Homemade Mini Christmas Tree tutorial

Today, I decided to get creative and make a cute little Christmas tree. I made if for my little girl but I just put my brain to work and I created a cute Christmas tree out of a cereal box, glitter, aluminum foil, staples and paper. It took me quite a while because I first attempted to do it and it turned out to be not so great... well at least to me. I tried to make tree leaves that went all around the tree but then, it didn't turn out as well as I envisioned it in my head. The second attempt, I tried the leaves again, but with a different approach and again, the idea was much prettier as I imagined it. Finally, the last one was a success and it was cute.

Here is a brief tutorial of how I did my Christmas tree.

Here is all that I used:

• Staples for the hooks
• Aluminum foil for the ornaments
• Cereal box for the tree shape (shaped into a funnel)
• Homemade protractor
• Glue
• Glitter
• Paper
• Seam ripper or small sharp object to punch holes in the tree for the ornaments

Here is a picture of the tree completed with the aluminum foil ornament, the staples that I used to punch a hole in the ornament so I could attach the ornament to the tree, the staples and the homemade protractor (you can use a real one, I just made me one because my brother didn't have one and I needed it to make the round shape) and the paper. U used paper with the hounds tooth design printed on it as the base color and the paper wraps around the cereal box. (that's pretty much the tutorial in a quick summary)

 

What to do:

• Draw a half circle with the protractor on the cereal box and cut it out
• Fold it into a cone shape and glue it
• Wrap the printed image as your base color that you will use for decorations around the cone and glue it
• Draw your decoration with the glue and sprinkle the glitter and roll the cone around on a flat surface in the glitter to make the glitter stick and flatten the glue
• Roll small balls out of aluminum foil as the ornaments
• Use staples to punch through the middle of the ornament ball as the hook (bend the top end of the staple down until its parallel and press the hook into the ball to secure it)
• Use the seem ripper or other sharp object to punch holes in the tree, put the ornament ball in and bend the hook to secure the ball to the tree and tape it down on the inside.
• Use a stick pin to punch through the large aluminum foil ball to secure it to the top of the tree. You can use what ever you want to secure the ball, I was just playing around and could have done a better job BUT it turned out pretty good. I just glued the ball on with the pin coming out of the ball and fed through the top of the tree. It's just kind of sitting there.

That's it, you have a Christmas tree.