Recycled paper christmas decorations

Around holiday time, Americans alone toss out an extra 5 million tons of waste, most of which is from wrapping paper and shopping bags. Yikes! We gathered our favorite DIY wrapping ideas that can make your holiday season more sustainable and even more memorable.

We’ve put together an impressive collection of Christmas tree ornaments that you can make yourself from paper, but thankfully, unlike origami, most of them include a few other tools or techniques to make life a bit easier for you.

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Toilet roll inspired Christmas wreath. If you don’t want to spend so much when you’re on your Christmas budget you can always use the things that are in your home like toilet paper rolls. This is economic and you can save more to buy presents for your love ones.

DIY Recycled Paper Star Decorations for Christmas

You could just go for a traditional Christmas tree this year. But if you're too creative, too cheap, too lazy, or too close to the equator for a real tree, there are plenty of creative DIY Christmas trees that will save you money and time or give you a unique way to go about your festive home decor.

Transform a simple star using recycled materials into a spectacularly unique Christmas star decoration. Decorate your Christmas tree, doors and wall with these funky and good looking ornaments made from recycled waste materials and have a very eco friendly Christmas star decorations. Driftwood Star Image source Plastic Spoon Star source Soda Straw source Beaded Wire source CD Star source Colored Yarn source Rolled Magazine Pages source LacyPaper source Magazine Pages source Paper Star source…