Vintage Christmas Party Decor

Decorating for a vintage theme Christmas party is surprisingly affordable. A little ingenuity and a few hours are all it takes for a lovely nostalgic vibe for your party.

Popcorn Garlands

Old fashioned Christmas decorations often included long strings of popcorn garlands. Create your own by stringing kettle corn with needle and thread and hanging it around the tree. Kettle corn is ideal for this since the sugary coating preserves the popcorn longer so it won't taste stale if someone decides to steal a nibble from the vintage garlands.

Decorating Supplies:

Needle and strong thread
Thin twine
Mini clothespins
50 mini candy canes
Gold craft paper
A Printer
Scissors
Tape

Vintage Christmas Song Banners

1. Create vintage Christmas banners by printing out large letters onto sheets of gold craft paper. Each letter should be approximately three inches tall, which will allow you to fit six letters per sheet of paper.

2. Once your message is printed out onto the craft paper, find a circular object you can use to trace a circle cutout guide around each letter.

3. Finally, cut each circle out with scissors and tape it to the twine. Hang your Christmas greetings above doorways in your home, behind the buffet table, on the fireplace mantle or next to the Christmas tree. Lyrics from Christmas songs make lovely, unique greetings. Try the following for your own Christmas banners:

Silent Night, Holy Night
Deck the Halls
Down Through the Chimney with Good Saint Nick
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
Joy To the World
Jingle Bells
A Partridge in a Pear Tree

Vintage Christmas Postcard Decorating Ideas

1. Search Google Images for "vintage Christmas postcards" and download and save the high-quality images to a file.

2. Then, arrange four postcards to a page in a Word document and print out on thicker, ivory watercolor paper.

3. Finish by cutting out each postcard and using a mini wooden clothespin to hang it from the piece of twine. These can be wrapped around a Christmas tree as unique vintage garland, hung from doorways, draped across mirrors or placed underneath glass on glass-topped tables for an instant vintage vignette.

4. Two more ideas for using the vintage postcards is to use them for decorating Christmas cupcakes and for vintage drink stirrers. After printing out the postcards, use a 2" hole punch to cut out small scenes. Use tape or a hot glue gun to affix the mini scene to a toothpick (for the cupcake picks) or a long drink stirrer. Place the toothpick on the top of a frosted cupcake for a fun vintage twist on cupcake decorating, and garnish drinks with the vintage stirrers.