How to make a Christmas tree with your own hands at home, a school for a competition and a kindergarten - a Christmas tree from paper, cotton pads, threads

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.

Prepare containers by removing labels and washing them. For each bottle you need to cut off the neck and bottom, cut the rest into several rectangles, chop them into strips, but not completely.

Trim the shoulders of the bottle, leaving only the neck. You will put a wooden stick into it. Starting from the bottom, attach the blanks from the bottle here so that the fringe points up.

We decorate the entire trunk, and attach a small part on top, which will become the top.

The blanks must be fastened in such a way that the largest ones are at the bottom and the smallest at the top.

Here's what else a Christmas tree made from plastic bottles can be like. Making one with your own hands is also quite simple.

To reproduce this masterpiece, take:

green plastic bottles;
scissors;
a wooden stick of a suitable size.

Remove the labels from the bottles and proceed with the blanks as follows: cut off the bottom, cut the remaining part into 10 identical strips, almost reaching the shoulders of the bottle.

Now you need to make diagonal cuts on sides 1 and 2 of each tape. Fold the resulting fragments over one another.

Take the bottom of a large bottle, make a hole in it, put the neck of the bottle into it, into which you insert wooden stick. Secure this part of the structure with a cork by screwing it onto the neck.

Place pre-made parts on the stick, starting with the largest bottle and ending with the smallest one.

If you threaded all the parts onto the barrel with the neck down, then place the last one with the neck up. Secure the tree by placing a lid on the top of the tree.

The result was a wonderful tall tree made from plastic bottles. From this container you can make even more large tree, putting bottles, for example, on a mop.

If you want to make a cone-shaped tree, then roll a piece of paper or cardboard in this way. Cut off the neck of the bottle and insert a paper blank here. Cut trapezoidal fragments from other parts of the container. Chop the longest edges of each piece into equal strips, not reaching the top 2 cm.

Secure these elements with tape, arranging them in ascending order, starting with large and ending with small.

This is what should happen in the end.

If, for example, you work in a grocery store, then you can put up a large Christmas tree made from plastic bottles, which will certainly attract customers. To do this, you need to arrange the bottles in a circle in rows, and place plywood circles on them. Each subsequent tier is smaller than the diameter of the previous one. There should be 3 bottles left closer to the top; place a star on top.

Even empty plastic bottles will become an excellent decorative element. You can backlight it so that the trees sparkle attractively at dusk.

Other waste materials will also become a picturesque Christmas tree.

Making a Christmas tree out of paper with your own hands - master class

Once 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 and old books.

Here is a list of what is needed:

a sheet of cardboard or whatman paper;
colorful magazine;
shaped hole punch;
glue gun or PVA;
pencil.

First you need to roll the cardboard into a cone and glue it to fix it in this position. Prepare decorative elements. To do this, cut them out from a magazine or book using zigzag scissors or a hole punch.

These parts need to be given a rounded shape. To do this, screw each one onto a pencil. Now you can glue them to the base, starting from the bottom.

Place the pieces as close to each other as possible so that the cardboard is not visible between them. Glue in rows, placing the elements on top of each other. Wrap one of them around the top of your head. The paper Christmas tree is ready.

If you like clean lines, then check out the next option.

This tree would be appropriate in an office. On the one hand, it has a strict shape, and on the other, it looks festive. Here's what you need for this craft:

whatman;
double tape;
wrapping;
regular tape;
decorations;
scissors.

Instead of whatman paper, you can use thin cardboard. If not enough big piece, then you can create it from small ones using tape.

Roll this base into a ball and secure with tape.

The excess needs to be cut off.

Wrap the cone with wrapping paper. To do this, place it on work surface, place a cardboard blank on top, secure it with tape at the top of the head.

Wrap the cone completely, then secure the edges of the paper with double tape and trim off the excess.

The lower part of the tree must also be made flat by removing the paper here with scissors. Decorate the Christmas tree with a star, ribbons, you can decorate it with candies or beads.

Here's what else a paper Christmas tree can be like.

Take:

skewer;
designer paper or colored cardboard;
thick cardboard;
glue or glue gun.

Draw a square on thick cardboard, cut it out and glue it to a skewer. Cut out circles of the same size first. Make holes in them and place them on a skewer pre-lubricated with glue. Then make several slightly smaller circles. The tree trunk itself is also decorated. Gradually cut out smaller and smaller circles and put them on the trunk.

Here's what kind of paper Christmas tree you can make using polystyrene foam.

For creativity you will need:

foam or cardboard;
green corrugated paper;
scissors;
adhesive tape;
masking tape;
marker;
PVA glue;
hook;
stationery knife.

Draw an acute angle on the foam or cardboard. If this is difficult to do, then follow the photo tips. First draw a vertical line, then two horizontal ones, after which you will have an even angle. If you want to make a large Christmas tree, then simply glue several fragments together with tape.

Cut a strip of corrugated paper, chop it with scissors in the form of a fringe, slightly short of reaching the opposite edge. Start gluing these decorated ribbons from the bottom.

When the entire creative tree is decorated in this way, decorate it as you wish. Glue a rectangle of cardboard from the bottom, having previously painted it in Brown color. But you can do without this part of the trunk. To attach the tree to the wall, use a hook or double tape.

This is what a wonderful Christmas tree came out of paper. Textile models are very interesting; for them you can use leftover material.

Christmas tree made of fabric and threads

To make such a stylish beauty, take:

felt;
cardboard;
scissors;
double tape or glue.

It is better to take material in 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 felt circles and use scissors to make intersecting sections in the middle. They are needed in order to put the felt blanks on the base, which is what you will do. These X-shaped cuts will also help the circles become wavy.

First put on the larger blanks, then the medium ones, the smallest ones will be on top. When you fill the entire cone, all you have to do is decorate your creation and admire what a beautiful fabric Christmas tree you have made.

You can also make a very cute tree from threads.

To make this, take:

a cone made of foam plastic or cardboard;
fleecy yarn;
pins;
decorations;
thick yarn.

If you don't have a foam cone, then roll one out of cardboard. To make the work progress faster, make turns with two threads at once. Attach them to the base with pins.

When you have formed the entire cone, do not cut these two threads, but now wrap them around the base, moving down.

Cut the thread and secure the remaining end with a pin. Decorate the Christmas tree with beads or buttons, and also attach them with a pin or sewing.

The next creative DIY Christmas tree is made 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 rolled into a cone. Wrap it with threads. You can simply make such a star out of wire and attach it to the top of the blue Christmas tree you just created.

Your New Year's table 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 point outward using a toothpick.

Here are some other original trees you can create from products.

Check out the related workshops.

Edible Christmas tree: step-by-step preparation

To make one, take:

wooden skewer;
apple;
cucumbers;
red and yellow sweet peppers;
plate.

You can use wooden skewers or one half of a chopstick.

Place the apple half cut side down on a platter or plate. Stick a skewer into it. Chop the cucumber into not too thin slices.

Place these slices on a skewer, starting with the largest one. Arrange them in a checkerboard pattern or approximately so that they look like Christmas tree branches.

Cut small pieces from red and yellow peppers. Place them on some cucumbers or secure them with toothpicks. Thread an elongated piece of pepper onto the top of the head, closing the skewer on top.

You can decorate a New Year's dish with this tree, for example, a salad. Place a little parsley along the edge of the plate, which will symbolize green grass.

The next tree consists of fruits, berries and vegetables. Take:

large carrots;
apple;
kiwi;
strawberries;
toothpicks;
grape;
greenery;
hole for removing the core from apples.

Wash the apple. Use a special tool to remove the middle from one side. On the other side, make an even cut so that the apple stands firmly on the plate.

Place the carrot in the hole. Stick toothpicks into it. Thread kiwi halves, strawberries and grapes onto them. The star can be cut from a suitable fruit or vegetable, or from a thick piece of cheese. Decorate a plate with greenery to make the tree look even more picturesque.

The next tree is made from apples. To prevent them from darkening, the cut slices should be dipped in a solution of lemon juice for 15 minutes.

First you need to cut out the middle of the apples, then chop these fruits into circles. Using a knife or a special notch, give these blanks a star shape. Place it on a plate and place a slightly smaller piece on top. Adhering to this tactic, lay the Christmas tree to the end. Decorate it with cranberries and physalis.

If you are making a New Year's salad, lay it out in a cone-shaped mound and 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 finely chopped carrots.

If you don't have leeks, then you can garnish the salad with dill. Look at the photos to see how to arrange the branches, starting from the bottom.

A creative Christmas tree can be made from many other products.

Cut the cheese into sharp triangles, thread them onto a pre-attached skewer, and garnish with a slice of red pepper. Decorate the plate with tomato and kiwi slices.

If you have green pepper, turn its slices into lush spruce branches and 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 use kiwi for this, use unripe ones so that the circles stick tightly to the base.

Meat lovers will also not be left at a loss. After all, an edible Christmas tree can be created from salami slices.

Place them on a skewer attached to half an apple and drape the top. Decorate the plate with greenery, and the masterpiece can be placed 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- into white snowdrifts.

The basis of the next Christmas tree is a salad, but it is better to take one whose ingredients can be held together well. A dish that contains boiled rice is perfect. Decorating the base green leaves salad, then you need to decorate this edible Christmas tree with peeled shrimp and cherry tomatoes.

If you like Asian cuisine, make the rolls with added greens so that the base has that shade. If they contain caviar, then this ingredient will also act as a decoration. Fold the rolls as shown in the photo to create a comfortable Christmas tree.

Those with a sweet tooth can decorate the base made of polystyrene or foam rubber with candies, attaching them with toothpicks. And if your family likes to eat well, then use small sausages, slices of sausage, tomatoes and lettuce on the base. You can also add other edible ingredients here, thereby delighting those who love a hearty meal.

Gourmets will surely love the horizontal Christmas tree made from tomatoes and different varieties cheese - a great opportunity and reason to try 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 as a New Year’s gift, 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 shortbread dough, roll it out, cut out stars using special notches or just a knife. All that remains is 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 out a Christmas tree from it, decorate with cherry tomatoes, olives and slices of smoked sausage or chicken pieces. Sprinkle your masterpiece with a little cheese and bake in the oven.

Below should be the most big bottles(2 and 1.5 liter bottles, in the middle there are liter bottles, and at the top there are 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 the strips to required length.

Make a hole in the left bottom, which you secure to the lower end of the stick using a plastic bottle cap (you can hammer a nail in for strength).

Place the last, smallest piece, neck up, on the upper end of the stick and screw the green plug onto the neck, also securing it with a nail for strength.

A little patience, perseverance, effort and the forest beauty is ready!

Such Christmas 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 expense. 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 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 tree to have a cone-shaped 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 then adjust their sizes so that each subsequent tier is slightly smaller than the previous one. Then each workpiece must be “dissolved into needles.” The neck of one of the bottles will serve as a stand for our future New Year's craft.
	The next step is to roll the Whatman paper into a tube. We insert it into the bottleneck...
	...and secure with tape.
	Now all that remains is to fix each tier of the tree with tape in a circle and a little New Year's craft: the Christmas tree with your own hands is ready!
	The top of our New Year's tree You can decorate with a homemade Christmas tree decoration or complete the Christmas tree the way we did.
	If you want to make a Christmas tree from plastic bottles more fluffy, like in the photo, when making the Christmas tree, you need to cut the needles as thinly as possible (more often).
	By the way, the Christmas tree also looks quite creative with larger “branches” - a maser class from the website Country of Masters. We cut the bottle in the same way as in the previous version into 3 parts. Only we make cuts in a circle towards the center, straight.
	A puncture is made in the center with an awl and the needles are bent up and down in order. A puncture is made in the lid of the cream or mineral water into which a skewer of the required length is inserted.
	The parts are strung in descending order, with a large bead placed on top of the glue. The Christmas tree can be decorated with polystyrene foam, rain, etc.
	Glue the Christmas tree onto the disk stand. The Christmas tree is ready!
	You can put gifts or plant an animal nearby. These Christmas trees have been a constant success for many years.

Method 3. And finally, the last option for today is a Christmas tree made from plastic milk bottles (what decorative New Year trees are not made from...). The design is completely collapsible, has the maximum resemblance to the original, does not require particularly complex technologies or specific work skills, there are no problems with bottles either, and a holiday is just around the corner...

Materials and tools

The material for making the Christmas tree is a milk plastic bottle or part of it (Fig. 1). To make a homemade tabletop Christmas tree, you will 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 is; the more tiers, the taller 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) the rivets and the rivet itself. You need to manage to melt the head of the rivet using a hot nail or lighter. You can do this in the same way 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. After fumbling for about a year, through trial and error, taking into account the requirements of strength and availability, I identified several sources for obtaining plastic rivets:

1. Empty rods from ballpoint pens. Enough available material. They are good because they are colorless and the compound, with their help, turns out to be organically integrated into the product made from plastic bottles. Such a rivet turns out 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 being connected. By the way, the walls of the rods come in different thicknesses; for rivets it is better to use rods with thicker walls.

2. Chupa Chups sticks. Similar to option No. 1 only in color. The connection is more cumbersome, and the rivet head melts with difficulty (it either burns, becomes ugly, or unreliable).

3. The most perfect option, and it’s very convenient (I’m giving the world a proposal) to use material from buckets of 3, 5, 10 liters of construction mixtures. There are quite a lot of them left after repairs, and even 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 (this is the only way) into strips 2...4 mm wide, length from 4 to 15 cm. These will be the blanks for rivets, and, moreover, the best and most affordable, in almost unlimited quantities quantity.

Obtaining a connection using such rivets is simple. It is more convenient for this to prepare rivets of the required length in advance, melting the head of the plastic rod on one side. 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 the rivet there and, by melting, form a head from the opposite end of the rivet rod. After practicing reflowing several times, the head turns out neat and tear-resistant.

Let's get started...

To implement the idea, a source material is required in the form of a part of a plastic milk 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 will be cut from the ring with a central groove (Fig. 1c). Christmas tree. One whole plastic bottle produces two or three rings. The more rings you prepare, the fluffier and taller the Christmas tree you can assemble. I had at least 20 of these rings (10 full bottles).

Plastic rings with a groove in the middle need to be cut into several equal parts (Fig. 2) along the forming elements of the bottle cylinder. As a result, we get convex rectangles. If you cut into 2 parts, then from such long halves you will get long lower branches of the Christmas tree, if you cut into 3 equal parts, you will get branches of medium tiers and medium length, and cutting into 4-5 parts, you get small blanks for the upper tiers of a tabletop Christmas tree . It is not at all necessary to observe particular uniformity in the dimensions of the rectangles for one type of tiers.

Next begins the rather tedious work of forming the branch. From each plastic convex rectangle (Fig. 3a), a wedge-shaped blank should be cut out 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 approximately 45 degrees to the groove and radially at the end of the “branch”. (Fig. 3c). The needles are alternately moved out from the plane of the workpiece, also at 45 degrees to each other. Placing the 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 quite a long task, but you can entrust this to your family as part of a collective creativity to decorate life under New Year. It should be noted that it is difficult to accurately determine the number of branches forming a specific 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 attaching branches is the trunk, which consists of several parts (logs). The top parts of plastic bottles (Fig. 1b) were considered waste during the separation of the rings (Fig. 1c), but now they are also used in tree making 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 segment of plastic along the generatrices (Fig. 5b, 5c). The segments need to be rolled into a tube and secured on both sides with plastic rivets. In a similar way, it is necessary to create several logs to attach tiers of branches. In my case, these are 3 logs, but there could be more or less. 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 tabletop tree and the diameter of the upper log should be smaller than the lower one. The larger the cut of the segment, the higher the log obtained from the conical 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 lower hole of the upper log should be approximately 1 mm larger than the upper hole of the lower log forming the trunk.

It's time to attach the branches to the "logs". Each log will need to place 2-3 tiers of branches. The small number of tiers does not allow effectively covering 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 using plastic rivets, since you will need quite a lot of plastic rivets, it is better to prepare them for future use. The easiest way is to arrange the branches in tiers on the lower logs (Fig. 6), since the neck is in plastic bottle wide enough and convenient to hold the plastic rivet with inside finger.

If you place the branches closely along the circumference of the tier, then one rivet is enough to attach the branch to the trunk (Fig. 6-8). For those who like greater reliability, they can install two rivets side by side. The tiers of branches must be formed like the roof deck 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) log of the trunk there are 2 tiers of branches, and in the upper one - 3 (Fig. 8). There are 5 tiers of branches in total. It’s quite enough to look amazingly similar to a real tree. Installation of plastic rivets on the upper tier, due to its small diameter, should be done using tweezers or a medical clamp.

After securing all tiers on all logs, you can begin final assembly. But first it is advisable to decide on the top. In my case, without thinking for a long time, I built the top using the same technology as the trunk (Fig. 5), that is, by rolling the plastic into a cone. But you can do this in another way, for example, in the form of an asterisk or a ball (I like the cone better). The top of the tree is attached to the upper element of the trunk also using a rivet, installed from the inside and melted from the outside. The upper part of the trunk, together with the top, is itself a miniature tabletop Christmas tree (Fig. 9). You can install it on your monitor and enhance the holiday feeling...

A living Christmas tree grows from the bottom up, in the same order, and we collect logs with tiers of branches by adding “logs” (Fig. 10) to the already existing Christmas tree. It is better to connect the trunk elements together in a place covered by a branch, at three points along the circumference of the trunk. In this case, the trunk becomes rigid and will not break if the Christmas tree accidentally falls to the floor from the table, the Christmas tree is a tabletop one...

And if you insert a dynamic light part (for example, a garland) inside the Christmas tree, then New Year's Eve she will amaze those around her with her charm:

Here is such a master class. Of course, it’s 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 topic “Christmas tree - green needle”

Lyubicheva Elena Konstantinovna, teacher of speech therapy group, MBDOU quarter No. 6, Usolye-Sibirskoye, Irkutsk region.

A DIY Christmas tree made from a plastic bottle is a manifestation of creativity on New Year's Eve. A master class on making a Christmas tree from used plastic bottles will demonstrate every step of this unusual New Year's craft and you will be able to make a festive Christmas tree with your own hands. This Christmas tree can be put up at home or given to friends. The master class is designed for older children school age, teachers and parents.

Dressed up the Christmas tree in a festive dress:
In colorful garlands, in bright lights,
And the Christmas tree stands, sparkling, in a lush hall,
Remembering with sadness the old days.
The tree dreams of an evening, monthly and starry,
Snowy meadow, sad cry of wolves
And the neighboring pine trees, in a frosty mantle,
Everything is covered in diamond sparkles and snow fluff.
And the neighbors stand in gloomy sadness,
They dream and drop white snow from the branches...
They dream of a Christmas tree in a lit hall,
Laughter and stories of joyful children. Konstantin Fofanov

Purpose of the master class: making a New Year's gift from waste material at no extra cost.
Tasks: learn the technology of making a Christmas tree from scrap materials,
promote the development of artistic taste, fine motor skills hands, precision in performing actions, observational imagination, eye
promote environmental education of children, cultivate the quality of accuracy and composure when performing practical work, hard work, communication skills, accuracy, work culture, respect for nature

Materials: plastic bottle, A4 landscape sheet, tape, scissors.

Progress:
The neck and bottom of the bottle need to be cut off, i.e. cut out the middle and cut it into pieces.

Then carefully cut each part with fringe - make blanks for the branches.

The bottle neck will serve as a stand for the barrel. Roll up a piece 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 with a hole punch.

So our green beauty is ready!

Now let's hang beads or, if desired, garlands!

Thank you for your attention!!!

At the bottom there should be the largest bottles (2 and 1.5 liters, in the middle - liter bottles, 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 the desired length.

Make a hole in the left bottom, which you secure to the lower end of the stick using a plastic bottle cap (you can hammer a nail in for strength).

Place the last, smallest piece, neck up, on the upper end of the stick and screw the green plug onto the neck, also securing it with a nail for strength.

A little patience, perseverance, effort and the forest beauty is ready!

These Christmas trees can be used as New Year's decorations for your homes!

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 tree to have a cone-shaped 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 then adjust their sizes so that each subsequent tier is slightly smaller than the previous one. Then each workpiece must be “dissolved into needles.” The neck of one of the bottles will serve as a stand for our future New Year's craft.
	The next step is to roll the Whatman paper into a tube. We insert it into the bottleneck...
	...and secure with tape.
	Now all that remains is to fix each tier of the tree with tape in a circle and a little New Year's craft: the Christmas tree with your own hands is ready!
	You can decorate the top of our New Year's tree with a homemade Christmas tree toy, or complete the Christmas tree the way we did.
	If you want to make a Christmas tree from plastic bottles more fluffy, like in the photo, when making the Christmas tree, you need to cut the needles as thinly as possible (more often).
	By the way, the Christmas tree also looks quite creative with larger “branches” - master class from the website Country of Masters. We cut the bottle in the same way as in the previous version into 3 parts. Only we make cuts in a circle towards the center, straight.
	A puncture is made in the center with an awl and the needles are bent up and down in order. A puncture is made in the lid of the cream or mineral water into which a skewer of the required length is inserted.
	The parts are strung in descending order, with a large bead placed on top of the glue. The Christmas tree can be decorated with polystyrene foam, rain, etc.
	Glue the Christmas tree onto the disk stand. The Christmas tree is ready!
	You can put gifts or plant an animal nearby. These Christmas trees have been a constant success for many years.

Materials and tools

In addition to bottles, you only need scissors and plastic rivet technology

Plastic rivets

1. Empty ballpoint pen refills. Fairly accessible material. They are good because they are colorless and the compound, with their help, turns out to be organically integrated into the product made from plastic bottles. Such a rivet turns out 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 being connected. By the way, the walls of the rods come in different thicknesses; for rivets it is better to use rods with thicker walls.

2. Chupa Chups sticks. Similar to option No. 1 only in color. The connection is more cumbersome, and the rivet head melts with difficulty (it either burns, becomes ugly, or unreliable).

3. The most ideal option, and very convenient (I give the world a proposal) is to use material from buckets with construction mixtures of 3, 5, 10 liters. There are quite a lot of them left after repairs, and one lasts for a long time.

Obtaining a connection using such rivets is simple. It is more convenient for this to prepare rivets of the required length in advance, melting the head of the plastic rod on one side. 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. After practicing reflowing several times, the head turns out neat and tear-resistant.

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To implement the idea, a source material is required in the form of a part of a plastic milk 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 New Year tree will be cut out from the ring with a central groove (Fig. 1c). One whole plastic bottle produces two or three rings. The more rings you prepare, the fluffier and taller the Christmas tree you can assemble. I had at least 20 of these rings (10 full bottles).

As a result of such painstaking work, several sets (Fig. 4) of branches of different sizes are obtained for a desktop homemade Christmas tree. Cutting out branches and then needles is quite a long task, but you can entrust this to your family as part of a collective creativity in decorating life for the New Year. It should be noted that it is difficult to accurately determine the number of branches forming a specific tier by eye, so you should always have several rings in stock (Fig. 1c) for cutting branches during the installation of tiers

It's time to attach the branches to the "logs". Each log will need to place 2-3 tiers of branches. A small number of tiers does not allow you to effectively cover the heads of the rivets 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 using plastic rivets, since you will need quite a lot of plastic rivets, it is better to prepare them for future use. The easiest way is to place the branches in tiers on the lower logs (Fig. 6), since the neck of the plastic bottle is wide enough and it is convenient to hold the plastic rivet on the inside with your finger.

After securing all tiers to all logs, you can begin final assembly. But first it is advisable to decide on the top. In my case, without thinking for a long time, I built the top using the same technology as the trunk (Fig. 5), that is, by rolling the plastic into a cone. But you can do this in another way, for example, in the form of an asterisk or a ball (I like the cone better). The top of the tree is attached to the upper element of the trunk also using a rivet, installed from the inside and melted from the outside. The upper part of the trunk, together with the top, is itself a miniature tabletop Christmas tree (Fig. 9). You can install it on your monitor and enhance the holiday feeling...

And if you insert a dynamic light 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, it’s a little complicated, but what a beauty it turns out!

Useful tips

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

Today you can findmany Christmas treesin 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.

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Find out how to make a Christmas tree frompaper, 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 different shades grid segments 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 various forms 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 on flat surface foam or cardboard to make 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. 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 tree.