Decorate for Christmas using old tires: 12 creative ideas
Discarded, old tires, once their use on our vehicles has expired, pose a potential threat as they do not easily biodegrade. Despite recent strides in the recovery and recycling of old tires by groups dedicated to taking them from tire service centers for repurposing, numerous garages still accept old tires without having clear disposal strategies.
The rubber from these tires is now repurposed for constructing sports fields, sound-absorbing pavements, urban furnishings, and noise insulators. Additionally, at home, we can convert these cast-off items into valuable assets for functional and imaginative DIY projects. Amongst these creative ideas are some for decorating our homes during the festive holiday season.
From Christmas trees to snowmen, wreaths to entrance ornaments, we present below 12 creative ideas for Christmas decorations made using old tires.
1. Snowmen
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One of the most popular projects for decorating our gardens with old tires at Christmas is the creation of giant snowmen. Painted white and stacked vertically or horizontally, your tires will look great.
2. Floor wreaths
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With bigger tires you can make wonderful wreaths at ground level: paint them green and decorate them with red and white bows, bells and balls.
3. Alternative Christmas tree
Stack tires from largest to smallest and decorate them with festoons, ball ornaments and strings of lights for an alternative Christmas tree.
4. Oversized Christmas candies
Seal one side of the tires with a circle cut from plywood, paint it red and white and add decorative ornaments and bows on the sides made from recycled plastic shopping bags.
5. Rudolf the Reindeer
Making Rudolf out of a tire is very simple: paint the tire brown and cut out the eyes, nose and ears from cardboard or wood.
6. Winter planter
Paint an old tire white, lean it vertically against a wall and fill the inside bottom with evergreen branches and berries for a planter with a winter feel.
7. Base for the Christmas tree
To ensure the stability of your Christmas tree, make a base with a tire. Simply paint the tire a color you like and insert the base of your Christmas tree inside it - a tire will provide the stability you need.
8. Rubber tree
Another creative way to make a Christmas tree is to paint the tires green and stack them from largest to smallest. Decorate them with bows, flowers, gifts and other ornaments in silver and red.
9. Bright Christmas decoration
A big red bow and a string of lights wrapped around a tire will be enough to bring the bright magic of the holiday into your yard.
10. Big Christmas ball ornament
An old tire, a piece of plywood, a large decorative snowflake, spray paint and a tin can are all you need to make a large decorative Christmas ball ornament for your entryway.
11. Christmas planter
Painting an old tire and using it as a planter is one of the most popular recycling projects, but if you paint it red and use evergreens and holly branches loaded with red berries, your planter will be very Christmassy.
12. The Grinch is coming!
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A snow-covered chimney decorated with Christmas lights from which the evil Grinch is emerging is an original and very cute decoration for Christmas.
Will you recycle old tires this Christmas?
