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How to make a small Christmas tree with your own hands. DIY Christmas tree as a gift for yourself and your loved ones

09.06.2023

Small decorative Christmas trees are perfect for New Year's decoration of a shelf, cabinet, console, dining, work or coffee table. This tabletop Christmas tree is easy to make with your own hands. In essence, it is a handmade decorative topiary that is popular today. We bring to your attention three master classes on making completely different New Year's topiary trees: from pine cones, paper and exotic material - raffia fiber.

How to make a Christmas tree with your own hands?

Master class 1. DIY small Christmas tree made from pine cones

The peculiarity of this Christmas tree lies in its economy and extravagance. We use natural materials that are accessible to everyone. A small amount of tinsel and New Year's toys give the Christmas tree a festive elegance.

Pine cones should be collected in the summer. This came from experience. One day before the New Year, I decided to make such a Christmas tree and had difficulty collecting the required number of cones in the forest. From then on, when I went for a run in the morning, I collected beautiful, even pine cones into my pockets. Returning home, I put them in a box. Now, on the eve of the New Year, I have a sufficient amount of material. But if you wish, you can collect cones at any time of the year - they just, most likely, will not be as beautiful.

  • Pine cones
  • Whatman paper or A3 cardboard
  • plastic pot
  • scissors
  • New Year's tinsel blue and silver
  • glue gun
  • several sticks of glue gun
  • brown acrylic paint
  • paint brush
  • a piece of fabric for decorating a pot
  • Christmas balls blue and silver
  • small silver beads on a string

Progress

We make a cone from whatman paper.

We begin to paint over the cone from above.

Paint the cone completely.

You need to wait a little for the acrylic paint to dry. At this time, we weigh the pot down by filling it with plaster.

After the plaster has completely hardened, cover the pot with fabric.

Glue the cone to the pot.

We begin gluing pine cones from the bottom of the cone. It’s very convenient to glue the pine cones with a glue gun.

The glue gun works from a socket - a glue stick is inserted into it, and the gun melts the glue. The glue that comes out is very hot, we drip it a little onto the cone and glue it to the cone. The glue hardens instantly. You don't have to wait long, and the pine cones don't slide off during the process. This is what attracts me to glue guns.

We glue the cones as tightly as possible to each other.

This is how the Christmas tree looks like. As for me, it’s very “fluffy”.

We decorate the Christmas tree from cones with New Year's tinsel.

Then we glue the Christmas tree decorations and decorate them with beads on a string.

Our tabletop Christmas tree made of pine cones is ready!

Master class 2. DIY Christmas tree made of raffia

I'll tell you a little, what is raffia and where to buy it. Because for many, and especially for those who do not do needlework, this question will definitely arise. Raffia is a palm plant. It has fairly large leaves, which are cut and separated into fibers. To maintain the flexibility of the raffia, it is wrapped around the grass while drying. When raffia dries it has a nice creamy color.

Raffia is used by florists to decorate bouquets and compositions. Raffia fibers are quite flexible and soft. It is often used instead of ribbons. Raffia can be bought at any florist store or ordered from an online store for florists. Since it is painted in different colors, choosing the right shade for you will not be difficult.

So let's get started. For work we will need:

  • raffia (I used bright green)
  • Whatman paper in A4 format or cardboard
  • scissors
  • stapler with staples
  • glue gun and glue stick (can be replaced with Moment Crystal glue, Titan silicone glue or regular Superglue)
  • long skewers
  • disposable cup 50g
  • building gypsum
  • wire
  • scraps of napkins or old newspapers (to fill the cone)
  • red table napkin
  • decorative santa claus
  • red Christmas balls
  • red beads
  • red pine cone
  • small green decorative gift

The last six elements can be replaced at your discretion with similar ones.

Progress

From whatman paper we cut out a cone and a plug for the bottom of the cone. We secure the cone with a stapler.

We dilute the building plaster with water until it becomes thick sour cream and pour the mixture into a glass, insert skewers into the plaster. There is a more affordable option: an alternative to construction gypsum - construction putty. Putty is available in almost every home.

We make a hole in the center of the cone plug with scissors and put it on skewers.

Bend one end of the wire and thread it through the top of the cone.

We glue the cone blank with wire to the skewers and fill it with table napkins.

We glue the cone with the plug.

Take one raffia fiber. Glue the end to the wire and wrap the raffia around it.

When the raffia fiber runs out, secure the end with glue.

Then we take the next raffia fiber, secure the end and wrap the cone tightly.

We also wrap the cone cap and skewers with raffia.

We cover the pot with a table napkin.

We wrap the center of the pot with raffia.

Glue a decorative gift and a pine cone to the top of the pot.

We glue a decorative Santa Claus onto the raffia.

Now we decorate our Christmas tree with balls and beads.

That’s it, your DIY Christmas tree is ready!

Master class 3. Tabletop Christmas tree made of paper (from paper napkins)

Hooray, we know the cheapest and very original way to make a Christmas tree with your own hands! You don't need to work hard for this. All you have to do is go to any supermarket and stop at the stand with napkins. You can choose what color your future Christmas tree will be. Maybe even the most unexpected! Why not? By the way, you can use both multi-colored napkins and plain ones - it’s up to you.

So, we decided on the color, we buy napkins. Now all that’s left to do is figure out how to decorate the Christmas tree. First, we remember what items we can find at home: from boring jewelry with beads to bright buttons. By the way, plain buttons can be coated with any nail polish. Some of the decor can be picked up in the store. Let's go home, pour some hot tea or a glass of champagne to feel the New Year's mood, and get to work.

We prepare the starting materials. For work we will need:

  • table napkins that you bought or just pulled out of the kitchen cabinet (I used soft pink and white napkins)
  • scissors
  • the decorations you found to decorate the Christmas tree (I had a small silver Christmas tree garland)
  • cardboard or whatman paper
  • skewers, or a simple pencil, or a twig from a tree
  • glue gun and glue stick (can be replaced with any glue you have at home)
  • stapler with staples
  • disposable cup or something similar
  • putty (if you don’t have it at home, you can replace it with a mixture of any cereal with PVA glue)
  • simple pencil
  • template in the form of a small circle (approximately 3-3.5 cm in diameter)
  • satin ribbon (mine is pale pink)

Transfer the circle template to a napkin, redraw the circles as many will fit on the napkin.

We fasten the center of the circles with a stapler.

Use scissors to cut out circles from napkins.

We lift the first layer of the napkin upward, pinching it with our fingers against the staple.

We do the same thing separately with each layer of napkin.

Gently straighten it - you get a rose.

We repeat these steps with each of the circles. For a Christmas tree the size of whatman paper A4 you will need about 60 roses.

We fix the skewers in the cup with putty.

We create a cone from whatman paper or cardboard and cut out the bottom for it.

We install our “Christmas tree” on skewers.

We begin to decorate the Christmas tree with roses from napkins from top to bottom, placing them on glue.

Glue the roses tightly to each other.

Since my Christmas tree is two-color, I leave the bottom row for roses of a different color.

Glue them in one row.

We seal the skewers with satin ribbon. We cover the glass with a white napkin.

We tie the pot with ribbon. Glue the roses.

We decorate the Christmas tree with beads.

That's all, our paper Christmas tree is ready!

This time I was in a vanilla-marshmallow mood, which is why the Christmas tree turned out just as tender.

Vases in the interior: there can never be too many

Marina Suzdaleva

The pre-New Year's time of miracles is coming, when you want to believe a fairy tale and give a little magic to yourself, your children and the whole family. Traditionally, at this time, parents and children make crafts, prepare gifts and cards for relatives, and the Club of Passionate Mothers conducts.

On the eve of the New Year 2016, we announced a competition DIY “Christmas tree” crafts with children. And today we are pleased to present to your attention forest beauties made in different techniques by children and their parents.

1. Kanzashi style Christmas tree

My name is Natalia, and my daughter is Stefania, she is 6 years old and 1 month old. We are from Almaty (Kazakhstan).
For the competition we made a Christmas tree from satin ribbons in the kanzashi (tsumami) style. My daughter and I work together 50/50. The first half - I did the folding of the petals, because... there is work with fire.

Stefania cut out a shape for the Christmas tree from felt, glued the finished petals (except for the first top row) and decorated the Christmas tree with beads (I only dripped hot glue).

2. Christmas tree made from pasta, pumpkin seeds and green tea

Irina Ryabtseva and Pasha (2 years 11 months), from Vladivostok, made a Christmas tree from unusual materials for creativity.

To make the base - the cone, we will need:

  • green cardboard (A4);
  • green tea (dry);
  • PVA glue.

Christmas tree decorations:

  • “bow” pasta;
  • acrylic paints;
  • pumpkin seeds;
  • gel pencil with glitter;
  • sequins;
  • textile bow on the top of the head;
  • cotton wool;
  • hot melt adhesive.

Manufacturing process:

  1. We make a cone out of cardboard, grease it with glue, glue the tea leaves (our green tea was flavored, so the Christmas tree turned out “fragrant”);
  2. Paint the pasta with acrylic paint;
  3. We cover the seeds with sparkles and glue sequins on them;
  4. Using hot glue, glue the decorations onto the Christmas tree;
  5. Glue the Christmas tree onto a cardboard circle and decorate the bottom of the Christmas tree with “snow” made of cotton wool. Add small cotton wool “fluffs” to the Christmas tree;
  6. Attach a textile bow to the top of the Christmas tree.

3. Plasticine Christmas tree

My name is Ekaterina Golova, and my daughter is Varvara. We are from Moscow.

The craft was made by my daughter, who is now 3 years and 1 month old. To make a Christmas tree we will need green plasticine; if this is not enough, you can mix blue and yellow.

Manufacturing process:

  1. Roll out the plasticine into a cone shape and divide it into parts;
  2. Roll out each part into balls of different sizes. We form cakes from the balls, starting with the largest and ending with the smallest. We fashion “caps” out of the cakes, like a mushroom. Using a child’s fork or knife, we imitate needles and assemble a Christmas tree;
  3. We make a small stand from brown plasticine and place the Christmas tree on the stand;
  4. We decorate the Christmas tree: we sculpt multi-colored balls and snow from white plasticine in the form of a small ribbon and secure everything to the tree.

4. Volumetric Christmas tree made of paper

The second craft for the competition was made by my son Egor, who is 5 years old (mother Ekaterina Golova).

Manufacturing process:

  • cut out the contours of four identical Christmas trees;
  • fold them in half;
  • coat one side with glue and glue it to half of the other Christmas tree;
  • connect all four parts in the same way.

It turns out to be a three-dimensional Christmas tree, which we decorate with circles of colored paper, gluing them onto the craft.

5. DIY snow-covered Christmas tree

My name is Irina Bredis, son Roma (6 years and 5 months). We are from the Moscow region, Shchelkovo.

The Christmas tree was made for a crafts competition in kindergarten, the idea came in one evening and was received with a bang by my son! He enthusiastically got involved in the work and completed almost all of it. I usually try to choose crafts that the child can do himself.

The craft was done as follows:

  • bought a foam base in the shape of a cone;
  • We cut out a lot of snowflakes from colored foil paper using a shaped hole punch;
  • first we glued green snowflakes onto a glue stick;
  • secured the colored snowflakes with multi-colored safety pins;
  • A star-shaped button was attached to the top of the head.

That's all, the snow-covered Christmas tree is ready!

6. Craft “Christmas tree” from a pine cone

I am Dasha Martynova, my daughter’s name is Tasya, she is almost 3 years old. This year we decided to complete the tasks of Santa Claus every day, which the snowman brings to us. One of the tasks was to make a Christmas tree out of a pine cone.

Manufacturing process:

  1. We make the base from the lid and plasticine;
  2. We paint a large cone, pour it with PVA glue and sprinkle star-shaped confetti and artificial snow on top;
  3. Instead of a tip there is a snowflake from Christmas tree beads.

Tasya did everything herself with my tips.

7. Craft “Christmas tree” made of cardboard and crepe paper

Hello! My name is Tatyana Globa and I work as a teacher with children 3-4 years old, doing arts and crafts with them. We made a craft for your Christmas tree competition.

For production we will need:

  • cardboard;
  • crepe paper;
  • glue.

Manufacturing process:

  • cut out a circle from cardboard and divide it in half;
  • We roll up a cone from one half - this is the base of the Christmas tree;
  • We make a lot of lumps from crepe paper and glue them in a circle.

And we also made a Christmas tree from pine cones and decorated it with lumps of plasticine (but this is an addition, without a master class).
Author of the work: Grishutin Sergey, 4 years old. Krasnodar region, Korenovsk.

My name is Tatyana Stepankina, Moscow, and my daughter Varvara (4 years old) and I decided to take part in the competition.


We knead pancakes from green plasticine and string them onto a toothpick, each time taking less and less plasticine. When all the tiers are ready, decorate with beads and insert a cone-shaped bead on top.

9. Elegant satin Christmas tree

When I received the letter with the task, I invited the family to participate. My son enthusiastically supported the idea, and, to my surprise, my husband also expressed a desire to take part in the process! Therefore, we did not put it off for a long time and immediately got down to business.

For the base, we found thick cardboard, wrapped it in a cone and glued it together with a glue gun. Needless to say, the men didn’t trust me with this unit? Weapons are truly a man’s trophy, even if it’s a sticky one.

Then I found a large piece of satin (about a meter) from which 5x5 squares were cut. While we were measuring, we consolidated our knowledge of numbers up to 5 on the ruler. Next, we folded each square diagonally to form a triangle. And in half again twice.

Attention, the most dangerous stage! Use a lighter to lightly burn the edges to prevent them from fraying.

Now the most interesting stage - we take a gun, apply a glue circle along the bottom of the cone and place our prepared needles on the glue, with their beautiful noses facing outward. At first we tried to glue and attach each needle individually, but it was experimentally proven that it would be much easier to make 1 glue circle and then sculpt on it.

When the work of landscaping the tree was completed, it was time to collect stones - to find all the ownerless decorations that until now did not know their purpose. We used grandma's torn beads, beautiful buttons, a piece of New Year's beads (cut individually), and sequins from an old sweater.

Having combined the colors, mom chose the appropriate ones, and dad and Savushka assigned each “toy” its place (also using a gun). We also put red “thread garlands” on our Christmas tree (FixPrice, 47 rubles). The top was decorated with a red ribbon folded like a flower and tied in the center with a thread, which was covered with a bead.

This is such a wonderful Christmas tree that lives with us now! The son offered to bake cookies and hang a Christmas tree on “he and dad”... But that’s a completely different story.

Characters:

  1. little son Savva (2 years 7 months), the most fearless and decisive of all;
  2. dad Lesha, always ready to support his son in any situation and any endeavor;
  3. Sveta’s mother, a loyal fan of the “Club of Passionate Mothers”.

We are from Rostov-on-Don.

10. Advent calendar for dad and big sister

My name is Lyubov Vasilyeva and my youngest daughter Katyusha and I made it in the form of a Christmas tree for dad and older sister.

Katya is not quite ready to complete the tasks yet, but it’s easy to prepare. The Christmas tree is decorated with plasticine balls and rhinestones, as well as task cards that Katyushka strung on a thread.

Tasks for dad:

  1. Buy a bottle of champagne and several types of cheese;
  2. Go to the cinema with your wife to watch a New Year's comedy;
  3. Write a plan for the next New Year and preserve it in a jar;
  4. Give each other a massage;
  5. Tell children about the 10 best qualities of dad/mom (mom talks about dad, and dad talks about mom);
  6. Take the whole family to a ski resort or go tubing;
  7. Today is the day to choose a New Year's gift for your wife.

Tasks for the sister:

  1. To make a snowman;
  2. Show your younger sister a master class (paint pine cones or make a Christmas tree toy);
  3. Make decorations for the Christmas tree in the forest;
  4. Bake cookies (money for food and recipe are already prepared);
  5. Decorate the windows in the room (stickers, acrylic paints);
  6. Sew a felt New Year's toy (felt, diagram);
  7. Make cards for all your loved ones;
  8. Make a symbol of the New Year (a monkey that needs to be assembled from beads).

11. Soft Christmas tree

My name is Elena Burenina and I am the mother of Kirill 2.8, Nizhny Novgorod region, Sarov. We made the Christmas tree from soft packaging for shoes and fragile items.

For convenience, I lined the packaging and Kirill cut it into strips. A sushi stick was attached to a stand for flower pots using plasticine and soft strips were pinned. The top was also secured with plasticine. The plasticine below was covered with padding polyester - snow. My help to my son is minimal; I did almost everything myself.

12. Aroma - Christmas tree

My family and I created the “Aroma Christmas tree”.
Performers:

  • daughter Anya - 1 year 8 months;
  • mother Lena - 30 years old;
  • dad Dima - 30 years old.

Ingredients:

  • lid from a jar of sauerkraut;
  • wooden skewers for kebabs;
  • two blocks of plasticine;
  • multi-colored tinsel on a wire (30 cm long);
  • cones;
  • star anise;
  • cinnamon sticks;
  • dough (Razvivashki company) and molds for modeling;
  • gouache paints (acrylic with glitter);
  • hooks for Christmas tree decorations.

Stages of work:

We make Christmas tree decorations from play dough. The daughter tears off colorful pieces. I collect and roll out with a rolling pin. My daughter makes stamps using molds. Together we pierce with a hook for Christmas tree decorations. We take it to dry. I draw eyes. Let's paint the pine cones together.

We collect the Christmas tree. I give you a ball from 1 block of plasticine. The daughter sticks skewers into it. Together we roll sausages from the second block of plasticine and put them under the rim of the lid. I install the Christmas tree frame into the lid. The daughter paints the skewers with green paint. I insert green tinsel between the skewers and also attach it to the plasticine at the top and bottom. Dad puts baby puree lids on colorful tinsel. I attach these “lid garlands” around the Christmas tree, since the wire inside allows me to do this with ease.

Decorate and scent the Christmas tree. I put pine cones on the tree using the same wire tinsel. The daughter puts on dough toys. Stir in cinnamon and star anise together. I make a star out of 3 tinsel sticks. The beautiful Christmas tree is ready!

My name is Victoria Barmatova and I am the mother of this beautiful girl, whose name is Ekaterina, she is 5 years old. We decided to make a Christmas tree out of salt dough.

Using a hot-melt gun, I glued beads, a star (also made from dough), rain and a decoration in the form of flowers onto the spruce itself. The salt dough Christmas tree is ready!

14. Christmas tree - motanka

My name is Tatyana Vilyavina. We made the Christmas tree with our daughter Masha (4.5 years old). We are from Moscow and decided to make a Christmas tree out of fabric, based on Russian folk dolls.

To make such a Christmas tree you will need:

  • Any fabric for base twisting;
  • Two types of green fabric;
  • Multi-colored shreds;
  • Threads.

Manufacturing process:

  1. We make a cone-shaped base twist from any fabric. For rigidity, you can put a paper cone inside. We wind everything up with threads;
  2. We cut out 4 squares from green fabric, the next one is smaller than the other by a few centimeters. In the middle of the green squares (except for the smallest one) we cut small holes;
  3. We put the green squares on the cone, starting with the largest, and wrap them with threads, like a skirt;
  4. We cut multi-colored squares (for toys and the top of the head). We place rags or cotton wool in their center, collect them into a “knot” and wrap them with threads. We place one (red knot) on the top of the tree, straighten its ends and wrap it with threads. We wrap the remaining “toys” to the corners of the branches;
  5. We straighten our Christmas tree. All is ready. You can play!

My name is Valentina Akimova, I am from Moscow, I am 28 years old, my daughter is 3 years old. 10 months We made this craft 2 years ago as part of an assignment in kindergarten.

I decided to make the Christmas tree mobile; to do this, I attached tape and napkins to the base of a thin dry-cleaning hanger to give stability, volume and stability to the tree. And I sewed the tree itself from my husband’s old jeans. The sewing process was still too early for my daughter, but I involved her in the decoration.

The tree was supposed to be a summer one. Therefore, I cut out butterflies from felt in two colors in advance, decorated them with beads, and my daughter glued them on double-sided tape. It didn’t last long, but it was important to me that the garden project was her own doing. There was a minimum of participation, of course, but the age at that time was quite small.

My name is Anastasia Zotova, I am from Vladivostok. We made the Christmas tree with our son Grisha (3.5 years old).

Material: flower packaging (like non-woven fabric) green. Grisha loves cutting and gluing, so we opted for an option where scissors and glue are the main tools for creating a Christmas tree. The decorated Christmas tree was sprinkled with “snowball” made from crushed polystyrene foam.

17. Wall tree

My name is Galina Krivova and my 5-year-old daughter Katya and I decided to take part in the forest beauties competition. We are from Ukraine, Dnepropetrovsk.

We have a Christmas tree made of wallpaper, decorated with my beads, Katya’s hairpins, stickers, and homemade flags.

Only the base was done by adults. Katya did everything else, hanging, hooking, gluing herself. The Christmas tree was made in several stages and approaches, but each time it was interesting to watch how my daughter worked hard, came up with new decorations.

18. Three-sided herringbone

My name is Diana Gnilokozova and my son Egor, who is now 1.2 years old, and I want to take part in the competition. We live in Belarus, Borovka village, Lepel district, Vitebsk region.

We decided to make a Christmas tree together. Since the child is small, and his participation is necessary, we have prepared a simple version of the craft, where both mother and child can participate.

For our Christmas tree you will need:

  • cardboard;
  • 3 templates of any Christmas tree (you can find it on the Internet and choose the option you like);
  • PVA glue;
  • scissors;
  • double sided tape;
  • gouache;
  • plasticine;
  • ribbons for decoration;
  • glitter nail polish.

We print the template in triplicate. Glue the Christmas trees onto cardboard and leave to dry. We cut out the templates carefully along the contour. Paint on one side with green gouache and leave to dry. On the other side of the templates we glue double-sided tape, fold the templates in half and glue them together. It turns out to be a Christmas tree.

It may happen that the templates do not match a little and some pieces of cardboard will be larger - you just need to cut them off with scissors. Next, we start decorating: we make small balls of different colors from plasticine and glue them to the Christmas tree - we get New Year’s balls. We cover them with nail polish - this will make them shine. Instead of tinsel, we added a beautiful ribbon to the Christmas tree, and instead of a star, a red bow. Our Christmas tree is ready!!!

19. Christmas trees made of chenille wire

My name is Vera Kozhevina and my sons: Artem Starukhin, 6 years old, and Anton Starukhin, 4 years old.
We decided to take part in the Christmas tree competition. For several days in a row, children have been playing with chenille wire with great pleasure, twisting it, and making something. I offered to make a Christmas tree and the boys accepted the offer with enthusiasm.

My eldest son and I decided to make a “curly” Christmas tree. For the base, Artem twisted 3 wires together, then added a few more wires. I helped connect the base into a circle. Then he screwed on more wires, leaving loose ends. The result was a cone with pieces of protruding wire. Artem twisted these ends into a spiral. I helped distribute the “curls” evenly so that it looked like a Christmas tree. The work took 2 days.

With Antoshka it was easier. They twisted the barrel from two wires. And pieces of wire, different in size, were wound onto it. Then Artem suggested decorating the Christmas tree with beads.

20. Craft “Christmas tree” from postcards

I, Olga Nefedova, am the mother of three-year-old Jaromir and we are from the city of Kirov. We decided to take part in the competition. We used old New Year's cards as a basis; it's a shame to throw them away, but they've been lying around for a long time.

Yar cut out circles, helped roll them into cones, and put plasticine and “spruce paws” on a stick. To prevent the Christmas tree from falling, they stuck it into a deodorant lid, which Yar carefully sealed with plasticine. Then Jaromir thickly smeared the cones with glitter glue, and decorated the stand with old wet wipes and the remains of a shiny elastic band.

And they didn’t forget about the top. At the Yaromirkin warehouse of necessary unnecessary items, just such a thing was found! They did it more than once, but the child showed obvious interest in the process. Had a great time with my son! In the photo: our Christmas tree, my son’s favorite hare cut out from a postcard, and Jaromir the monkey.

21. Kiwi Christmas tree

For a Christmas tree, it is better to take 2 kiwis of different sizes. Peel the kiwi and cut into slices. Place the kiwi on a toothpick (we took 3 for strength). We decorate the Christmas tree with toys - pomegranate seeds.

Tired of the mess in your nursery? Tired of endlessly collecting toys for your child?

Additionally, one Christmas tree was sprinkled with snow - sugar. But it’s better not to do this, it melts and the taste of kiwi with sugar is not for everyone.

The work was completed by: Fedya Demidov (2 years and 10 months) and mother Oksana (a little older).

22. Christmas tree made from pencil shavings

My name is Olga Khuzziatova, and my youngest daughter Svetlana (3.5 years old) and I decided to take part in the Christmas tree competition, although we had never participated anywhere before. We are from Irkutsk. One day we were sitting, solving sheep problems, and we needed colored pencils, but somehow they were all written down and dull, we decided to sharpen them and... that’s where the idea for our Christmas tree was “born.”

We made a cone out of cardboard and our imagination ran wild. At first I glued it myself, then my daughter joined in and finished the Christmas tree. She really liked the gluing process, she was so pleased!

After the Christmas tree was ready, decorations were glued on: snowflakes, balls, stars and, of course, a star was “dressed” on the top of the head! All day long, animals and toys danced around this Christmas tree.

23. Christmas tree - candle

The second work for the competition from Olga Khuzziatova and daughter Svetlana is a Christmas tree made of beeswax.

On the eve of the New Year's holiday, for the second year now we have been giving all our friends and acquaintances living candles as a gift. When you touch the wax with your hands - such grace. And when you look at the fire from a candle, it’s just magic! At first, the kids and I simply inhaled this divine aroma of autumn and honey. That’s how we like him... And then we started creating and creating.

This time we made a Christmas tree-candle.

They took the foundation, cut it in half, then into triangles. They put in a wick and my daughter started twisting it. All is ready! Simple, beautiful, practical, with love and warmth from our hands!

24. Winter composition

We are the Kushev family (father Petya, mother Nastya, son Fedya) from St. Petersburg. My son and I love making crafts and decorating our home in every possible way! Dad helps us sometimes.

We submit our kindergarten craft to the competition. There is not only a Christmas tree on it, but also a snowman - a mischievous one, as well as firewood and a snowman's headdress. The idea of ​​a snowman standing on his head was spotted somewhere, but there was a real snowman there, and we also wanted to be naughty, like Carlson, and we made our own out of... deodorant balls.

And the Christmas tree was made from sisal, and the snow is made as easily as possible from salt and PVA glue.

25. Edible Christmas tree made from vegetables and cheese

My name is Olga, my son is 4.8. We are from Ussuriysk. Timur loves to cook, he and his dad even maintain a culinary blog http://www.psyholog-ussur.ru/index.php/blog/kylinarniy. Hence the theme of the craft.

We used broccoli, tomatoes, carrots, tofu, and corn. Snow is baby formula.

26. Tinsel Christmas tree

My name is Tatyana Dominova and my daughter Alisa (2.5 years old) and I are from St. Petersburg. We decided to make a simple craft “The Christmas tree of their tinsel.”

For the craft we will need:

  • green cardboard;
  • green tinsel;
  • stapler;
  • pom-poms;
  • “Moment” type glue (or hot glue);
  • yellow self-adhesive paper;
  • toothpick.

Manufacturing process:

  1. We rolled a cone out of green cardboard and secured it with a stapler;
  2. They took green tinsel and wrapped it around the cone, securing it with a stapler;
  3. We glued the pompoms with Moment glue. When we glued the pompoms, we pulled apart the tinsel and glued them onto a cardboard cone;
  4. We cut out two stars from yellow self-adhesive paper, glued them together, and inserted a toothpick into the middle of the star. Then they put the star on the top of the tree.

So we got a craft that we spent 15 minutes making. What I like most is that my daughter was able to make this craft almost on her own. I just helped her make a cone and cut out a star. Our Christmas tree turned out so cute that dad decided to take it to work.

27. Christmas tree for the lazy

My name is Gazizova Gulnara, and my daughter Leysan is 2.1 months old. We are from Chelyabinsk. My daughter helped trace the rings, paint, and assemble the craft.

I hope you don’t think that our craft Christmas tree is too simple. I came up with the idea myself, especially for this competition.

We will need:

  • pyramid;
  • green or regular cardboard (then you need green paint);
  • scissors;
  • optional: hole punch, Christmas tree decorations.

Manufacturing process:

  1. Cut out blanks - branches - from cardboard. The quantity depends on the number of rings. (At the bottom of the pyramid there will be the largest blank - a branch, at the top - the smallest);
  2. If you cut out blanks from white cardboard, then you need to paint them with green or blue paint, and when dry, brush them with a semi-dry brush with yellow paint;
  3. If desired, trim the edges of the branches to imitate needles;
  4. If you plan to hang bows, ribbons, or beads on the branches, then you need to make holes on the branches with a hole punch (we didn’t);
  5. Blanks - put branches on the pyramid alternating with rings;
  6. If desired, the Christmas tree can be decorated.

28. Winter application “Forest clearing”

My name is Marina Furzikova, and my son is Daniil, he is 2 years old. We live in a small town called Yoshkar-Ola. Since my son is still small, our craft turned out to be very simple.

We needed:

  • cardboard;
  • lace;
  • cotton pads and sticks;
  • stickers;
  • purchased eyes.

It is very easy to make such an application:

  1. My son glued the Christmas tree parts I prepared in descending order;
  2. He made snowdrifts from halves of cotton pads;
  3. I made a snowman from whole cotton pads (with already prepared eyes, nose and buttons), glued a cardboard bucket and added handles - cotton swabs;
  4. The background was decorated with snowflakes stickers.

29. Christmas tree with a cone

My name is Yulia Alkhovik and Alice and I, 2.8 years old, made a Christmas tree for the competition. Alice made almost all of this craft herself. I just cut out a blank from cardboard and glued the pine cone to the loop.

First, Alice decorated the blank with finger gouache. While everything was drying, my daughter decorated the cone. After drying, glued the pasta stars onto plasticine balls. We made a hole with a hole punch and inserted a ribbon.

I helped glue the bump. Then we decorated the stars and glued snow from cotton wool. It turned out very elegant!

30. Christmas tree - postcard

My name is Nadezhda Kudryashova, and my daughter is Anya, she is 4 years old. We are from St. Petersburg. I love to embroider and my daughter, looking at me, began to ask me to teach her too. So I came up with this Christmas tree postcard to get acquainted with needle and thread.

It’s simple: we pasted on the silhouette of a Christmas tree (my daughter wanted just a triangle) and began to thread the threads (we used floss), stringing beads on them. The result was garlands. At the end, drops of glue were dripped and sprinkled with glitter.

31. Christmas tree - a cone made of threads

My name is Lena, and my son Valera is 2.6 years old. We are from Novokuznetsk, Kemerovo region.

The paper cone was wrapped in a regular plastic bag, smeared with glue and wrapped with thread. They let the glue dry, then carefully removed the cone first, and then the bag.

The fun has begun! The son was given a huge selection of jewelry; he chose flowers, ribbons, beads and large beads. Perhaps the photos do not reflect the entire decorating process, but since the work involved glue, I couldn’t leave my son for long without my help.

I had already had the base with the cones for about 2 years, so we put the Christmas tree on it.

Natalya Kardashina and her sons could not ignore our competition. Each of them decided to make their own Christmas tree.

32. Orange Christmas tree using quilling technique

I was skeptical about this idea: “Alyosha, you won’t be able to twist that much.” But she turned out to be wrong, Alexey himself almost completely twisted all the elements. I only helped glue everything together.

The main elements used are a drop, a diamond and an eye.

The Christmas tree turned out to be creative – orange. We decided that it would be more fun this way, and we only had very pale, sad green stripes.

33. Purple Christmas tree

Of course, at 3 years old, three-dimensional modeling is difficult, so I had to help a lot when creating the form. The base is a cone from a gift bag, the shuttlecock is corrugated paper slightly stretched along the edge and pressed in along the fold.

34. 3-D application for kids

Of course, kids like my youngest son are not yet able to do crafts, they don’t understand what exactly is needed from them, but the process of smearing paint is fascinating!

We painted with finger paints, although I later regretted it because it wasn’t bright enough. Stage 1 - drawing the background. Stage 2 - cutting out layers. Stage 3 - gluing the application with thick double-sided tape.
Our Christmas trees became the background for the composition with a purple Christmas tree.

35. Christmas tree - support

My name is Vlada Maksimishina, we are from Yalta. I made the Christmas tree together with my daughter (4 years old). The idea was “born” by accident. I planned to make some kind of “classic” Christmas tree, but while looking at pictures on the Internet, I realized that any triangular-shaped object can be called a “Christmas tree.” And then the word “support” caught my eye on the screen, and although it was used in a different meaning, the decision was made. The theme of light, or rather its absence, is currently relevant in Crimea, and making a Christmas tree in the form of a support seemed like an interesting idea.

I thought for a long time about what to make this support from. The idea to use hangers also came by accident (I saw my daughter playing with a hanger before hanging up her jacket). All I needed was 5 hangers, some tape, tinsel, foil, cocktail straws and thread. Well, a few ready-made toys for decoration (I didn’t have enough time to make them myself).

36. Christmas tree made of plastic spoons

Somewhere on Saturday afternoon
We made the Christmas tree with our family.
We are from Angarsk, let's tell you honestly
Making a “beauty” was a dream.

For a Christmas tree 20 cm high you will need:

  • 44 - 45 disposable spoons (cut off their handles);
  • 1 cone (thick cardboard or foam plastic) 20 cm high;
  • glue (we took pistol glue, you can use Moment, but it is toxic to the child);
  • green paint and soap;
  • Christmas tree decorations (we made them from corrugated paper).

Glue the spoons onto the workpiece, starting from the bottom. After all the spoons are glued on, take the paint and start painting by first dipping the brush in soap (this way the paint will adhere better and not slide off). And now the beautiful Christmas tree is ready.

While the tree is drying, we make decorations. We made Christmas balls from corrugated paper. They cut out squares, then crumpled them and glued them onto the tree. We decorate the Christmas tree at our own discretion. My son wanted to stick a painted pine cone on the top of his head (left over from a New Year's door wreath, painted with paint from a can); you can make a star out of paper.

The work was carried out by Yaroslav Bichevin, 4 years old and mother Svetlana Bichevina, Angarsk.

37. Christmas tree - snowflake

My name is Olga Lunde and my daughter Anechka (3.8) from Krasnoyarsk and I decided to participate in the Christmas tree competition. We worked on our winter beauty for several days.
For work we needed:

  1. cone (made from thick cardboard);
  2. cotton pads;
  3. PVA glue;
  4. gouache;
  5. various decorations: beads, balls, etc.;
  6. for the garland we used thin fishing line and beads.

First of all, Anyuta glued the discs onto the cone. This work took us a whole day - we needed to stick a lot and carefully. After we glued all the “Christmas tree legs”, we set the tree up to dry.
The second stage was painting the Christmas tree green. Anechka used green gouache and a small sponge. And again the Christmas tree was left to dry.

And finally, the most interesting thing - let's start dressing up our beauty. For this we used colored craft balls. Anyuta was very interested in this activity. The balls were of various sizes. We tried them on and consulted on how best to position them. A red ball was placed on top - this is what we got as a star.

Of course, we couldn’t leave the snowflake Christmas tree without a garland. Anyuta threaded various beads from a set for making beads and bracelets onto a thin fishing line.

At the end of our work, we admired the Christmas tree and decided to have a holiday in a fabulous, magical forest. We invited our toy animals: Teddy bear and bear cub, squirrel, hedgehog, fox and bunnies. A New Year's fairy tale has turned out!

38. Christmas tree made from natural materials

39. Candy Christmas tree

The following 2 works were presented out of competition from Yulia Maznina, a member of the team of the Club of Passionate Mothers.

My name is Yulia Maznina. I have two boys: Andrey (10 years old) and Maxim (2 years 10 months). We live in the city of Magnitogorsk, Chelyabinsk region.

For several years in a row we have been making a candy tree for the New Year. The children remember it and every year they themselves remind us to do it again.

We usually give a candy tree to someone. This fall, Maxim went to kindergarten, so this year we made a candy tree to organize a Christmas tree party in kindergarten before the New Year, when the tree brings gifts to the kids - candies.

For the “Candy Christmas Tree” craft we needed:

  • glass bottle of mineral or sparkling water (you can use a 0.5 liter plastic bottle, but for stability it needs to be filled with water);
  • candies in a green wrapper (we had “Pine Nut” bars with painted pine cones on the wrapper; for a 0.5 liter glass bottle it took us 50 candies - 2 for each child in the kindergarten group + teachers);
  • 2 candies for the youngest participant, since it is difficult to make a Christmas tree out of candies and not eat any of them;
  • tape and scissors.

Starting from the bottom, we glued the candies in several tiers by one end of the wrapper to the bottle. The top of the bottle was decorated with tinsel, and a red cap was put on the neck. Together with the Christmas tree, we made a monkey who will bring the candy Christmas tree to the kindergarten. When the Christmas tree is distributing treats, you don’t need to pick the candies, you just need to pull the candy out of the wrapper. The more candies eaten, the fluffier the Christmas tree will become.

40. Christmas tree made of rubber bands

The youngest son loves to decorate Christmas trees. Since the beginning of December we have been doing this almost every day. The Christmas trees come out different, but I try to come up with options so that he can then repeat the process himself.

For the Christmas tree made of rubber bands we needed:

  • plastic bottle with a volume of 0.5 liters (you can take a red cap for the bottle - a star on the top);
  • hair elastic bands of different diameters (it is better to use thick ones, they hold better).

We put elastic bands on the bottle from bottom to top, combine or alternate colors. For more stability, you can pour a little water into the bottle.

Wow! There was a whole spruce forest of crafts!

We thought and thought and decided to reward each participant in the competition with a pleasant New Year's surprise. Well, our team decided to distribute the main prizes as follows:

  • Nomination “Christmas tree for a baby” - pyramid tree for the lazy from Gulnara Gazizova from Chelyabinsk (No. 27)
  • Nomination “Appetizing Christmas tree” - a tree made of vegetables and cheese from Olga from Ussuriysk (No. 25)
  • Nomination "Eco-Christmas tree" - tree-candle made of beeswax from Olga Khuzziatova (No. 23)
  • But that is not all! Our entire team simply could not ignore the Christmas tree from Yalta from Vlada Maksimishina. This support tree receives the Creative Tree nomination.

Congratulations to the winners and thanks again to everyone for participating! You are incredible!

It’s too early to buy a fresh beautiful Christmas tree, but now is the time to create a festive atmosphere in your home. You can feel the approach of this bright day today by creating a special mood for yourself and your children with the help of New Year’s crafts. Everyone knows perfectly well that the main symbol of the New Year is the Christmas tree, which is why we invite you to try making your own Christmas trees from various materials. You can decorate your apartment and even your holiday table with these Christmas trees. By the way, this is also an original gift for grandparents, made by your child’s hands. Many options will be easy and affordable even for the little ones. Here we go?..

Option 1

DIY Christmas tree made of pine cones and plasticine.

For work you will need cones, plasticine, cotton wool and tinsel or braid.

So that your child can take an active part in making this New Year tree, invite him to roll small multi-colored plasticine balls and place them on the pine cone (even a two-year-old child will be able to do this). The base can be plasticine, and the cotton wool will serve as an imitation of white snow. Here they are, our beauties. Our daughter decorated these Christmas trees when she was 1 year and 10 months old. Offer a fun activity for your little one.

We bring to your attention another option on how you can easily make a Christmas tree with your own hands.

Option 2

DIY Christmas tree made of tinsel.

To make it, you will need tinsel, glue (you can use tape instead of glue) and a cone (it can be made from cardboard or thick paper).

We coat the surface of the cone with glue and wind the tinsel in a spiral (to make this Christmas tree we needed about 4 meters of tinsel). By the way, tinsel can be any color, not necessarily green. The result is a very bright and original Christmas tree with a minimum of cost and time. A small child can also easily handle such a Christmas tree, of course, not without the help of their parents.

Option 3

If you don’t have a sheet of cardboard or thick paper on hand to make a cone, no problem. The basis of a holiday tree can be an ordinary plastic bottle. And again we wrap the base with tinsel.

Option 3

Christmas tree made of candies.

I suggest you make a luxurious "sweet" Christmas tree. It will undoubtedly become both a decoration for the holiday table and a favorite delicacy for children.

This Christmas tree is very easy to make. To work, you will need any candy about 1 kilogram, wide tape and a cardboard cone. We attach the candies to the middle of the tape, then we attach the tape to the cone. Voila, the Christmas tree is ready!

Option 4

This Christmas tree on a frame will require some effort: you will have to solder a cone like this from steel wire. Her outfit can also be beautiful bright tinsel. Here we have another beauty.

Option 5

DIY Christmas tree made from yarn.

Apply glue to the cardboard cone and wrap it with yarn in a spiral. We decorate the Christmas tree with beads, bright braid, sequins and sparkles.

That's all. A Christmas tree made by yourself flaunts in front of you!

How to make a Christmas tree with your own hands from paper:

Option 6

I am curly, curly... Meet our green beauty!

To create such a beauty, we will again need a cardboard cone, colored paper (it is better to use two-layer colored paper) and glue or tape. We cover the cone with strips of the same width, but of different lengths. We begin to dress the tree in curls from the top.

For ease of gluing, first prepare “curls” (they should be of different lengths - the upper part consists of short strips twisted onto a pencil (we wound them onto skewers, the pencil is thick), the lower part consists of longer ones). By the way, we made 2 Christmas trees: when making the first one, we glued the future “curls” onto tape, and then attached the strip to the cone, and only after that did the hairstyle for the Christmas tree. And the second tree was created a little differently: instead of tape, glue was used and the cone itself was covered with strips of the same width, but of different lengths (each strand was glued separately). For ease of gluing, it is advisable to prepare “curls” in advance.

Option 7

Origami Christmas tree from a magazine

This tree is very easy to make. The material for it will be glossy magazines (in our case we only needed 1, but a thick one), which can be found in every home.

The thick cover of the magazine can be torn off.

So let's get started. I would like to warn you that this work will require patience and time, although it all depends on the thickness of the magazine you choose. Bend the upper right corner of each magazine page towards you at an angle of 45 degrees.

Then fold the sheet in half again (diagonally).

We turn the bottom corner that goes beyond the borders up. We fold all other pages of the magazine in the same way. It turns out to be such an interesting “accordion”.

Option 8

DIY Christmas tree made from colored paper.

The basis of the Christmas tree will again be a cardboard cone, and we will also need colored paper (we used 2 colors), scissors, glue and tape.

The most painstaking part in the process of making this craft is cutting strips of colored paper of equal length and width.

We glue each strip together to form a loop, then attach all the loops to tape, leaving the distance necessary for gluing to the surface of the cone.

Herringbone It will turn out multi-tiered and bright thanks to the alternation of colors. Next Christmas tree made of paper, made with your own hands, ready!

Option 9

This Christmas tree can become an original gift and decoration for the holiday table, and it can also take its rightful place on the New Year tree. You can make it from ordinary colored paper and 2 skewers, and for decoration you can use laces, braid, sparkles, sequins, etc.

Cut out a triangle from colored paper, fold the paper like an accordion, pierce a hole in the center with a hole punch, insert 2 skewers. The base can be plasticine or thick paper rolled into a roll. We decorate the top of the head with a star or a flower, as we did.

Option 10

We suggest doing volumetric elegant Christmas tree, which will undoubtedly become a decoration for a child’s room and more.

We suggest you do volumetric elegant Christmas tree, which will undoubtedly become a decoration for a child’s room and more.

For work you will need: sheets of green cardboard or thick paper, felt-tip pens/markers, paints, glitter/sequins, glue, tape, scissors, stickers/stickers.

  1. Fold a sheet of thick paper (cardboard) in half and cut along the fold line.
  2. We fold the resulting 2 halves again and bend them in half.
  3. We find the center of each tree (carefully bend it crosswise in half - from the top to the bottom of the tree).
  4. We make cuts in the middle of the Christmas trees: on one, a cut from the top to the middle, and on the other, from the bottom to the middle.
  5. We connect two Christmas trees, carefully inserting them into the cuts.

All that remains is to decorate our fluffy “beauty”.

Advice: if you want your Christmas tree to be more fluffy, you can use more paper.

Using the same principle, you can make a Christmas tree from a cardboard box.

Option 11

A Christmas tree made of paper cones of different sizes, which are simply inserted into each other, looks impressive.

The base of the tree is a cardboard tube (you can use a “tube” from a roll of toilet paper).

We prepare several cones of different diameters. We make frequent cuts 0.5 cm long along the edge of the cones. The result is neat caps. Then we apply a small layer of glue to each cap, except for the largest one, and insert them into each other. Decorate the Christmas tree to your liking. That's it!

Option 12

And here is another New Year tree made of paper, or rather from napkins.

For work we will need: a cardboard cone, three-layer, maybe two-layer, paper napkins (1 pack), glue, stapler, cardboard, a small round shape (we used the lid from a jar of vitamins), a little of your patience, imagination and desire to create . The work will be painstaking and will take you about two hours. But it's worth it. Look how good she is!

We draw circles on a napkin, cut them out, and staple the circles in the middle. Then we bend one leaf at a time (a layer of napkin), twist it in the center, bend each leaf and twist it. By the way, your child can do this kind of work too; our 4-year-old Mashenka easily coped with it. You should end up with a “rose” like this (we used 2-layer napkins to make it). We are preparing a few more flowers.

Take a cone and stick “roses” on it in a circle. Each subsequent row of flowers should be slightly smaller in size (the napkin circles will be the same diameter, you just need to squeeze the roses harder when working, the buds become tighter, thus reducing the size of the flowers).

We decorate the beauty with sparkles and beads, and attach a bow to the top of her head. Before you sprinkle glitter on the tree, first apply hairspray to its surface. Shake off excess glitter.

Voila, what a beauty!

Option 13

And now I would like to invite you to make this chic beauty from corrugated paper. At first glance, it may seem that this is a very complex and time-consuming process. But I want to assure you that anyone can make such a Christmas tree, even a child, but not without the help of an adult.

For work, we will need corrugated paper of different shades of green (thanks to them, the Christmas tree will sparkle with different colors and be brighter, although the Christmas tree can be made snow-covered, white, and variegated - it all depends on your imagination), red for candles, glue, scissors, ruler, instead of knitting needles we used ordinary skewers, a cardboard cone, beads/seed beads to decorate the “New Year’s tree”, wet wipes/cloth for hands and free time. So let's get started.

1. First, we cut strips of corrugated paper measuring 15*20 cm (along the corrugation lines) - these are the future branches of our spruce.

We twist them into double tubes on skewers. For the lower branches you can use thick knitting needles, but since no one in our house is keen on knitting, we had to make all the spruce branches the same using ordinary skewers. It seems to us that it turned out well.

Double corrugated tubes: put a skewer on the edge of the strip and tightly wrap the paper around it until about the middle of the sheet (everything can be done by eye, you don’t need to sit and complicate your work by drawing lines in the middle of the strips), on the other hand we wind the paper onto the second skewer, and don’t forget hold the first one with your hands.

Place the skewers vertically. We hold the bottom of the paper with our fingers and, using small squeezing movements from top to bottom, pull the paper until it all “folds” on the skewers. We do this in small areas, moving our fingers.

This is what our tubes look like - compressed paper.

We unwind the tubes a little, narrow and glue one end of the tube, thus sharpening it, and flatten the other end a little (we will glue this end to the cone - the trunk of the spruce). We can shape the branch - we twist it around our finger and the branch becomes slightly curved. We prepare about 30 such branches.

The cone (spruce trunk) can be covered with brown paper.

We begin gluing the branches from the bottom up, gluing the next rows with a slight overlap on each other. Try to arrange the branches in a checkerboard pattern.

In order to make candles, we twist a thin single tube, cut it into pieces of 2-2.5 cm. From a strip of 0.5x3 cm we twist a light, twist the strip with a flagellum. We glue the flagellum inside the candle, and in turn glue the candle into the recesses on the spruce branches.

That's all! Look how beautiful it turns out! Such a wonderful Christmas tree will delight you, your children and guests.

Option 14

I bring to your attention another version of the Christmas tree, similar to a Christmas tree made from napkins. To create it we will need: corrugated paper (1 color is possible, but we used 2 - the Christmas tree looks more impressive), a cone made of cardboard or thick paper, glue (you can use PVA or a glue stick), as well as your patience and desire to create.

Well, have we started?

1. Cut strips of corrugated paper approximately 20 cm long and 2 cm wide (no need to sit and measure everything with a ruler, your good eye is enough). It took about 30 strips of each color to create this Christmas tree. We make frequent cuts on one side of the strip and along its entire length,

then we twist the strips into “flowers”, pinch the base of the flowers or cut off the “tail”.

2.Glue the flowers around the perimeter of the cone, starting from the bottom, alternating colors.

So the fluffy beauty is ready, which will undoubtedly decorate your home.

In order to create such beauty, it will take about 2 hours of your time, but it is worth it - the child will really like this painstaking work.

To become the owner of a Christmas tree, you don't have to buy it- you just have to look at the useful tips and find out how you can do it beautiful Christmas tree with your own hands.

Today you can find many Christmas trees in shops and on the street.

You can put it in the house a natural Christmas tree or branches from a Christmas tree for scent, but you can decorate a house or a gift for a loved one if you know a few interesting tricks.

Find out how to make a Christmas tree from paper, food, fabric and even pasta.

Make a craft like this not difficult at all, and your home will be decorated with unique decor, and friends and acquaintances will be happy to receive a Christmas tree made by you as a present.

DIY paper Christmas tree. Christmas tree made from scraps of magazine pages.



You will need:

Unnecessary magazine or book with bright drawings

Cardboard or thick sheet of paper

Glue gun or PVA glue

Shaped hole punch, optional

Pencil or pen

1. Make a cone out of a thick sheet of paper and secure it with glue.



2. Prepare pages from a magazine with bright pictures and cut out many circles of the same diameter from them. If you have a shaped hole punch (shaped like a flower or a large circle) it will be easier.

3. Wrap the cut circles around a pencil so that they curl a little.



4. Starting from the bottom of the cone, begin gluing the folded circles.

Make neat rows. The circles should be tightly glued to each other so that the cardboard is not visible.

5. Make a small cone from one circle and glue it to the top of the cardboard cone.

The Christmas tree is ready!



DIY Christmas tree made from pine cones and dried citrus fruits



DIY Christmas tree (master class). Christmas trees made of wrapping paper.



You will need:

Large thick sheet of paper

Wrapping

Double tape

Scissors

Decorations

1. Make a cone out of a sheet of thick paper.

* If your wrapping paper is quite thick, you can bypass step 1 and make a cone out of wrapping paper.



1.1 Fold the paper diagonally, holding one end to keep it sharp.



1.2 Secure the paper rolled into a cone with tape. You don't need to do everything too carefully, since you will cover the cone with wrapping paper.



1.3 Trim off the excess at the bottom of the cone to create a smooth base.



2. Prepare colorful wrapping paper and cover the cone with it. To do this, place the paper on a flat surface with the pattern facing down.



2.1 Using tape, attach the end of the construction paper to the top of the cone.

2.2 Begin to slowly twist the cone while wrapping it in the wrapping paper. You need to wrap the cone tightly.



2.3 Measure the paper and cut it before completely wrapping it around the cone. Glue double tape to the edges and connect to the other end. You need to cut off the excess at the base so that the paper is even.



3. All that remains is to decorate the Christmas tree as desired. You can make paper stars, use glitter, stickers, glue on beads and/or buttons, wrap with ribbon, etc.



Similar Christmas trees:



DIY fabric Christmas tree. How to make a Christmas tree from felt.



You will need:

Glue or double tape

Scissors

* Try using two colors of felt to make the Christmas tree even more beautiful. In this example, yellow and orange felt was used.

1. Make a cone out of cardboard. Secure the ends with glue or double tape.

2. Prepare felt and cut circles of different diameters from it, from small to large (see picture). You can use pre-prepared circle templates made from cardboard.



3. Glue Christmas tinsel to the bottom of the cone.

4. Now you need to make a crosswise cut in the center of each circle cut out of felt. Do not cut too much to prevent the felt garment from falling off. Make the cut just enough to fit the circle tightly onto the cone.

5. Start gradually putting circles on the cone. If you are using two colors, then put on the circles sequentially, first one color, then the other. Also worth noting. What to put on the next circle is not only on the cone, but also on top of the tips of the cuts of the previous circle.



6. We decorate the top of the Christmas tree. To do this, simply add tinsel, onto which you will need to add a pre-prepared small felt cone. Secure the tinsel and crown with glue.

* If you wish, you can hide a sweet gift inside the cone.



Original DIY Christmas trees. Glowing Christmas tree.

You will need:

Floral mesh (preferably several shades of green)

Scissors

Cardboard for cone

PVA glue

Cellophane

Pins

Garland

Floral wire

Decorations upon request



1. Make a cone out of cardboard.

2. Wrap the cone in cellophane.

3. Take any container and make a solution of PVA glue and a small amount of water in it

3. Prepare a floral mesh. Cut it into small pieces and place each one in a container with the solution.

4. Start gluing the pieces onto the cellophane-covered cone. Glue pieces of mesh of different shades in different directions. The joints should be coated with another layer of glue for a more durable attachment.

5. Secure the entire structure with pins and wait for the glue to dry.

6. You have now created the first layer of the Christmas tree. Now you need to make a second layer in the same style. After gluing the second layer, leave the structure to dry.

7. Now remove the Christmas tree from the cone - the glue should quickly come away from the cellophane.

8. Place a garland inside the tree, which must be secured with floral wire.

9. All that remains is to decorate the Christmas tree to your liking.

DIY Christmas trees (photo). DIY pasta tree.



You will need:

A cone made of plastic or foam (or you can make it yourself from cardboard)

PVA glue

Pasta of various shapes and sizes

Spray paint, acrylic paint or gouache

Brush.

1. Prepare a cone and paint it the desired color. Wait for the paint to dry.

*If you are using spray paint, you can skip this step.

2. Prepare the pasta. Start applying glue to each piece and gluing the pieces to the cone. Design your Christmas tree as your imagination dictates.

After applying the glue, press the piece a little and hold it so that it sticks well to the cone. It's okay if the glue is visible from under the pasta.

Continue until you have covered the cone with pasta. Wait for the glue to dry.



3. Start adding color to the pasta. In this example, acrylic paint was used. Try to paint all the parts carefully so that there are no empty spots.

* It is advisable to paint in two layers.

* If you paint it with white paint, the Christmas tree will look like a porcelain product.

Helpful advice: If you want to remove the craft, then put it in a plastic bag first, so you can immediately find the part that might have come off the cone.

We make a Christmas tree with our own hands. Bright paper Christmas tree.



You will need:

Colored cardboard or designer paper

Thick cardboard

Glue moment or glue gun (with hot glue)

1. Cut a square base for the tree from thick cardboard.

2. Insert the skewer into the cardboard and secure with glue.

3. Now you need to cut out circles of different diameters from designer paper or colored cardboard. You need to make 3 circles of the same size.

For example, if you want to make 10 different sizes of circles, then you will need to cut out 30 circles (3 for each size).



*If you don't feel like cutting out a lot of circles, just shorten the skewer and you'll end up with a cute mini Christmas tree.

4. Make a small hole in the center of each circle.

5. Before you start putting the circles on the skewer, lubricate the hole in the middle with glue.

6. Start placing the circles on the skewer, leaving a little space between them.

7. Cut out stars from paper and attach them with glue to the top of the tree. You can use another part for the crown and not necessarily paper.

Crafts. DIY Christmas trees made from thread.



You will need:

Thick yarn

Yarn with pile

Cone (cardboard or foam)

Pins

Decorations, to taste.

1. Make a paper cone or buy a foam cone from specialized stores.

2. Take both strands and pin their ends at the base of the cone.



3. Start wrapping the threads around the base of the cone, securing with pins approximately every 5 cm.

4. Now start moving towards the top of the cone, carefully wrapping both threads around the future tree. At this stage there is no need to attach the thread to the cone.

5. When you have reached the crown, pin the threads again by wrapping the threads around the crown several times.

6. Both yarns now need to be pulled down, also wrapping the cone in a second layer.



7. At the base of the cone, cut the threads and secure them.

You can leave the tree like this or you can also decorate it.



In this example, artificial berries were used for decoration, but you can use colorful beads, snaps, buttons, etc.



Try also making a decoration for the top of your Christmas tree. The top of the head can be decorated the way you like.

You can leave the tree like this, or you can also decorate it.

You can make just a paper hat or a star, or you can make something more complicated. If you chose the last option, then below are instructions for you.

You will need:

Flower wire

Nippers (for wire)

Sequins

PVA glue

Fine wire (calibrated wire)



1. Bend the wire into a star shape (see pictures) and cut off the excess.

2. Cover the star with glue and sprinkle glitter on it.

3. Attach a thin wire to the star, as shown in the picture:

4. Attach a star to your Christmas tree.

Creative DIY Christmas tree



If you want something original, or you simply don’t have enough space for a large Christmas tree at home, you can try making such a simple design.

It is worth noting that such a Christmas tree is suitable for any room. It can be done both at home with children and at work.

This tree can rise 1.5-2 meters and takes up almost no space in the house. In addition, it is a good background for New Year's photography.

You will need:

Foam base or matte cardboard

Scissors

Corrugated paper

Masking tape

Adhesive tape

PVA glue

Stationery knife

Marker, optional



1. Lay out foam or cardboard on a flat surface to create a large rectangle (see picture).

2. Use duct tape to connect all the parts.

*This example used black duct tape for better visibility, but white tape is better.

3. Mark the size of your future Christmas tree using masking tape.

4. Using a utility knife, carefully cut out the shape of the future tree.

5. Prepare corrugated paper, fold it in half and cut the fringe. You should have many sheets of fringed paper to cover the entire tree.

6. Begin carefully gluing the corrugated paper to the foam, starting at the base of the tree. The fringe should hang slightly below the base to cover the foam (or cardboard), and also slightly cover the top of the tree trunk, which we will make later.



7. Work your way up to the top, covering the entire tree with a bright green coat of crepe paper.

8. Add a hook to the back of the tree so the tree can be hung. Instead of a hook, you can use double tape to cover the perimeter of the tree.

9. To make the trunk you need to cut out a small rectangle from foam or cardboard.

9.1 Cover the rectangle with brown paper, just like the Christmas tree, i.e. cutting fringe onto paper strips and gluing them.