Unusual DIY Christmas Tree

• Charu Chhitwal
• 17 Dec 2017
• Crafts/activities ,Recycled

In Seattle, Washington stands the tallest living Christmas Tree till date- said to be almost 221ft. Well this Christmas, the twins and me decided to continue our tradition of making our DIY Christmas Tree, but with recycled paper and cartons. And no-where as tall as this Fir tree from Washington. 

Interestingly we also discovered that Germany is credited with introducing the Christmas Tree tradition to the rest of the world, in its current Avatar. Before that people celebrated the day more as a belief that the sun god started to heal after the longest night (winter solstice on 21) and life and greenery retuned thereafter.

And it wasn't until Queen Victoria got sketched posing with her family next to a Christmas Tree, in 1846, that it got widely accepted by people the world over, including Britain and America. Now, travelling during Christmas to cities like London, Vienna, Rovaniemi and more will leave you breathless with the sheer beauty. 

Coming back to our DIY Christmas Tree with recycled paper and cartons.

What we need:

Empty square or rectangle shaped cartons - 

One rectangular long carton to make the trunk of the tree. You can use a curtain rod too.

Sticky Gum or Glue Guns

Hand-made Christmas ornaments like stars, hearts, trees and more (We made these with cardboards and coloured them with glitter-paint)

Glitter and star-stickers

Toys and Figurines kids want to place on the tree

A light Strip

  

  

Step-by-step

1)Wrap the entire vertical card box with newspaper or used wrapping paper, to make the tree trunk.

2) Use the empty boxes to make different sections or rooms of the tree. Colour the background with some bright colours. Stick-on some shinny star-stickers on it.

3)Now place the boxes (back surface coloured) in descending order. We stuck three for the bottom-most row. Two on top of it, in the middle and then one on the top.

4)Make some Christmas decorations with cardboards. Draw the desired shape, hearts, gingerbread-man, lights. After colouring with glitter-paint hang them from the roof of the cartons or stick them on the back surface. 

  

5)We used our McDonalds toys, shopkins and lego engine and figures in this. 

6)We sourced out our Diwali Light strip and added the light to our tree.

7)Currently it is the Twins favourite toy to play with too. Their is a train room, with the engine ready to chug. A princess room with her musical bed and costume changes. There is even Dora with some Japanese Shopkins in one room. And then there is the surfers corner too. It has kept the kids busy, happy and super excited.

  

Isn't that what a Christmas Tree is supposed to do? Well ours did and does just that. All we need our some super Christmas Gifts to place under this and some delicious Christmas Cake.