10 Natural Christmas Crafts

Every Christmas, my father would beg my mother to allow him to buy 1 big plastic Santa for our lawn during Christmas time, and she never budged. I take after my mother for sure. She always used natural garlands and simmered mulling spices to fill the house with such an enchanting, chemical-free holiday aroma. 

This year, I covered my Christmas tree entirely with dry marigolds and roses, and about a dozen more natural touches, including pretty dry citrus ornaments.

1. Dry Flower Christmas Ornaments

These homemade flower ornaments are the perfect DIY decoration for an elegant, colorfully natural Christmas tree! In just four steps, I’ll show you how to dry, design, and hang these gorgeous, blooming decorations that are sure to impress everyone at your Christmas party!

2. Natural Place Settings

These 10 natural Christmas place settings are made with simple greenery, flowers, berries, herbs and cinnamon. Aromatic and fresh, colorful and rustic; these table setting ideas will complement your naturally elegant holiday decor and delight your guests!

3. Twine Christmas Trees

These twine Christmas trees are so easy to make! Some trees have little pompoms, some are simply wrapped in twine or wool, and some have a sweet little spiral detail, but that’s that. Nice and minimal.

4. Citrus Ornaments

These dried orange citrus ornaments with star anise make the prettiest, natural, and fragrant DIY Christmas ornaments for your tree! They’re so simple to make and look like glowing, stained-glass windows!

5. Painted Acorn Ornaments

These homemade, metallic-painted acorn Christmas ornaments are so bright and pretty! They’re such a fun DIY craft project for the whole family, and so simple too! All you need are a few big acorns, a paintbrush, string, a hot glue gun, and some pretty metallic paints!

6. A Baby’s Breath Mantle

This minimalist baby’s breath mantle looks so fresh and snowy! And throughout the season, the flowers dry, giving your mantle and lovey, rustic look!

7. Cotton Garland

This natural cotton Christmas garland is such a snowy, soft, and fluffy way to decorate your fireplace for Christmas! With about 30 raw cotton bolls (not to be confused with cotton “balls”), a piece of string, and a little hot glue, it takes about 15 minutes to put this precious Christmas decoration together and hang it from the mantle.

8. Clove Oranges

For me, the smell of Christmas is clove and orange. You simply pierce them all over with cloves, and the cloves preserve the orange so it doesn’t go bad.

They smell TRULY divine, and they look so pretty in a basket with holly or pine cones, in a bowl in the kitchen or bathroom, or simply placed under the Christmas tree!

9. Wool Christmas Trees

These whimsical DIY Christmas yarn tree decorations are so easy to make, and look so soft and pretty on a Christmas mantle, under a Christmas tree, or wintery window sill!

All you need is some yarn, paper-mâché cones, a few pompoms, a little glue, and a little love for Christmas crafting.

10. Wool and Bell Drapery

It’s so easy to create this wool and bronze bell drapery for your mantle! All you need are a few wool balls, pretty brass bells, baker’s string, a needle, and thread. In this post, I tell you exactly where I found the perfect pieces to put this together.