19 Natural Christmas Decorations for a Beautiful Home

Using natural Christmas decorations for your home is not only really beautiful, but also a great way to make the holiday season less wasteful. It’s the perfect decoration for nature lovers that also want to be kind for the earth this Christmas!

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It is super cozy to take the outdoors inside and both get the rough winter aesthetic and being warm and comfortable at the same time. Imagine a home filled with the aroma of fresh spruce, cinnamon, oranges and cloves! With these natural Christmas decorations you will make your home smell d i v i n e!

Keep on reading for 19 natural Christmas decorations to make these Christmas dreams come true!

Why should I decorate Christmas naturally?

There are many different reasons to decorate your home naturally for Christmas. 

One of the most obvious reasons is that it looks really beautiful. Instead of overwhelming yourself with over stuffing your home with countless of decorations in all different colors, you give your home a calming and minimalist look. Not only do natural decorations make your home aesthetically pleasing but it gives you that calming hygge feeling too!

Nature is just one of the most beautiful things and I love to decorate my home with natural elements so I feel closer to nature. Especially when you don’t go outside as much during the winter, because of cold and dark weather, it becomes even more important for me to take the outdoors inside. That way I can experience the serenity of it comfortably and warm.

✧ Read: 10 Ways to connect with the Earth

Except for being aesthetically pleasing and calm inducing, natural Christmas decorations are great for the earth as well! Buying plastic santas, synthetic garlands or other cheap rubbish that you throw away after one season (because it breaks) burdens the environment enormously. 

Christmas is actually one of the most wasteful times of the year because so much is consumed and much thrown away mindlessly. By using natural Christmas decorations you are making Christmas more sustainable as you can compost it and will naturally biodegrade once it has done its job for the season.

Natural Christmas decorations are also much more economic, as you can forage the decoration for free. The DIYing process is fun and relaxing and really puts you in that Christmas mood. It will also require you to finally go outside for once, to gather materials for your project!

25 Natural Christmas Decorations Ideas

1. Dried citrus fruits

First on the list of natural Christmas decorations are dried slices of citrus fruits. You can make a garland, make them into ornaments, add them to wreaths, add them as decoration on Christmas presents, add them to tabletop arrangements or even decorate desserts or drinks them! They are such a cute and pretty little decoration perfect for this cozy season and they work with almost everything. Another bonus: Use them as food decoration, because they are edible 😉

2. A natural wreath

A wreath is a classic Christmas decoration that cannot be missed. And they are not that difficult to make either! The fun thing is that you can make them all so differently. You could make a wreath from holly and winter berries, pine, spruce, rosemary or why not a combination with all of them? Make big ones, small ones, minimalist ones or overly decorated ones! The choice is up to you if you decide to make one! If you don’t have time you could always buy one as well. 

✧ Natural wreaths – Etsy

3. Garlands

Decorating your home with garlands instantly gives it a festive feeling! Just like wreaths, you can create garlands from whatever natural elements you want. You can make a big garland from pine branches and hang it across the stair railing. Or make a small and minimalist garland from dried citrus slices or pine cones and hang it by a wall or window.

4. Orange and clove pomander balls

Do you want a decoration and natural air freshener in one? Then you should try to make pomander balls this Christmas! Simply take an orange and stud it with cloves. As the fruit dries up it will spread a divine scent around your home! You can lay the pomander balls around your home, use them on table arrangements or transform one into a tree ornament.

5. A Christmas bouquet

Another natural Christmas decoration is to make a Christmas bouquet and put it in a clear vase. You can make a bouquet with spruce twigs, winter berries, pine cones or whatever you wish to add to it. This is also a great alternative for a Christmas tree if you are not getting one this year. 

6. Drying upside down bouquets

Another simple but aesthetic natural Christmas decoration is to tie a small bouquet with different natural elements (spruce branches, berries or herbs) together and hang it to dry upside down. This both looks festive and will spread the scent of drying herbs around the room! You can hang it up by doors, walls or the back of a chair.

7. Pinecones

Pinecones are a natural trinket that have so much potential in DIY crafts! You could glue them together to make a wreath, spray them with glitter or fake snow or add a string and turn it into a Christmas tree ornament. You could also just lay them in windowsills, add a wire to them so you can use them in a bouquet or add them to garlands. They look so cute as well and unlike flowers or pine branches, keep well for years.

8. Acorns

Another trinket of nature to use for natural Christmas decorations. You could paint them gold or silver, use them as ornaments or simple lay them around your home. Just as pinecones these also keep well for many seasons to come!

9. Brown paper Christmas presents

Whether you wrap the Christmas presents for under the Christmas tree or wrap fake ones just for the sake of decoration, brown paper packages tied up with strings make your home look really festive and ready for Christmas. If you want to know how to wrap your Christmas presents sustainably this year, then check out this blog post!

✧ Read: 15 Easy Eco-friendly Gift Wrapping Ideas

10. Decorated candles

Another natural Christmas decoration idea is to simply decorate a candle. You can tie green leaves, spruce twigs or berries around it. If you want a scented option, use cinnamon sticks! Decorate them exactly how you like with natural items to create a simple yet beautiful natural Christmas decoration. Just be sure that the decoration is fire proof if you plan on actually lighting the candle! Otherwise you can decorate a fake one or just never light it 🙂 Also be sure to choose non-toxic candles if you decide to burn them!

✧ Natural beeswax candles – Etsy (worldwide)
✧ Swedish Beeswax candles – Glimja (scandinavia)

11. Christmas inspired mason jars

Are you also hoarding mason jars? Well you can finally put them to use by transforming them into a natural Christmas decorations! Just fill it with different kind of nature inspired Christmas elements. Spruce twigs, red winter berries, holly, fake snow or glitter! Make it as festive as you want. You could also add a candle or why not fairy lights?

12. Floating candles

Another easy but stunning decoration are floating candles. Pour water in a Christmas decorated cylinder, candle holder or glass and put a candle in there that floats on top! It truly is mesmerizing to look at as it has such a magical vibe to it.

13. Branches wrapped in fairy lights (or spray painted)

For a gorgeous minimalist Christmas decoration, find some pretty branches and make a bouquet of them. When you get home, simply put them in a vase and wrap them in fairy lights! You could also spray paint them gold or silver and voila! Now you have a minimalist but festive decoration for Christmas.

14. Christmas centerpiece

If you want the table to look extra festive during Christmas dinner, you can create a Christmas centerpiece. Use different natural elements, like a spruce garland, orange pomander balls, candles, berries or dried citrus wheels to create a festive centerpiece that swirls around the length of the table. It’s definitely going to max out the festive feeling at the dinner table!

15. Loose pieces of nature

If you aren’t into DIY options, but still want to decorate your house with nature for Christmas, you can simply use loose elements too. There is no need to do anything to it as nature already is pretty by itself! You could use pine cones, spruce twigs, berries, wintergreen etc. Put them in vases, hang them somewhere, lay them in windowsills or on tables or wherever you want to put a bit of nature in your home!

16. Christmas flowers

There is something special about Christmas flowers. Maybe it’s because you only see them during the Christmas season. Examples of typical Christmas flowers are Poinsettia, Amaryllis, Hyacinths (my favorite) or Paperwhites. Having them in your home is a simple way to decorate naturally for Christmas.

17. Christmas basket decoration

You can also make a Christmas basket! Simply fill a basket with Christmas items and arrange it so it looks pretty. Put it on the table, in the hallway or by the front door for everyone to admire.

18. Artfully arranged logs

If you have a fireplace at home, a really easy way to decorate naturally is to artfully arrange the firewood. They now act like a Christmas decoration instead of just a pile of wood in a random basket! Staple them in a pyramid and add some fairy lights to transform the boring pile of wood in your home into a cozy Christmas decoration.

19. Holiday pot potpourri

The last but maybe best smelling natural Christmas decoration is a holiday potpourri! The one on the stove may not look that pretty, but you can actually make a beautiful dry variant! It’s similar to the Christmas basket. Simply neatly arrange a beautiful bowl or basket with Christmas decorations with dry and natural things that can hold moisture. Then, use a solution from simmered cinnamon, clove and oranges or whatever scent you like and put it in a spray bottle. Then spray your Christmas bowl, as the dry decoration will absorb the scent and then distribute them around the room!

✧ Organic Essential oils – Glimja 

Last Thoughts about Natural Christmas Decorations

Bringing nature into your home on such a festive season really sets the mood. It’s cozy, calming and looks stunning as well! Not to mention that DIY work also is really relaxing and a perfect activity to get in the Christmas mood. Instead of all the plastic crap that everyone decorates their home with, you are really creating something unique and more importantly: earth friendly.

✧ Read: 27 Ways To Reduce Your Plastic Waste

There are many ways to make natural Christmas decorations. The ones above are merely a collection of some of my favorite ways to easily and beautifully decorate your home with nature! But there are no limits when you’re decorating and DIYing. Use your imagination and let it run free! Take inspiration from the tips above, combine them, straight of copy them or make something entirely new!

I hope you found some great natural Christmas decoration ideas! If you did and created some, it would be super fun to see. So if you feel like it, post it on Instagram and tag me @eearthyvibes so I can actually see (and reshare!) your naturally decorated home ♡

Oh and while you’re at it, wrap your presents sustainably this year with these 15 Eco-friendly gift wrapping ideas! Or check out these 5 New Year’s resolutions for a natural lifestyle. 

Happy holidays and merry Christmas!
Bo