Woodland Christmas Decor

Woodland Christmas Decor: forest creatures, natural elements like pinecones and acorns and DIY ornaments create a magical Christmas.

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• A Table Top Forrest with Woodland Animals
• Deer Head
• Homemade Picture Frame
• Boxwood Wreath
• More Woodland Christmas Decor
• Woodland Entry Table
• Woodland Christmas Tree

This year I'm bringing the outdoors in with lots of woodland Christmas decor.  This theme is perfect for the holidays and adds a little magic to the season.

A Table Top Forrest with Woodland Animals

I have collected lots of table top Christmas trees over the past few years, and love the way they look all mixed together on my dining room table. This year, to go with our Woodland Christmas decor theme, I thought I'd add a few little woodland creature friends to the forest.

I originally planned on painting all the little woodland animals white -you know how I love a little spray painting. 😉 But after seeing it all together, I kind of liked how they looked. Not to mention the kids pleading in the background. What do you think, should I paint them?

I found most of them at the craft store. I started out with one of those tubes of North American animals, but I didn't like how the animals weren't to scale. (Maybe you didn't know I was quite that particular about things -well I am, and just the thought of the raccoon being the same size as the deer was bugging me.) So, I found these other, larger animals. At first I thought it might be a little expensive to get enough of them but...about nine or so 50% off coupons later and it worked out great. 😉 Most of them worked out to be a dollar or two.

I have to say I kind of love them. At first glance it's just a regular, shiny, silvery Christmas tree display.

But then, you see them, hiding in the trees, and you can't help but smile, even at the skunk.

It's going to be hard to put them away after Christmas.

Deer Head

Sometime in October I got the idea that I wanted to add a deer head to my dinning room for our Christmas and build a whole woodland Christmas decor theme around him. I thought of a few options, and was buying supplies for another version when I laid eyes on this guy. A plain, brown paper, paper mache deer head. I decided I should bring him home, and abandoned my other plans. I gave him a few good coats of white gloss spray paint, and loved him even more. 😉

Homemade Picture Frame

I knew I wanted to surround him with an old picture frame, painted silver. Of course when you need something you can't find it. I looked at all my local thrift stores and couldn't find exactly what I was looking for.  When I was driving by the Habitat for Humanity Re-Store and had an idea. What if I bought some old trim and made my own frame? I found this piece of trim for a $1 -sold!

Once I got it home, I had a little help cutting it to size, with all the right angles. I glued it together, stapled it, clamped it, and then filled the little gaps and sanded them smooth.

After a few coats of silver spray paint, I think my $1 frame turned out pretty well.

Boxwood Wreath

I needed one more finishing touch for the deer head, a little wreath around his neck. The box wood wreath came from trimming up my box wood and I made a little wreath. I just bent a coat hanger into a circle to make the form, and then wired little bunches of box wood around the form.

It's the perfect natural element for this spot.

More Woodland Christmas Decor

To finish off the display I used this gorgeous little black wrought iron tree my sister gave me a few Christmas' ago. I love the little pompom garland, reminds me of little snow balls.

I usually have some Black and White photos of Paris hanging here, but decided to change them out to go with our woodland theme too. These sweet little prints are printed onto wood veneer and I thought the snowshoes and feather were perfect with everything else. I framed them in some in-expensive IKEA frames, and I like the way the white frames match my dear, deer head -affectionately referred to by all my family, friends, and visitors as the moose.

I didn't do too much else on the table, just some candles, and the silver bowl, filled with some pinecones.

Woodland Entry Table

I thought it would be fun to add a woodland touch to the entry area too.  The deer look so sweet in the fresh pine boughs on the table.

These easy DIY pinecone balls were a great little Christmas project.

Woodland Christmas Tree

One of my favourite woodland touches this Christmas is my woodland themed Christmas tree.  

With lots of DIY woodland animals it's the perfect touch for our theme.

You can read all about all the details of the woodland Christmas tree here.

All the woodland Christmas decor details came together so beautiful.  This might be one my favourite Christmas themes ever.

With Woodland Christmas decor, life really is party!