Easy, Inexpensive Holiday Decorations

Doable Decorating From the Craft Store

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Even the craft-challenged can pull off these three creations that take mere minutes and leave nary a drop of glue behind.
What You Need
Four-inch Styrofoam ball, knife, five boxes of generic nontoxic crayons, Styrofoam cones in various sizes, corsage pins, pinboard, tiny trinkets for gifts, tissue paper, thin ribbon, pushpins, numeral stickers

Three Easy Ideas

Crayon Bouquet Centerpiece
Shawn Engler
1Crayon Bouquet Centerpiece

Draw attention to a set table using a few boxes of crayons and a Styrofoam ball.

Sparkly Christmas Trees
Shawn Engler
2Sparkly Christmas Trees

Transform a mantel with a troupe of Tannenbaums made from Styrofoam cones and corsage pins.

Pinboard Holiday Calendar
Shawn Engler
3Pinboard Holiday Calendar

Deck the hall with a bulletin board bursting with treats—one for every day of December.

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