Don't buy the Christmas tree, do it!
Countdown, now a few days separate us from Christmas . Haven't you made the tree yet? Don't want to fill the house with useless plastic and waste money? Or simply instead of going into a department store between endless queues and screaming children, do you prefer to relax at home, enjoying the magic of the Christmas spirit?
Here are some small ideas for easy-to-make decorations, following and carrying forward the ideas for an ecological Christmas tree published some time ago, which will allow you to create with your hands very original cute trees: a tree with corks, one with wood and mono-earrings and the last with newsprint!
Nice to keep at home and nice green gifts for your zero waste Christmas !
Eco tree with cork stoppers
What you need: lots of cork stoppers, vinavil type glue, colors (tempera or other), a cardboard star point and a bigger cork as a base
Let friends and relatives give you all the cork stoppers that they have around, also group your corks from the most remote corners of the drawers. Then compose your tree, painting them with the tempera or colors that you have available at one end, gluing them with the vinavil one on top of the other, creating a fun little Christmas tree. Finish with a star as a point and a base with a larger cap or a pair glued close together.
Here is the page from which you can take inspiration: Powerhousegrowers.com.
Single-grain saplings
What you need: strips of light wood or recycled cardboard, a thick cardboard, some mono-earrings, pendants, old bijouux
With the scissors cut many rectangular strips of different lengths, from 20 centimeters to one, depending on the availability of the material and your space. Place the pieces of wood from the longest to the shortest on thick cardboard to create a staircase in the shape of a Christmas tree. Here and there attach the earrings and pendants that you have recovered, possibly using a hammer and nail or pins to fix them.
The idea and inspiration comes from the WoodWoolStool.com website
Sapling with newspaper
What you need: vinyl glue, possibly a central punch to hold the sheets together if you have, old newspapers, a Christmas star on top to finish
Fold the old newspapers, giving them a square shape, from the largest to the smallest. Stack them one on top of the other, sticking them in the center with a drop of glue, crushing them as you go up. If you don't want to use a leaf and you have a long punch or needle (like the spit!) Even better. Finish off with the smaller square of newspaper, taking care to tuot the sheets so as to create the "peaks" effect that come out. Finish off with a beautiful little star at the top.
Here on Pinterest.com some ideas from which to take inspiration.
