Easy DIY Sukkah Decorations for Sukkot (Budget Friendly and Eco Friendly)

Here are DIY sukkah decoration ideas that you can make for Sukkot! Whether you have a traditional sukkah, or some other sort of booth or temporary dwelling - or even a camper or campsite - make it festive with creative sukkah dwellings made with natural materials, and other easy-to-source items you may have on hand. This post will have ideas that are eco-friendly and budget friendly, as well as tips for decorating what is usually a small space.

Tips for decorating your sukkah affordably:

-You don't need a lot of things to have a lovely setup. You can decorate with lights, candles, kids artwork, leaf garlands, streamers, balloons, pumpkins...but all of them would be a bit much! Pick one or two things to make a statement...you really don't need more.

-Use what you already have. The Biblical holidays are a great time to get out your special dishes or find the string lights in the garage. You could reuse curtains to make pretty walls in your sukkah, or break out a seldom used tablecloth. Do you own a menorah? Sukkot is a perfect time to get it out.

-Do you like free things? Head outside to gather in decorations free of cost! Gather leaves to make a garland or make a centerpiece out of acorns or pinecones. Clip a few leafy branches and put them in vases. Greenery from your yard can be used for bouquets or for wall hangings. These are very eco-friendly as well as free!

-Showcase seasonal things like pumpkins and apples in your sukkah. What's in season tends to be affordable, and you can eat the goods (as long as they weren't painted on) later on so that nothing goes to waste. You could even make an outing to a u-pick flower farm or apple orchard part of the festivities around Tabernacles.

-Have kids make artwork or paperchains or write out Bible verses to hang in the sukkah. This gets them involved in an important Biblical holiday, and if kids are in charge of the decoration no one expects perfection.

-Remember that the point of this holiday is not in decorations but in honoring the Creator and celebrating with others. There's absolutely nothing wrong with having a simple setup if that frees up your energy to focus on other things.

Budget friendly sukkah decorations you can make from natural materials:

Fall Leaf Streamer from The House that Lars Built

5 Minute Pumpkin Table Runner from Julie Blanner

Painted Pumpkin DIY from A Beautiful Mess

DIY Sukkah Leaf Garland

Tips for Beautiful Fall Flower Arrangements from Inspired by Charm
*Fresh flowers aren't always very affordable, especially if you're buying arrangements from a florist or purchasing them at grocery store where they have been flown in from another continent. Using what's available in your area - whether picking out of your garden, picking wildflowers, or getting them from a local farm is a sure way to cut the cost down and have fresh flowers in a sustainable way.

Wax Dipped Pinecones from Hello Glow
*You don't have to dip pinecones in wax unless you want to! Just gather pinecones and as long as they are not crawling with bugs they are good to be used for decoration in your sukkah.

DIY Pumpkin Candleholders for Sukkot from Land of Honey

Colorful and creative budget friendly DIY decorations for Sukkot:

Gratefulness Leaf Garland from A Beautiful Mess

Cyanotype Sun Prints from The House that Lars Built

Lemon Slice Pinata from Studio DIY

DIY Paper Daisy Backdrop from The House that Lars Built

No Weave Rainbow Wall Hanging from Studio DIY

Fall Floral Garland DIY from A Beautiful Mess

DIY Balloon Centerpiece from Sugar & Cloth

Autumn Leaf Wall Decor from A Beautiful Mess

More sukkah inspiration for the Feast of Tabernacles:

Kids Crafts for Sukkot and the Fall Feasts
Tour My Sukkah!
Sukkah Ideas and Inspiration

Easy DIY Happy Sukkot Fall Leaf Garland (Sukkah Decoration Idea)

Here's a very simple, eco-friendly DIY project you can make to decorate for Sukkot this year! Making a fall leaf garland is a quick craft project for the Feast of Tabernacles that can be used to decorate your home, office, church, sukkah, or other temporary dwelling.

What I love about this fall leaf garland for Sukkot:

-Super simple to make!
-It's very inexpensive since you can easily gather leaves from your yard or a local park, and you can use any kind of string or twine you happen to have.
-Kids can be involved with writing letters or decorating leaves.
-It doesn't last forever. Most of us have more than enough things to store throughout the year. I'm happy for something festive that I can let go of.
-Eco friendly. This is one craft project that doesn't use plastic or things shipped from the other side of the world. When you're finished with it, release your leaves outside or toss them in the compost bin.

What you'll need:

-leaves
-string
-tape 
-marker

How to make a fall leaf garland for Sukkot:

All you need to do for this is to write letters on individual leaves, spelling out your message. Mine says Happy Sukkot! I used orange marker on yellow leaves from my backyard trees, but you can use any color of marker (black provides more contrast and can be easier to read), and of course whatever particular shades and shapes of leaves suit your fancy. 

Then tape the leaves onto the string. Be sure to give yourself extra room on the ends of the string (I used yarn) so that you can attach them to something in your sukkah, or otherwise hang up, if necessary.

And that's it! The leaves will curl up and dry after a day or two, so this garland doesn't last forever. But it's easy enough that you could remake it throughout Sukkot if you wanted and you could change up the colors and the message itself.

Another option to make your banner last longer is to dip the leaves in beeswax once you have put the letters on and proceed as directed.

Phrases to make:

Happy Sukkot

Happy Tabernacles

Sukkah Time

He's coming to dwell with us

Chag sameach

Happy 8th day

This is a low waste banner! When you're done with your garland it's easy to compost or can be burned.

More ideas for the Feast of Tabernacles:
DIY Happy Sukkot Pumpkin Candleholders
Biblically Clean Campfire Recipes for Tabernacles
Inspiration for Your Sukkah

Easy Fall Biblical Holiday Crafts for Kids (Feast of Trumpets, Yom Kippur, and Tabernacles)

This post is filled with easy and meaningful crafts to make for the Biblical fall holidays of the Feast of Trumpets, Yom Kippur, and the Feast of Tabernacles! You can use these ideas to help kids learn about Scripture related to these special feast days, they can then be given as gifts, or used to decorate a sukkah or your home for the holidays as well. Making crafts like these can be fun and memorable ways for kids to learn about these times and celebrate the Biblical feasts!

Some of these craft projects would work for any of the feasts, while some pertain more to a specific holiday. For the Feast of Trumpets we do things like make noisemakers, while Yom Kippur crafts can connect more with the items in the Tabernacle or the story of Jonah, which is a common Bible passage to be read for this holiday. Sukkot, or the Feast of Tabernacles calls for all sorts of camping related crafts, and reminders that God will one day dwell with us! These are simple crafts that can be made inexpensively, likely using elements you already have on hand. 

Please note that I am recommending the craft, and not necessarily every detail of the lesson that goes with it - some of these aren't explicitly connected with Bible stories. The crafts are great starting points, and I'm sure we can come up with appropriate Biblical lessons to go with them if you wish. If you're not sure what that lesson could be - please reach out!

DIY Graham Cracker Sukkah from Our Happy Tribe
A classic craft for the Feast of Tabernacles! Decorate with cereal, candies, fruit slices, or herbs.

Party Whistle Shofars from Moms and Crafters
Let kids decorate their own shofars for the Feast of Trumpets.

Fall Tree Handprint Craft from Meaningful Mama

The focus in this lesson is reasons to fall in love with Jesus, but you could obviously change this to reasons to celebrate the feasts, reasons to be thankful, things Jesus did during Sukkot, etc.

Super Easy Paper Pumpkin Craft from It's Always Autumn

These are cute decorations as is, but you could also write Bible verses on the strips of paper before assembling!

Jonah Sun Catcher from Crafting the Word of God

God's Happy Campers Bible Lesson from Mrs. Jones Creative Station

This works so well for the Feast of Tabernacles! Kids can make their own little backpacks out of brown paper bags too.

Easy Noisemaker Craft for the Feast of Trumpets from Land of Honey

DIY Baby Goat Snow Globe from Our Happy Tribe

This really isn't intended as a Yom Kippur craft, but making a baby goat craft with your kids could build on a lesson about this Biblically significant day.

Solomon's Temple from Crafting the Word of God

Learning about the Tabernacle and Temple can help give kids a better picture of what the Biblical holidays used to be like.

Jonah and the Whale craft from Meaningful Mama

You could also turn this into a simple game.

DIY Pumpkin Candleholders from Land of Honey

More fun ideas for the fall feasts:
Feast of Tabernacles Scavenger Hunt Game
Smoothie Bowls for the Feast of Trumpets
Eight Days of Activities for the Feast of Tabernacles

DIY Pumpkin Candleholders for Sukkot (Feast of Tabernacles Sukkah Decoration Craft)

Here's an easy craft to make to decorate for the Feast of Tabernacles or to spread Sukkot joy to a loved one...DIY pumpkin candleholders! They make for great sukkah decorations, or decor for your home, and they can also be a simple hostess gift during the fall Biblical holiday season.

They are easy to make, and kids can help to decorate them however they'd like. I wrote a simple 'Happy Sukkot' on the one in the picture, but of course you could use other Feast of Tabernacles greetings or Bible verses. You could also paint the pumpkins or decorate them with stickers if you're inclined. Here's how to make them. They really are very simple and can be done quickly!

You will need:
Mini pumpkin
Tea candle
Pen
Knife
Spoon
Marker

Break off as much of the stem as you can. This will make it easier to trace. Place a tea candle on top of the pumpkin, roughly in the middle. Trace around this with your pen (it doesn't have to be exact - but it will give you an idea of where to cut). Then carefully cut around this circle, and remove the pumpkin skin so that you're left with a small crater. Clean any seeds or debris out with the spoon. See if the tea candle fits inside. If it doesn't, use the spoon (or knife, if necessary) to scrape out more pumpkin until the cavity can hold the tea candle.

Insert the candle into the pumpkin. I take the candles out of the thin tin cups they come in and insert just the wax part into the pumpkin. That way it can simply be tossed into a fire or compost bin after being lit and used up.

Discard or compost the stem and any scrapings of pumpkin innards.

Use markers to write, "Happy Sukkot," or similar festive greetings, on the outside of the pumpkin. Other ideas you could write include:

Happy Tabernacles!
He is with us.
Welcome to our sukkah.
Sukkot: it's in tents.
I am coming to dwell among you. -Zechariah 2:10

These will keep for a few days in cooler weather. If it's warm in your area, you can also store them in the fridge before use to extend their shelf life a bit. They are a simple decoration for the Feast of Tabernacles and also make a nice gift for friends celebrating the Biblical holidays. If the cutting is done ahead of time, you can have kids add the candles and decorate the pumpkins as a craft for Bible school or as part of a Sukkot gathering activity.

I made these for Tabernacles but they can also be used to decorate for the Feast of Trumpets or Yom Kippur!

More posts like this:
Everything You Should Know about the Feast of Tabernacles
Eight Day of Activities for the Feast of Tabernacles
Sukkot Scavenger Hunt Game!