DIY Christmas Trees: 8 Creative Ideas

Looking for a way to make this Christmas even more special? Get inspired by 8 great ideas for an original Christmas tree.

A DIY Christmas tree is a great way to express our creativity, spend time to revitalize our energy and save money at the same time. First of all, thanks to the use of recycled materials, a DIY tree represents a completely different expense compared to a traditional Christmas tree.

Browse through the suggested ideas and find your favorite DIY tree.

DIY wooden Christmas trees

From stylized wooden shapes to those created with sticks… The wooden Christmas tree is both innovative and traditional.

Making your own Christmas tree can be a fun activity. Here are the steps to making a simple DIY Christmas tree:

Materials:

• Green cardboard or cardstock paper
• Colorful decorations (beads, shiny paper, glitter, etc.)
• Glue or adhesive
• Scissors
• Small cardboard box or roll
• Artificial Christmas decorations
• Artificial snow or cotton
• Colored paper or glitter foil

Steps:

1. Cut the green cardstock or cardstock paper into the shape of the Christmas tree. You can make a larger or smaller tree if you want.
2. Create the trunk of your tree with a cardboard box or roll. Wrap the trunk with green cardboard or paint it.
3. Create branches by gluing them onto your green cardboard tree. Cut the branches a little smaller at each level.
4. Now stick your ornaments on the tree using glue. Decorate your tree using beads, glitter, pieces of glitter paper and more.
5. Add artificial ornaments to your Christmas tree. You can use ornaments such as small stars, colorful balls and miniature gifts.
6. Place faux snow or cotton under your tree.
7. Display your tree on a plate or in a decorative box. If you wish, add Christmas lights or a small string of lights underneath.
8. As a final touch, decorate the area around your tree with colorful paper or shiny foil.

Your DIY Christmas tree is ready! Now you can enjoy this special tree in any corner of your home.

Christmas trees in paper or cardboard? Unleash your creativity

Making a cardboard Christmas tree is a great way to keep kids busy while encouraging their creativity.

Take a sturdy piece of cardboard to baste the shape of the tree. At this point you can draw two isosceles triangles on the cardboard and cut them out. On one triangle, make a cut perpendicular to the base in the middle of the cardboard. Do the same thing on the other triangle, but starting from the apex. At this point you fit the two halves together to create our tree.

Cut out lots of colorful balls from colored Bristol board and glue them onto the cardboard. You can decorate them with glitter markers, real bows, or anything else you can think of.

DIY Christmas tree with pine cones: an evergreen classic

If what you are interested in is creating a small Christmas tree as a dinner ornament or place marker, you only need a simple pine cone.

Place it in a jar like a candle holder and decorate with a green or silver hue and a star as the tip.

Fabrics, wool, felt: creative ideas for a unique tree

Even with fabric, wool and pannolenci you can create original Christmas trees.

Here's how to make them with wool, similar to the one in the picture.

What do you want?

• Cone shaped polystyrene
• Kemp
• Flat head steel pins
• Decorations to your liking such as gold ornaments, colored buttons, pearls, felts, cords, sequins…
• Hot glue
• Vinyl glue

The procedure is very simple:

• Start by spreading the vinyl adhesive over the entire surface of the polystyrene cone, a little at a time, while wrapping the wool around it before the adhesive dries.
• Let it dry for a few minutes
• Continue decorating the tree using hot glue to attach buttons, pom-poms, sequins, etc.

Wall-mounted Christmas tree? Some DIY ideas

When there is a lack of space at home, but you don't want to give up a beautiful Christmas tree, there is no choice but to sharpen your wits…

A tree made of wooden sticks or strings of lights arranged in the shape of a tree, a wooden panel to decorate… Or real fir branches held together with wooden sticks like in the picture. Which of these ideas do you like the most?

In the tree or in the ball tree?

Who says balls only have to be on the tree? Why not make a Christmas tree made entirely out of balls?

DIY Shabby Chic Christmas tree for an original Christmas

Shabby Chic never goes out of style, especially for the most romantic among us.

How to make a DIY shabby chic tree? Paint the needles with white paint and decorate with white bows, balls of lace and wool, and small objects such as horses carved into wood, stars, gift boxes…

Suspended Christmas tree? Create a space-saving solution today

Another original and scenario idea for a DIY Christmas tree is a hanging tree.

You can hang rows of lights from the ceiling to simulate a triangular size or even balls. What's the point? Hang the balls from invisible thread at different heights, starting from the middle of the thread and gradually lowering them from the ends.

DIY Christmas trees for the outdoors: for a Christmas garden

The best idea for those who have a garden is to use an existing tree, even if it is different from the traditional fir tree, and turn it into a Christmas tree. Just decorate it with some lights and voila, games are over.

Which of these DIY Christmas trees do you like the most? You can send us pictures of the result if you like.

DIY Christmas Trees: 8 Creative Ideas
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