Christmas Crafts
Christmas Crafts
A simple guide to crafting paper stars for Christmas
Paper stars are the perfect cheap and cheerful decoration. Follow this simple step-by-step guide to make your own this year
Christmas wreaths
How to make a Christmas wreath: a florist’s step-by-step guide
Hoping to create your own Christmas wreath this year? Let acclaimed florist Philippa Craddock show you how its done
Decoration
How to make the most charming DIY advent calendar that the whole family will love
Keen to make the most of your countdown until Christmas? Decorative painter Amy Balfour lays out the steps to create your very own advent calendar
Decoration
How to wrap a present: our style director's comprehensive guide
Imaginative presentation can transform even the simplest gift. Ruth Sleightholme suggests creative ways to embellish presents
Decoration
How to make DIY Christmas decorations
In an extract from ‘Winter Celebrations: A Modern Guide to a Handmade Christmas,’ Arounna Khounnoraj shares how to make DIY Christmas decorations from wool.
Gardens
How to make paper cherry blossoms
In an extract from ‘Crafting Authentic Paper Flowers’, we follow a tutorial to create beautiful and ethereal cherry blossoms from crepe paper
Decoration
What to do with pressed flowers
In an extract from The Modern Flower Press, the new book by Melissa Richardson and Amy Fielding of JamJar Flowers, we discover some charming craft projects using pressed flowers
Paper flowers
How to make paper hellebores
In an extract from ‘Crafting Authentic Paper Flowers’, we follow a tutorial to create beautiful perennial hellebores
Decoration
Christmas craft ideas to try this weekend
The Christmas countdown has begun, and what better way to pass the time 'til the big day than getting creative with some festive crafts?
Decoration
The seasonal magic of gingerbread houses
Trade tricks for making them look good (and keeping them standing)
Decoration
A tutorial in Christmas floristry from the Homo Faber guide's favourite flower designer Emily Avenson
Via a video on the creative platform, the floral artist teaches you how to arrange the perfect Christmas garland to hang on the hearth come Christmas Day
Christmas Crafts
How to make a Christmas stocking
This DIY Christmas stocking is a fun, easy festive craft project with super sweet results by Polly Leonard, founder of Selvedge.
Christmas Crafts
How to make Christmas paper decorations
Bonnie Robinson sets out easy-to-follow tutorials for a range of pretty Christmas paper decorations you can make yourself
Christmas Crafts
DIY christmas decorations
House & Garden's deputy decoration editor Ruth Sleightholme dreams up inspiring ideas for DIY christmas table decorations.
Christmas Crafts
Four creatives craft spectacular Christmas decorations from the same simple ingredients
Favouring craftsmanship over commercialism, we asked four creatives to make something decorative for Christmas, supplying each with a box filled with the simplest of materials – including corrugated cardboard, string and paper straws
Christmas Crafts
Wonderfully kitsch Christmas decoration ideas from a 1956 issue
"One fresh inspiration, like a rose-decked bird-cage, is worth a thousand times its weight in tinsel."
Christmas wreaths
The best online Christmas wreath workshops to get you into the festive spirit
What better way to get into the festive spirit than by making a Christmas wreath? Get hands-on at one of these online workshops - and return with the ultimate accessory to brighten your front door this season
Christmas Crafts
How to make this embroidery hoop Christmas decoration in 5 minutes
A GIF that keeps on giving! Deputy decoration editor Ruth Sleightholme dreamed up this enchanting Christmas decoration using embroidery hoops, tissue paper and ribbon. Best of all? It takes less than 5 minutes. See how it's done below...