Alternatives to Plastic Christmas Decoration

Perhaps you haven’t stopped to think about it, but the amount of plastic we use, mainly at Christmas, is excessive. Synthetic trees, balls, artificial crowns, toys, imitation holly, wrappers, glitter, tinsel… More than a Christmas decoration we should call it a plastic decoration. However, you can eliminate the use of this material and achieve more ecological and biodegradable decorations. Do you want to know how? Continue reading, this post interests you.

Decorate your home and make gifts without damaging the planet

For a nice centerpiece, fill a wide mouth jar with sand to place bee or candelilla candles. If you prefer it bigger, you can put some sprigs of fir, pineapples and dry leaves, for example, so you can illuminate your dinners in a natural way.

You can make ecological decorations for your Christmas tree with wood and esparto grass. Sparto stars and poplar wood balls with Christmas motifs will be a perfect alternative to the plastic decoration typical of our trees. In addition, in this task you can involve the smallest of the house, they will have fun making all kinds of drawings to decorate your decorations.

To make a Christmas wreath you only need a little esparto. You can place it without further adornments or add colour with coloured wools, dry pine cones, fabric ties, ivy or eucalyptus, holly branches… Of course, you can also design an ecological garland to hang on your wall with wood, esparto grass and a cotton thread, wool or other natural material.

If you’re not too keen on crafts don’t worry, they also sell these biodegradable decorations to replace the plastic decoration. As for toys, there are many other materials such as fabric, wood, metal and paper that are very educational and with which they can play outdoors. There are also Christmas trees free of plastic and the wrappers, by the way, better made of fabric, so you can reuse them and… One less waste!