There’s something about Christmas that just makes you want to make stuff. And home-made stuff is great: it’s way easier to recycle, it’s more proactive than watching TV, and you can impress everyone you know with your mad arts and craft skills.

So we thought, why not do a How To with Christmas decorations? And in we went, bright eyed and enthusiastic, only to realise with crushing disappointment that what we’d actually made were more like a series of Pinterest fails than things we’d want to decorate our living rooms with.

Then we realised that most people who share their creations on the internet are arts and crafts geniuses; they have glue guns, spray paints, craft knives, wire cutters and many other things that most people just don’t have lying around.

So we’ve taken the everyman’s (or everywoman’s) route and gone for decorations that are ridiculously simple. All you’ll need is your imagination and a few bits and bobs that you can buy in the supermarket; not a glue gun in sight. Scroll on through to view our creations, and have heaps of fun making your own!