Make Your Own Natural Christmas Decorations

Go Green this Christmastide Season. Reduce the impact of your ain "carbon footprint."

If you had visited Williamsburg Colonial Village this season or past Christmastide seasons, you will wonder at what people can make with natural works materials, without unreal plastic imported objects.

You can set history at your presence door by duplicating a traditional colonial wreath. There are tons of ways to make it. It is all up to your imaginativeness and artistry.

You can easily build your ain with a grape vine garland coop filled with flowered froth and attach branchlets of verdure collected from your ain backyard.

During colonial times, life was difficult. People then did not have got a batch of stuff things. But they were ingenious. Using preserved works stuff and any sort of fruit they had on hand, they fashioned beautiful, eye-catching Christmas ornaments for their homes.

Wreaths and swags were made with what was growing in their dorsum yard.

They used dried cod of okra, cotton wool pods, oyster shells, dried flowers from their ain garden, branchlets of magnolia, boxwood, holly, pine, long cones, and any other sort of verdure they had growing. They also embellished their garlands with fresh pineapples, apples, oranges, and pomegranates; all made without unreal sprays, aroma or colour paint.

Fresh fruit was chosen for its colour glare as well as its keeping quality when open to the rough wintertime weather. All these are artistically wired onto a hardy framework loaded with verdure and dried native flowers. Why the pineapple, a tropical fruit, is used in their traditional garland is a whole different story. You can happen that in publications from Colonial Wiliamsburg.