10 DIY Christmas Tiered Tray Décor Ideas

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Feature image of a miniature wood crate stained crate shown filled with greenery and miniatures like red berries, pinecones, candy canes and a mini santa gnome ornament.

These DIY Christmas tiered tray décor ideas feature small, easy projects made with simple materials for holiday decorating or gifting.

1. Festive Fringe Ribbon Trees

Make festive fringe trees in varied sizes to decorate your holiday tray or shelf. First, make a cone by tracing a large circle onto lightweight cardstock. Cut a slit to the center to form a cone shape, then wrap 1-inch fringe ribbon around (starting at the base), and use hot glue to secure everything in place.

Photo of three DIY Fringe Christmas Trees on a round tray with a mint green deer ornament in front.
DIY Fringe Christmas Trees

2. Miniature Wood Tumble Block Ladder

Buy a package of wood Tumbling Tower Blocks from Dollar Tree to make this cute ladder for your holiday-tiered tray. Find the full miniature ladder tutorial here.

Finished ladder made out of tumble blocks from Dollar Tree shown on a white tiered tray with a mini green wreath for decoration.
Miniature Wood Tumble Block Ladder

3. DIY Holiday Wood Signs – Free SVG Art

These holiday shelf sitter signs are a great beginner-friendly Cricut project and a relaxing weekend craft. The SVG designs are sized specifically for 4″ x 4″ x 1″ sign blanks, and the lettering is cut from white permanent adhesive vinyl on a cutting machine (no mirroring needed). Apply them to painted wood blocks using transfer tape. Download the free SVG sign art here, along with two bonus designs.

Four DIY signs you can make for your holiday tiered tray.
DIY Holiday Shelf-Sitter Signs

4. Mini Holiday Crate

A dollar store crate and miniatures from your holiday bins is all you need to make this festive decoration.

Miniature wood crate shown on a tiered tray filled with greenery and miniatures like pinecones, candy canes and a mini santa gnome ornament.

5. Dollar Tree Gingerbread Houses

Give a few plastic dollar store houses a gingerbread makeover with acrylic paint in classic caramel for the base and white to add icing-like accents.

Tiered tray with painted Dollar Tree houses to look like gingerbread houses.
Gingerbread Houses
Closeup of two of three Dollar Tree miniature plastic houses painted to look like gingerbread houses.
Closeup of Gingerbread Houses

6. Wine Cork Christmas Tree

Glue wine corks into a tree shape and finish with copper wire and small bells to create a simple, upcycled holiday decoration.

Miniature Christmas tree made out of 17 wine corks decorated with a string of red and green bells on copper wire.
Wine Cork Christmas Tree

7. Metallic-Painted Reindeer

Plastic reindeer toys are given a quick update with metallic spray paint, creating an inexpensive and eye-catching holiday accent.

Metallic-Painted Reindeer

8. Snow Globes

These waterless snowglobes are so easy to make. Find the full holiday snow globe tutorial here.

Finished mini snow globes made with wood slices, mini plastic bowls and clear plastic bulb ornaments shown. Two shown, one with a snowman and faux snow and the other filled with mini bottle trees and faux snow.

10. Nostalgic and Thrifted

Vintage tins and small thrifted finds can be grouped together to create a simple nostalgic holiday display.

Tray filled with greenery, vintage colorful Christmas light bulbs, a Rumford Baking Soda can with greenery in it and a rectangular vintage Tetley's Tea container with greenery, faux snow and a small pink vintage looking reindeer in it.
Nostalgic Christmas Tray
Star divider used has two hand drawn lines with a star in the center, used as a content break and signals new or different content below. This doodle style illustration is in a medium charcoal gray.

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