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Add A Personal Touch To Your Christmas Tree: Decorate With Fillable Baubles
Decorating the Christmas tree is one of the best parts of setting up for the silly season, and this year fillable baubles are one of our favourite ways to add a unique and crafty touch to your décor. They make for a fun and festive holiday craft to create with friends and family, expressing your creativity while also engaging your crafting skills. They also make for great gifts for loved ones as they demonstrate an attention to detail alongside a heartfelt charm.
Read on to find out everything you need to know about this fun decoration trend, and how we at Spotlight have everything you need to make your own!
Quick Links
- Fabulous Fillable Baubles For The Festive Season
- How To Decorate Fillable Baubles
- Express Your Creativity: What To Put In Fillable Baubles
- Amazing Fillable Baubles Ideas You Can Try!
Fabulous Fillable Baubles For The Festive Season
Unlike pre-made baubles, fillable baubles are clear and empty - the perfect blank canvas to unleash your creativity upon! They are usually made from plastic, but glass varieties are also available. From glitter to beads, you can fill these baubles with the decorations of your choice to complement your Christmas decor theme.
Ways Of Filling Baubles
These baubles have three ways of being filled:
- Through a small opening at the top. This will be covered by a screw-on cap that also serves as the hanging point for the bauble.
- Through an open gap in the side. This large window allows you to place bigger objects inside and create a scene, but it can't be closed off.
- By opening the bauble in two. These baubles come split in half and can be clasped together when you're finished filling them. They will either snap closed or come with a small latch.
The kind of bauble you choose should reflect on what you want to use as your fillings, the experience of who is making them and how your baubles will be displayed.
If you are wanting to place larger objects in your baubles, you may need to choose baubles with a large opening in the side or ones that come apart fully.
And if you plan on moving your baubles around (or they are within reach of young hands), fully enclosed baubles will make sure nothing accidentally comes spilling out!
Safety Tip: Because of their fragility, glass fillable Christmas baubles should be handled with care and under supervision if crafters are young.
How To Decorate Fillable Christmas Baubles
Ready to start creating your own fillable baubles for Christmas? Check out the following expert tips and tricks to take your bauble game to the next level!
Swirling Liquids Inside
You can coat the inside of a bauble with a screw top opening with liquids like acrylic paint or glue easily. Carefully pour (or use a dropper) to insert a small amount into the bauble, then close the top and swirl the bauble carefully so the inside is coated. Quickly take off the lid and clean it so it doesn't get stuck shut afterwards, then pour out any excess. This is great for creating a solid single colour on the inside of your bauble or for creating a layer of glue that you can then cover with glitter, fake snow or confetti!
Painting Outside
Don't forget you can decorate the outside of your baubles too! Painting the outside of your bauble is great fun and a chance to flex your artistic muscles. You can also attach decorations to the outside of your baubles like bands, stick-on gems and pom poms.
Attaching Decals With Cricut
Names, shapes and merry phrases can be adhered to the outside of your bauble using a cutting machine like a Cricut cutter. Use permanent vinyl as your material and apply your lettering to your baubles using transfer tape. Our Personalised Baubles project demonstrates how you can create stunning personalised baubles with eye-catching colourful details.
Using Glue To Seal Baubles Permanently Shut
Worried about your fillable bauble splitting open and spilling out all your decorations? Use a little glue to seal it shut permanently! Apply a strong craft glue to the rim of the bauble and join them together for a permanent bond that will last.
Express Your Creativity: What To Put In Fillable Baubles
The options for fillable Christmas baubles are almost endless. You can find fillers at Spotlight or in your own home and backyard! Some of our favourites include:
Glistening Glitter
By painting a thin layer of PVA glue inside, you can fill a Christmas bauble with dazzling glitter in a range of colours. Much like our DIY Fillable Christmas Baubles Project, you can use red-coloured glitter and glue felt details such as belts and buttons to the outside of the bauble.
Wooden Shapes And Mini Houses
You can suspend wooden shapes like stars, trees and even snowflakes using cord and a little glue inside your bauble. Mini wooden houses are also super cute and can be left plain for a rustic look or painted for a more colourful theme.
Shells
Beach shells are a great way to show off the sunny side of an Aussie Christmas! You can also lay down a small layer of sand for a really beachy look.
Ribbons And Tinsel
As seen with our trim Christmas baubles project, eye-catching and shiny, ribbons and foil tinsel are an easy but effective choice for filling your baubles with a Christmas charm.
Small Figurines
A tiny reindeer, snowman or penguin are longtime favourites for filling Christmas baubles with. Glue them to the bottom of your bauble so they stay standing upright!
Edible Treats
Make Christmas a little sweeter by filling your baubles with small lollies or chocolates! Candies wrapped in foil, colourful candy-coated chocolate buttons or hard lollies all look great inside fillable Christmas baubles due to their colour. Make sure whichever you choose won't melt or degrade while inside the bauble, and that you don't glue this particular bauble shut.
Safety Tip: Although you can add natural aspects such as flowers and leaves to your fillable baubles, be sure that whatever you use won't rot or collapse while inside the bauble, and avoid things that are very heavy or sharp.
Amazing Fillable Baubles Ideas You Can Try!
At Spotlight, not only do we offer a wide range of materials you can use in making your fillable baubles, you can also find a collection of fillable baubles ideas and other Christmas projects to put your crafting skills to the test this festive season.
Christmas DIY Baubles
Create three different styles of fillable Christmas baubles with this project. Great for beginner crafters, this project outlines how you can create, glitter, splatter paint and faux floristry filled baubles.
Personalised Tree Decorations
Personalised baubles are a great gift to friends and family and add a joyful touch to any Christmas tree. Whether you craft initials, names or even use a fillable bauble to hold a family polaroid, this project takes you through how to create cheerful personalised christmas baubles for a cohesive selection of Christmas decor.
DIY Bead Fillable Baubles
Add a sense of elegance to your DIY Fillable Baubles with beads and jewellery. These are great for bringing glitz and glamour to your Christmas tree. Add a finishing touch with a Christmas ribbon.
Create Festive Fillable Baubles With Spotlight!
Get creative this Christmas with Spotlight! We have all the bauble fillings you need, as well as heaps of baubles for you to choose from in a range of sizes and shapes. Learn how to use your fillable baubles and read through or article on how to decorate a Christmas tree like a professional to create a stylish Christmas tree arrangement. Check out our amazing range of Christmas decorations online or head into your nearest Spotlight store to check out our supply in person.
