Icicle Tree
by
Karen
(IC: homeowner)
8 Materials
Medium
I made this a few years ago and have tweaked it over the years. I had most of the materials on hand. The only thing I bought were the icicle lights which I bought at an after Christmas sale and the silver spray paint. Depending on the size of your tree will depend on how much you will need. My tree is over six feet tall and I only used one can. I did put two coats of spray paint on the tree.
I went into the woods in my back yard and cut down a small tree.
I then spray painted it silver. I suggest you spray it a second time after the first coat is dry.
Next, I took icicle lights that go on the outside of your house and used a hot glue gun to attach them to the trunk of the tree and branches.
Next, I wrapped the wire garland to the trunk and branches. Using the wire garland is optional.
Then I used the larger ornament hooks so I could wrap them around the branches and still have enough of the hook left to hang the icicles.
Decorated the bucket with some glitter wrapping paper. It's not as fragile as regular paper. Depending on the size of your tree you will have extra lights left. I used gold garland and wrapped the extra lights with it and then wrapped it around the base of the tree and on the top of the bucket.
The finished project.
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Suggested materials:
- Small tree (in the woods in my back yard)
- Silver spray paint (Walmart)
- Icicle lights that go on your house (Walmart)
- Gold wire garland that has stars, optional (already had)
- Icicles (various places over time)
- Paper and ribbon for covering bucket (used wrapping paper I already had)
- Garland (had it on hand)
- Glue gun with plenty of glue sticks
Published December 4th, 2016 10:36 AM
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Hillela G. on Dec 04, 2016This is magical!!!
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Elizabeth Hastings on Jun 13, 2017
So Beautiful! Love it.
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