O Christmas Tree, O Christmas Tree
How lovely are thy branches!
It’s almost time for Christmas and if for some reason you have not been able to go to the market and get a Christmas tree, don’t be sad. We have DIY Christmas tree ideas that you can do sitting at home and you don’t really need much. Just a little holiday spirit.
Pooja Arora of @lessismore.living created 3 DIY Christmas Tree activities that you can make at home. You probably have everything you need at home to put it all together. Let the fun begin!
DIY #1 – Paper Christmas Tree
- Old paper pages
- Christmas ornaments
- Cello Tape
- Wooden stick
- Fairy Lights
Instructions
- Tear a page from an old unused book
- Fold it in half and snip using scissors to make cuts/ruffles till 1/3 of the page
- Take tape and stick the paper on the wall
- Continue sticking ruffled sheets of smaller sizes
- Use smaller sized sheets of papers are you go upwards
- Trim the paper tree to give it more shape
- Paint a wooden stick with brown paint
- Decorate it with fairy lights
- Using a glue gun paste coloured ornaments
DIY #2 – Paper Doily Trees
- Paper Doilies
- White Beads
- Wooden Stick
- Glue Gun
Instructions
- Take medium-sized white paper doilies
- Fold it in half and then to a cone-shaped triangle
- Take a stick and attach it to the back using glue
- Add pretty white beads to the doily
- Your simple white Xmas tree is ready
DIY #3 – Stick Tree
- Sticks of different sizes
- Ornaments
- Glue Gun
- String
- Green Pine Garland
- Fairy Lights
Instructions
- Take sticks in different sizes.
- Make the longest one the centre of the tree
- Using a glue gun stick the sticks to the centre stick in descending order of size
- Tie small strings to secure the sticks to the centre stick.
- Place it on a tabletop
- Glue a star on the top of the tree
- Hang some ornaments up
- Place a Merry Christmas sign near the tree
- Add some colour – place a green pine garland around it
- Put a reindeer and other ornaments around the tree
- Take fairy lights around the tree.
- Light it up!