Nothing beats the joy of observing family traditions every year. The season’s beginning comes with cozy family weekends of gathering together on carpet-clad floors with mugs of hot chocolates and lots of ornaments to make.
The laughter, memories, and camaraderie of trying to outdo one another in making the best handmade decorations is unbeatable. And oh, the joy of teaching the younger ones of the family how to make simple wooden ornaments or let them try their hands at the artificial Christmas garlands.
Such is the joy of Christmas: warmth, love, bonding, and togetherness everywhere. If you too have some cozy family sessions planned this year for handmade artificial Christmas garlands, we have some ideas for you.
You can decorate your home for the season with our swag artificial Christmas garland ideas. These would look graceful on your mantels, banisters, doorways, windows and just about anywhere. In fact, we know you’ll make artificial Christmas garland making a permanent family tradition for years from now with our easy ideas:
Evergreen Silver
Take a basic evergreen garland and give it a silvery punch. Take a couple of silver ornaments, sprigs of silver juniper berries, ropes of felted balls in silver and some silver strings too. Then simply pick the evergreen garland and adorn them with your silver decoration items as you please.
This one would look exceptionally splendid on your banister, creating a dramatic puddle effect.
Artificial Christmas Garland for your door
Is you have several hands to help you this year in family Christmas ornament making, then a farmhouse Christmas porch garland would be great. You will need faux magnolia wreaths, a classic garland and star decorations to create this piece.
When you’re about to assemble the greenery, try to create a variety of textures and green hues. You can do so with a number of large pinecones, red bows, silver juniper berries and other decorative items you can find easily. Then take a florist wire and attach your pieces into the garland strands.
Artificial Christmas Garlands with Big Bows
This is an exceptionally dramatic artificial Christmas garland one can make and involving the whole family in making it is a great idea. For this piece, you will have to make several graceful Christmas bows with long tails and attach them to simple evergreen garland strands.
You will have to cut your fabric or wide ribbons into extra long strips and tie them into bows. After attaching the bows to the garland strands, use florist wire to tie the bows to the stair railing, keeping a space three feet in between.
If you want to add typical Christmas colors, you can also incorporate red and golden bows. It’s only going to create a most festive and colorful look.
Christmas Garland Train
You know, one simple garland hanging over the window is an old touch now. You can now create a train of Christmas garland moving across the expanse of your walls. For this look though, you need to take several artificial garlands and tie them together into big, continuous lengths.
Make sure to adorn them with colorful bows, juniper berries, and other glittery yet lightweight decorative items. Then hang the garlands from window to window or wall corner to corner. It’s going to look magical, we tell you!