DIY Christmas balls: discover our original ideas

Decorating the house with Christmas decorations always brings a warm atmosphere in which spending holidays with family is even more enjoyable.

With a little creativity, you can customize Christmas decorations to make your home environment unique.

DIY Christmas balls are simple to make and will allow you to give a touch of style to your tree and, why not, to any other decorations you want to put on furniture and ornaments. They can also be great gifts for relatives or friends.

In this article I will give you some ideas that will be useful to unleash your imagination.

Named Christmas balls, a personalized gift

Creating handmade Christmas ornaments and then gifting them with a striking distinctive feature is a great way to show someone how much you care.

When the recipient of this gift sees the ball with his or her name or a meaningful phrase, he or she can't help but get excited.

To get these personalized DIY balls, you can use some that you already have at home or buy some special ones at flea markets. In both cases, you will be recycling an object giving it a new aesthetic and a new life.

A simple red ball can become a characteristic element of the Christmas tree, if you enrich it with inscriptions and small pictures (stars, stylized Santa Clauses, snowflakes).

Understanding the name to be added to the ball can be done in two ways:

• By purchasing ready-to-use stickers or letters
• By personally engraving the texts

In the first case, go to a specialty store or an e-commerce and buy each adhesive letter you need to make the DIY Christmas balls, or you can directly buy the names of the people ready to be applied to your decorations.

If you want to do things in the most artisanal way possible, you can get some sticky notes on which you will write people's names and then carefully cut them and stick them on the balls. You can also use sticky notes for printers to print the text in your preferred fonts.

Homemade shabby chic Christmas ornaments for a truly unique tree

The “messy – elegant” style, more or less a literal translation of shabby chic, is still very much on trend and can be perfect for trendy Christmas decorations.

To create shabby chic DIY Christmas balls you can start with light colored balls (white, gray, light blue, beige), but if you have brighter colors available there is still a solution which I will explain shortly.

You can glue strips of lace, perhaps taken from clothes you no longer use, onto a light-colored top and decorate it here and there with a darker color, such as gray or pale yellow.

If you start from the base of another nuance, you can simply glue the lace and interspers it with a common thread or a thick woolen thread.

If you only have brightly colored balls, you can achieve the shabby chic effect by covering them completely with jute or old newspaper or magazine pages and decorating them with small objects such as bells, ribbons, buttons, beads.

As you can understand, to create your DIY shabby chic Christmas balls you will need vinyl adhesive, fabrics and all the finishings you want to characterize these decorations with a bit of a vintage flavor.

DIY Photo Christmas Balls: The warmth of the images can make a big difference

Creating DIY Christmas balls with photos seems difficult, but with a few little tricks it becomes easily accessible to anyone with a little dexterity.

First of all, you should buy transparent plexiglass balls that can be divided into two.

The next step is to print out the images you want to put in. Then place the half ball over the photo and trace around it with a pencil, then cut it out.

Glue the cut photo to the edge of the hemisphere and cover the ball with the other half.

You can paint part of the transparent ball behind the picture or put a colorful card with a name or Christmas phrase behind the photo.

Creativity will help you further customize your Christmas balls by adding details such as polystyrene that simulates snow or a string of colored yarn.

Elegant and stylish DIY transparent Christmas ornaments

You can also use Plexiglas spheres to achieve scenario effects that can add more elegance to your tree.

A completely transparent top is a blank canvas onto which you can pour all your style and imagination.

You can put small Christmas-flavored objects inside, and this is where your creativity comes in. Here are some examples of items you can use to customize the clear globes:

• • Crystals
  • Coloured marbles
  • Holly and Strawberry
  • Pine cones and branches
  • Dry leaves
  • Shine
  • Coffee beans and sugar
  • Snowmen made with plasticine

• Miniature nativity scenes

With a little patience, it is possible to recreate small villages covered in snow, beaches with palm trees, metropolitan landscapes, and tiny pastoral landscapes.

Christmas balls to make with children: some ideas for a family Christmas

Involving kids in making Christmas decorations is definitely a great way to entertain them and spark their imagination.

Many different safe items can be used to make beautiful Christmas decorations for kids.

Those little sticky bows we put on gift boxes can become shiny decorations that kids can stick on balls to make them even more festive.

You can also create two-dimensional Christmas balls by cutting circles out of a piece of cardboard and then handing them over to your children or grandchildren along with pencils.

Another simple idea for making handmade Christmas decorations for kids is to turn unused tennis balls or ping-pong balls and scraps of fabric or paper into confetti.

After sprinkling the globes with vinyl glue, let your little helpers unleash their creative energy.

Quick guide to materials to use for your handmade Christmas balls

As you can see from what you have read so far, there are many materials you can use to customize your Christmas balls, but I can point out the main ones:

• Lana
• String
• Paper
• Material
• Bead
• Pine cones
• polystyrene

DIY wool Christmas balls

You can use yarn to wrap worn-out balls, but you can also use old sweater scraps to line them or make bows and wreaths to use as accessories.

Wool is definitely one of the more readily available materials, and you’ll probably have to look in your closet to find a felted garment that’s ready to be recycled.

Christmas decorations with twine

As we saw earlier, twine can even be applied all over the balls to make them more rustic and simple.

Also use the twine to attach balls to the Christmas tree or create lettering with the inevitable vinyl adhesive, always useful when doing these tasks.

DIY paper Christmas ornaments

Paper is perhaps the most versatile and recyclable material you can find around the home.

You can use different types of paper to cover damaged balls, fill transparent ones, make origami by alternating with balls on the tree.

DIY cloth Christmas ornaments

Fabric scraps are excellent elements for decorating Christmas decorations. Choose those with certain patterns and textures to get very original Christmas trees.

Different fabrics give different sensations. Here are three examples:

• Jeans for an informal style
• Chiffon for a romantic touch
• Velvet to highlight elegance

Beaded Christmas balls

Beads are not only useful for finishing Christmas balls, they can also be the main element that characterizes them.

They can also become elements that will completely or partially cover your Christmas balls.

You can also use them to create layers of different colors inside transparent spheres.

Christmas decorations with pine cones

Pine cones, along with holly and fir branches, are the natural elements most associated with Christmas.

They can become decorations to hang on the tree, but you can also attach small ones to the top of the balls.

DIY polystyrene Christmas balls

Polystyrene is particularly ductile and can be used in different shapes. You can shape it into spheres, ellipses, cubes to create Christmas balls with eccentric shapes.

Also, as we said before, you can turn polystyrene into fake snow, which will be glued onto the balls or placed inside the plexiglass ones.

Have you ever made Christmas decorations at home? Did you use any of these methods or something completely different?

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