A festive guide to DIY Christmas decorations

Kya deLongchamps gets all creative using leaves, jam jars, old lampshades and other recyclable materials to add cheap and classic novelty to your festive home.

Christmas is universally celebrated as a time of coming together as a family, and this year I have a challenge for you. With the exception of your Christmas lights (LEDs please, you know it makes sense), and perhaps two decorations in multiples for the tree, let’s make just about everything yuletide and ornamental from found, natural, crafted and even waste materials.

If you have children, there’s plenty of rain soaked afternoons to teach a little self reliance and build excitement as you decorate the house. Here we’ll go over a few of my favourite, laughingly easy projects, but log on to Pininterest to find thousands more suited to your taste and skill level, gathered from crafters worldwide.