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Woodland Enchanted Forest Christmas Decorating

Modified: Aug 23, 2024 · Published: Dec 6, 2022 by Dannyelle Nicolle-Ramjist · This post may contain affiliate links · 16 Comments

Woodland Enchanted Forest Christmas Decorating Ideas: mushrooms, pine cones, and mini Christmas trees create a rustic natural whimsical Christmas.

Woodland Christmas decor ideas for a fireplace mantel with trees, mushrooms, lights, and garland.
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Welcome to my home all decorated for Christmas full of woodland christmas decorating ideas with lots of mushrooms and mini Christmas trees to create an indoor enchanted forest. I love the holiday season, and sharing my home all decorated for Christmas is always my favourite blog post of the year.

Dining Room

Console Table

In our entryway we have a console table that I love to decorate seasonally. The "Our cheeks are nice and rosy and comfy cozy are we." is a fun DIY that's part of The Cricut Course. If you are a Cricut owner and interested in learning how to make one, check out The Cricut Course, which includes a full tutorial on how to design it and create it.

Christmas console table decoration

I've used a vase of twigs and decorated them with some mini vintage ornaments. In front of them are a few mini Christmas trees, including a white flocked Christmas tree and some different mushrooms. I used lots of fun mushrooms in my decor this year. I love to repeat different elements to help everything flow well, so I knew I wanted to have a few mushrooms and moss by the front door as a great way set the woodland theme right from the start.

woodland Christmas decor

My color scheme for this year included lots of creams, whites, and wood tones, with some pretty green, pink, and iridescent added into. I wanted to make sure that my forest theme wasn't too rustic, so the pink and iridescent helped to bring in the whimsy and enchanted feeling that I was hoping for.

Christmas console table decor

Bar Chart

This little bar cart is always a fun spot to decorate. I picked this pretty little faux Norfolk pine, and I love the addition of this woodland Christmas tree. I've also added lots of pretty little mini Christmas trees. I like mixing all the different ones together like wood, paper, and bottle brush. One single vintage Christmas ornaments looks gorgeous in a pink vintage champagne glass.

Christmas bar cart
Christmas bar cart

The Cheers banner is an old one, but looks festive, especially layered with pom pom garland and wood bead garland. On the lower shelf are more vintage glasses and Christmas trees. And beside the bar cart I have one small tree. It's undecorated, with just some clear lights on it for some sparkle.  Christmas bar cart

Dining Room Table

It's always fun to decorate the dining room table. I used lots more mini trees and mushrooms here. The antique wood dough bowl is the centerpiece. It's filled with floral foam, topped with moss, and has faux mushrooms tucked into it. I made some of the mushrooms with air dry clay -find the tutorial here, and some of the others were made of paper mache. I also tucked in lots of natural materials like acorns, and pine cones. And the whole bowl was sprinkled with faux snow and glitter. The final result is so beautiful, and will be a gorgeous centerpiece all winter long.

Christmas dining room decor
Woodland Christmas table decoration
DIY mushrooms
Woodland Christmas decor ideas
paper mache mushroom

Buffet

The buffet has a beautiful handmade wood candle holder filled with pink and white candles. The banner is a favourite one, that I keep up all year long, because there's always something to celebrate. These pieces are the perfect backdrop for a Christmas village of handmade paper houses. I made these houses years ago out of old cereal boxes -see how here, and they look so sweet tucked into my forest of mini Christmas trees. The pastel colors of the houses add some holiday cheer.

woodland Christmas dining room decor
Christmas glitter house village
Christmas glitter house village
Christmas glitter house village

The Stairs

On the stairs I kept the garland fairly simple with a macrame one that I keep up all year round -see the tutorial to make it here. On top of that I layered some faux evergreen garland, and new to me this year this gorgeous gold star garland. Again the stairs help add a little whimsy to our woodland theme.

I couldn't resist adding some mushrooms to the stairs too. I love the scale of these large wood mushrooms with mini Christmas trees and then the little white ceramic houses. It make me things of fairies living in them, and I think they're really adorable, especially with flickering battery operated tea lights in them at night.

Christmas stair garland
Christmas house under a mushroom
Christmas staircase decor

This little table at the bottom of the stairs gets dressed up with rustic Christmas decorations this time of year too. If you dream of a white Christmas, you'll love this spot. This little white box is perfect for displaying some woodland Christmas decorations. This small space is full of tiny decorations, like white bottle brush trees, wood trees, tiny houses, and the cutest vintage reindeer.

neutral rustic Christmas decor
woodland Christmas decor

In front of this display is my favourite advent calendar. I got it last year and love that it's reusable. Everyday you add different woodland creates.

white Christmas decor

Living Room

woodland Christmas decor

Over in the living room the coffee table has more trees, mushrooms and vintage Christmas ornaments. Most of the Christmas ornaments in a beautiful footed wood bowl, have come from thrift stores, or antique shops. It's fun collecting them over the years, and I'm always on the look out for them, especially pink ones.

enchanted forest Christmas decor
enchanted forest Christmas decor

There's also lots of natural decorations. I used an antique ironstone small bowl and creamer that I filled with floral foam, moss, and more clay mushrooms. I love these snowy pinecone lights, that are a dollarama purchase, but so cute.

mushroom Christmas decor
vintage Christmas decorations
woodland Christmas decorating ideas

Fireplace Mantel

Over on the fireplace I've repeated the same garlands as on the staircase. I layered the handmade macrame garland with the evergreen garland, and the gold sparkly stars. The fireplace is actually a corner fireplace, so I used a vintage door as a backdrop, and then layered a curtain of mini lights. They really add the magical and cozy feel at night.

On the actual mantel I made a whole forest of mini Christmas trees and mushrooms surround by moss and faux snow. I love using some iridescent snow, glitter and stars to make it feel even more magical. I've also added natural elements like the real pinecones, and acorns.

The mini Christmas trees are a mix of ones I've collected over the years. I love the mix of wood rustic Christmas trees, with the sparkle of iridescent glass, as well as a bottle brush flocked tree, and pottery white Christmas tree. I love pink Christmas decor pieces, but the rustic touches help make it not feel like too sweet, like a baby girl's nursery.

The best part of this mantel decor is probably the mushrooms. They are a mix of a large wood mushroom, some smaller ceramic mushrooms and some paper mache mushrooms that were part of my DIY projects this Christmas. The mushrooms really take this mantel to the next level, and the perfect addition to create our enchanted forest Christmas theme.

I also layered in a real birch tree. This one is in a tin pail of cement, and the perfect thing to add so much depth and magic to this fireplace display.

woodland forest Christmas

The Christmas Tree

Our woodland tree is one of my favourite things this year. I wanted to purchase a faux tree that was sparse, but tall enough for my 10 ft. ceilings. To save money I bought two smaller Ikea trees, and put them together by using the middle section twice. It worked really well.

woodland pink Christmas
woodland Christmas trees

The Christmas tree decorations are a combination of beautiful glass ones that add sparkle and more of the enchanted feeling, and assorted pink vintage ornaments and vintage white ornaments, including a pink vintage Christmas tree topper on the top of the tree. There's also a combination of mushroom ornaments, including these homemade ornaments of velvet mushrooms -see the tutorial to make velvet mushrooms here. And to add a little more glass sparkle, there's also a set of glass icicles on the tree. The garland on the tree is some simple Christmas tree ribbon, which is a frayed edge white velvet ribbon.

vintage Christmas ornament pink
DIY velvet mushroom Christmas decoration

The star of the show for this Christmas tree though, has to be at the base of the tree. We created a woodland feel here by creating a skirt of preserved moss and more of our DIY paper mache mushrooms. I made these mushrooms with a base of chicken wire, tinfoil and newspaper. I topped them with strips of old book pages, and then painted them with watered down paint, and sealed them with mod podge. The mushrooms are nestled in the moss, and then they're all sprinkled with faux snow and glitter for a woodland glam look. I created a cohesive look by nestling in some of the Christmas ornaments into the moss as well. There's also more pine cones and acorns amidst the snowy moss. I absolutely love how this turned out. It's one of my favorite things this year, and I hope it inspires you with lots of ideas and Christmas inspiration.

mushrooms under the Christmas tree
DIY paper mache mushrooms
woodland Christmas tree
woodland Christmas decor
woodland forest Christmas

The Kitchen

Pine Cone Collection

On our kitchen table there's a collection of pine cones. I collected pine cones from 7 different tree species. It was so much fun to spend some time in the woods collecting them, and trying to find as many different varieties of cones that grow in my area. To display them, I bought a collection of vintage ironware. They're mostly pudding bowls, but also some other bowls and a platter. I found them at different antique stores, and I think these beautiful simple white pieces will be great to use for entertaining or as decor afterward.

Woodland Christmas
pine cone Christmas decor
pine cone centrepiece

I sorted each variety of pine cone into a different bowl or container. If you're worried about bringing in some woodland creatures with the pine cones, you can wash them with bleach, and then bake them in the oven at a low temperature which will also help them open more. I love the natural look of these holiday decorations. pine cones make really beautiful christmas décor, but they'll be beautiful all winter long. I also added in one concrete mushroom to tie in with all my other mushrooms.

pine cone centrepiece Christmas
pine cone candle
pine cone Christmas decor

Coffee Bar

I also have a Christmas coffee bar in my kitchen. The Have A Cup Of Cheer poster is one I designed and had printed as a large color engineer print -see how I made it here. I love this way to add inexpensive holiday art to a space. I've layered some garland over the art -including this pretty DIY star garland, see the tutorial to make it here.

Christmas coffee bar

We have the space set up with our cappuccino maker and homemade gingerbread latte syrup, perfect for making a special seasonal drink. Find the recipe for the homemade gingerbread latte syrup here.

Christmas coffee bar
Christmas coffee bar

Open Kitchen Shelves

Decorating my open shelves has become one of my favourite holiday traditions. This year I wanted to continue the enchanted woodland theme here too, so I used more mushrooms and mini artificial Christmas trees. These reproduction vintage deer are a fun addition.

kitchen open shelves decorated for Christmas
Christmas kitchen shelves
pink Christmas mugs
vintage santa

The pine cone Christmas wreath is a fun addition to the oven vent hood. Hung up the easy way, with a very strong magnet.

kitchen shelves decorated for Christmas

I have a small but hopefully growing collection of vintage Santa mugs. I'm always on the lookout for them and hope to find more. They look so cute grouped together here.

vintage Santa mug collection

I found this adorable little vintage piece of Christmas art at an antique booth a few weeks ago, and it looks so sweet layered in a collection fo mushrooms.

mushroom Christmas decorations

On the other side of the kitchen, I'm cutting some homemade marshmallows to use as cup toppers for hot chocolate. Find the recipe to make them here. If you've never made homemade marshmallows they're not that hard to make, and they really do taste amazing. They also make great gifts this time of year.

woodland Christmas decor ideas
homemade Christmas marshmallows

I always like to add a little Christmas beside the kitchen sink -more mushrooms and another cute mini tree.

woodland forest Christmas decor
mushroom Christmas decorations

The pass through to the living room is looking so gorgeous all dressed up for Christmas with some themed ornaments. These plain wood mushrooms got a little bit of a makeover with some white glue and different sized of iridescent glitter. I hung some real pine branches and then the mushroom garland, garlands of felt balls and wooden beads, as well as more whimsical star garland.

mushroom Christmas garland
mushroom Christmas decoration
Christmas mushroom garland

The house is all decorated for the big day, but we'll be celebrating all month long, and I hope you will too. Wishing you and your whole family a very merry Christmas and Happy New Year. With all these woodland Christmas decorating ideas, life really is a party!

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  1. Ri188 apk says

    May 30, 2025 at 3:07 am

    I absolutely love the idea of a Woodland Enchanted Forest theme for Christmas decorating! The natural elements you've included really bring a cozy and magical vibe to the season. The attention to detail in your decorations is inspiring! Can't wait to try some of these ideas in my own home. Thank you for sharing such wonderful tips!

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