Creative Christmas trees are good because they are unusual, they can be created from the most different materials, and edible trees will become a decoration and the main highlight of the New Year's table.
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.
Cut off the shoulders of the bottle, leaving only the neck. You will 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 part on top, which will become the top.
The blanks must be fixed in such a way that the largest are at the bottom, and the small ones are at the top.
Here's what else a Christmas tree made of plastic bottles can be. Doing it yourself is also quite simple.
To reproduce such a masterpiece, take:
- green plastic bottles;
- scissors;
- wooden stick of the right size.
Now you need to make diagonal cuts on the 1st and 2nd sides of each tape. Bend the resulting fragments through one.
Take the bottom of a large bottle, make a hole in it, put the neck of the bottle into it, into which wooden stick. Fix this part of the structure with a cork by screwing it onto the neck.
Put pre-made parts on the stick, starting with the largest bottle, ending with the smallest one.
If you strung all the details on the trunk with the neck down, then put the last one with the neck up. Fix the tree by putting a lid on the top of the head.
It turned out a wonderful tall tree made of plastic bottles. From this container you can make even more large tree by putting bottles on, for example, a mop.
If you want to make a cone-shaped tree, then fold a sheet of paper or cardboard in this way. Cut off the neck of the bottle and insert the paper blank here. Cut trapezoid fragments from other parts of the container. Chop the longest edges of each blank into equal strips, not reaching the top 2 cm.
Secure these elements with tape, arranging them in ascending order, starting with the largest and ending with the smallest.
Here's what the end result should be.
If you, for example, work in a grocery store, then you can put a large Christmas tree made of plastic bottles here, which will certainly attract customers. To do this, you need to arrange the bottles in a circle in rows, put plywood circles on them. Each subsequent tier is smaller than the diameter of the previous one. Closer to the top should be 3 bottles, put a star on top.
Even empty plastic bottles will be a great decor element. You can hold the backlight so that at dusk the trees sparkle attractively.
Other waste materials will also become a picturesque Christmas tree.
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 what is needed:
- a sheet of cardboard or whatman paper;
- colorful magazine;
- hole punch shaped;
- glue gun or PVA;
- pencil.
These parts must be rounded. To do this, wind each on a pencil. Now you can glue them to the base, starting from the bottom.
Place the pieces as close as possible to each other so that no cardboard is visible between them. Glue in rows, placing the elements on top of each other. Wrap one of them around the crown. The paper tree is ready.
If you like strict lines, then check out the next option.
Such a tree would be appropriate in the office. On the one hand, it has a strict form, and on the other, it looks festive. Here's what you need for such needlework:
- whatman;
- double tape;
- wrapping;
- ordinary tape;
- decorations;
- scissors.
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 work surface, place a cardboard blank on top, fasten with adhesive tape in the area of \u200b\u200bthe 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 Christmas tree must also be made even, removing the paper with scissors here as well. Decorate the Christmas tree with a star, ribbons, you can decorate it with sweets or beads.
Here's what else a Christmas tree made of paper can be.
Take:
- skewer;
- designer paper or colored cardboard;
- thick cardboard;
- glue or glue gun.
Here's what else a Christmas tree made of paper using polystyrene foam can turn out.
For creativity you will need:
- polystyrene or cardboard;
- green corrugated paper;
- scissors;
- adhesive tape;
- masking tape;
- marker;
- PVA glue;
- hook;
- stationery knife.
Cut a strip of corrugated paper, chop it with scissors in the form of a fringe, a little short of the opposite edge. Start gluing these decorated ribbons from the bottom.
When the whole creative tree is decorated in this way, decorate it as you wish. Glue a rectangle of cardboard from below, after painting it in Brown color. But you can do without this part of the trunk. To attach the Christmas tree to the wall, use a hook or double tape.
Here is what a wonderful Christmas tree came out of paper. Textile models are very interesting, for them you can use the remnants of the material.
Christmas tree made of fabric and thread
To make such a stylish beauty, take:
- felt;
- cardboard;
- scissors;
- double tape or glue.
It is better to take the material of two shades, then the creative Christmas tree will look more contrasting.
Roll the cardboard into a cone. You can wrap the bottom part with a small amount of tinsel. Cut circles from felt, in the middle with scissors make intersecting segments. They are needed in order to put felt blanks on the base, which you will do. These cross cuts will also help the circles become wavy.
First, put on larger blanks, then medium ones, at the top there will be the smallest ones. When you fill the entire cone, it remains to decorate your creation, admire what a beautiful Christmas tree made of fabric you got.
You can also make a very pretty tree out of threads.
To make this, take:
- foam or cardboard cone;
- fleecy yarn;
- pins;
- decorations;
- thick yarn.
When you complete the entire cone, do not cut these two threads, but now wrap them around the base, moving down.
Cut the thread, secure the remaining end with a pin. Decorate the Christmas tree with beads or buttons, also attach them with a pin or sew.
The next creative do-it-yourself Christmas tree is created from wire and thread. Help yourself with pliers or round nose pliers, bend a piece of wire so that it looks like a star. Attach a thinner wire to it, which must first be folded into a cone. Wrap it around with thread. You can simply make such a star out of wire and attach it to the top of the newly created blue Christmas tree.
The table for the New Year will look amazing if you decorate it with edible Christmas trees. Look how wonderful this strawberry tree looks.
You can make a chocolate base and attach the berries to it with the tip outward with a toothpick.
Here are some other original trees you can create from products.
Check out the related tutorials.
Edible Christmas tree: step by step cooking
To do this, take:
- wooden skewer;
- apple;
- cucumbers;
- sweet red and yellow peppers;
- plate.
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.
Put these slices on a skewer, starting with the largest. Arrange them in a checkerboard pattern or something like that so that they look like branches of a Christmas tree.
Cut small pieces from red and yellow peppers. Put them on top of some cucumbers or secure with toothpicks. String an elongated piece of pepper on the top of the head, closing the skewer from above.
You can decorate a New Year's dish, for example, a salad, with this tree. Put a little parsley along the edge of the plate, which will symbolize green grass.
The next Christmas tree consists of fruits, berries and vegetables. Take:
- large carrots;
- apple;
- kiwi;
- strawberries;
- toothpicks;
- grape;
- greenery;
- notch for removing the core from apples.
Wash the apple. Using a special tool, remove its middle from one side. On the other, make an even cut so that the apple stands firmly on the dish.
Set the carrot in the recess. Stick toothpicks in 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 a plate with greens to make the Christmas tree look even more picturesque.
The next tree is made from apples. So that they do not darken, cut slices should be dipped for 15 minutes in a solution of lemon juice.
First you need to cut the middle of the apples, then chop these fruits into circles. Using a knife or a special recess, give these blanks the shape of a star. Put it on a plate, place a slightly smaller blank on top. Adhering to this tactic, lay the Christmas tree to the end. Decorate it with cranberries, berry physalis.
If you are making a New Year's salad, put it in a cone-shaped slide, compact it. Cut the leek leaves to resemble sharp corners. Stick the resulting decorations into the salad so that the leaves turn into twigs. Decorate the Christmas tree with thinly chopped carrots.
If you don't have leeks, then you can garnish the salad with dill. Look at the photos how to arrange the branches, starting from the bottom.
A creative Christmas tree is obtained from many other products.
Slice the cheese sharp triangles, string them on a pre-fixed skewer, garnish with a slice of red pepper. Decorate the plate with slices of tomatoes and kiwi.
If you have green pepper, turn its slices into lush spruce branches, make a New Year's tree from this edible material. Circles and slices of lemon or grapefruit will also become a picturesque decoration for the New Year's table.
If you take kiwi for this, use unripe ones so that the circles hold tightly on the base.
Meat lovers will also not be left behind. After all, an edible Christmas tree can be created from salami slices.
Put them on a skewer fixed on half an apple, drape the top. Decorate the plate with greens, and the masterpiece can be put on the New Year's table.
Vegetarians and Connoisseurs proper nutrition They will be able to make a Christmas tree out of broccoli, decorate it with cherry tomatoes, and make a star out of sweet peppers. The asparagus stalks will turn into a tree trunk, and cauliflower- in white snowdrifts.
The basis of the next Christmas tree is a salad, but it is better to take one whose ingredients can be well fastened together. A dish that includes boiled rice is perfect. We decorate the base green leaves lettuce, then you need to decorate this edible tree with peeled shrimp and cherry tomatoes.
If you like Asian cuisine, make rolls with greens added so that the base has such a shade. 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 foam or foam rubber base with sweets by attaching them with toothpicks. And if your family loves to eat properly, then fix small sausages, sausage circles, tomatoes and lettuce on the basis. You can attach other edible ingredients here, thereby delighting lovers of a hearty meal.
Gourmets will surely love the horizontal Christmas tree made from tomatoes and different varieties cheese - a great opportunity and an excuse to taste them.
If you like a candy tree, attach them to a plastic bottle with tape. And if you don’t 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 gingerbread or shortcrust pastry, roll it out, cut out stars using special notches or just with a knife. It remains to decorate the baked sweets with white icing and place them on top of each other.
On New Year's table even pizza will create the right mood. To do this, when rolling out the dough, cut a Christmas tree out of it, decorate with cherry tomatoes, olives and slices of smoked sausage or chicken pieces. Sprinkle your masterpiece with a little cheese, bake in the oven.
Below should be the most big bottles(2 and 1.5 liter, in the middle - liter, and at the top 0.5 and 0.3 liter bottles. If you have bottles of the same volume, then adjust the length of the "branches" yourself, cutting the strips to desired length.
In the left bottom, make a hole, which is fixed on the lower end of the stick with a plastic bottle cork (for strength, you can hammer in a nail).
Put the last, smallest part on the upper end of the stick with the neck up and screw the green cork onto the neck, also securing it with a nail for strength.
A little patience, perseverance, diligence and the forest beauty is ready!
These trees can be used as New Year's decoration your houses!
Method 2. To make such a Christmas tree, you need a minimum of time and cost. A master class on making a Christmas tree from plastic bottles will tell you in detail how to make such an original New Year's craft
To make a decorative New Year's craft: a Christmas tree from plastic bottles, you will need the following:
- Plastic bottles - 3 pcs;
- Scotch;
- Sheet thick paper, ideally drawing paper (A4);
- Scissors;
| So, cut the bottle as shown in the photo. That is, it is necessary to cut off the bottom and neck so that a straight pipe from the bottle remains. | |
| Next, you need to make blanks for the branches. In order for the Christmas tree to have a conical shape, the blanks must have different sizes. That is, you need to achieve the following: | |
| Cut each plastic bottle lengthwise into 3 equal parts and only then adjust their sizes so that each subsequent tier is slightly smaller than the previous one. Then each blank must be "dissolved into needles." The neck of one of the bottles will serve as a stand for our future New Year's crafts. | |
| The next step is to roll the paper into a tube. Insert into the bottleneck... | |
| ... and secure with tape. | |
| Now it remains to fix each tier of the Christmas tree with tape in a circle and a small New Year's craft: do-it-yourself Christmas tree is ready! | |
| the top of our christmas tree You can decorate with a homemade Christmas tree toy or make the completion of the Christmas tree the way we did. |
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| If you want to make a Christmas tree from plastic bottles more fluffy, like in the photo, when making a Christmas tree, the needles need to be cut as thin as possible (more often). | |
| By the way, the Christmas tree with larger “branches” looks quite creative - a master class from the Country of Masters website. We cut the bottle in the same way as in the previous version into 3 parts. Only cuts are made in a circle to the center, straight. |
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| In the center, a puncture is made with an awl and the needles are bent up and down in order. In the lid of a cream or mineral water, a puncture is made into which a skewer of the desired length is inserted. | |
| The parts are strung in descending order, a large bead is placed on top of the glue. The Christmas tree can be decorated with foam, rain, etc. | |
| Glue the Christmas tree to the stand from the disk. Christmas tree is ready! |
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| Nearby you can put gifts or plant an animal. Such Christmas trees have been a success for many years. |
Method 3. And, finally, the last option for today is a Christmas tree made of plastic milk bottles (what decorative Christmas Trees just don’t make from ...). The design is completely collapsible, has the maximum similarity to the original, does not require particularly complex technologies and specific work skills, there is no problem with bottles either, well, the holiday is on the nose ...
Materials and tools
The material for making a Christmas tree is a milk plastic bottle or part of it (Fig. 1). To make a homemade table Christmas tree, you need 5-20 milk / kefir plastic bottles with corrugation at the bottom. The number of bottles determines the number of branches and tiers. The more branches, the more fluffy the Christmas tree turns out, the more tiers, the higher it is.
In addition to bottles, you only need scissors and plastic rivet technology
plastic rivets
To implement the technology of plastic rivets, it is necessary to have a means for melting (installing) rivets and the rivet itself. You need to manage to melt the head of the rivet with a hot nail or a lighter. You can similarly do this with a well-heated soldering iron. In addition, you will need clamps and tweezers to install rivets in hard-to-reach places.
For plastic rivets, it is very important to choose the material. Fluttering for about a year, by trial and error, taking into account the requirements of strength and accessibility, I identified several sources for obtaining plastic rivets:
1. Empty refills from ballpoint pens. Enough available material. They are good because they are colorless and the connection, with their help, turns out to be organically inscribed in a product made of plastic bottles. Such a rivet turns out to be neat, with a round head, however, it has a slightly reduced tensile strength. In addition, the rod from ballpoint pens is round in cross section and completely fills the drilled hole in the parts to be joined. By the way, the walls of the rods come in different thicknesses, for rivets it is better to use rods with thicker walls.
2. Sticks from Chupa Chups. Similar to option No. 1 only in color. The connection turns out to be more bulky, and the head of the rivet is melted with difficulty (either burns out, or becomes ugly, or unreliable).
3. Most perfect option, and very convenient (I give the world an offer) to use material from buckets with building mixtures of 3, 5, 10 liters. There are quite a lot of them left after repairs, and even one is enough for a long time.
From the walls of such a bucket, you need to cut a ring, and cut the ring along the generatrix (necessarily only this way) into strips 2 ... 4 mm wide, 4 to 15 cm long. quantity.
Getting a connection with such rivets is unpretentious. It is more convenient for this to pre-prepare rivets of the desired length, on the one hand, melting the head of the plastic rod. To connect two parts with plastic rivets, we overlap the parts, melt them with the same burner, forming a hole of the desired profile and size, insert a rivet there and, by melting, form a head from the opposite end of the rivet rod. Having practiced several times in reflow, the head is neat and tear-resistant.
Let's get started...
To implement the idea, the source material is needed in the form of a part of a milk plastic bottle (Fig. 1a), which is cut along the circumference into two components (Fig. 2 and Fig. 3, respectively). A trunk will be formed from the part adjacent to the neck (Fig. 1b), and branches of the future Christmas tree will be cut out of the ring with a central groove (Fig. 1c). From one whole plastic bottle, two or three rings are obtained. The more rings you prepare, the more fluffy and tall Christmas tree you can collect. I had 20 such rings, no less (10 full bottles).
Plastic rings with a groove in the middle must be cut into several equal parts (Fig. 2) along the generatrices of the bottle cylinder. As a result, we get convex rectangles. If cut into 2 parts, then long lower branches of the Christmas tree will be obtained from such long halves, if cut into 3 equal parts, then branches of medium tiers and medium length will be obtained, and cutting into 4-5 parts, we get small blanks for the upper tiers of the desktop Christmas tree . It is not at all necessary to observe the special uniformity of the dimensions of the rectangles for one type of tiers.
Next, the rather tedious work of forming a branch begins. From each plastic convex rectangle (Fig. 3a), a wedge-shaped blank should be cut with scissors (Fig. 3b). The axis of symmetry of the wedge-shaped part should be located along the corrugation groove. Immediately after cutting the workpiece, “needles” should be formed on it, making cuts along the side edges at about 45 degrees to the groove and radially at the end of the “branch”. (Fig. 3c). The needles are alternately bred from the plane of the workpiece also at 45 degrees to each other. The wiring of needles up and down relative to the plane of the branch provides fluffiness to the Christmas tree.
As a result of such painstaking work, several sets (Fig. 4) of branches are obtained different sizes for desktop homemade Christmas tree. Cutting branches and then needles is a rather lengthy task, but you can entrust this to your relatives as part of the collective creativity to decorate life under New Year. It should be noted that it is difficult to accurately determine the number of branches that form a particular tier by eye, so you should always have several rings in stock (Fig. 1c) for cutting branches during the installation of tiers
The place for fastening the branches is the trunk, which consists of several parts (logs). The upper parts of plastic bottles (Fig. 1b) were considered waste during the separation of the rings (Fig. 1c), but now they are also used in spruce construction to create a trunk. The base of the trunk and the lower log is the full neck part of a plastic bottle (Fig. 5a). The upper logs are assembled from blanks obtained by cutting off the threaded part of a milk bottle with a flange, as well as removing a plastic segment along the generatrices (Fig. 5b, 5c). The segments must be rolled up with a tube and fixed on both sides of the generatrix with plastic rivets. Similarly, it is necessary to create several logs for attaching tiers of branches. In my case, these are 3 logs, but there may be more or less of them. For a miniature Christmas tree, 3-4 tiers of branches on just one log are enough.
Naturally, the diameter of the trunk should taper towards the top of the table tree and the diameter of the top log should be smaller than the bottom one. The larger the cut of the segment, the more top log is obtained from the tapered top of the plastic bottle. For the top, you need a half segment, and for the middle part, about two-thirds of the whole neck (Fig. 5b). The diameter of the bottom hole of the top log should be approximately 1 mm larger than the top hole of the bottom log forming the trunk.
It's time to attach the branches to the "logs". On each log, you will need to place 2-3 tiers of branches. A small number of tiers does not allow you to effectively cover the rivet heads with branches, and a large number of spoils the aesthetic appearance of the Christmas tree. In each tier of this design, you can install from 4 to 10 branches. Fastening is carried out with the help of plastic rivets, since quite a lot of plastic rivets will be required, it is better to prepare them for future use. The easiest way is to install the branches in tiers on the lower logs (Fig. 6), since the neck in plastic bottle wide enough and convenient to hold the plastic rivet with inside finger.
If you put the branches close to the circumference of the tier, then one rivet is enough to fasten the branch to the trunk (Fig. 6-8). For lovers of greater reliability, two rivets can be installed side by side. Tiers of branches must be formed like a flooring for the roof of a house - from the bottom up, then the branches of the upper tier will cover the rivets of the lower one and the heads of the rivets will be completely invisible.
In my case, in the lower (Fig. 6) and middle (Fig. 7) logs of the trunk, there are 2 tiers of branches, and in the upper - 3 (Fig. 8). In total - 5 tiers of branches. It is quite enough to acquire an amazing similarity with a real Christmas tree. The installation of plastic rivets on the upper tier, due to its small diameter, should be done using tweezers or a medical clip.
After fixing all the tiers on all logs, you can proceed to final assembly. But first it is desirable to decide on the top. In my case, without thinking for a long time, I built the top using the same technology as the barrel (Fig. 5), that is, turning the plastic into a cone. But you can do this in a different way, for example, in the form of an asterisk or a ball (I like the cone more). The top of the tree is attached to the upper element of the trunk also with the help of a rivet that is installed from the inside and melted from the outside. The upper part of the trunk, together with the top, already has a miniature table Christmas tree in itself (Fig. 9). It can be installed on the monitor and enhance the feeling of the holiday...
A live Christmas tree grows from the bottom up, in the same order we collect logs with tiers of branches by adding “logs” (Fig. 10) to an existing Christmas tree. Between themselves, it is better to connect the elements of the trunk in a place covered with a branch, at three points along the circumference of the trunk. In this case, the trunk acquires rigidity and will not break if the Christmas tree accidentally falls to the floor from the table, then the Christmas tree is desktop ...
And if you insert a light-dynamic part (for example, a garland) inside the Christmas tree, then in new year's eve she will amaze those around her with her charm:
Here is such a master class. Of course, a little complicated, but what a beauty it turns out!
Making a Christmas tree from a plastic bottle. Step-by-step instruction with photo.
Master class on the theme "Christmas tree - a green needle"
Lyubicheva Elena Konstantinovna, educator of the speech therapy group, MBDOU quarter No. 6, Usolye-Sibirskoye, Irkutsk region.
Do-it-yourself Christmas tree from a plastic bottle is a manifestation of creative creativity on the eve of the New Year holiday. A master class on making a Christmas tree from used plastic bottles will demonstrate each step of this unusual New Year's craft and you can make a festive Christmas tree with your own hands. You can put such a Christmas tree at home or give it to friends. The master class is designed for children of senior school age, teachers and parents.
Dressed up the Christmas tree in a festive dress:
In colorful garlands, in bright lights,
And stands, sparkling, a Christmas tree in a magnificent hall,
Sadly remembering the old days.
The Christmas tree dreams of an evening, monthly and starry,
Snowy glade, sad cry of wolves
And pine neighbors, in frosty mantles,
All in diamond sequins, in fluff of snow.
And the neighbors stand in gloomy sadness,
They dream and drop white snow from the branches ...
They dream of a Christmas tree in a lighted hall,
Laughter and stories of joyful children. Konstantin Fofanov
The purpose of the master class: making a gift for the new year waste material without extra costs.
Tasks: learn the technology of making a Christmas tree from improvised materials,
contribute to the development of artistic taste, fine motor skills hands, accuracy of actions, observational imagination, eye
contribute to the environmental education of children, to cultivate the quality of accuracy and composure when performing practical work, industriousness, sociability, accuracy, work culture, respect for nature
Materials: plastic bottle, A4 landscape sheet, adhesive tape, scissors.
Progress:
The bottle needs to cut off the neck and bottom, i.e. cut out the middle and cut it into pieces.
Then carefully cut each piece with a fringe - make blanks for the branches.
The neck of the bottle will serve as a stand for the barrel. Roll up a sheet of paper and insert it into the neck.
Then we glue the first row of fringe with tape.
Then we attach the remaining rows in the same way. And we stick one part of the fringe into the top.
We decorate our Christmas tree with stars, snowflakes and bows made by a hole punch.
So our green beauty is ready!
Now hang beads or you can optionally garlands!
Thank you for your attention!!!
The largest bottles should be at the bottom (2 and 1.5 liter, in the middle - liter, and at the top 0.5 and 0.3 liter bottles. If you have bottles of the same volume, then adjust the length of the “branches” yourself by cutting strips to desired length.
In the left bottom, make a hole, which is fixed on the lower end of the stick with a plastic bottle cork (for strength, you can hammer in a nail).
Put the last, smallest part on the upper end of the stick with the neck up and screw the green cork onto the neck, also securing it with a nail for strength.
A little patience, perseverance, diligence and the forest beauty is ready!
Such Christmas trees can be used as a New Year's decoration for your homes!
Method 2. To make such a Christmas tree, you need a minimum of time and cost. A master class on making a Christmas tree from plastic bottles will tell you in detail how to make such an original New Year's craft
To make a decorative New Year's craft: a Christmas tree from plastic bottles, you will need the following:
- Plastic bottles - 3 pcs;
- Scotch;
- A sheet of thick paper, ideally whatman paper (A4);
- Scissors;
| So, cut the bottle as shown in the photo. That is, it is necessary to cut off the bottom and neck so that a straight pipe from the bottle remains. | |
| Next, you need to make blanks for the branches. In order for the Christmas tree to have a conical shape, the blanks must have different sizes. That is, you need to achieve the following: | |
| Cut each plastic bottle lengthwise into 3 equal parts and only then adjust their sizes so that each subsequent tier is slightly smaller than the previous one. Then each blank must be "dissolved into needles." The neck of one of the bottles will serve as a stand for our future New Year's crafts. | |
| The next step is to roll the paper into a tube. Insert into the bottleneck... | |
| ... and secure with tape. | |
| Now it remains to fix each tier of the tree with tape in a circle and a small New Year's craft: the tree is ready with your own hands! | |
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You can decorate the top of our Christmas tree with a homemade Christmas tree toy, or you can complete the Christmas tree the way we did. |
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| If you want to make a Christmas tree from plastic bottles more fluffy, like in the photo, when making a Christmas tree, the needles need to be cut as thin as possible (more often). | |
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By the way, the Christmas tree looks quite creative with larger “branches” - a master class from the Country of Masters website. We cut the bottle in the same way as in the previous version into 3 parts. Only cuts are made in a circle to the center, straight. |
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| In the center, a puncture is made with an awl and the needles are bent up and down in order. In the lid of a cream or mineral water, a puncture is made into which a skewer of the desired length is inserted. | |
| The parts are strung in descending order, a large bead is placed on top of the glue. The Christmas tree can be decorated with foam, rain, etc. | |
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Glue the Christmas tree to the stand from the disk. Christmas tree is ready! |
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Nearby you can put gifts or plant an animal. Such Christmas trees have been a success for many years. |
Method 3. And, finally, the last option for today is a Christmas tree made of plastic milk bottles (what decorative Christmas Trees just don’t make from ...). The design is completely collapsible, has the maximum similarity to the original, does not require particularly complex technologies and specific work skills, there is no problem with bottles either, well, the holiday is on the nose ...
Materials and tools
The material for making a Christmas tree is a milk plastic bottle or part of it (Fig. 1). To make a homemade table Christmas tree, you need 5-20 milk / kefir plastic bottles with corrugation at the bottom. The number of bottles determines the number of branches and tiers. The more branches, the more fluffy the Christmas tree turns out, the more tiers, the higher it is.
In addition to bottles, you only need scissors and plastic rivet technology
plastic rivets
To implement the technology of plastic rivets, it is necessary to have a means for melting (installing) rivets and the rivet itself. You need to manage to melt the head of the rivet with a hot nail or a lighter. You can similarly do this with a well-heated soldering iron. In addition, you will need clamps and tweezers to install rivets in hard-to-reach places.
For plastic rivets, it is very important to choose the material. Fluttering for about a year, by trial and error, taking into account the requirements of strength and accessibility, I identified several sources for obtaining plastic rivets:
1. Empty refills from ballpoint pens. Fairly affordable material. They are good because they are colorless and the connection, with their help, turns out to be organically inscribed in a product made of plastic bottles. Such a rivet turns out to be neat, with a round head, however, it has a slightly reduced tensile strength. In addition, the rod from ballpoint pens is round in cross section and completely fills the drilled hole in the parts to be joined. By the way, the walls of the rods come in different thicknesses, for rivets it is better to use rods with thicker walls.
2. Sticks from Chupa Chups. Similar to option No. 1 only in color. The connection turns out to be more bulky, and the head of the rivet is melted with difficulty (either burns out, or becomes ugly, or unreliable).
3. The most ideal option, and very convenient (I give the world an offer) to use material from buckets with building mixtures of 3, 5, 10 liters. There are quite a lot of them left after repairs, and one lasts for a long time.
From the walls of such a bucket, you need to cut a ring, and cut the ring along the generatrix (necessarily only this way) into strips 2 ... 4 mm wide, 4 to 15 cm long. quantity.
Getting a connection with such rivets is unpretentious. It is more convenient for this to pre-prepare rivets of the desired length, on the one hand, melting the head of the plastic rod. To connect two parts with plastic rivets, we overlap the parts, melt them with the same burner, forming a hole of the desired profile and size, insert a rivet there and, by melting, form a head from the opposite end of the rivet rod. Having practiced several times in reflow, the head is neat and tear-resistant.
Let's get started...
To implement the idea, the source material is needed in the form of a part of a milk plastic bottle (Fig. 1a), which is cut along the circumference into two components (Fig. 2 and Fig. 3, respectively). A trunk will be formed from the part adjacent to the neck (Fig. 1b), and branches of the future Christmas tree will be cut out of the ring with a central groove (Fig. 1c). From one whole plastic bottle, two or three rings are obtained. The more rings you prepare, the more fluffy and tall Christmas tree you can collect. I had 20 such rings, no less (10 full bottles).
Plastic rings with a groove in the middle must be cut into several equal parts (Fig. 2) along the generatrices of the bottle cylinder. As a result, we get convex rectangles. If cut into 2 parts, then long lower branches of the Christmas tree will be obtained from such long halves, if cut into 3 equal parts, then branches of medium tiers and medium length will be obtained, and cutting into 4-5 parts, we get small blanks for the upper tiers of the desktop Christmas tree . It is not at all necessary to observe the special uniformity of the dimensions of the rectangles for one type of tiers.
Next, the rather tedious work of forming a branch begins. From each plastic convex rectangle (Fig. 3a), a wedge-shaped blank should be cut with scissors (Fig. 3b). The axis of symmetry of the wedge-shaped part should be located along the corrugation groove. Immediately after cutting the workpiece, “needles” should be formed on it, making cuts along the side edges at about 45 degrees to the groove and radially at the end of the “branch”. (Fig. 3c). The needles are alternately bred from the plane of the workpiece also at 45 degrees to each other. The wiring of needles up and down relative to the plane of the branch provides fluffiness to the Christmas tree.
As a result of such painstaking work, several sets (Fig. 4) of branches of different sizes for a desktop homemade Christmas tree are obtained. Cutting branches and then needles is a rather lengthy task, but you can entrust this to your relatives as part of the collective creativity to decorate life for the New Year. It should be noted that it is difficult to accurately determine the number of branches that form a particular tier by eye, so you should always have several rings in stock (Fig. 1c) for cutting branches during the installation of tiers
The place for fastening the branches is the trunk, which consists of several parts (logs). The upper parts of plastic bottles (Fig. 1b) were considered waste during the separation of the rings (Fig. 1c), but now they are also used in spruce construction to create a trunk. The base of the trunk and the lower log is the full neck part of a plastic bottle (Fig. 5a). The upper logs are assembled from blanks obtained by cutting off the threaded part of a milk bottle with a flange, as well as removing a plastic segment along the generatrices (Fig. 5b, 5c). The segments must be rolled up with a tube and fixed on both sides of the generatrix with plastic rivets. Similarly, it is necessary to create several logs for attaching tiers of branches. In my case, these are 3 logs, but there may be more or less of them. For a miniature Christmas tree, 3-4 tiers of branches on just one log are enough.
Naturally, the diameter of the trunk should taper towards the top of the table tree and the diameter of the top log should be smaller than the bottom one. The larger the cut of the segment, the more top log is obtained from the tapered top of the plastic bottle. For the top, you need a half segment, and for the middle part, about two-thirds of the whole neck (Fig. 5b). The diameter of the bottom hole of the top log should be approximately 1 mm larger than the top hole of the bottom log forming the trunk.
It's time to attach the branches to the "logs". On each log, you will need to place 2-3 tiers of branches. A small number of tiers does not allow you to effectively cover the rivet heads with branches, and a large number spoils the aesthetic appearance of the Christmas tree. In each tier of this design, you can install from 4 to 10 branches. Fastening is carried out with the help of plastic rivets, since quite a lot of plastic rivets will be required, it is better to prepare them for future use. The easiest way is to install branches in tiers on the lower logs (Fig. 6), since the neck in a plastic bottle is wide enough and it is convenient to hold the plastic rivet on the inside with your finger.
If you put the branches close to the circumference of the tier, then one rivet is enough to fasten the branch to the trunk (Fig. 6-8). For lovers of greater reliability, two rivets can be installed side by side. Tiers of branches must be formed like a flooring for the roof of a house - from the bottom up, then the branches of the upper tier will cover the rivets of the lower one and the heads of the rivets will be completely invisible.
In my case, in the lower (Fig. 6) and middle (Fig. 7) logs of the trunk, there are 2 tiers of branches, and in the upper - 3 (Fig. 8). In total - 5 tiers of branches. It is quite enough to acquire an amazing similarity with a real Christmas tree. The installation of plastic rivets on the upper tier, due to its small diameter, should be done using tweezers or a medical clip.
After fixing all the tiers on all the logs, you can proceed to the final assembly. But first it is desirable to decide on the top. In my case, without thinking for a long time, I built the top using the same technology as the barrel (Fig. 5), that is, turning the plastic into a cone. But you can do this in a different way, for example, in the form of an asterisk or a ball (I like the cone more). The top of the tree is attached to the upper element of the trunk also with the help of a rivet that is installed from the inside and melted from the outside. The upper part of the trunk, together with the top, already has a miniature table Christmas tree in itself (Fig. 9). It can be installed on the monitor and enhance the feeling of the holiday...
A live Christmas tree grows from the bottom up, in the same order we collect logs with tiers of branches by adding “logs” (Fig. 10) to an existing Christmas tree. Between themselves, it is better to connect the elements of the trunk in a place covered with a branch, at three points along the circumference of the trunk. In this case, the trunk acquires rigidity and will not break if the Christmas tree accidentally falls to the floor from the table, then the Christmas tree is desktop ...
And if you insert a light-dynamic part (for example, a garland) inside the Christmas tree, then on New Year's Eve it will amaze those around you with its charm:
Here is such a master class. Of course, a little complicated, but what a beauty it turns out!
Helpful Hints
To become the owner of a Christmas tree,you don't have to buy it- just take a look at helpful tips and find out how you canbeautiful Christmas tree with your own hands.
Today you can findmany Christmas treesin stores and on the street.
You can put in the house a natural Christmas tree or sprigs from a Christmas tree for smell, but you can decorate a house, or a gift for a loved one, knowing a few interesting tricks.
On our website you will also find:
- 20 small DIY Christmas trees that will decorate any home
- How to make a Christmas tree from cones
- How to make a Christmas tree
Learn how to make a Christmas treepaper, food, fabric and even pasta.
Make this craft quite easy, and your house will be decorated with a unique decor, and friends and acquaintances will be happy to receive a Christmas tree made by you as a present.
Christmas tree made of paper with your own hands. Christmas tree made from scraps of magazine pages.
You will need:
Unnecessary magazine or book with bright pictures
Cardboard or thick 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 fix it with glue.
2. Prepare pages from a magazine with bright pictures and cut out many circles of the same diameter from them. If there is a shaped hole punch (the shape of a flower or a large circle) it will be easier.
3. Wrap the cut circles around the pencil so that they curl a little.
4. Starting from the bottom of the cone, start gluing the bent circles.
Make neat rows. The circles should be tightly glued to each other so that the cardboard is not visible.
5. From one circle, make a small cone, and glue it to the top of the cardboard cone.
The tree is ready!
DIY Christmas tree made from cones and dried citrus fruits
Christmas tree with your own hands (master class). Trees from 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 folded paper with tape. You do not need to do everything too carefully, since you will cover the cone with wrapping paper.
1.3 Cut off the excess at the bottom of the cone to make a flat base.
2. Prepare colorful wrapping paper and cover the cone with it. To do this, lay the paper face down on a flat surface.
2.1 Using tape, attach the end of the colored paper to the top of the cone.
2.2 Start slowly twisting the cone, wrapping it in wrapping paper. You need to wrap the cone tightly.
2.3 Measure the paper and cut before wrapping the cone all the way around. Glue double tape to the edges and connect to the other end. At the base, you need to cut off the excess so that the paper is even.
3. It remains only 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 trees:
Christmas tree made of fabric with your own hands. How to make a Christmas tree out of felt.
You will need:
Glue or double tape
Scissors
* Try using felt in two colors 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 the felt and cut out circles of different diameters from it, from small to large (see picture). You can use pre-prepared circle templates made of cardboard.
3. Glue Christmas tinsel to the bottom of the cone.
4. Now you need to make a criss-cross cut in the center of each circle cut out of felt. Do not cut too much so that the felt robe does not fall. Make an incision exactly such that you can tightly put the circle on the cone.
5. Start gradually putting the circles on the cone. If you use two colors, then put on the circles in sequence, first one color, then another. Also worth noting. That you need to put on the next circle not only on the cone, but also over the tips of the cuts of the previous circle.
6. We decorate the top of the Christmas tree. To do this, simply add tinsel, to which you will need to add a pre-prepared small cone of felt. Fix the tinsel and crown with glue.
* If you wish, you can hide a sweet gift inside the cone.
Original Christmas trees with their own hands. Glowing tree.
You will need:
Floral florist net (preferably several shades of green)
Scissors
Cardboard for the cone
PVA glue
Cellophane
pins
Garland
floral wire
Decorations on 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 your floral grid. Cut it into small pieces and lower each into a container with a solution.
4. Start gluing the pieces onto the cellophane-covered cone. Glue different shade grid segments in different directions. The joints should be anointed with another layer of glue for a more durable fastening.
5. Secure the entire structure with pins and wait for the glue to dry.
6. You have the first layer of the Christmas tree. Now in the same style you need to make a second layer. After finishing gluing the second layer, leave the structure to dry.
7. Now remove the Christmas tree from the cone - the glue should quickly lag behind the cellophane.
8. Place a garland inside the Christmas tree, which you need to secure with floral wire.
9. It remains to decorate the Christmas tree according to your taste.
DIY Christmas trees (photo). Christmas tree made of pasta with your own hands.
You will need:
Plastic or foam cone (or you can make your own out of cardboard)
PVA glue
Pasta various forms and sizes
spray paint, acrylic paint or gouache
Tassel.
1. Prepare the cone and paint it in the desired color. Wait for the paint to dry.
* If you are using spray paint, you can skip this step.
2. Prepare pasta. Start applying glue to each piece and stick the pieces to the cone. Create a Christmas tree design the way your imagination tells you.
After applying the glue, press the piece a little and hold it so that it adheres well to the cone. It's okay if glue is visible from under the pasta.
Continue until you have covered the weight of the cone with the pasta. Wait for the glue to dry.
3. Start painting on the pasta. In this example, acrylic paint was used. Try to carefully paint all the details so that there are no empty spots.
* It is desirable to paint in two layers.
* If painted with white paint, the Christmas tree will look like a porcelain product.
Helpful advice: if you want to remove the craft, then put it first in a plastic bag, so you can immediately find the part that could come off the cone.
We make a Christmas tree with our own hands. Bright paper tree.
You will need:
Colored cardboard or design paper
Thick cardboard
Glue moment or glue gun (with hot glue)
1. Cut out a square base for the Christmas tree from thick cardboard.
2. Insert the skewer into the cardboard and fix 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 circles in 10 different sizes, then you will need to cut out 30 circles (3 for each size).
* If you don't want to cut out a lot of circles, just shorten the skewer and you 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, grease the hole in the middle with glue.
6. Start putting the circles on the skewer, leaving some space between them.
7. Cut out stars from paper and glue them to the top of the Christmas tree. You can use another detail for the crown and not necessarily paper.
Crafts. Fir-trees from a thread with their own hands.
You will need:
thick yarn
Pile yarn
Cone (made of cardboard or foam)
pins
Decorations to taste.
1. Make a paper cone or buy a Styrofoam cone from specialty stores.
2. Take both strands and secure their ends with pins at the base of the cone.
3. Start winding the threads around the base of the cone, pinning about every 2 inches.
4. Now start moving towards the top of the cone, gently wrapping the future Christmas tree with both threads. At this stage, you do not need to attach the thread to the cone.
5. When you get to the crown, secure the threads again with pins, wrapping the threads several times around the crown.
6. Both yarns now need to be pulled down, also wrapping the cone with a second layer.
7. Cut the threads at the base of the cone and fasten them.
You can leave the tree as it is, or you can also decorate it.
In this example, artificial berries were used for decoration, but you can use multi-colored beads, buttons, buttons, etc.
Try also to make a decoration for the top of the Christmas tree. The crown can be decorated the way you like.
You can leave the tree as it is, 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 latter option, then the instructions for you follow.
You will need:
flower wire
Wire cutters (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.
DIY creative Christmas tree
If you want something original, or you just don't have enough space for a big Christmas tree at home, you can try to make such a simple design.
It is worth noting that such a tree is suitable for any room. It can be done both at home with children and at work.
This Christmas tree can rise by 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. Expand on flat surface styrofoam or cardboard to get a large rectangle (see picture).
2. Use adhesive tape to connect all parts.
* In this example, black tape was used for better visibility, but white tape is better.
3. Mark the size of your future Christmas tree with masking tape.
4. Using a utility knife, carefully cut out the shape of the future tree.
5. Prepare the crepe paper, fold it in half and cut the fringe. You should have plenty of fringed paper to cover the entire Christmas tree.
6. Start gently gluing the crepe paper to the styrofoam, starting at the base of the tree. The fringe should hang just below the base to cover the styrofoam (or cardboard) and also slightly cover the top of the tree trunk, which we'll make later.
7. Move to the top, covering the entire tree with a bright green fur coat made of crepe paper.
8. WITH reverse side Christmas tree, add a hook so that the tree can be hung. Instead of a hook, you can use double tape to cover the perimeter of the Christmas tree.
