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• These aren’t compost-able but they are still simple: take cookie cutters (the old metal ones), tie some string on, and use those as decorations. Make yarn dolls.

• While stationed in Korea, I was going to skip decorating since all of our Christmas gear was still in the USofA. Our youngest would have none of it. At her request, I purchased a few bottles of acrylic paint and she painted a Christmas tree with all the trimmings on our sliding glass door. We even put the gifts underneath it.

• I love this post of ideas for tree decorating as i was thinking of getting a small olive tree and decorating it for Christmas instead of all the artificial stuff. That way my daughter still gets to enjoy a tree and there’s no storage and waste. Thanks!

• One year we were caught in a flood in Whistler. No way out, no power and no plans to stay for Christmas so no supplies or decorations. We cut a tree from the yard, popped popcorn on the fire and strung in together. We then took an incomplete deck of cards, poked a hole in the top of each one and hung it on the tree with a piece of yarn. The tree was topped with a cardboard star covered in aluminum foil, we used an empty toilet paper roll to hold it on the tree. My brother and I were both under ten and did the whole thing ourselves. It is still my favorite tree to date.

• Thats a great minimalist idea!
  this year, in January, I tossed our old plastic tree. I decided that we are doing a construction paper tree with our own paper made ornament balls, glitter, paint, and maybe even some cute buttons or sparkly gems. This is not a 3-D project, but will be big in size, colorful and handmade and taped right in front of our dinner table! around we will put lights. We will being today right after snack and homework. I think I’m more excited than the girls to see how it comes out and how truly cheaper and non clutter it can be to decorate our home for the holidays. Plus It will give my children great pride to have made their own tree and decorations.

• This line, “Is there such a thing as minimalist Christmas tree ornaments?” THAT has been in the back of my mind for the past few weeks, deciding if I want a tree or not! But now looking at these ornament projects you have here gives me hope. I think if you pick out a couple of them, then string up a pair of lights, it might just be enough.

• LOVE this post! We put up our tree with just lights a few days ago and I’ve been trying to convince my husband ever since that we should just leave the ornaments in the basement this year and slowly add some ornaments we make and tons of these have been on my pinterest board.

• I love the idea of edible ornaments. Our tree right now is decorated with ornaments our kids have created over the years. If I needed to find other decorations, our tree would definitely be filled with the edible decor. My Christmas decorations are overflowing and an area that needs an extreme makeover in minimizing. It gets me stressed just seeing what I’ve accumulated over the years. I’ve struggled with whether to do artificial or real trees and the thought of supporting more “plastic” production does not seem right. Thanks for the inspiration to keep our surroundings REAL. I’ve made the applesauce cinnamon ornaments and love how they fill the house with a holiday aroma .

• The first year we had a christmas tree was the year our son was born, and we didn’t have any money to spend on Christmas decorations. I decided to make photo ornaments. I bought a couple pieces of christmas scrapbook paper and some red card stock. I printed out photos on my printer, put the photos on the scrapbook paper and hung with ribbon. A full tree of ornaments probably cost me only $10, and the are all super flat so they store in an envelope.

• My favorite of all the trees we’ve had was decorated with cranberry & popcorn strings and gingerbread men my daughter and I made plus mini candy canes. Everyone who came to the house during the holidays was invited to take a candy cane from the tree to eat on their way home. (They were wrapped.) The popcorn and cranberries were then put outside for the birds to eat.

• Just want you to know that I loved your list for the Advent calendar and have returned to it several times for inspiration in filling our calendar pockets with experiences. Thank you!

• The traditional Christmastree over here has lots of edible decoration. (I think at one point the decoration WAS the christmas gift for the children and other family) Some of which would be: apples – http://stklemens.at/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/20091224_kirche_05_495x595.jpg – , nuts – http://juluul.blogspot.de/2010/12/unser-christbaum-mit-bedeutung.html – and gingerbread of course. You can also buy gingerbread with holes in the supermarket and just have to add a ribbon or twine to fasten it to the tree. The same goes for chocolates, candy and such: there are many that can easily be fastened to a tree. – http://www.lecker.de/media/redaktionell/leckerde/dekoundgastlichkeit/weihnachtsbaumschmuecken/hbv_1797/suesses-baeumchen.jpg –
  Another very easy version is to go for ribbon as decoration. I spent many a Christmas where there wasn’t much decoration beyond candles and bows fastened to the tree – and it looked very festive. This isn’t exactly compostable, but still rather minimal, I’d say: it takes about 5x5x10cm of storage space and doesn’t take special crafting skills or creativity.

  • Thanks, Sanna. These are great! I love how the apples look on the tree. More ideas for me – many thanks!

    • 🙂
      I’d recommend to get small apples, big ones can be difficult to place, as they’re quite heavy.

• We get a live Christmas tree and then stand up all our Christmas cards in the branches to decorate it. It looks nice, avoids the need for decorations (We do have a homemade angel on the top and one string of lights though!) and is somewhere to put all the cards.

  • What a great idea. Thanks for sharing it here 🙂

  • Love this idea Chloe!

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