DIY Christmas Chair Decorations

DIY Christmas chair decorations may not be important enough to be the icing on the cake, but it is the individual coloring you place in your icing. So you thought your setup for the holiday season was over as your home is full of holiday cheer. The Christmas season has done a festive makeover of your home from your front door to your bedroom. However, Christmas dinner is coming and that means opportunities to add a festive touch to your dining table. A table centerpiece of pine cones or general Christmas ornaments is important but not the primary goal of this article. There can be inspiring ideas for decorating dining room chairs without much money.

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Where To Start With Your DIY Christmas Chair Decorations

Dining chairs, specifically the back of your chairs, are a blank canvas for your Christmas spirit. Suitable decorations for the back of the chair have to meet proper criteria to add joy to your festive dinner. Such as, (1) light enough to not topple the chair, and (2) flat enough to not catch guests passing by. Also important is (3) a great way to easily create an aura of a holiday table without breaking the bank.

Christmas Chair Covers

There’s many different types of decorations from Santa hat chair covers to Christmas chair wreaths that easily attach with clips. To make your Christmas table as much a special place as your Christmas tree will take seconds. Covers are the easiest option for chairs with simple shape and/or dimensions.  However, if they aren’t simple, wreaths have a serious role to play with securing devices from white ribbon to clips.

DIY Christmas Decorations

Have a bit more time than money? Homemade ornament ides are for you and (hopefully) your sewing machine.

Santa Hats For Your DIY Christmas Chair Decorations

A elegant look will be obtained with a homemade Santa hat on top of the chair. Since it will not need to be worn on the head, the exact dimensions do not need to be perfect. Making it out of fleece will give the most realistic feel while giving more stretch to fit your chair perfectly. Fur trim pinned to the chair will make all materials reusable later as it will not be worn anyways. Wikihow has multiple ways to create Santa hats and will be asy to adapt as they don’t need to fit as snugly to your chair as they would to your head.

DIY Wreaths

Your craft supplies list is largely optional but may include beautiful ribbons, wreath frame, floral wire, and a hot glue gun. There’s a range of sizes in wreath frames which will make it easy to create any type of wreath imaginable. Using pieces of ribbon and decorations left over from last year, an individualized vision will be created for each chair. Feel free to take artistic license, making it anywhere from front porch level to a chaplet wreath. A length of ribbon will secure it to the back of the chair or pins will secure though the frame.

Keeping Your DIY Christmas Chair Decorations Thematic

Please take a look at my theme suggestions to make sure your covers fit into your overall theme plans. If your Christmas theme is general enough, most chair decorations will fit well. However, if you aim for my Under the Sea theme or other specific ones, the DIY wreaths may be for you. In this case, taking decorations from your chosen theme and putting it into a wreath frame with ribbon lengths will be ideal.

Always key is to not make this a stressful responsibility but rather a chance to express your holiday artistry.