DIY Christmas tree from scrap materials

It often happens that you have a desire to create something with your own hands and want to make a Christmas tree from scrap materials. Also, this idea can be very helpful if your child unexpectedly told you that you need to bring a Christmas tree to kindergarten or school in the morning. Using the material that you have in your home, you can make a very attractive and elegant Christmas tree.Let's look at some craft options that are easy to do with kids. To make the work easier and faster, you can prepare the basics in advance, and your Christmas tree will be bright and truly festive; stock up on beads, ribbons and beautiful sparkles. You can also use kinder toys or other small decorations for decoration. Making your own Christmas tree from scrap materials is not as difficult as it might seem.

Crafts made from cotton pads

If you have regular white cosmetic cotton pads in your house, then you can easily make a very attractive Christmas tree.

For work you will need the following materials:

• Packaging of cotton pads.
• Cardboard or cone base.
• For fastening, use PVA glue.
• Elements for decor.

Step-by-step instruction:

1. Roll up the cardboard frame and connect the structure at the bottom with a stapler.
2. Take a cotton pad and fold it in half.
3. Next, you need to apply glue to the two ends of the cotton semicircle that you have created.
4. Connect the workpiece.
5. Attach the workpiece to the base and first spread the bend with glue.
6. This way, row by row, you can assemble your design.

NOTE. It would be better to glue the cotton pads as close to each other as possible so that there are as few gaps as possible.

Your very attractive Christmas tree is ready. All that remains is to decorate it with decor; for this you can use beads, buttons, stars and other decorative elements.

Decorative Christmas tree made from napkins

Napkins are also an affordable material that is hidden in every housewife’s home. For work, you can choose the simplest, plain and inexpensive napkins. If possible, use different shades of napkins.

Algorithm for performing the forgery:

1. Fold the napkin several times to make a square. Cut the fold and staple the napkin crosswise in the middle.
2. Now you need to bend each layer of the resulting workpiece. Form a pompom.
3. Prepare a cardboard frame or, in this case, ready-made foam frames will do. Place the prepared pieces on it one by one. You can glue the balls with double-sided tape or use a glue gun.
4. Fill the entire surface of the frame with napkins in this way.
5. For decoration, you can use real Christmas tree decorations or any other decorations.

As you can see, this algorithm is quite simple. Such a Christmas tree will become a real decoration of any room.

New Year's beauty made from candies

A craft made from candies can become not only a decoration, but also a wonderful gift.To make such a design, you will need to purchase beautiful candies in advance, preferably they should be bright and shiny.

Step-by-step algorithm of your actions:

1. Before you start working with the candies, you will need to glue the base with a side of 23 cm. How to do this is shown in the photo below.
2. The prepared base must be decorated with beautiful colored paper or film.
3. Complete the bottom.
4. Make a trunk, it should be smaller than the diameter of the Christmas tree, decorate it and glue it to the frame.
5. Using a hot glue gun, glue each candy onto the prepared base.
6. Decorate the Christmas tree using braid or Christmas tree beads.

Quick and easy - tinsel Christmas tree

Tinsel is associated with the New Year holiday. A wide variety of jewelry is made from it. If you need to make a Christmas tree quickly and simply and want it to be truly festive and beautiful, use tinsel.

Prepare for work:

• Tinsel.
• Sheet of cardboard.
• Double sided tape.

Manufacturing algorithm:

1. You need to make a cone-shaped blank from cardboard.
2. Cover the workpiece with double-sided tape.
3. Remove the protective film from the first row of tape and begin gradually gluing tinsel tightly around the frame.
4. If you don't have enough tinsel, glue the edge with tape, and put the next fluffy ribbon of the same color on top and continue wrapping the workpiece to the very edge.

This method is quite simple. After just 20 minutes, a beautiful and shiny Christmas tree will stand in front of you.

Christmas tree made of laces

Surely every home has laces that have nowhere to be used. If you have any, you can use them to make a Christmas tree.

Step-by-step instruction:

1. First, make a blank from cardboard. Fill it inside with crumpled paper. At the bottom, glue an improvised trunk, which must first be wrapped with tape.
2. From the laces you need to twist a structure that can be called a snail. They must be different in size. To make it easier to twist the snails, lubricate the lace with glue.
3. When you have wound a sufficient number of circles from laces, you can begin the process of gluing the pre-prepared frame. Start working with large circles and gradually move on to smaller ones.
4. Thus, it is necessary to fill the entire frame. If you have small gaps left, you can close them with beads or rhinestones.

Christmas tree - palms

If you decide to make such a Christmas tree, you can have fun with your children. To make it you only need paper and a glue gun.

Take colored green paper or you can take white paper, and then paint it with paints or pencils, felt-tip pens. This will only diversify your time together with your child.

The work is as follows:

• Draw the children's hands on paper and cut them out.
• Roll up a cardboard frame.
• Now all that remains is to glue the prepared handles onto the frame.
• Wrap the edges of the fingers a little with scissors.

This is a very simple but interesting way to make a Christmas tree for decoration.

As you can see, using almost any materials available in the house, you can create an unusual New Year's fake. For example, do you have a lot of bottle caps? You can also use them to create a Christmas tree. Simply cover the cone frame with these caps using a glue gun.

Let your imagination run wild and you will end up with an unusual and creative Christmas tree to decorate your home on the eve of the New Year holidays. You shouldn’t limit yourself to just one fake, create different and original ones, decorate your home, your workplace with them, and simply give them to people close to you; they will certainly be able to appreciate your work.