Rudolph

Draw the outline on card

Cover the template in a thin layer of glue, stick on fabric or leather, cut out and hang up.

Bead Decorations

String nice beads onto thin wire and bend into shapes. You can use these as decorations for the home or to jazz up giftwrapping. Some shapes are simple,

some more difficult than others.

Wreath

Take florists' wire and twist it around the base of the cones.

Form a circle and twist the ends of the wire into a loop.
Disguise with a ribbon bow and decorate any way you like.

Again nature has generously provided part of the Christmas decor. This wreath can be reused for years to come.

Candy

Take big candy canes and tie them to a rope or an existing garland, glue them around a votive with a glue gun or use short ones and stick the round ends and the straight ones together to make a heartshaped decoration for the tree. If you leave the plastic wrapper on the kids can eat them afterwards.

Twinkle, twinkle...

Cut out 6-, 7- or 8-pointed stars.

Attach ribbon on the back with sticky tape and start wrapping.

Here is another type of stardecoration. I kept the colour scheme of red and white, but anything goes when it comes to the ribbon - whatever suits your theme. Cardboard (even printed cardboard) is the easiest material for the stars themselves.

Nature once more

This is for smellevision: Cinnamon sticks, either simply tied up with raffia or glued onto a squarish cube of styrofoam or sturdy cardboard with a glue gun ( John Lewis etc.). The bundles can be hung on the tree, added to potpourries or just used as a decoration for rooms or the table. I add a few drops of cinnamon essential oil every year and they smell delicious.
You can also tie the cinnamon sticks around a white pillar candle with some raffia or ribbons.

Snowflakes

Snowflakes cut out of sheets of foam rubber, stickered and ready to hang up. I notice there is a wintery theme developing, colourwise. Shape punches are ideal for this as well. Cookie cutters are good stencils for this and starshapes would be just as nice.