Up-cyled Project of Old Christmas Tree
When we bought a new larger tree, I asked my husband to cut off the branches and save them. I saw small trees in the craft store for sale and thought I can make them from the tree branches.
Here I was taking the branches of different sizes out to make my mini tree.
Here you will need your glue gun to glue on the pine cones to the tree.
Buy what you want to decorate with from a craft store or dollars store.
Some of the decorations I bought
You will need a wire cuter to cut the branches the sizes you want.
Prepare the tree, fan out the branches before you add decorations. Notice the Burlap holding the branches. The burlap has small stones to weight the bottom and keep the branches from falling. Rope is wrapped around the burlap to keep the burlap in place.
Here you see three pine cones hot glued into place
As I glued the pine cones on the tree, I used different colors
Here you see the finished tree all for a couple of dollars. You can't see the beads. Sorry about that.
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Linda Abate on Dec 29, 2019
A cute project to make with the top of an old Christmas tree that has seen its better days. These make great table top decorations or can be placed around the fireplace or put them on the porch or in the yard to give the entry to your home a festive glow with bright white lights added to them. Love this idea.
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you used live branches how did you keep from drying out?
This is a great idea to get smaller tree's for your projects and also your decor for outside. I never thought about doing this. I already promised my old tree to my daughter. uggg.
Can you paint the tree? I have a white one that the color is not bright white anymore I was wanting to do this but I want to paint it first.