4 Ways to Spruce Up Your Christmas Stockings

Christmas stockings are not only a great way to decorate your home or fireplace during Christmas. For many kids, this represents treats and rewards brought to them by Santa Claus for being nice the whole year long.

Many people bring out the same Christmas stockings year after year to reuse as decorations. But there are easy and inexpensive ways to spice up even the oldest Christmas stocking.

1. All that glitters...

This is the easiest way to decorate Christmas stockings. Using glitter paint from a squeeze out bottle, write out your child's name. You can also use different color glitter paint and create familiar Christmas shapes. For example, you can trace the shape of a Christmas tree on your stocking and fill it in with green glitter. Or perhaps you would be happier with Frosty the Snowman using gold glitter and then adding the details in their appropriate color. Lastly, you can basically choose a section of the stockings and go all out with the glitter. How about a zigzag pattern using different colors of glitter on the top part of the stockings? Or perhaps giving a red Christmas stocking golden horizontal stripes?

2. The Name Game

A perfect way to decorate your Christmas stockings is to personalize it. There are many stores that sell iron-on letters or stick-on letters that you can use to do this. If you are feeling crafty, you can hand sew these felt letters onto your stocking. You can also embroider names into your old Christmas stockings!

3. Use Familiar Shapes

Extending the holiday fabric idea, you can use these to cut out Christmas shapes like angels, snowmen, reindeers, Christmas trees, even something elaborate as elves and Santa Claus. You can also use felt or satin for this purpose.

4. Embellish with relish!

If you are fond of sewing, you will have a lot of materials that you could use for embellishing a Christmas stocking. From sequins to lace trims to buttons and beads, you can use these to add a whimsical look for your stockings.

You can choose all four of these ideas, and have fun. You can also add your personal touch to these beautiful stocking kits. Choose from our many MerryStockings kits: Bucilla Christmas Stocking Felt Kits, Cross Stitch Christmas Stocking Kits, and Needlepoint Kits and make a family heirloom that will be treasured for years to come.