Creative Christmas trees are good because they are unusual, they can be created from a variety of materials, and edible trees will become a decoration and the main highlight of the New Year's table. The content of the article:
- How to make a Christmas tree from plastic bottles
- We make a Christmas tree out of paper with our own hands - a master class
- Christmas tree made of fabric and thread
- Edible Christmas Tree: Step by Step Cooking
A creative tree can be created from a wide variety of materials. Use plastic bottles, old magazines and newspapers, pasta, drapes and even strawberries for this.
How to make a Christmas tree from plastic bottles?
To make such a fluffy beauty, take:
- green plastic bottles;
- scissors;
- Scotch;
- a wooden stick, the diameter of which is slightly smaller than the hole in the neck of the bottle.
Prepare containers by removing labels and rinsing. Each bottle needs to cut off the neck and bottom, cut the rest into several rectangles, chop those into strips, but not completely.
Cut off the shoulders of the bottle, leaving only the neck. You put a wooden stick in it. Starting from the bottom, attach the blanks from the bottle here so that the fringe looks up.
We decorate the entire trunk, and attach a small piece on top, which will become the top.
The workpieces must be fastened in such a way that the largest are at the bottom and the smallest at the top. Here's what else a tree made of plastic bottles can be. Doing this with your own hands is also quite simple.
To reproduce such a masterpiece, take:
- green plastic bottles;
- scissors;
- a wooden stick of a suitable size.
Remove the labels from the bottles and proceed with the blanks as follows: cut off the bottom, cut the rest into 10 identical strips, almost reaching the shoulders of the bottle.
Now you need to make diagonal cuts on the 1st and 2nd sides of each tape. Fold the resulting fragments one by one.
Take the bottom of a large bottle, make a hole in it, put the neck of the bottle into it, into which a wooden stick is inserted. Fix this part of the structure with a plug by screwing it onto the neck.
Slide pre-made parts on the stick, starting with the largest bottle and ending with the smallest.
If you strung all the details on the barrel with the neck down, then set the last one with the neck up. Secure the tree by placing a cover on the top of its head.
It turned out to be a wonderful tall tree made of plastic bottles. An even larger tree can be made from this container by putting bottles on, for example, on a mop.
If you want to make a cone-shaped tree, then fold a sheet of paper or cardboard in this way. Cut the neck off the bottle and insert a piece of paper here. Cut trapezoidal fragments from other parts of the container. Shred the longest edges of each piece into equal strips, not reaching the top of 2 cm.
Secure these elements with tape, placing them in ascending order, starting with large and ending with small.
Here's what you should end up with.
If you, for example, work in a grocery store, then you can put here a large Christmas tree made of plastic bottles, which will certainly attract customers. To do this, you need to arrange the bottles in a circle in rows, and place plywood circles on them. Each subsequent tier is smaller than the diameter of the previous one. Closer to the top, there should be 3 bottles, place a star on top.
Even empty plastic bottles will make a great decoration. You can carry out the backlight so that at dusk the trees sparkle attractively.
Other junk materials will also become a picturesque herringbone.
We make a Christmas tree out of paper with our own hands - a master class
After the magazines are read, they are usually thrown away. But you can do it differently, make a paper tree. To create it, you can use newspapers, old books.
Here is a list of the essentials:
- a sheet of cardboard or whatman paper;
- colorful magazine;
- shaped hole punch;
- glue gun or PVA;
- pencil.
First you need to roll up the cardboard in the form of a cone, glue it to fix it in this position. Prepare decor items. To do this, cut them out of a magazine or book using zigzag scissors or a hole punch.
These details need to be rounded. To do this, wind each one around a pencil. Now you can glue them to the base, starting from the bottom.
Place the pieces as close to each other as possible so that no cardboard is visible between them. Glue in rows, placing the elements one above the other. Wrap one of them around the top of the head. The paper tree is ready.
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Such a tree will be appropriate in the office. On the one hand, it has a strict form, and on the other, it looks festive. Here's what is needed for such needlework:
- whatman;
- double tape;
- wrapping;
- ordinary scotch tape;
- decorations;
- scissors.
Instead of whatman paper, you can use thin cardboard. If there is not a large enough piece, then you can create one from small ones using scotch tape.
Fold this base into a bag, secure with tape.
The excess needs to be cut off.
Wrap the cone with wrapping paper. To do this, put it on a work surface, place a cardboard blank on top, fasten it with tape in the region of the crown.
Wrap the cone completely, then fix the edges of the paper with double tape, and cut off the excess.
The lower part of the tree must also be made even, removing the paper with scissors here too. Decorate the tree with a star, ribbons, you can decorate it with sweets or beads.
Here's what else a paper tree can be.
Take:
- skewer;
- design paper or colored cardboard;
- thick cardboard;
- glue or glue gun.
Draw a square on thick cardboard, cut it out and glue it to the skewer. Cut the circles at the same size first. Make holes in them, call them on a skewer pre-greased with glue. Then make a few smaller circles. The tree trunk itself is also decorated. Gradually cut out more and more small circles, put them on the trunk.
Here's what other Christmas tree made of paper using foam can turn out.
For creativity you will need:
- foam or cardboard;
- green corrugated paper;
- scissors;
- adhesive tape;
- masking tape;
- marker;
- PVA glue;
- hook;
- stationery knife.
Draw a sharp corner on the foam or cardboard. If this is difficult, then follow the photo tips. First draw a vertical line, then two horizontal ones, after that you will have an even angle. If you want to make a large Christmas tree, then just glue a few fragments with tape.
Cut a strip of corrugated paper, chop it with scissors in the form of a fringe, slightly short of the opposite edge. Begin gluing these decorated tapes from the bottom.
When the whole creative tree is decorated in this way, decorate it as you wish. Glue a cardboard rectangle from below, having previously painted it brown. But you can do without this part of the trunk. Use a crochet hook or double tape to attach the tree to the wall.
Here is what a wonderful Christmas tree came out of paper. Textile models turn out to be very interesting, for them you can use the rest of the material.
Christmas tree made of fabric and threads
To make such a stylish beauty, take:
- felt;
- cardboard;
- scissors;
- double tape or glue.
It is better to take material in two shades, then the creative tree will look more contrasting. Roll a cone out of the cardboard. You can wrap the bottom with a little tinsel. Cut into circles of felt, in the middle, using scissors, make intersecting segments. They are needed in order to put felt blanks on the base, which you will do. These cruciform notches will also help the circles become wavy.
First put on the larger blanks, then the medium ones, the smallest ones will be at the top. When you fill the entire cone, it remains to decorate your creation, to admire what a beautiful Christmas tree made of fabric you get.
You can also make a very pretty tree from threads.
To craft this, take:
- a cone made of foam or cardboard;
- fleecy yarn;
- pins;
- decorations;
- thick yarn.
If you don't have a Styrofoam cone, then roll it up with cardboard. To make the work move faster, do the turns with two threads at once. Attach them to the base with pins.
When you have completed the entire cone, do not cut these two threads, and now wrap them around the base, moving downward.
Cut off the thread, secure the remaining end with a pin. Decorate the tree with beads or buttons, and attach them with a pin or sewing.
The next do-it-yourself creative Christmas tree is created from wire and thread. Use pliers or round-nose pliers to help yourself and bend the piece of wire to make it look like a star. Attach a thinner wire to it, which must first be rolled into a cone. Wrap it with threads. You can simply make such a star out of wire and attach it to the crown of the newly created blue tree.
The New Year's table will look amazing if you decorate it with edible Christmas trees. See how wonderful such a strawberry tree looks like.
You can make a chocolate base and attach the berries to it with the tip outward using a toothpick. Here are some other original trees you can create from products.
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Edible Christmas Tree: Step by Step Cooking
To do this, take:
- wooden skewer;
- Apple;
- cucumbers;
- red and yellow sweet peppers;
- plate.
You can use wooden skewers or one half of a Chinese chopstick.
Place the apple half on a platter or plate, cut side down. Stick a skewer into it. Chop the cucumber into not too thin slices.
Place these slices on a skewer, starting with the largest one. Arrange them in a checkerboard pattern or something so that they look like the branches of a Christmas tree.
Cut small pieces from red and yellow peppers. Place them on top of some cucumbers or secure with toothpicks. String an elongated piece of pepper on top of the head, closing the skewer on top.
You can decorate a New Year's dish with this tree, for example, a salad. Place a little parsley around the edge of the plate, which will symbolize the green herb.
The next tree consists of fruits, berries and vegetables. Take:
- large carrots;
- Apple;
- kiwi;
- strawberries;
- toothpicks;
- grape;
- greens;
- a recess for removing the core from apples.
Wash the apple. With a special tool, take out its middle on one side. On the other hand, make an even cut so that the apple stands firmly on the platter.
Place the carrot in the groove. Stick toothpicks into it. String kiwi halves, strawberries and grapes on them. The star can be cut from a suitable fruit or vegetable, or from a thick piece of cheese. Decorate your plate with herbs to make the tree look even more picturesque.
The next tree is made from apples. So that they do not darken, the cut slices must be dipped in a solution of lemon juice for 15 minutes.
First you need to cut the middle out of the apples, then chop these fruits into circles. Use a knife or a special notch to shape these blanks into a star shape. Put it on a plate, place a slightly smaller piece on top. Adhering to this tactic, lay the tree to the end. Decorate it with cranberries, berry physalis.
If you are making a New Year's salad, lay it out in a cone-shaped slide, compact. Slice the leek leaves to make them look like sharp corners. Stick the decorations into the salad so that the leaves turn into twigs. Decorate the tree with finely chopped carrots.
If you don't have leeks, then you can garnish the salad with dill. Look at the pictures for how to arrange the branches, starting from the bottom.
The creative tree is made from many other products as well.
Cut the cheese into sharp triangles, string them on a pre-fixed skewer, garnish with a slice of red pepper. Decorate the plate with tomato and kiwi slices.
If you have green peppers, turn them into lush spruce branches, make a Christmas tree from this edible material. Lemon or grapefruit circles and slices will also become a picturesque decoration of the New Year's table.
If you are using kiwi for this, use undoped ones so that the circles stick tightly to the base. Meat lovers will not be left out either. After all, an edible tree can be created from slices of salami.
Put them on a skewer fixed on the half of the apple, drape the top. Decorate the plate with herbs, and the masterpiece can be put on the New Year's table.
Vegetarians and connoisseurs of proper nutrition will be able to make a Christmas tree from broccoli, decorate it with cherry tomatoes, and make a star from sweet pepper. The asparagus stalks will turn into a tree trunk and the cauliflower into white drifts.
The basis of the next tree is a salad, but it is better to take one whose ingredients can be well bonded to each other. A dish that contains boiled rice is excellent. We decorate the base with green lettuce leaves, then decorate this edible tree with peeled shrimps and cherry tomatoes.
If you like Asian food, make rolls with the addition of herbs to give the base that hue. If they are with caviar, then this ingredient will simultaneously act as a decoration. Fold the rolls as shown in the photo to make a comfortable Christmas tree.
Sweet lovers can decorate the base of foam or foam rubber with sweets, attaching them with toothpicks. And if your family loves to eat properly, then fix small sausages, sausage slices, tomatoes and lettuce on the basis. You can attach other edible ingredients here, thereby delighting those who like hearty food.
Gourmets will surely love the horizontal tree made from tomatoes and different types of cheese - a great opportunity and excuse to taste them.
If you like a Christmas tree made of candies, tape them to a plastic bottle. And if you do not know what to give an adult for the New Year, then use a bottle of champagne as a base, decorating it in this way. Give this present.
If you like to bake, make a gingerbread or shortbread dough, roll it out, cut out the stars using special notches or just with a knife. It remains to decorate the baked sweets with white glaze and arrange them on top of each other.
Even pizza will create the right mood on the New Year's table. To do this, when rolling out the dough, cut a Christmas tree out of it, garnish with cherry tomatoes, olives and slices of smoked sausage or chicken pieces. Sprinkle a little cheese on your masterpiece and bake in the oven.
If you have a round pizza, then cut it into triangles, insert edible straws on the rounded side, you get funny portioned Christmas trees.
You can create such creative Christmas trees with your own hands. There are other ideas, we suggest that you familiarize yourself with them and cheer yourself up.
For inspiration to create an edible Christmas tree, check out the following video.
