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Window decorations for autumn and winter: do it yourself or buy?
You can easily make winter window decorations out of paper
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In the winter months the days are shorter – and even if we can enjoy daylight, it is usually highlighted in gray when we look out the window. To literally improve the prospect, a little decoration can come in handy. But do you even have to buy them?
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It’s not just the window sill that invites you to decorate: the glass fronts can also be artistically decorated in a few simple steps. You don’t even have to spend any money on it, as long as you have paper and scissors, pencil and sticky tape to hand. Here you can even actively involve your children, who can let their creativity run free while making window pictures. And even if you don’t have the right accessories at hand, there are a multitude of great decorative elements on the Internet that provide winter window decorations. Depending on which variant you choose, you will have to help a little with the implementation. In the following we present a few design ideas.
DIY: make window decorations for autumn and winter
Make snowflakes
This crafting tip is child’s play and, on top of that, inexpensive: All you need to make snowflakes is a sheet of white paper, scissors and a pencil. In order to then stick the window pictures to the panes, you will need some adhesive tape. If you’d rather cut out colored snowflakes, you can of course colored construction paper use. The following video explains how you can create small works of art from a sheet of paper in just a few minutes:
This video clearly explains how to make snowflakes.
And another tip: There are also self-adhesive window pictures with a snowflake design that you can easily attach to the window. In this 108-piece set different sizes are included.
Paint window pictures
The following design ideas offer at least as much fun for young and old: Chalk pencils and Window Color. The former has the advantage that the window decoration for the winter can be attached just as easily as it can be wiped off. The liquid chalk in the pens sticks particularly well to smooth surfaces such as glass, so you can get creative with it. Alternatively, the removable window paints are particularly useful for creating your own pictures and then sticking them to the glass.
How to conjure up an autumn window decoration
When it comes to window decoration for the winter, the panes do not necessarily have to be decorated. The window sill is just as suitable. There you can, for example, set up decorative elements such as vases in cold blue tones to match the season. They act on their own, but can also be filled with decorative elements: artificial ones Magnolias or Branches, Flowering branches or Pussy willow add even more visual value to each vase.
Even if furniture stores are currently closed, there is an online opportunity to shop window decorations for the winter. Geometric shapes, reindeer heads, lamps and fruit bowls made of steel are particularly suitable for this, as they – despite the cold color – come into their own in the winter months. Especially when you are filled with “life” (read candles or fruit).
A classic in winter is the poinsettia, which adorns countless windows when it is cold and uncomfortable outside. Whether made of wood or paper does not matter – it is only important that the star contains a small LED lamp so that you can make it shine at any time when it gets dark. With this model, the light is even controlled via a remote control so that you can activate the light chain it contains from a distance.
Or you can make your own paper stars out of construction paper: There are also a variety of winter motifs that are ideal for decorative window pictures.
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