Decking the Halls
With a shortage of live Christmas trees this holiday season and increasing prices, it is time to try new ways to enjoy the holiday spirit without hauling a large sapling into your home. Here are some ways to create your own holiday trees.
December 13, 2017
Coffee Christmas Tree
Materials:
-Coffee filters
-Green food coloring
-Water
-Bowl
-Unsharpened Pencil
-Circular Foam Block
-Paper towel
-Gloves
-Hot Glue
Instructions:
1. Fill a bowl about ¾ of the way with water. Add in about 5 drops of the food coloring. Wear gloves and soak the coffee filter for as long as you desire. Place the coffee filters on a paper towel to dry. (You can soak the coffee filters for different amounts of time if you desire to create a gradient colored Christmas tree).
2. Stick one end of the pencil in a circular foam block.
3. Cut some of the coffee filters into small and medium sized circles.
4. Starting from the largest circle, stick the middle of the filter through the pencil and push it down to the bottom. Continue the process of stacking coffee filters on the pencil until you reach the top.
5. Glue the smallest coffee filter circle on the top with a drop of hot glue.
Jingle Books
Materials:
– Stacks of books
Instructions:
1. Taking the largest and heaviest books you have, place the books in a ring, creating a circular base with an open middle.
2. Continue to stack books on top of and over the cracks of the circular base.
3. Slowly use less and less books as you continue to make your way to the top to create a cone shape.
4. Once you cannot create a circle of books, stack the books on top of one another to create the desired height of your book Christmas tree.
Deck the Walls
Materials:
– 40-50 feet of tinsel
– Push pins/wall hooks
– Ornaments
– Lights
Instructions:
1. Start by pinning one end of the tinsel about seven feet up on a wall.
2. Zig zag the tinsel down the wall in even drapes, placing a pin every time you switch directions. With every layer, make the line of tinsel longer to create the Christmas tree shape.
3. Continue down the wall until there is no more tinsel left.
4. You can decorate the tinsel by hanging ornaments directly on the tinsel or hanging up Christmas lights in a similar way to the tinsel.
