas and canvases on stretchers easily painted with special Christmas stencils.

Our woodworkers also offer a small tree made of rough wood that you can paint yourself, as well as Santa's sleigh that can be used as a candy basket!

Felt is a must-have for children's crafts, and can also be used to make funny little Christmas elves to hang on the tree. Easy to cut out using special Christmas cutting templates, and just as easy to assemble with large stitches, it's also a good idea to have fun embroidering on felt with colorful cotton threads! Don't hesitate to play with the superposition of felts of different thicknesses, as in this felt Christmas star.

Felt also forms the basis of this spoon-shaped Christmas Angel decoration, useful for small cut-outs for accessories like these terracotta pot figures...

Covering Christmas ornaments with fabric is also a classic: by stitching small squares of fabric (notched is even prettier) into a cardboard ball, even young children can make their own baubles using small wooden spikes. In cotton, mini doilies crocheted and assembled 2 by 2 with a ribbon make pretty natural hangers for the tree...

Paper-cut hangers in the shape of round lanterns and snowflakes are classics. Thick cardboard place cards take on the shape of pointy hats for Christmas! Children can make greeting cards, to be decorated with glitter, which can be happily hung along a wall. A little more elaborate: a wreath made from paper and thin cardboard, for children aged 6 and upwards. The more creative can try their hand at making large Christmas elves from papier-mâché...

Those who enjoy painting will take great pleasure in wielding the finest brushes to create embossed decorations like this angel-shaped candleholder, this snowman candleholder... Easy candleholders for children: a dish candle (with its shell) is pressed into a flattened ball of dough. You can then notch the top, add handles... Salt dough can also be used to decorate small wooden frames according to Christmas themes, creating a whole assortment of mini-frames...

Recycling is a great way to create inexpensive decorations with a minimal impact on our environment. It also means taking advantage of winter walks to collect pine cones, pretty branches of dry wood, moss for the Crêche... Here's how to make a Christmas wreath with old decorations, scraps of garland... A sweet-smelling garland made from orange peel, dried at home beforehand. In recycling, hangers made from old woollen knitwear, garlands made from plastic bottles, Christmas mugs given a napkin makeover...