Every year in the time leading up to Christmas, the question arises of how to decorate for Christmas. Which color and style should the Christmas decorations have this year and how can you implement your creativity inexpensively? We have creative ideas for making edible Christmas decorations yourself with little money.
Decorate for Christmas
If you rummage through the boxes with Christmas tree balls, fairy lights, angels, Santa Clauses, and reindeer before the first Advent, you will always find broken decorations or less trendy colors. So that you can still decorate for Christmas, you should consider redesigning the entire decoration for Christmas. And with a little imagination and dexterity, you can create an inexpensive and all-natural alternative to the usual plastic balls and plastic ornaments. Because making edible Christmas decorations yourself is fun and can be redesigned every year.
Ingredients for making edible Christmas decorations yourself
The beautiful Christmas decoration is often far too expensive for the fact that it is only used once a year. In addition, you usually need several decoration sets so that you don’t use the same decoration for the Christmas tree and the rest of the apartment every year. Therefore, an edible Christmas decoration can be just the thing to bring variety into the house every year. For this you should look out for certain sweets and foods when shopping in the run-up to Christmas:
- Biscuits such as cinnamon stars, speculoos, or gingerbread in various shapes.
- Traditional foods such as cinnamon sticks, anise stars, dried apple, or orange slices.
Make ideas for edible Christmas decorations yourself
As soon as you have gathered the necessary groceries and ingredients, you can start. Of course, you can also bake cookies yourself and get creative with them. Because cookies are a good way to decorate the Christmas tree. As a result, we have collected some ideas on how to decorate your home with festive and Christmas decorations:
1) Decorate the Christmas tree with edible Christmas decorations
You can decorate your Christmas tree with gingerbread hearts, stars, and pretzels as hangers. To do this, take a fabric ribbon about 10 cm long and attach the edible decoration to it. And speculoos also looks great on the tree. To do this, thread a thin gold cord through the small opening and hang up the delicious biscuits. You can attach the decorative apples to the stem and crown the top of the Christmas tree with an almond-decorated gingerbread angel from the bakery or Christmas market. And stored in a dry place, everything – apart from the ornamental apples – will last until the next Christmas. Also, note valuable tips for buying a Christmas tree.
2) Christmas decorations for the window sill
Cinnamon sticks, orange and apple slices, anise stars, and cinnamon stars are ideal for Christmas decorations with little money. Attach them with floral wire to the fresh Advent wreath or to other fir branches that you can place on the windowsill. Then combine this with a chain of lights and you already have nice smelling jewelry and a cozy living room for Christmas.
3) Groove marzipan balls for decoration
Marzipan balls are not only delicious, but they also make a good Christmas decoration. You can also easily make this edible Christmas decoration yourself. Because all you have to do is dress up the balls with edible gold powder. You can also dip some of the balls in white or dark chocolate and decorate them with colored sprinkles. You can then decorate your tree with them or use them as table decorations.
4) Make the salt dough and use it as a decoration
A cheap way to decorate at Christmas time is to make salt dough. Because decorating the Christmas tree with salt dough is not only sustainable, it also looks good. And the good thing is, this is a fun activity for the whole family. So take an afternoon and get creative. So you can punch stars, fir trees, or figures out of it.
5) Decorate with sweets for Christmas
You can also bake cookies and use them to make your Christmas decorations. Because from the self-made Christmas village to the Christmas tree, you can make a lot out of it.
