In Japan, there are only a very few bunches of Christians residing over there so the Christmas celebration in Japan doesn’t include any sort of religious connotations. The eve of Christmas in Japan is often rejoiced and celebrated more as a couple’s day. Japanese people have a Buddhist monk called Hotei-osha who is considered as Santa Claus for the people of the country.
During Christmas, we have a hell lot of time in our hands and its perfect time to hang out, attend parties and inviting our dear and close ones for intimate gatherings and dinners etc. But eye-phone thing always comes in our mind which is to decorate our home according to the theme of the festival to make it look presentable and which gives the festive vibes to everyone who comes in. This also brings us a lot of compliments and praises from everyone for our creativity.
In order to make it an easy deal for u, here is a list of 30 Splendid Japanese Christmas Decoration Ideas: –
Jingle Bell stockings
These jingle bell stockings look really very beautiful when u hang them together. All u needs to make them simply at home is a pencil, decorative punches (teardrop shaped and also hole shaped), red and white felt, needle and thread, sewing machine, scissors, tiny bell to embellish and that’s all. Firstly, draw the design of stockings on a piece of felt and then place holes in the same order by the help of punches after cutting the design. Then stitch the red and white felts in the drawn pattern of stockings one above the other. Make sure to use white colour for stocking and red for the lining. Turn the stocking inside out and then fold the cuff down. Then fix the tiny bells on the felt with the help of the needle and thread. Fill these stockings with chocolates and hang them to attract the kids. It will turn to become something really amazing as u can check out yourself in the link given below.
Toilet-paper Roll choirs:
To make this Christmas handmade craft you just need toilet-roll tube for this choir. Take the rolls and wrap them with coloured cards of different colours and secure them by using double sided tape and make a circle for face on the top. Draw the face with permanent marker pen and use coloured crayons for highlighting their rosy cheeks. Then cut an old magazine to make the notes of choirs and pop on two woolly hats to complete the look. See the picture below.
Salt Dough Handprints:
For this amazing piece, you need 4 cups of all-purpose flour, 1 cup salt, 1 & half cup water and a Clear glaze finish or Mod Podge. Mix flour, salt and water together and make a dough. Then take a rolling pin and start rolling it. Then cut it any shape like heart or diamond or anything. Then make a handprint of your hand on it & colour it with acrylic paint leaving the handprint portion. Colour the print with glue and spread glitter all over it. At last seal it with clear glaze or Mod podge.
Sequin Balls:
You all must be having some left-over sequins of other crafts. This sequin ball converts into a sparkling ornament of Christmas. Take a Styrofoam ball and pin the sequins to it. Continue it until the sequins cover the entire and at last install a hook on the ball.
Christmas paper chain:
For this super eye-catching craft, just take few coloured papers, eye stickers, stapler and sketch pens. Now cut equal strips of papers and fold them round and staple. Then draw and cut the shape of Santa’s cap and rein deer and paste it on the strips. Draw nose and mouth by sketch pens and paste the eyes. Staple one strip into the other and the chain is ready.
DIY Snow covered Mason jar candle holders
So, for this you require mason jars, Epsom salt, twine, picks, glue, acrylic spray, tea light candle, sponge brush and a large bowl to put Epsom salt in. Take the bowl, fill it with salt and using a
brush, paint the glue around the jar. Place the jar into the bowl, then sprinkle salt over it evenly. After it gets dry, spray the acrylic spray and decorate it with twine, picks and also add ribbons. Also place a small tea light and see the snowy jar glowing.
Popsicle Stick Santa’s:
In this hack, you can make super attractive Santa’s only with Popsicle sticks, water colours, paint brush, cotton, ribbon and sketch pens. All u has to do this take the Popsicle sticks and paint them half red at the bottom and on top for the cap. Then outline the cap with white colour. Draw the eyes and nose with pens and stick some cotton for the beard. To give it a final touch, fix a ribbon with a pin or glue to make it hangable.
Christmas wreath
Christmas wreath gives a beautiful look when u place them outside the entrance gate of your home. What more u wants if u can make this wreath at home and that too by using just few leaves and thin stems of bushes. Take the dried thin stems of bushes and make a bundle of them like a nest and tie them. Then take different leaves of different plants then tie them with the bundle. Then decorate it with the ribbon bow and Christmas twines and its done.
Christmas window decorations:
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Windows catches the attention of every on. We can decorate the windows by using rib=-p[;0ibons of Christmas colours and patterns. You can also with traditional lightings. And the other way is to paint your favourite design suiting the occasion on the window glasses with glass colours. The example is attached below.
Christmas funny cartoon shower curtains
To completely colour your home in the festive theme, you can also colour your curtains with this method. Just buy a plain white curtain and them take a pencil or pen and draw Christmas cartoons like Santa or Christmas tree on it and then colour them with fabric colours. This looks really unique and splendid.
Paper Plate Christmas Elf: –
Now in this u can utilize your left-over paper plates in the most efficient manner. Firstly, take a paper plate and paint half of it in any bright colour like red, blue or green of your choice and paint half of it in the skin colour. Add few cotton-wool balls to the tip and make the facial features like a big red nose, eyes and a smiley face then use another plate and cut it in the shape of ears and secure them with glue to get the Elf completed.
Spare Sock Snowman:
This adorable little craft is really cute. Start with a spare white plain sock and fill it with any grain to keep it sturdy. Then secure it with an elastic. Now fill in some cotton for the head and secure it too. Then fold the top part of sock downwards to form a hat. Use a glue to fix a pom pom on the hat, googly eyes, a carrot nose and buttons. Now draw the mouth with permanent marker. Then Cut a strip of the felt to make a good scarf and tie it around its neck.
Table centrepieces:
You can make a table centrepiece by doing almost nothing at all. Just take few wine glasses and fill them with coloured candies and chocolates and place them on the table upside down. Then put some yummy and tempting cupcakes or candles on the bottom part of the glasses and this looks really awesome.
Merry Christmas Garland:
The materials u require for this are green and red scrap book papers, similar adhesive alphabet letters, scissors, mini clothespins and lastly twines. Cut the papers into 2.5×5-inch rectangles and cut a mini triangle from each of them. Now attach the letters to each paper flag and then cut a long piece of twine and secure each flag with two little clothespins and leave extra twine at each end for hanging.
Christmas Lantern:
The stuff required to make it is a plastic table cloth, bamboo garden stake, string roll, coffee cup covers, small nails, electric wires, sockets, plugs & LED bulbs. Firstly, build the frame from bamboo sticks in the shape of a start. Now choose your favourite coloured plastic cover and lay it down on the table. Cut the pattern and stick it with glue on the frame. Now install the lightings inside the parole. Create and attach the tail decor and hang it.
Japanese Christmas cake:
Making a Christmas cake in Japan on this day is a tradition. How creative and tempting the cake it is completely dependent on how we make it. All u needs to make a perfect cake is 3 eggs,2/3 cups of sugar, 3/4 cups of flour,1 tablespoon of milk and 1 tablespoon of butter softened to room temperature, heavy cream and sugar for the topping too. Start by whisking the eggs in bowl and place that bowl in another large bowl of warm water. When the mixture of egg becomes yellow, add flour and mix it gently. Warm up the milk and melt butter in milk well. Add this mixture in batter and stir well. Now preheat the microwave in 350 degrees F. Put parchment paper inside of the round cake pan and then pour that batter in the pan and start baking for 25-30 minutes. Now remove cake from the pan and cool it down. Now cut the cake in half horizontally. Then mix heavy cream and sugar. Now whip the cream well. Take half of it and mix it with chopped fruits. Now place the cream on the round slice of cake. Decorate the cake with colourful fruits like strawberries etc and cookies as you like.
Christmas bedroom wonderland
Change the bedsheets of your bedroom in red and white colour for spicing up your room with the holiday spirit and putting you all in a joyous mood. You can also make some lighting arrangements, place some twines or put some red and white balloons on the ground and the walls to make everyone feel the beauty of the season.
Animal Gift wraps:
As it is the festival season and people are having leaves, many people are surely wanting to knock your door and on this auspicious occasion, we never want to return the guests empty handed. So, for your gifts, this is the idea of making some heart robbing gift wraps at home. All u need is empty box, wool, coloured papers, ribbons, sketches, scissors and some old and empty boxes. cover these boxes by the coloured papers and make a bow of the ribbon the top. Cover the boxes with papers, make some facial features like eyes etc. Cut and paste the ears for the animals drawn on the boxes.
Decorative bottles:
Here u will learn to convert an empty wine bottle into a fancy centrepiece. Just take an empty wine bottle and paint its neck and the bottom half part with glue and spread it evenly. Now sprinkle the glitter of red or any other colour on the wet glue to cover it completely. Now in the centre of the bottle, either secure a Christmas bow or stick some stones of white or any colour of your choice. Then just insert a bunch of twines inside the bottle and you are done.
Party egg decor:
We all know that the outer shell of the eggs always gets wasted but through this idea, you can now use it to make the eggs look really amazing. All u needs here is hard boiled eggs,9-inch balloons, black and pink permanent markers, all-purpose glue and scissors. Take the scissors and cut the part of the balloon which u would blow keeping about 1 inch of the top part of balloon. Now put the balloon cap at the narrow end of the egg. Draw the face of the egg by using permanent markers. You have to draw out the eyelashes, the rosy cheeks, a mouth, freckles, goggles etc. To make the eyes, just draw short and wide “U”. And these eggs are easy to decorate in a tray or anything u like.
So, these are few ideas through which you can make your Christmas even more happening.
