VIDEO: Make your own Christmas arrangement with natural materials

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Color matching vessels can be made by yourself

To make a Christmas arrangement from natural materials yourself, you need a suitable vessel, which can also be used for decoration. It is important that the vessel is watertight or that it is placed on a coaster.

  1. A clay bowl is suitable as a vessel for a Christmas arrangement. If you have the Colours of the arrangement or have determined its decoration, you can paint the clay bowl with suitable acrylic varnish.
  2. The serving technique can also be used to design the vessel. Served with Christmas motifs can be found in every supermarket in the run-up to Christmas.

Design a Christmas arrangement according to your later point of view

In order to make a beautiful Christmas arrangement yourself, you do not necessarily have to use conifer branches. Evergreen cherry laurel and ivy can be processed very well.

  1. First, put a sufficiently large block of plugging compound in the bowl. You can get this material in the craft store or in the nursery.
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  2. You can cut the mass to size so that it fills the entire shape or you can choose it a little smaller so that there is still a free edge around it. You can use this e.g. B. Top up with small Christmas tree balls, nuts or pine cones.
  3. Should the Christmas arrangement later be placed in front of a wall on a cabinet, table, etc. you can insert the branches in such a way that they are high at the back and lower and lower towards the front.
  4. A Christmas arrangement that is supposed to be in the middle of a table and can therefore be seen from all sides should be round. The branches can be of different heights or the same length.
  5. If you work ivy into the Christmas arrangement, you can let it hang down a little over the edge and cover the bowl a little with individual tendrils.

Find natural materials for Christmas arrangements in the garden and forest

  1. You can decorate a Christmas arrangement with nuts, Chestnuts, Acorns, beech fields, sticks, moss, autumn leaves, pine cones, etc. do it Yourself. The materials can be glued on or attached with wires or raffia.
  2. If you cut oranges and apples into thin slices and dry them in the oven at 80 ° C, you can also use them to decorate a Christmas arrangement. Other suitable decorative items from the kitchen are z. B. Cinnamon sticks or star anise.

The fresh green lasts about two weeks in the plug-in compound. You can use the plugging compound more often and thus always make fresh arrangements. You can use the decoration as often as you like.

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