Hello dear readers! On the eve of the New Year, each of us begins to think about the festive table, gifts for loved ones, as well as New Year's decor at home. Speaking of decor ... someone knows for sure what will decorate the house with a living Christmas tree, the other, on the contrary, decided to purchase artificial Christmas tree, the third one even thinks creative ideas to make your own Christmas tree! If you decide to be creative and create a Christmas tree yourself, then today's review will come in handy. So, the topic of today's article is: "Unusual Christmas trees - think creatively."

Creative Christmas trees.

Christmas tree from dry branches.

To make such a Christmas tree, you will need a supply of dry branches, a jigsaw and a rope. Cut branches with a jigsaw different lengths, so that in the end we get the silhouette of a Christmas tree, then on each branch at the edges we create shallow grooves that will help hold the rope (we wrap each branch with a rope, tying a knot). At the final stage, we connect the two ends of the rope from above and hang the resulting Christmas tree on a nail previously hammered into the wall. Such a Christmas tree can be decorated with reflective snowflakes and other light decorations by simply attaching them to wooden planks with glue.

Soaring tree.

A great example of a modern Christmas tree! To create it, you will need a large number of light balls and a strong fishing line. We string all the balls on pieces of fishing line, connect the entire structure together and fix it on the ceiling.

Book tree.

We select books that are suitable in color, stack them open on top of each other, decorate with a star and garlands.

Tree from books.

Another version of the book tree ... We stack the books on top of each other in a closed form, according to the image in the photo.

Wine cork tree.

You need to start creating such a Christmas tree from the lower tier, gluing corks to each other using transparent moment glue.

Christmas tree from a ladder.

The idea is simple - we install a stepladder, fix garlands, toys and tinsel.

Paper tree.

To work, you will need a pot, sand, a wooden plank, newspapers and glue. We create cones from the newspaper, from which we form the crown of the Christmas tree, simultaneously fixing it on a wooden plank. At the end, we put the Christmas tree in a pot of sand.

Christmas tree made of medical gloves.

We inflate the gloves, and tie them all together along the way forming in the form of a spruce. On the "fingers" of the gloves, you can hang light Christmas decorations.

Spruce from logs.

The idea is to cross-attach logs to each other. It is best to stock up on a wooden pole, along the diameter of which to drill holes in the logs. When collecting a Christmas tree, you will just need to string the logs in the correct order ...

Christmas tree from hangers.

We fasten the hangers to each other according to the photo, at the end we hang the structure on a wall or window, and decorate it with New Year's toys.

Cardboard tree.

Interesting idea creating a Christmas tree - use thick cardboard. Ideally, of course, it is desirable that the cardboard be initially green, but in extreme cases, the design can be pasted over with colored paper of the appropriate shade.

Pillow tree.

Didn't have time to buy a Christmas tree? It's okay, lay out different-sized pillows according to the photo!

Christmas tree from wooden planks.

You should stock up on planks of different lengths, which you just need to nail onto a long plank. At the end, we decorate an impromptu Christmas tree with garlands, toys and tinsel.

What can serve as a material for a Christmas tree? Yes, whatever!
For example, you are “lucky” to meet the New Year in a state of repair, when the location of items has not yet been determined, and building materials take up free space. Or suddenly you are a doctor, and on new year holidays a certain number of your shifts have fallen. New Year mood in place, the desire to surprise and delight your friends is also in place. And as improvised materials, you can use, for example, medical latex gloves.

2 step

We collect the unused medical gloves you have in stock. In any case, there should be at least 35-40 pieces of them (there are packs of 10, 20, 50, 100 pieces), so that as a result the Christmas tree turns out to be magnificent. We inflate all the gloves until we get a bunch of pot-bellied five-fingered balls. All actions with gloves repeat inflating balloons, with the only difference being that the neck of the balloon is much narrower. We tie the bell of the glove with a strong thread. Do not inflate too much so that the glove does not burst.

3 step

We first assemble the first tier of our future Christmas tree from inflated gloves. we tie the threads so that the gloves are located close to each other. Then we assemble the second tier, use 1-2 less gloves for it. We fasten the first and second tiers with an additional thread so that they do not scatter and proceed to a new tier. So we fasten several tiers, and complete the tree with the last glove, which we place perpendicular to the smallest upper tier. Your extraordinary Christmas tree is ready! Now you can paint it with multi-colored felt-tip pens or simply decorate it with tinsel.
Such a non-standard Christmas tree looks funny and quite nice, because. in its original form, it resembles a forest sister densely covered with snow.
So what do you think?

1. FROM SCROLLS OF THREAD OR PAPER FLOWERS

An elegant, yet very simple idea. We cut out a semicircle from thick cardboard, fold it into a cone and fasten the edges with superglue. This is the trunk of our future Christmas tree. We glue the cone with double-sided tape and “put on” the hanks of thread. Color, size - to your taste. You can decorate a woolen tree with beads, bows, feathers, ribbons, tinsel.

Instead of cardboard, a cone can be made of foam, and instead of balls, glue or stick flowers from corrugated colored paper on safety pins for decoration. One roll will make 3-4 flowers. Pull the roll with a thread, cut off 10 centimeters and straighten the petal edges.

2. CHAMPAGNE AND CANDY

You can get a double benefit from this Christmas tree: decorate the festive table with it, and then solemnly uncork it to the sound of chimes. A bottle of sparkling wine will serve as a barrel, wrap it with paper and stick sweets in a bright wrapper. Truffles in gold or silver foil will look very elegant. For a stronger hold, use superglue. A small tabletop Christmas tree will take 600 grams of sweets.

3. FROM WINE CORKS

If you haven’t collected wine corks for a whole year, it doesn’t matter. You can order via the Internet - 100 pieces for 1200 rubles. Two Christmas trees will come out of this set: a large one (60 pieces) and a baby one (26 pieces). We make the trunk from a roll of toilet paper - we wrap it with a brown decorative thread. Dip the ends of the corks into the glue, then into small sparkles. Glue the sides. On the resulting long strips we lay short ones, even shorter - and so on to the very top, which we decorate with a bow.

4. FROM FEATHERS OR BILLS

Feathers are sold in craft stores. Lay out the first row with superglue on the edge cardboard cone. In each subsequent row, we glue the feathers in a checkerboard pattern. Leave the miracle in feathers snow-white or dye it in green color- business of the master.

A great option is to make a money tree: stick paper bills, rubles, dollars, euros ... If you want it expensive and rich - stick real ones. And you can get by with printed ones, it will also be unusual and symbolic. After all, how will you meet New Year…

5. FROM BROCCOLI

Cut off the top of the apple to place it evenly on a plate. On the other side, cut out part of the core to stick the peeled carrots. Over the entire surface of the “trunk” of the Christmas tree we chip with toothpicks. We string broccoli florets. Pink radishes or cherry tomatoes can become a decoration, and we cut out stars and animal figures from yellow bell peppers or boiled carrots. In the year of the Dog, of course, it is most logical to decorate the Christmas tree with dogs.

An edible tree can also be assembled from cucumbers - they match in color. Or make an original serving of dessert: string strawberries, kiwi, bananas, pour over chocolate and sprinkle with powdered sugar.

6. FROM BOOKS

The height and volume of the "smart" Christmas tree will depend on the number and size of books. For the base, folios in a brown cover are suitable - 5 pieces. Next, we take several bright colorful books, open them in the middle and put them in a pyramid on top of each other. We decorate the hill with a star and beads.

7. GLOVED

Nothing is impossible for a person with imagination. We buy pairs of 20 medical rubber gloves. We inflate. We tighten each with a coarse thread as balloon. And we tie together in the form of a Christmas tree. We hang balls on the "fingers". Otpad!

8. FROM PASTA

We take tubes, horns, spirals or feathers (no need to cook) and put them from bottom to top on a conical cardboard base coated with plasticine or glue. We cover the finished Christmas tree with green acrylic paint. Refresh with liquid snow (sold in cans).

9. FROM A GARLAND OR WRAPPING PAPER ROLLS

This idea is perfect for a small room. Yes, and minimal effort. We fasten a garland or tinsel directly to the wall in the shape of a Christmas tree. We decorate with ordinary Christmas decorations. Another interesting wall option is to lay out rolls of bright wrapping paper in a pyramid.

10. FROM PILLOWS OF DIFFERENT SIZES

Creative, simple, comfortable. Stacking pillows different size. For beauty and credibility, you can buy or sew green pillowcases yourself. And seat plush hares and dogs under the Christmas tree. After the Olivier and the fur coat are eaten, you can lie down on a soft Christmas tree and watch the Blue Light.

Continuation. The beginning - and the most popular ideas for creating Christmas trees with your own hands - look in the first part of the article “How to be on New Year's Eve if there is no Christmas tree, or how to make a Christmas tree with your own hands. Part 1."

5. Build a Christmas tree from different-sized boxes with gifts, preferably in wrapping paper with green background prints. Or just out of the box. But do it with a twist and don't forget embellishments where appropriate.

The Christmas tree can be folded both in one plane, so to speak, and in a circle (if there are a lot of gifts - when a large family has gathered for the holiday), you can additionally decorate such a “tree” with garlands, tinsel, rain and other things. Can put green boxes and folders on the Christmas tree in an open bookcase. BUT you can make, at the suggestion of modern designers, half a Christmas tree from boxes near the mirror(the second half of the Christmas tree will turn out to be a reflection in the mirror).

Small branch - also a Christmas tree from containers, but colored plastic bottles. If you find only nondescript boxes, do not be discouraged: wash them thoroughly with a brush and with a good chemical agent, then dry and simply paint with spray paint from a can. The boxes are fastened together with plastic clamps / cable ties. Place the boxes in each next row, centering between the boxes of the previous row, that is, in a checkerboard pattern. At the back, Christmas tree garland lights are inserted into the bottom mesh, and home-made children's gifts, New Year's gifts are placed in the boxes in front Christmas decorations, toys and everything that is dear to the heart and creates comfort in the soul.

6. Christmas tree on the street can be folded from car tires, painted green. Bottom - tires from a tractor or KAMAZ, top - tires from children's toys. And the same thing: on top we wrap such a Christmas tree with garlands and tinsel.

7. Compose Christmas tree from accumulated beer bottles, since foreign beer in half of the cases is already sold in green bottles. You don't even need to remove the labels. But putting a circle of durable material between each level (very hard cardboard, plywood, plastic, etc.) and securely sticking bottles to such circles are mandatory moments so that your Christmas tree does not fall and does not fight due to one awkward wave of the hand .

eight. . You can fold and glue in a different style: following the example of numerous models from the first part of the article - on cone bases, or you can simply lay them in “stacks”; You can put a Christmas tree on a leg, but you can not put it.

9. Also surprisingly successful flat Christmas trees are made up of a curly plinth and a baguette. We glue parts of the plinth with bevelled edges that decrease and increase in the right places on a rigid base, even if only on durable cardboard, and then you can hang it on a wall or door. In the second case, we glue the Christmas tree completely, otherwise it will hang out and can quickly fall apart.

10. Christmas trees from inflated medical gloves. And this is how health workers have fun in clinics, hospitals, medical institutes and pharmacies, as well as at seminars on drugs and the topic in general:

Actually, there would also be a base (a cone - preferably from a mesh or, in principle, a pin, because when inflated, the gloves themselves will fall the way you need), and then it's up to the small: inflate, tie and decorate a little. On the fingers of inflated rubber gloves, by the way, light (plastic) balls hold perfectly.

11. Will look great in a nursery big trees from soft toys . It is also desirable on a mesh basis to tie toys, and not spoil by gluing.

12. Fir-trees from balloons . If you fill the balloons with helium, your Christmas tree will even fly!

13. Creative people decorate folding stairs and ladders for the New Year. Or, here, even a tripod for the camera. What's interesting, it looks good!

What if insert boards covered with artificial snow by levels on the steps of the stairs, in principle, something fantastic will turn out:

14. Make a huge cone from a coarse mesh- or just twist it by hand in 30 minutes from a thick but pliable wire - and wrap a few Christmas garlands with light bulbs.

The grid can also be decorated with artificial or even live ivy. if the grid is placed on a flower pot with a hanging plant.

15. The Japanese came up with chop off Christmas trees from shrinking cardboard pyramids. The main thing - do not forget to bend the edges of the cardboard at the bottom along the perimeter of each pyramid and fix it horizontally, gluing it so that you can use only 3 pyramids per Christmas tree, not 30.

16. Want to keep the tree alive- dial, where it works, evergreen branches (here - boxwood) and stick them into a flower pot with a floral sponge soaked in water, cut to an approximate cone shape, fixed in it. Then stick with secateurs and cut your composition from the branches to the shape of a cone - a Christmas tree. And decorate a small amount small light plastic balls.

17. Christmas trees in the style of "sew, fill and fold". Or the same steps, but in a different order. It is even worth using aromatic stuffing. There are also a number of options here:

- From pillows appropriate sizes and festive shades (gold, silver, blue, checkered red / burgundy-green), thrown by a pyramid on a laundry basket;

- From high triangles from the right material, sewn in pairs - meaning the colors (or correctly pre-decorated material);

- From pillows-stars of decreasing size, folded in levels and pre-decorated on the corners with miniature thematic elements;

From cone-sewn green handmade felt(remember, from the first part: a cone is a sector of a third of a circle with a radius equal to the estimated height of the cone) with a sewn-on bottom and thematic contours (deer, gifts, etc.) glued on the sides, also made of felt, but in other colors;

And again made of felt, but sewn in the form of a pyramid of 4 identical flat parts in the form of a Christmas tree. And decorated accordingly, of course.

18. Beautiful board christmas trees are obtained wire and beads. One of them - detailed step-by-step instructions with pictures - you can find.

19. Fresh Variants of Flat Wall Mounted Christmas Trees(however, there is no way to do without a large number hammered into the wall - or a rigid base, for example, plywood - nails):

Just to start Christmas garland with light bulbs, stretched in the form of a zigzag expanding to the bottom, and Christmas decorations and small soft toys - "charms" for mobile phones are also hung on nails;

If you don’t want to drive anything into the wall - make a Christmas tree outline (on a stable stand) from thick wire, and also wrap the outline with a luminous garland;

Hangers from the upper narrow level to the wide lower level are fastened with thin wire in different ways, then we assemble the levels together also on the wire and overlap:

- Christmas tree made of painted parts of PVC pipes, laid out on a basis of hard cardboard: ;

Another completely unique and simple idea as gluing pieces from unnecessary knitted sweaters onto a cardboard Christmas tree base;

Here, peeled and dried sticks medium thickness - also gradually shortening levels from the longest to the shortest - and only then this design is decorated with light bulbs and New Year's toys;

Fresh new year trend - flat Christmas trees in a frame made of balls hung on a strong wire base;

Again tree in a frame, but now laid out on the basis of hard cardboard in all kinds of decorations- catchy glamorous jewelry (brooches, charms, flat pendants and pendants, decorative parts of invisible hairpins, etc.);

And again wire base and toys - this time without a frame;

Another fresh one trend- Christmas trees on the walls(or large hard bases) memorabilia from plush toy pendants to framed photographs and children's drawings, postcards, handicrafts and small regular toys (also great for kids' rooms and kids will love for sure);

Take large green tinsel chain(or drain one from green colored paper cut into strips) and hang it with a Christmas tree;

Finally just take big tree poster and DECORATE it real garlands and Christmas decorations on the wall or strong cardboard / plywood (and then lean the cardboard against the wall)!

20. DIY Christmas trees made of paper and cardboard. And again different options:

BUT) From newspapers and magazines we cut many, many squares different size- from large and, gradually decreasing, to small. Then we collect these squares - also, gradually decreasing - on a wooden skewer installed in the base for the Christmas tree, for example, from polymer clay. We pierce each square in the middle, and shift the corners in relation to the corners of the previous squares. We get a Christmas tree that can be decorated with sparkles in any way convenient for you (described above and in the first part of the article). From above, as usual, we prick a star or other decorative top.

B) From openwork paper napkins , fixed on the same wooden skewer, an amazing magical filigree is obtained. We didn’t find cheap commercial napkins for sale - cut snowflakes from thin paper, as usual, but as airy and elegant as possible. Detailed step by step instructions with pictures below.

C) Option for minimalists with an ultra-modern interior: hanging tree, created on the basis of a circle of green durable material(whether it be strong but thin cardboard or a piece of plastic) by basting and cutting stationery knife an even spiral from the edges to the center of the circle.

D) Another very simple but effective option. We take 2 absolutely identical flat parts in the shape of a Christmas tree (a high triangle with a "leg") from a durable, but relatively thin colored cardboard. On each thematic figured stapler (or a clerical knife along hand-drawn contours - very carefully) we cut through the figures: Santa's canes, deer, bells, stars, gifts, Christmas balls and bows, and so on, and so on. Or we glue the figures completely with a cloth. To the middle of each part, vertically exactly in the middle, we make a slot - one from above, the other from below. And just perpendicular to each other we connect these parts through the slots, putting one on top of the other. Then he decorates Christmas trees with flat toys made of colored paper, small real garlands, tinsel and whatever else he likes.

D) Christmas trees-sails- instructions in the pictures below. A sheet of green paper is simply assembled with an accordion, and then a triangle is cut out of it and even holes are made on each fold - exactly vertically in the center. On these holes, the Christmas tree is assembled on a branch, wooden skewer, or any other suitable stick.

E) Circles of decreasing diameter fold twice and twice more - so that in expanded form an even cross is formed on each circle, as well as an “X” crossing the cross from the folds. Then we unfold, and circle the edges of each circle with a yellow pencil or a special felt-tip pen with sparkles. Then, forming “flowers” ​​from the circles (thanks to the folds, you will just need to squeeze each circle into a handful with your fingertips), gradually, starting from the larger one and moving to the smaller ones, we put and paste these “flowers” ​​in levels on top of each other. Glue a loop of yellow or gold paper to the last “flower”. It turns out here is such a Christmas tree-bell in the form of a pendant.

G) And again wooden skewer and shrinking circles of paper, but here on the latter there are more folds, we also alternate the contrasting colors of the circles. We fix the paper to the skewer simply with drops of hot glue.

Nearly the same, only the circles are made of long strips of paper folded like an accordion with sequined edges. And these "snowflakes" are attached to the skewer not at an angle, but strictly perpendicular - that is, horizontally with respect to the table.

H) christmas tree made in the technique modular origami . To make one triangular module, follow the instructions in the pictures (both step-by-step instructions will help you do the same thing - use the one that is clearer):

Then, inserting the modules one into the other and choosing the right shades, form the herringbone according to this step by step instructions in pictures:

21. Christmas tree pendants made of ribbons gathered in a decreasing zigzag pattern using separating beads into the appropriate form. Illustrated instruction below:

22. Don't want to create decorations in the form of Christmas trees and the Christmas trees themselves, believing that later they will have nowhere to go, or not wanting to spoil / buy / collect materials? Make edible Christmas trees for decoration New Year's table: ; cakes and/or cookies shaped and decorated like a Christmas tree; arrange the Christmas tree on a platter with green vegetables for holiday table; fold in layers of multi-colored pasta cakes on plates of decreasing diameter. By the way, in the latter case, it’s enough just to take in-depth plates - and they themselves will hold the cakes on edge in place.

Happy Holidays and Happy New Year!