Window pictures and window decorations
Colorful pictures and lights for the window.
An empty window is wasted potential. With a bit of tracing paper, colored paper, or an old jam jar, it can quickly turn into a little piece of art that shines beautifully in the backlight.
We've put together some ideas to brighten up any window: vibrant pictures made from tissue paper, stars and snowflakes, little lanterns, and figures that you can hang in the window or place in front of it.
With just one click, you can find the complete step-by-step guide for each idea. Most of these ideas can last for many weeks or even across several seasons.
Tissue Paper Window Pictures: Light Through Colorful Windows
Colorful tissue paper turns any window into a little stained glass window as soon as the sun shines through.
Butterflies from Tissue Paper
Using colorful and brown tissue paper, you can create the wings and body of a butterfly, which you can then stick to the window with a few strips of tape. When the sun shines through, it looks like the butterfly is about to flutter away from the window.
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Spring Magic: Crafting Tulips from Tissue Paper
Colorful tissue paper becomes the petals, green paper turns into the stems, and just like that, a whole field of tulips appears on the window. When the sun shines through, the colors glow so brightly, as if spring is already arriving in the middle of winter.
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Halloween Window Art
Craft glue, food coloring, and a splash of dish soap are spread over a Halloween template in a clear sleeve, drying into a spooky, transparent window decoration. Once dry, you can easily peel off the finished picture and stick it right onto the window.
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Paper House Window Decoration
Using colorful construction paper, you can create little houses with cut-out windows and doors, lined with tracing paper so they glow when light shines through. When you line several up next to each other, you create a whole little village at the window.
View instructions →Stars and Snowflakes for the Window
Classic folding crafts that turn any window into a winter wonderland for a few weeks.
Making a Christmas Star
Square tissue paper is carefully folded and glued until it becomes a delicate, multi-pointed star. Your patience while folding will be rewarded right away: Hanging in the window, the star catches every ray of sunshine.
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Make a Star from Baking Paper
Fold ten layers of baking paper in a fan shape, tie them together in the middle, and then gently pull them apart until you create a round, light star. A prick needle or a hole punch adds extra little patterns that let the light shine through.
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Making Paper Snowflakes
A square piece of paper is folded several times, then cut here and there with scissors, and when you unfold it, a snowflake appears, with no two patterns alike. Stick a few of them on the window, and it feels like it's snowing inside, even when not a single flake is falling outside.
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Make a 3D Paper Christmas Star
Five equally sized paper squares are folded individually and then glued together to create a three-dimensional star that doesn't just stick flat against the window but has real depth. When hung in the window or on the windowsill, it even casts a little shadow of its own, unlike flat stars.
View instructions →Bright Window Decorations: Lanterns and Lights
Not every window light comes from outside; these little lanterns bring their own.
Create a Glow Jar
Colorful tissue paper is glued onto a clean mason jar with some glue, then a LED tea light is placed inside, and just like that, you have your own little lantern for the windowsill. As soon as it gets dark, the simple jar turns into a warm glowing light object.
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Create a Gnome Jar
Cotton as snow, a little LED string of lights, and a piece of tracing paper turn a mason jar into a cozy home for a gnome. Placed on the windowsill, it looks like someone small has actually settled in overnight.
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Your Glowing Sandwich Bag House
A white paper lunch bag is painted or decorated with windows and doors, and when you place an LED light inside, the little paper house glows warmly from within. Lined up together on the windowsill, they look like a charming row of illuminated houses in the evening.
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Winter Paper Lantern
A winter picture is created using wax crayons, layered with watercolor, and made translucent with a bit of oil. Behind it, an LED tealight adds the finishing touch. When placed on the windowsill, the whole picture glows from within, as if it has its own little winter light.
View instructions →Little Window Figures and Garlands
Not everything needs to be see-through; some window decorations thrive on color and shape.
Cork Bat
A cork gets wings made of black paper, two googly eyes, and a piece of craft wire as a hanger, and just like that, you have a little bat for the window. If you hang several of them from different lengths of string, it looks like a whole swarm is fluttering by.
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Tissue Paper Garland
Colorful tissue paper can be turned into little flags or pom-poms and strung together on a cord, creating a cheerful garland that hangs across your window. When designed in your favorite colors, it instantly transforms any window into a little festive spot.
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