Recycling is the mottoour craft idea today. Surely everyone has already changed their car tires for the winter. If your old summer tires are worn out and you're going to buy new ones next year anyway, you can use them to make original decorations for Christmas. Since the car tire decoration is relatively large, it is best suited for outdoor use - decorate the porch, terrace or garden with them. Whether Christmas decorations with a bauble look, large Christmas trees, snowmen or even door wreaths, you will be amazed at what creative things can be made with this waste product. We'll show you some of them todayCar tire decorationIdeas for Christmas that you can easily recreate.
Car tire decoration for Christmas – giant Christmas tree balls
For this first idea you also need to do a bit of sawing. However, even beginners can take on the project as it is anything but difficultDecoration for Christmasto recreate. You will need the following things for this purpose:
- Tires
- spray paint
- Tin can or metal bucket
- wire
- plywood board
- strong glue for wood (e.g. Liquid Nails) or silicone
- Hot glue and decorations to stick on (e.g. fabric snowflake) or stencils with Christmas motifs
- Jigsaw
- drill
- Nail gun or screws
- ferrule
Craft instructions for the car tire decoration
To build this pretty car tire decoration for Christmas, first place the tire on the plywood sheet and trace the inner circle with a pencil. Measure the distance from this inner circle to the point where the tire is widest, or before it becomes slightly narrower towards the outside. Mark this distance in several places on the plywood panel and trace the circle freehand. Alternatively, you can use the following trick: tie a piece of string to a pen. Tie the other end to a pencil, whereby the distance between the first pencil and the tip of the pencil must correspond to the measured distance. Hold the first pencil firmly at the center of your circle, pull the string taut and draw a regular circle. Make sure that the center pin does not slip.
Assemble and color tires
Fix the plate to a table with a clamp. The plate should protrude several centimeters in order to be able to cut comfortably without damaging the table. Now use the jigsaw to cut out the circle on the outside line. Apply glue or silicone to the tire and glue the plywood circle to the tire. Now you have to let the glue dry sufficiently. Alternatively, you can also fix the plate with a nail gun.
Then you can spray the tire on all sides in the desired color. It is best to do this outdoors and on a surface. As you can see in the instructions above, you could also color the tire first, then fix the plate and then color that too. However, we recommend the first variant - assemble it first and then spray everything with paint in one go.
Make and attach the metal piece
Now you need the typical metal piece that has Christmas tree decorations for hanging. You can do thisfrom a tin canas in these instructions or make it from a metal bucket. Cut the can and drill two small holes through the metal in two opposite places on the bottom side. You then thread the wire to create a handle, which you knot on the inside. Drill two holes through the tire, insert the wire ends through and knot them inside the tire. Complete! If you want, you can now add decorations, for example a snowflake (made of felt, paper or other material) like in this example. Or you can get stencils and use them to spray Christmas motifs on the tire. Then you can use the tires as decoration to decorate your garden, terrace or entrance area.
Make winter car tire decorations yourself – snowmen
How about something like this?friendly snowmenin your garden that will really bring joy to everyone? You have two options for making snowmen decorations with tires. You can see the first variant in the picture above. To do this, first make the head as in the instructions above for the Christmas tree balls, only this time you color the hoop white. The other tires are of course white, but do not require a sheet of plywood as they are simply stacked on top of each other. You decide how many tires you use because it depends on how big you want your snowman to be. Let the white paint dry thoroughly, assemble the car tire decoration and then draw the buttons and face with acrylic paint. You can then decorate the finished snowmen with a bow or a hat.
To make a snowman, you don't necessarily have to saw and drill, as just described. Instead of this type of head, you can simply add a face to the last stacked tire. This type of snowman is no less cute, so it's up to you how much time and effort you put into itChristmas decorations for outsidewant to invest.
Car tire decoration idea – make Santa Claus
Anyone who has the talent to draw cantry on a Santa Claus. Start by spraying the tires red and stack them on top of each other once the paint has dried. Now you can first draw the outline for Santa Claus with a felt-tip pen: head with beard, eyes, nose and mustache. Then all you have to do is color in what you have drawn with acrylic paint. Multiple coats may be necessary to achieve opaque color.
If you don't think you can do the drawing, you can just use cotton wool or stuffinga beardstick it on and indicate Santa Claus in this way. Or maybe you can find a Santa Claus mask that you can simply glue onto the tires?
Christmas trees made of tires as decoration
If you have old tires in different sizes available, you can even get oneMake a Christmas tree. Simply color the tires green and then stack them on top of each other (starting with the largest and ending with the smallest). Then various decorations such as bows, garlands, stars and other things can be glued around it. Such a tree can decorate both the garden and the living room.
This original car tire decoration for Christmas is also great for a car dealershipAlternative to the classic Christmas tree. If in this case you are not using old tires but new ones, they should of course not be colored so that they can be sold after the Christmas season. In this case, the tree can simply be wrapped with green garland and/or a string of lights. Customers are guaranteed to smile at the idea.
Decorate with tires – make unusual Christmas wreaths
Also Christmas wreathsAre a great car tire decoration, don't you think? Keep in mind that the tires are quite heavy for cars and are therefore unlikely to be suitable for the door. However, they can be hung on a wall, dangling freely from a tree or simply leaned against a fence, trunk or wall. If they are just leaning, you can even use large tractor tires or those for off-road vehicles. However, if you really want a door wreath, it is better to choose a light motorcycle tire or a bicycle tire.
And when it comes to design, you really have a lot of options available. The easiest option is just the tirewith a string of lightsto wrap around. Then you will receive an attractive car tire decoration for Christmas that will make an impression, especially in the evening hours. Both single-colored and colorful fairy lights are suitable, depending on your preference.
You can also dye the hoop green and then tie it with a bow or artificialDecorate with Christmas flowers (e.g. poinsettias). The green color is intended to indicate the typical pine green. A nice, wide satin ribbon is also suitable for wrapping if you want to save yourself the hassle of spray paint or painting. The wreath then also acquires a certain elegance. Then you can decorate with artificial flowers, small Christmas tree baubles, stars, pine cones and all the other things that are also used for Christmas wreaths.
Or how about buying a cover for your visible spare tire and itwith fir greenstick on? Then use it to cover the tires of your off-road vehicle and spread the Christmas spirit wherever you go.
Old tire decoration with Christmas arrangements
A lavish Christmas arrangement, which decorates your entrance area and welcomes all your guests, sounds really good, doesn't it? And the example above shows that it actually is. The arrangement not only looks enchanting, but can also be made by beginners. So you don't have to be a professional florist to pull off this DIY idea.
Start by spray painting the tire any color (or wrapping it with colored tape). You can opt for typical Christmas colors such as red, white and green or you can choose one of the colors that are also found in the other Christmas decorations nearby. Then close the tire on one side with plywood. You can find out how to cut such a panel in the aboveInstructions for Christmas tree baubles.
Then fill the tire with potting soil. Simple sand is also suitable, but then it should be well hidden by the arrangement because it doesn't look too attractive. Then start inserting any elements (in the example birch branches, pine cones, pine greens and other evergreen branches, berries and white tree or shrub branches): Put the tallest elements (here the birch branches) in the middle and then distribute all the other elements around them. Arrange them from the center outwards, first upright and then becoming increasingly flatter. Feel free to experiment. You can keep taking items out and rearranging them until you're happy with the arrangement. Finally, you can shorten and shape very long and protruding branches a little.
