Scrap Material Christmas Crafts: 28 Wood, Fabric, Paper, and Yarn Projects

Woodworking projects are awesome, especially for Christmas crafters. However, wood can get expensive. The Christmas crafts listed below will help ease that pain in your wallet because they are scrap wood projects. Meaning, these scrap material ideas use scrap wood or small pieces that you can often salvage from old wood furniture or get for cheap at the store. These crafts make amazing DIY outdoor Christmas decor for the holiday season, but most look just as fitting inside the home.

Whether you are an avid sewer, quilter, or just have a lot of old clothes taking up space in your home, these fabric scrap projects will open up a lot of possibilities for your spare fabric pieces. If you don't have a lot of fabric to use, you can easily find cheap remnants at the craft store or hunt for fabric pieces at your local thrift stores or garage sales.

It's so easy to find scrap paper around. Even if you don't do a lot of paper crafting, we all have lots of junk mail and recycling bins full of random paper material. That's why we love these scrap paper projects. From homemade Christmas ornaments made of paper scraps to table decor that will impress your guests, these scrap paper crafts are wonderful.

Lots of Christmas crafters are also knitters and crocheters. If those tiny yarn balls are getting out of control, don't fret. These yarn projects will shrink the size of your yarn stack while providing you with great yarn scrap projects that will become useful during Christmastime. Because yarn is so handy, these different project ideas you'll find below will intrigue every type of crafter.