16 December: Christmas Crafts

Today’s advent gift is for all of the arts and crafts lovers! We’ve put together a few easy DIY Christmas decorations, inspired by historical artworks. You could make them to decorate your home, or as homemade gifts for friends and family.

Origami snowflake inspired by Utagawa Hiroshige’s Snow falling on a town (1840)

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These cardboard poinsettias inspired by Berthe Hoola van Nooten illustration from 1880

A Christmas angel inspired by this charming angel in Sandro Botticelli’s Coronation of the Virgin (painted between 1490-92)

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Make the most of dramatic Christmas lighting with these DIY candle holders, inspired by Rembrandt’s nativity scene Adoration of the Shepherds (1646)

Paper flowers inspired by Marianne North’s Night-Flowering Lily and Ferns, Jamaica made around 1872

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