As the days become cooler and shorter, many students increasingly find themselves confined to their own four walls. It would be nice if there was some Christmas flair here too. Unfortunately, money is too tight to buy a lot of new things. Luckily, there are great DIY ideas that will brighten up your shared room and create a Christmas atmosphere without much financial outlay. You can find three of them here.
Make an Advent calendar
Advent calendars are not just for children. You can also make friends, family, partners or yourself happy with it. Or how about a shared calendar in the shared kitchen? Of course you can also buy calendars - but these are often very expensive. With these tips, making your own Advent calendar becomes a creative and community-building leisure activity. Spending a nice afternoon together and designing the calendar strengthens the sense of community and is fun. For the Advent calendar itself, everyday items that might otherwise have ended up in the bin can also be reused: toilet paper rolls, jam jars or tins. This not only protects your wallet, but also the environment.
Paper Christmas decorations
Paper is a material that many students have in abundance at home. Beautiful things can be conjured up from written paper from the last lectures as well as from toilet paper rolls or old newspapers and magazines. A classic is the so-called Fröbel star , which is folded from four long strips of paper. The more colorful and different these stripes look, the more interesting the star becomes. Other Christmas motifs such as Christmas trees, boots or shooting stars can also be cut out of paper and hung up as garlands. Newspaper that is embellished or painted with potato print is a sustainable and inexpensive alternative to purchased wrapping paper.
Pour your own candles
A little decoration will brighten up any room. If you like to light candles to make yourself cozy in the winter, you're probably familiar with this problem: In the end, the wick burns down, but there's still some of the candle left. The wax residue, which sometimes makes up a quarter of the candle, often ends up in the trash. There is a much more environmentally friendly alternative: simply collect the leftovers and use them to make new candles! You can make a candle wick yourself from cotton thread or buy it from a craft store. First heat the wax residue in a water bath. For example, you can use an empty tin can - this way the wax won't dirty any cooking pots. A suitable form is an empty toilet paper roll, which you place in a container with a little sand so that it is stable. The wick is secured at the top using a toothpick, twig, or knitting needle before slowly pouring the hot wax into the mold. As soon as the wax is sufficiently solid, the cardboard roll can be carefully removed - done. Alternatively, you can of course also use other containers into which you pour the candles. Empty preserving jars, unused cups or cut-up beverage cartons are suitable for this.
