We consider green plastic bottles to be just trash. But on New Year's holidays and in capable hands they can turn into real forest beauties! The tree does not have to be live or purchased for a lot of money. In this article you will get acquainted with several options for creating a Christmas tree from plastic bottles with your own hands.
Tall artificial tree
From plastic bottles you can make not just a small craft, but a real tree that can be decorated. To do this you need to prepare a steel rod. Its length is equal to the height of the finished tree, it is best to take a piece of 0.5 m. Do not forget about the thickness of the rod, the structure must be stable. The ideal diameter is at least 5 mm. Also prepare a single-core aluminum wire, green plastic bottles (at least 30 pieces), scissors, hot glue and a craft stand.
To make the spruce, you only need the cylindrical part of the bottles, so cut off the neck and bottom of all of them at once. Carefully cut the resulting cylinders in a spiral.
You should get strips 2 cm wide. Now bend one edge about 5 mm, this will allow you to set the correct direction of the needles. Cut the fringe at 1mm intervals. You need a lot of fringe!
Christmas tree: large craft
When the blanks are made, proceed directly to creating the tree. Start from the top. Wind a strip about 8 cm around the rod and secure with a glue gun. Now roll up a small piece of fringe and glue it inside the cylinder on the rod. Then we wrap the fringe onto a strip of plastic and glue it. When a piece of fringe runs out, just take the next one and continue gluing. The top of the Christmas tree made from plastic bottles is ready!
Let's start creating branches. The top ones are the shortest (about 6 cm). Bend the frame from the wire (a ring and three beams extending to the sides). Place it on the rod. Wrap the frame with fringe.
We are finishing work on a large spruce tree
When the first tier is ready, wrap the space underneath with fringe and move on to the second tier. It will consist of four branches, each of which has two small branches. The length of the branches is about 9 cm. Wrap the frame and the second spacer piece with plastic pine needles.
The branches of the third tier should be about 10 cm long, the lowest - 15 cm. But four tiers of the “New Year Tree” craft are not the limit. You can make the spruce much taller. The main thing is to make each tier wider and more branched.
All that remains is to make a stand. You can make it yourself from two planks or buy it ready-made in the store. Well, don’t forget to dress up the plastic beauty with beautiful New Year’s toys. This craft requires perseverance and patience, but the result will please you very much!
Tall Christmas tree made from plastic bottles: instructions
If you are a fan of creative interior decorations or just want your child to take a wonderful craft to school or kindergarten for an exhibition dedicated to the New Year, make a PET Christmas tree like this. Prepare approximately 35 bottles, scissors, candles, a pot and a plastic tube.
35 green bottles are enough for a craft about 1.2 meters high.
Cut off the bottom of all bottles and cut the plastic along almost to the neck into strips 1.5 cm wide.
Now it’s time for the not-so-pleasant stage of creating a Christmas tree from plastic bottles with your own hands. Carry it out in a ventilated area. You need to pass each strip on each bottle over a candle flame every 2 cm. This will take time. Afterwards, heat each bottle over a candle and straighten the segments like the rays of the sun.
Attach a plastic tube to the base and place your workpieces on it. Now use scissors to trim the spruce so that it has a cone shape. This craft looks good on summer cottage, especially dusted with snow. But if you dress it up with tinsel and toys, a fluffy plastic spruce will decorate your apartment.
Small Christmas tree made of PET
You can decorate a table or shelf with a small craft. It doesn’t take as much time to make it as previous Christmas trees. And you only need six bottles. Also take plasticine, green paint, a brush, scissors, a 50 cm long rod and a pot. Cut the PET approximately in half and discard the bottom part. Cut the parts with the neck into 8 teeth, each of which is cut diagonally. Bend the strips upward, like the paws of a spruce tree. Paint the resulting blanks in green color and dry.
Strengthen the rod in the pot and use plasticine to strengthen the legs of your spruce one by one.
Trim the top branches. Then decorate the tree. Now you know how to make a Christmas tree from a plastic bottle. Naturally, such a tree does not look like a real one, but how many joyful moments can be given to children while working on a craft!
Christmas tree from two bottles
Above are crafts from quite large quantity plastic containers. How can you make a Christmas tree from plastic bottles with your own hands if you don’t have a lot of them? Take two bottles, a sheet of paper, scissors and tape.
Cut off the neck and bottom of the bottles. Roll a piece of paper into a tube and insert it into the neck. Secure the upper end with tape, otherwise the tube will unwind. Be sure to trim the cut so that the craft stands firmly on the surface. Cut the remaining parts of the bottle into rings about 8 cm wide. Make a fringe out of them, without cutting 1 cm to the edge. The thinner the strips, the fluffier the spruce. Let all the stripes be equal in width, it looks neat. Attach the fringe to the paper stem using tape, starting with the widest strip.
After completing the formation of the spruce, decorate its top. You can use leftover bottles or a red or gold star. Place mini balls on the branches and the spruce is ready!
Original Christmas tree
Such an intricate craft will decorate the table during the New Year holidays, and during the rest of the year it can easily keep you company indoor plants on the windowsill. Take one plastic bottle, scissors, a candle, a cork stopper, a cup of baby yogurt or cottage cheese, glue and foam rubber (you can use a dishwashing sponge). Cut the bottle into squares different sizes, from which then make stars (preferably not five-pointed ones). Thickly cut the ends of the stars into the fringe with scissors.
Then bring the edges of the blanks to the candle flame for a couple of seconds, so they will curl upward beautifully. Cut the foam into small pieces. Lubricate the largest piece with glue and attach a piece of sponge, place the next piece of plastic on top. Thus, assemble the craft completely. This DIY Christmas tree made from plastic bottles resembles a children’s pyramid in its assembly technique.
Then cut a bucket out of the cup and place a cork inside - this is the trunk of our tree. Glue the tree to the cork and the job is finished.
This is how you can create a real miracle from ordinary plastic bottles!
The lush and fragrant beauty of the Christmas tree spent the New Year holidays with many generations of the 19th and 20th centuries. At that time, every family that sacredly respected folk traditions considered it obligatory to be present at all winter celebrations. Some 10-15 years ago, people were desperately trying to push large Christmas trees into their small “Khrushchev” and “Stalin” buildings. But time passed quickly, and at the same time the attitude changed modern man to a living but already cut down tree. Now the majority of the Russian population has abandoned the merciless destruction of coniferous forests, replacing the eternal guest with its own artificial analogue or beautiful crafts “Christmas trees” made of paper and cardboard, plastic bottles and cotton pads, threads and beads, pine cones and balls. Today even children are at school and kindergarten they know what and how to make a Christmas tree with their own hands at home, in order to decorate the house and not encourage lumberjacks. What can we say about adults! Interesting step by step instructions And step-by-step master classes with photos and videos, everyone will be helped to get the most extraordinary and at the same time very beautiful holiday tree — christmas tree.
How to make a small Christmas tree from paper and cardboard for the kindergarten with your own hands at home
December is the most exciting and emotional month. After all, it is at this time that we try to do the maximum number of things: complete the repairs we have started, carry out general cleaning, pay off debts, decorate the house with your own hands, buy gifts and, of course, help children with their little crafts “Christmas trees” made of cardboard and paper for kindergarten.
Necessary materials for a small Christmas tree made of cardboard and paper in kindergarten
- cardboard cone
- wrapping paper or glossy magazine pages
- piece of thick cardboard
- pencil
- scissors
Step-by-step instructions for making your own small Christmas tree from paper and cardboard for a child in kindergarten
- On a piece of thick cardboard, draw a small detail in the shape of a heart or a flower petal 3 cm long. Cut out the blank; the remaining cardboard will no longer be useful.
- Fold a sheet of gift paper or a glossy magazine into an accordion 3 cm wide.
- Attach a cardboard template to one edge of the accordion and cut out a portion of the paper parts. Then move the template and cut out another batch of petals. Continue until you have 80 items.
- Place all the received parts in piles of 5-8 pieces. Using a thin ballpoint pen, curl them with the print inward.
- Place the cardboard cone on a flat surface. Starting from the bottom edge, paste over the future Christmas tree. Attach the parts by slightly overlapping them.
- When the first row of petals is glued, proceed to the second. Apply each subsequent layer lightly to the previous one, forming a characteristic Christmas tree structure.
- As a final step, wrap one piece in a contrasting color around the tip of the top. It’s so quick and easy to make a small Christmas tree out of paper and cardboard for your kindergarten with your own hands at home.
What to make a Christmas tree from for crafts New Year 2018 in kindergarten: another option for children
When paper and cardboard are already used, a logical question arises: what to use to make the next version of the children’s craft “Christmas tree” for the New Year 2018 in kindergarten. But even here, simple materials at hand come to the aid of mothers. Not always New Year's, but traditionally simple and accessible.
Necessary materials for another version of the Christmas tree for the New Year 2018 in kindergarten
- wooden thread spools
- wooden ice cream sticks
- acrylic paints
- excelsior
- glue gun
- scissors
- decorative stars
- PVA glue
Step-by-step master class on making a New Year's craft in the form of a Christmas tree for a child in kindergarten
- To begin, fold the Christmas tree schematically. Place one ice cream stick vertically on the work surface, and place 5 more sticks perpendicular to the first one on top.
- The figure should visually resemble the trunk of a Christmas tree with straight branches. Using strong scissors, trim the ends of the sticks. to give the tree crown a triangular silhouette.
- When all the parts are prepared, assemble the “branches” and carefully paint them acrylic paint V bright color. Let the sticks dry.
- Then lubricate the stick-trunk with hot silicone and secure all the branches in place. As in the previous step, wait for the glue to dry.
- Place the thread spool on its end. Glue the Christmas tree to the other end, having first made a straight cut at the end of the trunk. Do not skimp on silicone; the part must be firmly fixed.
- Decorate the junction of the stand and the tree with thin wood shavings. It can also be attached using a glue gun.
- Place the almost finished craft horizontally. In a separate bowl, mix PVA with white acrylic paint. Leave small droplets of the resulting mixture on the spruce branches.
- Glue a small shiny star on the top of the tree. Using this master class, make a few more Christmas trees different colors and sizes.
- The bright holiday decoration is completely ready. Now you know what to make a Christmas tree from for crafts for the New Year 2018 in kindergarten: another option for children has been added to your collection of ideas.
How to make a Christmas tree from bells for school with your own hands at home
Excessive glitter, tinsel and golden trim look too pretentious. But not on New Year's Day. During the magical period winter holidays Sparklers, garland bulbs, and all thematic decorations made from scrap materials should flicker. We invite you to make a Christmas tree from bells for school with your own hands at home using the following master class. The finished craft will definitely amaze all viewers with its extraordinary sparkling appearance.
Necessary materials for a Christmas tree made of bells for school
- foam cone base
- thin strong wire
- golden bells
- silver bells
Step-by-step instructions for creating a Christmas tree from bells at home for the New Year 2018 at school
How to make a Christmas tree with your own hands at home for a school competition: master class with photos
Having at least basic skills in using a sewing machine and the following master class with photos, you can make a delightful Christmas tree at home with your own hands for a school competition. Enough to collect necessary materials and get down to business with a creative spirit.
Necessary materials for a DIY Christmas tree for a school competition
- foam base cones
- grosgrain ribbon (olive with polka dots)
- satin ribbon (light green)
- wooden coasters
- decorative stars
- glue gun
- scissors
- sewing machine
Step-by-step master class on making a bright Christmas tree at home for a competition at school
How to make a Christmas tree from plastic bottles with your own hands: step-by-step video instructions
You can create a festive atmosphere in your home without expensive decorations or luxurious decorations. You can make a small Christmas tree with your own hands from plastic bottles according to our step-by-step instructions with video. This stylish craft will definitely appeal to connoisseurs of arts and crafts and unusual things in the interior.
Watch how to make a Christmas tree from plastic bottles with your own hands in step-by-step video instructions:
How to make a Christmas tree with your own hands at home from threads and fabric
Laconic crafts with meaning are Christmas trees made from parchment paper, old sheets of music, book pages, jute cords or burlap, as in our next master class. In a light, restrained and not saturated with details interior, they will look amazingly appropriate and very relevant. How to make a Christmas tree with your own hands at home from threads and fabric, see below.
Necessary materials for a Christmas tree made of fabric and thread at home
- cardboard cone (homemade or purchased)
- thick burlap
- jute cord
- star
- scissors
- quick fix adhesive
Step-by-step instructions on how to make a Christmas tree from fabric and threads with your own hands
- If you are using pre-made burlap tape, simply measure one span across the bottom of the cone and cut the resulting piece. If you use canvas, first cut it into strips 4-5 cm wide.
- Fold the resulting piece for the first tier of the tree in half (into a narrower strip) and glue the ends with glue.
- Wrap the resulting burlap tube around the cone and secure with a glue gun. Place the strips with the glued edge facing up.
- Prepare the second, third and subsequent tiers of the tree in the same way.
- Cover the cone blank to the very top. Set the craft aside so that all the parts dry thoroughly.
- Using sharp scissors, make small cuts in a circle on each layer of fabric. Leave 3-4 cm between cuts.
- If you have a small decorative star, use it to decorate the top of the tree. If you don’t have one, make your own from silver foil according to one of the master classes from the Internet.
- Decorate the finished fabric Christmas tree with your own hands with small jute bows or small balls of thread.
Watch how to make a Christmas tree from cotton pads with your own hands at home, in a master class with video:
How to make a DIY Christmas tree pendant from tinsel and cinnamon sticks
Lifelessness is the main and most significant drawback of an artificial Christmas tree. After all, in essence, it is just a decoration that evokes thoughts about living nature. Such a tree is unlikely to please rich aroma the smell of pine needles or the subtle crackle of pine cones. But we will still try to make every effort so that the following crafts will surprise you with both their colorful appearance and pleasant spicy aroma. Learn how to make your own Christmas tree pendant from tinsel and cinnamon sticks in the next master class.
Necessary materials for DIY Christmas tree pendants made of tinsel and cinnamon sticks
- cinnamon sticks
- green tinsel "Christmas tree"
- colored buttons
- jute cord
- scissors
- Super glue
Step-by-step instructions on how to make a small DIY Christmas tree pendant from cinnamon and tinsel
How to make a Christmas tree with your own hands from available home decor products
Well, here it is - the brightest and most fabulous time New Year's holidays, which we expected with bated breath and trembling in our souls. Some have already completed decorating their home, while others still have to choose for themselves best idea thematic design home premises. If you belong to the second group, we hasten to offer you another option for unusual decoration that can enhance the comfort and fabulous atmosphere through fragrant wood and warm light. We'll tell you further how to make a Christmas tree with your own hands from available home decor products.
Necessary materials for home decor - Christmas trees made from boards and garlands with your own hands
- boards 1 cm thick and 10 cm wide
- garland for 50 lights
- primer
- paint in discreet symbolic colors (red, green, white)
- paint brushes
- tulle ribbon
Step-by-step master class on creating a Christmas tree from scrap materials for decorating your home interior
How to make a decorative Christmas tree for the New Year 2018 with your own hands: a master class with a video on making crafts from pine cones
Many options for a homemade holiday tree are left behind. What else can you use to make a decorative Christmas tree for the New Year 2018 with your own hands? Of course, from the big shots in our latest master class with video! The finished tree will have inimitable view, breathtaking. And the wonderful forest aroma exuded by natural cones will give you a lot of pleasure and the feeling of the presence of a living spruce in the house.
See how to make a decorative Christmas tree for the New Year 2018 with your own hands in a master class with a video on making crafts from pine cones:
Decorating your home with an artificial Christmas tree is becoming more and more popular every year. Visually, Christmas trees made from scrap materials (cardboard, paper, pine cones, threads, plastic bottles, cotton pads, ribbons and balls) although not similar to the original, are quite superior to it in originality and creativity. Making such crafts yourself at home is not at all difficult, having in stock our instructions and step-by-step master classes with photos and videos. Choose the most suitable ones to determine for yourself what and how to make a Christmas tree with your own hands to suit every taste.
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.
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.
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, insert the neck of the bottle into it, into which a wooden stick is inserted. 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.
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.
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.
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.
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 all creative Christmas tree will be framed 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.
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.
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Edible Christmas tree: step-by-step preparation
To make one, take:
- wooden skewer;
- apple;
- cucumbers;
- red and yellow sweet peppers;
- plate.
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. Slice the leek leaves to resemble sharp angles. 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, 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 the 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.
A DIY Christmas tree made from plastic bottles can be a great surprise for the New Year and Christmas holidays. This article will describe various ways making such a craft.
Materials and tools
First, let's look at the materials and tools that will be needed in the process of making such a magnificent decoration as a Christmas tree made from plastic bottles with your own hands. This list includes the following items:
Cardboard or Whatman paper.
Markers, pencils and paints.
Plastic bottles. Preferably green: after all, the natural color of the Christmas tree is green. But any other is possible. In this case, you will have to additionally purchase green paint and use it to properly decorate the final craft.
Stationery scissors and a knife for cutting plastic bottles.
Black marker for marking.
Glue and tape.
Wire.
Steel pipe.
Electric drill with drill bit.
Methods
There are several ways to make a Christmas tree with your own hands from plastic bottles. It could be:
Method one: big Christmas tree
This DIY Christmas tree made from plastic bottles is made from a fairly large amount of containers. Therefore, before starting work, it is necessary to collect an impressive supply of such bottles. There are two ways to create such a craft. The first of them consists of the following sequence:
We take a metal pipe of the required length and install it in the ground at the place where the Christmas tree is collected using a hammer.
Then, step by step, around this pipe we make circles of the “lower tier of the tree” from plastic bottles that fit tightly to each other. We fix them with tape.
Similarly, we create the next tiers of our tree and fix them using tape. We also take into account that with each subsequent tier the diameter of the formed circle decreases. That is, you should get a cone that looks like a New Year's beauty.
The topmost tier of the tree should consist of only one bottle mounted on a metal pipe.
Then you need to decorate the tree properly.
The key disadvantage of this method is that the New Year's beauty turns out to be motionless. Not everyone likes it. Therefore, some craftsmen use the second method, which consists of the following steps:
As in the previous case, we install the central load-bearing frame from metal pipe using a hammer at the place where the craft is created.
Using an electric drill, drill holes in the pipe at the level of each tier of the tree.
IN drilled holes We install a straight wire, the length of which is equal to the diameter of the tier. Then we make a circle from the same wire. Again, the diameter of each is more than high level is reduced so that the end result is a cone.
We make the upper part from a single plastic bottle, which we put on the free end of a metal pipe.
Then we make a hole in the cap of each bottle into which we install a wire hook, which is then fixed on the ring.
By filling each of the tiers of the tree, we get the final result - a New Year's beauty.
At the next stage we decorate the Christmas tree.
Unlike the first case, here the bottles hang on a ring and can move.
Option two: a small Christmas tree on the table
You don’t always need a large Christmas tree made of plastic bottles, as in the previous case. Then you can make a miniature beauty from a green plastic container with a capacity of 2 liters. The algorithm for making a Christmas tree in this case is as follows:
We retreat about 3 cm from the bottom of the neck of the bottle and use a stationery knife to cut off its upper part.
Then we roll up a sheet of whatman paper and place it in the neck. We fix this entire structure with tape. The frame of the Christmas tree is ready.
At the next stage, cut off the bottom of the container, and cut the rest into rings 3-4 cm wide.
Then we cut the bottom of each ring into thin strips, but leave the top untouched. After this, we cut the ring itself into 2 equal parts and screw it to whatman paper. Don't forget to use tape to secure it. So, step by step, we turn whatman paper into green branches and get a miniature New Year's beauty. We leave the top of the tree sharp and fix it with the same tape.
Another way
In the form of a three-dimensional applique, you can make a Christmas tree from plastic bottles with your own hands (photos of some crafts, by the way, are presented in the review). In this case, we take a sheet of cardboard or whatman paper as a basis. required sizes. Then we take 3-4 plastic bottles and mark them in the form of a three-dimensional model of a Christmas tree. For example, these could be triangles or trapezoids. Using stationery scissors and a knife, cut according to the markings of the model. Then we glue them to the base with glue. Then we properly design a sheet of cardboard or whatman paper. When finished, you can add a frame to this craft, and it will become an excellent decoration for your home.
Decorating the craft
Any christmas tree made from a plastic bottle, made with your own hands, must be decorated at the final stage. For these purposes, you can use the usual glass toys, garlands, and other available materials. In general, we do not limit the flight of imagination and use everything we deem necessary.
Summary
This article describes three main ways to make a Christmas tree from plastic bottles with your own hands. Each of them is strictly suitable for one specific situation. The simplest is the last, third, which allows you to create a three-dimensional image of a Christmas tree. The most difficult is the first one. It requires a lot of material and is not that easy to implement.
Do you think it’s impossible to make a Christmas tree with your own hands from an ordinary plastic bottle? But no! And now we will prove it to you. By the way, such a New Year’s tree looks quite decent and very cute! A plastic Christmas tree can be placed anywhere: at least on the kitchen window, at least on the bedside table near the TV, or at least on the children's shelf next to toys and books. So, let's get to it?!
Materials and tools for.
To make a beautiful Christmas tree we will need:
one regular 2 liter plastic bottle, green;
landscape sheet of A4 format;
adhesive tape (scotch tape);
scissors.
Agree, it’s very nice that there is absolutely no glue! How to make a Christmas tree from a plastic bottle. Even a schoolboy can cope with the task junior classes, and it won’t be difficult for an adult to make a plastic Christmas tree!
1. Cut off the neck of the bottle so that you get a stand for the tree.
2. From a landscape sheet you need to twist a tree trunk into a cone. The diameter of the tube will correspond to the diameter of the bottle neck. Place the handset into the cradle.
3. Now cut nine of these plates. Features of these blanks: 3 pcs. do rectangular shape size 8 cm by 7 cm; next 3 pcs. – 8 cm by 5.5 cm; the last 3 plates are 6 cm by 4 cm. It is not necessary to maintain the size in numbers, but the proportions of the workpieces must be observed: large pieces, medium and small.
5. To make the branches lush, you need to twist them slightly: take the knife with the blunt side up and stretch it along the strip, pressing the blade firmly against the ribbons. There is no need to twist all the strips at once, this is difficult and ineffective. Take 4-5 ribbons.
6. Now you need to attach the needles to the paper trunk. To do this, we wrap it in plates, starting from the base. Using tape we secure each tier of needles. In the same way we move to the top.
