How better choice around, the more you want something original and memorable. Of course, you can buy Christmas decorations at the hand-made fair, but it's much more pleasant to try to make them yourself. And if you still involve the whole family in this activity, then you can have a great weekend! We look around and choose improvised materials for super-stylish, mega-authentic and extra-ordinary Christmas decorations.

1. Corks

Starting from December 19 (St. Nicholas Day) and until the New Year itself, a series of primordially Slavic and slightly borrowed holidays begins in our latitudes. We love to celebrate and we know how to do it on a grand scale. So there should be no shortage of such improvised material as corks. Wine corks, corks from champagne or cognac will serve as an excellent basis for a mini-Christmas tree or for a full-fledged Christmas tree toy.

2. Buttons

From bright multi-colored buttons left over from clothes that have long sunk into oblivion, you can get an elegant garland, and christmas ball and many more different decorations. Buttons can be strung, glued, pyramided and tied to each other. Use your imagination to the fullest!

3. Bulbs

To make from a burned out light bulb funny snowman or a cute brownie, use nail polish or acrylics. The resulting toy can not only be painted, but also dressed.

4. Threads

If you had an "5" (or "12") for work or you just like to sew and knit since childhood, you can knit your Christmas tree both with knitting needles and crochet. If you are trying to knit a Christmas toy for the first time, find on the Internet the simplest and most easy option so that the result does not disappoint your expectations.

5. Wire

Thin, flexible wire is perfect for creating a variety of snowflakes and the original top for the Christmas tree. Beads, beads, buttons and even stones can be strung on the wire to make the toy even brighter and more unusual.

6. Felt

From felt you can create a real miracle. This material is great for making toys with children. To keep babies safe, use a glue gun instead of a needle and thread.

7. Polymer clay

If you like to sculpt, choose polymer clay. It comes in a variety of colors, and toys from it are simply magical.

8. Newspapers

Of course, in our time it is already a disappearing consumable. At home there are more likely to be a couple of old ones mobile phones than old newspapers left behind for interesting clippings. But if they do exist, this is a suitable material for making curly toys, papier-mâché or origami.

9. Pasta

From spaghetti, horns, spirals, tubules and other invariable paraphernalia of Italian cuisine, you can create original Christmas tree decorations. Color them with multi-colored paints, sprinkle with glitter and decorate with beads.

Pre-New Year fuss will begin very soon, preparations for the festive fun, buying gifts, decorating Christmas trees and houses. Let's talk about how you can decorate a Christmas tree at home, in the kindergarten and at school and on the street in the yard with your own hands. After all, from everything that is at hand, you can come up with and make amazing things on your own, including New Year's decorations for the main beauty of the holiday.

In the article, we will consider do-it-yourself Christmas decorations from improvised materials with detailed descriptions and photographs. We invite you to get creative and feel the spirit of the holiday now. Involve children in the process, they will be incredibly happy to make Christmas decorations with their parents, and then hang them on the Christmas tree.

We make Christmas decorations with our own hands from improvised materials

This time we will not spend money on buying expensive Christmas tree decorations or materials for them. self-manufacturing, let's use everything that can usually be found at home.

Let's apply a little imagination and as a result we will get amazing, exclusive and insanely beautiful Christmas decorations.

New life for old light bulbs

Surely many people have light bulbs at home, ordinary incandescent lamps that have already burned out and are not used. They can be of any size and shape. They can be used to create amazing Christmas decorations. We decorate these light bulbs with paints, sparkles, fabric, turning them into icicles, balls or interesting characters: Santa Claus, penguins, dogs, gnomes, and anyone.

Let's take a step-by-step look at how to create an interesting Christmas tree toy with your own hands from improvised materials using a light bulb. It will be a funny snowman.

Let's prepare everything you need:

1. Bulb. You can take more than one.
2. Some fabric, whatever you have for the cap.
3. Braid (for a loop for which we will hang a toy on a Christmas tree).
4. Paints. It is better to use acrylic, but gouache is also suitable.
5. Brushes.
6. Glue. You can use a second or thermal gun.

Let's start the creative process:

1. Color the light bulb White color and let it dry completely.
2. Let's paint the muzzle of a snowman, pens with mittens. The muzzle can be made completely primitive or any one you want. You can draw a snowman and a broom in handles and buttons on clothes.
3. Now the cap. We cut a small rectangle out of the fabric, fold it in half and sew it together, tie the top with a ribbon on a bow. We put the cap on the snowman light bulb and glue it carefully.
4. Attaches a ribbon for which we will hang toys.

Everything, the snowman is ready. By this principle, you can make any toy - an animal from simple light bulbs.

Moreover, light bulbs can simply be beautifully decorated and attached to them with braid, sent to the Christmas tree. For example, a light bulb can be smeared with PVA glue and carefully dipped in small sparkles or in any cereal, and then painted over with golden paint. Here you have simple and original jewelry on the Christmas tree, made by hand.

We use any thread for toys

Christmas tree toys can be created from simple threads for knitting or sewing. Don't be afraid, you won't have to sew or knit here. Everything is much easier! Let's see what can be made from a thread for a Christmas tree.

Option 1 - elegant, multi-colored, openwork balls of thread

What you need for work:

1. Any thread, any color.
2. PVA glue.
3. Air balloons.
4. Tape for loops.
5. Any decorations for decorating balls: rhinestones, sequins, artificial spruce branches, fabric or plastic flowers, in general, everything you can find at home.

Let's start creating balls:

1. First, let's make the base - the balls themselves. To do this, we inflate balloons of the diameter we need. These can be very small balls or larger ones, for street tree or for a Christmas tree to school.
2. We wrap the inflated balloon with ordinary plastic wrap. We pierce the tube with PVA glue and pass the thread through it. Now we just wrap the inflated balloons randomly with a thread in glue. We wrap so that the threads cover the entire surface of the balls. We break the thread, hide the tip under any thread and coat the ball with glue again.
3. Let the balls dry overnight.
4. Now we're bursting inflated balloons and take them out. We got filament openwork balls for the Christmas tree.
5. We tie a loop of braid to them and decorate to our taste.
6. Such balls can be made in unlimited quantities and in different sizes and colors.

Option 2 - openwork stars and Christmas trees from threads

Such DIY Christmas decorations from improvised materials can be made for children or with them, using the instructions in the photo below and the description. The photo shows how to make an asterisk. But according to this principle, you can make a Christmas tree, and any other figures.

Prepare everything you need for work:

1. Threads for knitting any color.
2. PVA glue.
3. A small bowl where to pour glue and soak the threads.
4. Foam base for work. You can use a disposable food tray.
5. Pins or simple matches.

We begin the process of creating an openwork star from threads:

1. Pour PVA glue into the bowl and soak the threads there.
2. On a foam base we prick the shape of a toy. In this case, it's an asterisk.
3. First, we form the outline of the toy along the pinned matches (or pins) by wrapping them with a thread from a bowl.
4. Now we fill the middle of the figure with a thread, laying it randomly, making fancy curls.
5. After that, you can blot the figurine with a sponge with glue again and leave it to dry overnight.
6. When our toy is dry, we tie a loop to it and hang it on the Christmas tree.

paper toys

Do not forget and push into the background the good old paper snowflakes and toys. But today they can sound new if used to create them modern technology. In general, do-it-yourself Christmas decorations from improvised materials, in particular from paper, are a great idea for children in kindergarten. They can decorate a Christmas tree in a group.

And the kids will enjoy looking at festive outfit forest guest and boast that it was they themselves with their mother who made this or that toy.

Let's look at how you can make do-it-yourself quilling Christmas tree toys.

We need to work:

Strips of paper, 1.5 or 2 cm wide. You can cut them yourself from thick colored double-sided paper or buy them ready-made in needlework stores.

1. Scissors.
2. Thread or braid for loops.
3. PVA glue.

Making a ball:

1. We take a strip of any color 20 centimeters long and close it into a circle, glue the ends.
2. We do this with a few more stripes. different color.
3. Now we pass each circle one into the other randomly, changing and alternating colors. Do it this way to form a ball. We glue the strips together at the points of contact.
4. Attach a loop to the ball. Everything, the ball is ready.

Making an icicle:

1. We take a strip of light color 6 cm long, bend it in half and glue the ends. Got a loop.
2. Now we take the next strip darker and a couple of centimeters longer. We bend it into a loop around the previous loop and glue the ends on the sides of the ends of the small loop.
3. We do this with several more stripes of different colors and each time we take a strip 2 centimeters longer.
4. We wrap the place of the junction of the loops with a strip and attach the braid.

In addition, snowflakes can be made from paper by cutting them out according to a template and hanging them on a ribbon. And also, openwork snowflakes can be made from ordinary pasta, which is in almost every home.

Christmas tree pasta

From regular pasta different shapes you can create amazing Christmas decorations. Let's see how we can make a snowflake.

Shell-shaped pasta snowflake

Let's prepare everything you need:

1. Shell-shaped pasta (several large and one small).
2. Hot glue.
3. Tape for loop.

Getting Started:

1. We put a small shell in the center, and around there are 6 large pasta in the form of shells. We glue the pasta at the junction.
2. We attach the tape.

Openwork snowflake from round pasta

Pasta round shape with veins.

1. Hot glue.
2. Gold acrylic paint (you can use an aerosol or regular acrylic in a jar and a brush).
3. Tape for loop.

Getting Started:

1. Lay the pasta with rays from the center. We glue the pasta at the junction.
2. Cover with golden paint and let dry.
3. We attach the tape.

In this way, you can make snowflakes of any shape using various pasta that you have at home.

Pasta can also be pasted over any foam ball, attaching a braid to it, covering it with paint, feel free to send not a Christmas tree. And let's see how else you can decorate foam balls or any other ordinary old Christmas balls.

Decor balls with improvised materials

Any old ball can be decorated with improvised items. To do this, you just need to stick what you found at home on the ball, if necessary, cover it with paint or sparkles.

With such improvised materials you can decorate a Christmas ball:

• buttons and buttons;
• fragments of disks;
• pasta;
• coffee beans or any cereal;
• beads, sequins, rhinestones;
• pieces of newsprint;
• feathers;
• fabric flowers;
• even nuts and gears.

You can use everything that is at home, the more unusual you find the details, the more creative the toy will turn out.

Delicious toys for the Christmas tree

Returning to the topic of edible and tasty decor for if, we suggest creating toys using cinnamon sticks, bergenia stars and orange slices. It will stylish jewelry. They will add not only beauty and sophistication to your Christmas tree, but also bring a touch of sophisticated and sophisticated aroma.

To make them, you just need to dry the cut orange and combine the above ingredients in any composition. It can be a pair of cinnamon sticks with a star anise glued to them, or just orange rounds on a string.

You can also glue a cinnamon stick and a few coffee beans to an orange slice. The whole composition can be decorated with small bows or ribbons or jute rope.

Next, there is a selection of photos to inspire such do-it-yourself Christmas toys from improvised materials. In addition, you can take ordinary candies in candy wrappers and hang them on a Christmas tree by a string. And tasty and beautiful and New Year's. And on lazy New Year's weekends, you can enjoy one piece of candy directly from the Christmas tree.

We decorate a street Christmas tree with toys from plastic bottles and cups

And now let's see what kind of Christmas decorations you can create with your own hands from improvised materials for a street Christmas tree. There is also plenty of room for imagination here. We suggest using ordinary plastic bottles and cups for yogurt or sour cream for the creative process.

Let's make a cute penguin for the street tree.

Let's prepare everything that is useful for work:

1. Two plastic bottles.
2. Acrylic paints and a wide and thin brush.
3. Some yarn for knitting.
4. A piece of fabric for a scarf.
5. Tape for loop.
6. Glue.
7. Plaster or paper tape.

Let's start creating the penguin:

1. Cut off from one plastic bottle bottom so that its height is 5-6 centimeters. Cut off the top of the second bottle and set aside. The base should remain about 20 centimeters high.
2. We glue two parts with adhesive tape or plaster, the bottom over the base.
3. The result was an oval figurine of the future penguin.
4. We paint the entire figure with black acrylic paint and let it dry properly.
5. Now with white paint we draw the belly and face of the penguin, let it dry.
6. We paint the upper part in any color for the hat, let it dry.
7. We draw the details of the cap and muzzle (eyes, key). Let's dry.
8. From the threads we make a pom-pom and glue it on top of the hat.
9. From a strip of fabric we make a scarf, cutting along the edges of the terry, we tie it to the penguin.
10. We pass the braid, making a small through hole at the top.
11. The toy is ready.

A similar toy is also suitable for a forest beauty in the yard if you use acrylic paints. When they are dry, they are not afraid of either snow or rain.

In the same way, you can make a snowman or Santa Claus, even a dog. You just need to decorate the figurine accordingly. Put on a cap for Santa Claus, and attach fabric ears to the dog.

Snowflakes from the bottoms of plastic bottles are another option for a street tree. How to make them:

1. Cut off the bottoms of the bottles.
2. We draw any pattern on them with acrylic paint. Let's dry.
3. We pass the ribbon through the hole made on one side and hang it on the Christmas tree.

There is nothing easier than making these snowflakes.

Bells from plastic cups from yogurt or sour cream can also decorate a street Christmas tree.

To do this, you need to take any cup, turn it over - this is the bell. Inside, you can hang a bead on a string and thread the braid into the bottom, making a loop. Such a bell can be decorated to your liking and depending on what is at hand.

You can wrap it with braid, decorate it with rhinestones, sequins, beads, or draw patterns on it with acrylic paint.

In addition, you can make very simple but interesting toys from old children's plastic toys for a street Christmas tree. For example, you can use plastic or rubber dogs, dinosaurs, cars, simply by hanging them on a braid. Or you can paint the toy in bright color, and only then attach a ribbon to it and send it to a branch of a street Christmas tree.

We have considered many interesting options for making DIY Christmas decorations from improvised materials, but this is not all that you can think of, for inspiration before starting the creative process, watch the video, which shows some more options.

Factory Christmas decorations are in almost every home. They are certainly very beautiful and, when well combined with other decorations in the house, can cause a worthy aesthetic effect. But just buying Christmas balls is boring. Uniqueness can only be achieved by decorating Christmas balls with your own hands.

Christmas balls from threads

The method of making balls from threads has long been used. Products are spectacular, amenable to additional decor. It is possible to vary the size.

For manufacturing, you will need: threads (with a large percentage of natural fibers in the composition for good impregnation with glue), PVA glue, a disposable cup, round balloons.
Manufacturing steps:

• Prepare glue for work. Strongly thick dilute to a state of sour cream density.
• Inflate the balloon to the extent that the size of the toy is planned.
• Soak 1 m lengths of thread in glue.
• Wrap in a "cobweb" way so that free holes do not exceed a diameter of 1 cm.
• Allow the glue to dry (12 to 24 hours).
• Remove the ball from the product, carefully bursting it and taking it out through the hole in the ball.
• Decorate the product. To do this, use: glitter, paper cuttings of various shapes, sequins, beads, semi-beads, etc. Thread products can also be dyed with balloon paint or acrylic. Watercolor and gouache are not suitable, as they can soak the product and lead to its damaged appearance.

Having made Christmas balls of different diameters, they can decorate any corner of the house: a Christmas tree, candlesticks, compositions in a vase, on a windowsill, etc. The decor of the balls can be done as follows: put a light garland on a tray, put on top products of different sizes, but of the same color. When the garland is on, they will be highlighted and create an interesting effect.

From beads

Balls made of beads will look very beautiful and impressive on the Christmas tree. In this case, the foam spheres of the blanks will be decorated. In addition to the foam blank, you will need beads, pins (sewing needles with hats, like on carnations), ribbon.

The manufacturing method is very simple:

• String one bead onto one pin.
• Attach the pin to the foam base.
• Repeat the steps until there is no free space left on the basis.
• At the end, attach a ribbon loop for hanging the decoration.

It is advisable to take beads of the same size in order to avoid empty spaces on the base. The color scheme is chosen both in one tone and in different ones. It all depends on individual preferences and the general style of decorating the room.
Instead of a foam base, you can use factory-made plastic balls. Only here the beads will be fastened in this case not on pins, but on hot glue.

From buttons

Button balls will look no less original and unique on the Christmas tree. Old unnecessary buttons do not have to be picked up in one color scheme. After all, they can always be repainted and achieve the desired shade. They look spectacular in gold, bronze, silver shades, as well as all colors with a metallic coating.

To make such a decor for Christmas balls, you will need: buttons (it is possible with through fastening and hidden), hot melt adhesive, foam or plastic blank, tape.

• Apply to the inside of the button a small amount of hot glue.
• Attach a button to the base.
• Repeat step 2 until the entire surface is covered with buttons.
• Attach a ribbon so that the ball can be hung.

When placing on a Christmas tree, you need to make sure that there are not too many of them concentrated in one place. It is better to dilute such decorations with others.

From paper

Original Christmas balls can be made simply from paper, without using any base.

colored paper ball

To do this, you need thick (about 120 g / m2) paper, scissors, clips, tape. Making your own is very easy.

• Cut paper into 12 strips 15 mm x 100 mm
• Fasten all the strips on one and the other side with pins, stepping back from the edge by 5-10 mm.
• Spread the strips in a circle, forming a sphere.
• Attach the ribbon to the base of the ball.

Strips can be cut not straight, but with other uneven lines. You can use curly scissors.

Corrugated paper

Corrugated paper will also come in handy. It is made from pom-pom balls. For this you will need: corrugated paper, glue, scissors, tape.

• If the paper is new and packaged, then 5 cm must be measured from the edge and cut off. Then again measure 5 cm and cut off.
• Cut two blanks with a “comb” with an interval of 1 cm strips without cutting to the base of 1.5 cm.
• Dissolve one blank and start twisting the “flower” in a circle, gradually gluing. Get a fluffy pom-pom. Repeat the same steps with the second piece.
• Connect two pom-pom blanks with glue at the place of gluing. Get a fluffy ball. Attach the tape-loop to the place of gluing. Fluff the resulting pompom.

Double sided colored paper

You can also make a ball from double-sided colored paper. For this you need: colored paper, scissors, glue, a round object (a cup, for example), tape.

• Circle the cup on paper 8 times. You will get 8 equal circles. Cut them out.
• Fold each circle in quarters.
• Cut an additional circle with a smaller diameter.
• Glue the blanks to it with the corners to the center on one side (4 pieces will fit), and on the other side it’s the same.
• Open each fold and glue at the junction with each other. Get a ball with "petals".
• Attach tape.

Paper balls usually do not last long and are used for one season. Place them in in large numbers it is not worth it on the Christmas tree, it is better to “dilute” with other decorations.

From fabric

If there was an old blouse in the closet that it is a pity to throw away, then refusing to dispose of it was the right decision. You can make a cute Christmas toy out of it. For manufacturing you need: knitted fabric, scissors, sewing needle and thread, cardboard, tape.

• Cut as long as possible strips of fabric 1 cm wide. Stretch each strip so that it twists the edges.
• Cut a 10 cm x 20 cm piece of cardboard.
• Wrap the resulting strips on the cardboard in width.
• In the center on one side and the other, connect the strips with a needle and thread. Pull out the cardboard.
• Cut the formed loops along the edges.
• Fluff up and attach the ribbon.

There is another way, which involves decorating a foam or plastic blank with a cloth. You need any fabric (can be of different colors), hot glue, scissors.

• Cut the fabric into rectangular pieces, 3 cm x 4 cm in size.
• Fold them like this: turn the two upper corners to the center of the bottom.
• Glue to the workpiece in rows, bending inward starting from the bottom.
• Cover the entire ball. Attach tape.

Fabric applications can be made in a variety of ways, using additional improvised means - beads, braid, rhinestones, ribbon.

With embroidery

Decorating Christmas balls with your own hands is also possible in this way. A new trend has become the design of decorations for the Christmas tree with embroidery. To do this, use a pre-embroidered image. You also need a fabric, a blank made of foam or plastic, hot melt adhesive.

• Attach the embroidered image with glue.
• Decorate the rest of the ball with a fabric appliqué.

Instead of appliques, you can use the same fabric on which the embroidery was made. Alternatively, you can make a pattern out of fabric, where one of the parts will be embroidery. You can also decorate each part of the pattern with separate embroidered images and secure. After these steps, you can additionally add beads, rhinestones, sparkles, sequins as decor.

with filling

Such specimens will look spectacular both on the Christmas tree and as part of compositions from balls. For the manufacture of fancy balls you need to stock up on plastic transparent blanks.

By opening the hat-holder, you can create various compositions inside:

• Pour inside acrylic paint of different colors, shake the ball so that all the inner walls are painted, let dry. The pigment will color the workpiece inside and it will acquire a unique color.
• Fill the inside with small colored feathers and beads.
• You can also fill the inside with confetti of different colors.
• Pieces of old tinsel are used for filling.

• Favorite photos are also placed inside. To do this, you need to twist a small photo into a tube (look at the diameter of the ball) and straighten it inside. Top with confetti or sequins.
• The inside is filled with colored cotton wool and complemented with beads. You can choose different colors. It is better to color in acrylic paint. Fill after complete drying of the cotton wool.
• Multi-colored sisal can be placed inside and enjoy the color and originality of the decoration.

Fantasies about filling a transparent ball can be different. All of them relate to personal preferences and mood during needlework.

One of the main symbols of the New Year is the spruce tree. It is customary to decorate it with interesting and unusual toys.
Today, a lot of shiny balls and angels are sold in decorative stores, but do-it-yourself Christmas decorations look much more interesting. They make the atmosphere special, and are always able to surprise guests. We have collected a lot original ideas that anyone can repeat.
Elements of comfort


Knitted Christmas decorations
Knitted decor items are ideal for decorating a winter interior, and on Christmas tree such toys will look very impressive. Yarn for products should be chosen in the traditional shades of the holiday - white, red, green. You can make small solid stars or circles depicting Christmas balls. If time allows, and fantasy suggests interesting stories, then from the usual wool yarn can be real works of art. As an ornament, you can choose images of deer, stars or snowflakes.


Simple knitted toys on the Christmas tree


Unusual Christmas decorations


Christmas decorations that anyone can do


Multi-colored Christmas balls made of yarn
All that is at hand


Christmas toys from improvised materials
In fact, to create a New Year's toy with your own hands, it is not necessary to be a needleworker and a jack of all trades. Yes, and special materials for this are not needed at all. You can use everything that is at hand - lids, paper, a road map, keys, and even wooden blocks. The main thing is that the process itself brings joy, and the result gives a good mood.


Christmas tree decorations made of paper


Christmas trees made of wooden blocks and wire


Original Christmas tree decorations


Creative Christmas balls

Christmas decorations from multi-colored threads


Unusual Christmas tree toy
Button to button
Buttons different sizes and flowers can be found in every apartment. Often they lie idle, and sometimes they accumulate a lot. They are perfect for the role of decorative material for creating New Year's toys. True, for this you will need more blanks in the form of balls (they are sold year-round in needlework stores).


Christmas decorations from buttons
Felt crafts
Another material from which it is easy to make a Christmas decoration is felt. It can be rolled and created from it all sorts of interesting figures. And if you take a blank ball, small felt flowers and stationery pins, then from this set you can get a wonderful toy for the Christmas tree. Even if you draw a winter character (a penguin or a snowman) on felt, and then cut it out and decorate it with embroidery, you will get a very interesting and exclusive Christmas tree toy.


Felt crafts
For Lego Fans
Christmas decorations can be made from the most unexpected materials, for example, from Lego. Such decorations are interesting to collect with the whole family, especially with small children. And such an unusual decoration of the Christmas tree will surely delight guests!


Deer from the Lego constructor on the Christmas tree


Snowflake Lego

When New Year already almost on the threshold and it's time to put up a Christmas tree, from a secluded corner you get a box with Christmas toys. If your toys have fallen into an unusable state, and there is no desire to buy new ones, then quite nice decorations can turn out from improvised materials.

light bulb toys

You will need:

• Burnt out incandescent lamp
• Paints
• tassel
• Ribbon

Degrease the light bulbs, paint funny penguins with paint. Optionally, you can depict snowmen or draw Santa Claus. Dry the lamps, glue the tape with hot glue so that you can hang the toy on the Christmas tree.

Balls of thread

Materials:

• PVA glue
• dense thread
• Scissors
• Balloon

Blow up the balloon. Soak the thread in glue and wrap it around balloon. Wait for the glue to dry. Pierce the ball and remove from the structure.

Snowflakes from a plastic bottle

For crafts you need:

• Plastic bottles
• Paints
• Brush
• Scissors
• Ribbon

Cut off the bottom of the plastic bottle with scissors. With an awl, make a hole in the plastic, thread the tape. Paint a pattern on the cut bottom. For beauty, you can sprinkle paint with sparkles.

Snowmen from covers

What you need:

• Beer bottle caps
• Paints
• Brush
• Ribbon
• hot glue

The inside of the lids should be painted white. Lay three lids in a row, cut off the required amount of tape, allowing for a margin per loop. Hot glue the lids to the tape. Paint the face of the snowman. You can decorate snowmen with scarves or buttons.

Making toys with your own hands is not at all difficult. Fantasy will tell you a lot of ideas, and there are plenty of improvised materials for them. Such decorations will be no worse than purchased ones and diversify your holiday tree.