How to decorate the tree at Christmas

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At Christmas it doesn't always have to be glass balls and tinsel. You can also decorate your tree with beautiful things that you can find in nature.

Golden nuts decorate the tree for Christmas.
Golden nuts decorate the tree for Christmas.

What you need:

  • Walnuts
  • Nutcracker
  • Small pine and spruce cones
  • thread
  • adhesive
  • Possibly. gold or silver spray paint
  • Straw stars
  • Dried orange slices
  • gingerbread

Special Christmas tree decorations for Christmas

  • Carefully crack the walnuts with the nutcracker. You should break it open so that the two halves of the shell stay whole.
  • Remove the inside (and feel free to snack while you continue tinkering).
  • Take about four inches of thread and knot the ends several times to make a thick knot.
  • Place the knot in the upper end of a nutshell - the rest of the thread stays outside, you can use this loop to hang the tree decorations later when you close the Christmas tree Christmas decorate with it.
  • Now glue the empty nutshells back together. Make sure that the thread does not slip, otherwise the nut will hang crooked later.
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  • If you want, you can use all or part of your nut pendant with gold- or spray on silver paint.

Decorate the tree with pine cones

  • Small pine cones are a nice and easy way to decorate your Christmas tree with natural materials.
  • dry Put the cones in a warm room if they are still damp from outside.
  • Now simply tie a loop to the pine cones and hang it on the Christmas tree.
  • You can also spray the pine cones with gold or silver paint to add a Christmas shine.

So you can still decorate the tree for Christmas

  • Straw stars, either bought or made by yourself, go well with Christmas tree decorations made from natural materials.
  • You can make dried orange slices yourself or get them from the craft store. Simply attach to a ribbon and hang up - when they are fresh, they also smell wonderfully Christmassy.
  • Nicely decorated gingerbread cookies also make beautiful tree decorations for Christmas. Hearts, stars, Santa Clauses or angels: let your imagination run wild. Before baking, you can already drill a small hole in the top of the gingerbread figures. You can later pull a thread through this for hanging.

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