6 ideas than replace conventional Christmas tree

Set New Year's (or Christmas) tree - a beautiful tradition, but not all of it is suitable. Someone too frisky children ilm pets, someone finds a tree relic of the past, and someone just pities real trees and does not accept artificial.

How and what can be replaced by a standard Christmas tree?

1. Ceiling tree

If you can not put the usual Christmas tree for the very reason that it will fall down children or animals, the inverted tree, suspended from the ceiling - this is your option. If earlier it was a strange idea that embody only the most daring, but now it is already on sale Ceiling trees that retain their attractive appearance in this state and have special mounting. One drawback - they are not attached to the ceiling of plasterboard.

2. Tree of garlands with light bulbs

In order not to occupy the space in the room, we can outline a festive Christmas tree on a wall of an electric garlands. Besides standard garlands can take such where flashlights are built into christmas beads, it looks very comfortable. Option from the garland looks both attractive and minimalist, is easily mounted on the wall and removed if necessary. It needs only a long garland and a little patience.

3. Tree of separate branches

This option is probably the pinnacle of minimalism. You will need real ikusstvennye or tree branches that need to be attached to a wall in descending order from the largest to the smallest at the bottom of the top in the end will come the Christmas tree image. Also in stores now sell winter garland of artificial spruce twigs and other branches, leaves, berries, powdered with "snow", they will look very impressive and will not require additional jewelry.

4. Other options for the silhouette of a Christmas tree on the wall

In fact, the silhouette of the holiday tree on the wall can be made from almost anything: the lay out of family photographs of stars, from homemade paper snowflakes, colorful paper strips from Christmas balls, cut paper or felt, and in the presence of desire or talent - just draw a tree on wall.

Another option, in which creation can take part even the smallest: will need a large sheet of paper and finger paints. Draw the bottom of the sheet tree trunk at the top - a star, you can lightly outline the edges of the future pencil tree, so as not to lose them during the coloring process. Further, all members of the family dipped her hands into the green finger paints on paper and left traces, creating branches of the Christmas tree.

5. Tree of chocolates

To create, you will need to glue the cone of thick paper, paint it green. Then you need to stick to the cone of sweets, arranging them close to each other in rows. At the top of the cone can be placed star or bow. Children will love this tree. The main thing is to put it shortly before the New Year, or before the holiday, she could "not survive".

6. Tree of pads

To implement the ideas you'll need about 10 square pillows of different sizes. It may be manufactured as a full-size tree, and a small board. Fasten cushion descending: the bottom of the biggest, top - the smallest. They can be stitched together, but it is better to sew "Velcro", by which it will be possible to seal pillows and divide, because surely the children will want to play with such an unusual toy and try to make out of it a option.

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