The Christmas tree is one of the most popular symbols that the Christian world associates with Christmas. At the beginning of December we are once again faced with the task of...Decorate the Christmas tree, and even more beautiful than last year. As always, kids want the tallest tree and the most opulent decorations. But from a financial and environmental perspective, this dream is not achievable for everyone. Homemade Christmas trees in mini format are an original alternative. Whether on the festively set dining table, on the coffee table in the living room or on the chest of drawers in the hallway - they simply fit everywhere. Today we give you some ideas on how you can make original Christmas trees.
We start with the typical shape of the fir tree. To do this, you should either make a cone out of clay cardboard or buy a ready-made Styrofoam cone. You choose the size. Then you can glue, wrap and put together as you please! Just let yourself be inspired by our great ideas.
Make a Christmas tree out of feathers
A mini Christmas tree made of feathers looks wonderfully delicate and extremely elegant. Craft feathers come in many colors, but white feathers are the most beautiful because they are associated with angel wings. The decorative feathers are best attached to the cone with PVA glue. If necessary, you can also shorten them with scissors.
Make Christmas trees out of pasta
Homemade Christmas decorations made from pasta are an easy and inexpensive trend.In this articlewe showed craft instructions for a Christmas angel made from pasta. But the many beautiful shapes of the pasta types enable different Christmas motifs to be creatively implemented. The penne rigate and farfalle pasta, for example, are best suited for a mini Christmas tree. A hot glue gun is usually used to glue the pasta onto the cone.
The farfalle are pasta in the shape of a bow or butterfly
Make a Christmas tree out of candy
A Christmas tree made of sweets is not only a wonderful eye-catcher on the table, but also a nice gift idea. The chocolates can be easily attached to a paper cone with adhesive tape or to a Styrofoam cone with toothpicks. Finally, fill the gaps between the sweets with garlands, ribbons, berries or even red onesOrigami flowersfilled.
To represent the lush pine green, you can use green tissue paper
You can fill the gaps between the chocolates with a pearl necklace
Make a Christmas tree out of ribbons using the kanzashi technique
The Kanzashi technique comes from Japan and was originally used to make hair accessories. Since traditional Japanese clothing did not allow bracelets or necklaces, hair accessories played a very important role back then. Sometimes its price was as high as a high-quality silk kimono. This technique is still popular today and impresses with its precision and beauty. Kanzashi Christmas decorations, for example, are a great way to decorate the Christmas tree with unusual, unique ornaments. With the Kanzashi flowers, even a Christmas tree can become a real work of art.
Keep in mind that this craft idea requires a lot of patience. For a medium-sized Christmas tree you need to fold 500 - 600 flowers. But the result is worth it!
Christmas tree in a vintage look
Satin ribbons have a soft, mysterious shine. But if you want to make a vintage-style Christmas tree, it's best to use ribbons made of cotton, linen or jute. Nostalgic ornaments such as metal bells, wooden stars and mini cones go best with this.
Christmas tree made of wool and paste
These Christmas trees are a very easy craft project, making them perfect for children and clumsy parents. All you need is wool, paste and a paper cone. To ensure that the yarn can be easily removed, the cone can also be wrapped with cling film.In this articleyou will find a video guide on exactly how to do this.
Make a Christmas tree out of paper napkins
The lush green of a fir tree can also be easily imitated with paper napkins. To do this, flowers are folded from napkins and then glued to the paper cone using PVA glue. Using a hot glue gun is rather unsuitable for this project. For a medium-sized Christmas tree you will need about 30 napkins. Of course, it would be nice if you used green napkins, but this is not absolutely necessary.
This is how it works:
- Fold the napkin into 4 parts and fasten them together in the middle with a paper stapler.
- Use scissors to cut the square into a circle.
- Then cut a few times along the circle shape.
- Next, pluck the flower into a nice shape. It should look like a carnation.
- Then glue the flowers onto the cone. It's best to work from bottom to top.
- Finally, decorate the finished Christmas tree with small, light decorations, such as paper snowflakes or beads.
Christmas trees made from disposable cutlery
You can also make Christmas treesUse plastic spoons or forks. These can also be easily recycled after the holidays. This way you can teach children to live in an environmentally friendly way. When crafting, it is important that the curvature of the spoons faces outwards.
Christmas tree made from plastic forks
Make a Christmas tree out of a green PET bottle
Make Christmas trees out of buttons
A Christmas tree made of buttons is another great idea that you can use for Christmas crafts. A Styrofoam cone is best suited as the basis for the Christmas tree. This way you can attach the buttons to the cone using pins. The pin heads then look like Christmas tree baubles!
Make Christmas trees out of cones
Perfect for fans of Christmas decorations made from natural materials, a Christmas tree made from pine cones conveys a beautiful rustic flair. When you collect cones in the garden or forest, they are usually damp or dirty. You can now buy a wide variety of dried and cleaned cones online and have them conveniently delivered to your home. Mountain pine cones, Murii cones, alder cones, casuarina cones or larch cones – each type of cone is unique in its own way.
It is important here that the base is brown like the cones
You can combine cones of different sizes
You are also welcome to color the cones in the color you want
In addition to cones, you can also use other natural materials such as moss, cotton flowers, nuts, dried orange slices and cinnamon sticks. Red berries add a splash of Christmas color.
Christmas tree decorated in green and white, with cypress cones and cotton flowers
The dried natural materials can be glued in a spiral shape around the tree
Mini Christmas tree
These cone Christmas trees also look particularly cute. Large black pine cones are best suited for this purpose. You can of course also use other types of cones. The only important thing is that the scales are open so that beads or pompoms can be glued into these openings.
The miniature trees are great craft fun for children
