While most of us are now trying to decorate our apartment for Advent, the garden is resting, in the best case even under a blanket of snow. But life has not stopped there, there are still birds, for example. So combine pre-Christmas activities and Christmas decorating with caring for small animals.
Today, we actually take it for granted that with the progress of the days and weeks that are still left until Christmas, our homes turn into a kind of romantic village full of decorations, characters, artificial snowflakes, and the crowning glory of all our efforts is then a beautifully decorated tree. But the garden, terrace or entrance to the house also offers the same potential for decoration. With our help, even these places can be taken over by the holidaymaker genius of the place. In addition, such can ornaments to help small animalswho do not spend the winter in the warmth of the home like we do.
You can also decorate the tree with tallow balls:
Find a suitable container and get started
One of the simplest, but very effective ways to decorate the garden is creation of Christmas arrangements . These miniature festive compositions transform ordinary containers, which would otherwise look empty, into handmade works of art. But before you get to work, make sure that the container you choose is really frost-proof. Then it is enough to find enough interesting material in nature and we can get to work. We can use aspen, pine cones, but also live resistant plants such as heather. Bows, Christmas decorations and other thematic items will bring the work to perfection.
Decorate your tree in the garden
In order not to limit ourselves to window sills and places in front of the entrance to the house, we can also make together with the children special decorations, for example, for the spruce that grows in the garden. For this we can use for example tiny terracotta flower potswhich we can buy at the hobby market literally for a few crowns. Then we will only need durable colors (or stronger alcohol markers) and we can get to work. Finally, we will hang the painted flower pots as bells on the tree and we can enjoy the results of our joint work all winter long.
Decorations that will please even the birds
If we would like to raise the decoration of the garden to a new level, we can use such decorated flower pots create when into his bowels soak the mixture of nutritious seeds in tallow. Half-shelled nuts will also have a similar effect, in which we leave the kernels, and the children can decorate the shell according to their own imagination. You just need to provide such an ornament string for hangingwith which adults and a melt gun will certainly be happy to help.
Decorative and nutritious donuts
Just as in flower pots, we can also press the feed mixture into open pine cones. But those for the stated purposes you better not dyeso that the birds don’t end up having to deal with digestive problems. Before adding food to the cone, attach a string to hang it up. It’s simple – wrap the string around the top (wider) part of the conemake sure it fits between the individual scales, tie and make a loop.
Fruit as decoration and bird food
They will surely enchant the birds as well various berrieswith which you decorate such a tree, they will also enjoy small apples (but you will have to change them continuously). But if you don’t insist on the usefulness of ornaments, there are much wider options open to you – from wooden to paper ornaments to simple bells made from the cut-off tops of PET bottlesinto which you stick pictures of children on the inside so that they shine through the plastic. Then all you have to do is tie a bow around the hem near the stopper and the previously not very attractive plastic bottle will turn into an interesting Christmas-themed outdoor decorative element.
