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You can make a lot of different things out of paper. Christmas trees one is prettier than the other. All you need is a few simple tools that you can find at home or in any office supply store, a little time and imagination.

On our website you will also find:

  • 20 small DIY Christmas trees that will decorate any home
  • DIY Christmas decorations

Here are some of the most interesting ideas for turning paper into a beautiful Christmas tree:

Christmas tree made of paper (photo instruction)





Origami tree (diagram)







Video instruction:


Christmas tree made of paper with your own hands: cardboard cylinders from toilet paper












Video instruction:


Christmas tree made of green paper



Video instruction:


Corrugated paper Christmas tree









Craft "Christmas tree" from paper (video instruction)


How to make an origami tree out of paper (video)

How to make a Christmas tree from paper strips with your own hands


You will need:

Colored cardboard or green colored/wrapping paper

Tape (in this example, its width is 6 mm and length is 25 cm)

Fine brush

1 brightly colored bead (golden in this example)

Several beads of a different color (in this example, 12 brown beads)

Scissors

Ruler

Pencil

1. Draw and cut strips of colored cardboard 4 cm wide and long: 8, 10, 12, 14, 16 and 18 cm.

2. With the tip of scissors or a needle, make 3 holes in each strip: 1 on the right, 1 on the left and 1 in the middle.

3. Take a thin brush and make a small loop at one end.

4. Start threading a thin brush through all the holes in the paper strips. Start with the longest strip and add the next one in descending order. Add 2 beads between each strip.

5. When all paper strips are used, add 1 bright bead to the top of the Christmas tree.

6. Make a loop at the end of the brush so that the craft can be hung. Cut off the excess part of the brush.

7. Pass the ribbon through the loop and tie the ends into a knot.

Volumetric Christmas tree made of paper for children


You will need:

Scissors

Compasses or several round objects of different diameters (saucers and plates, for example)

Wooden bead and sandpaper (optional)

A skewer or any smooth thin stick.

1. Draw several circles of different sizes on paper and cut them out.


2. Fold each circle in half, in half again, and in half again.

3. Cut off the tip of each folded circle with scissors.


4. When all the circles are ready, unfold them and start stringing on a skewer, starting with a large circle and ending with a small one.

5. Insert a skewer into a wooden bead and use sandpaper to make the underside of the bead more even so that the tree stands better.

*Instead of a bead, you can make from a cardboard platform for a fir-tree. Just cut out a square or circle from thick cardboard and insert a skewer into it. For reliability, you can glue several cardboard circles and then insert a skewer into them.

DIY paper Christmas tree. We use old magazines.

You will need:

2 magazines

PVA glue

5 wine corks (optional)

Aerosol paint (optional).

Below is a video instruction

1. Fold each page of the magazine as shown in the pictures. Bend the lower end and hide inside.




2. Repeat the process until all pages are folded. You will have half a Christmas tree.

3. To make a complete Christmas tree, take the second magazine and fold its pages in the same way as before.

4. Glue both halves together.


5. If desired, you can make a Christmas tree trunk, for this, glue 5 wine corks and glue them to your paper Christmas tree.

6. You can decorate the Christmas tree with beads on a thin wire, tinsel, or other small decorations.

Video instruction

Christmas tree made of colored paper (master class)

You will need:

Thick cardboard or fiberboard

PVA glue, super glue or hot glue

Colored cardboard (possible with patterns and ornaments).

1. Cut a rectangle out of cardboard, which should be slightly larger than the base of the future Christmas tree.

2. Stick the skewer into the cardboard and secure it with glue.

3. Cut out several circles of different sizes and colors from colored cardboard, 3 circles in each group. Make a small hole in the center of each circle.

4. Add a drop of glue to each hole and start stringing circles onto the skewer, starting with the largest. The distance between the circles can be up to 1 cm.

5. Cut out a star from cardboard and glue it to the top of the Christmas tree.

Do-it-yourself volumetric Christmas tree from old paper


You will need:

Cardboard or foam cone

PVA glue or hot glue

Scissors

Pencil

Compasses or round object (plate, saucer)

Jewelry (bells, beads, tinsel).

1. Draw several circles of the same size on the newspaper and cut them out.


2. Fold each circle in half and in half again.


3. To make the base of the Christmas tree, you need to cut out a few squares, fold them into triangles and glue them exactly to the base of the cone as shown in the image.


4. To cover the top of the cone with paper, simply glue a piece of newspaper to it (see image).


5. Start wrapping the cone with folded newspaper circles starting at the bottom and working towards the crown (see image).


6. Glue a bell, star, or other decoration to the crown. Around the Christmas tree, you can glue tinsel, small Christmas decorations, or just a bright ribbon or lace.

Beautiful Christmas tree made of paper with roses for the new year


You will need:

Old newspaper or unwanted book

PVA glue

Scissors

Beads (optional).

To learn how to make these roses, visit HERE .

1. Make a cone out of paper and make many roses - a few large ones for the base of the cone, medium ones for the central part, and small ones for the top part.

* If you purchased a foam cone, then you need to paste over it with pieces of newspapers (see image).

2. Start gluing the paper roses to the cone, starting at the bottom of the cone and moving towards the crown.



3. If desired, you can glue 1 bead in the center of the roses - this way you can decorate all the roses or just some.

4. You can add one more decoration to the crown - it can be a piece of tinsel, a bell or an asterisk.

* If you want to learn how to make an asterisk, visit HERE .

Christmas tree made of paper (in stages)


You will need:

Colored paper, colored cardboard, an old music book or an unnecessary book

PVA glue

Curly scissors and plain scissors

Thick cardboard

Glue brush (optional)

Jewelry (sequins, bows, beads, buttons, stars).

1. Cut out a platform for the future Christmas tree from cardboard.

2. Insert the skewer into the cardboard platform and secure it with glue.

3. Start cutting out squares from paper. It will be more beautiful if you cut with curly scissors (they can be found in stationery).

* You need to cut 9-10 squares - first 9 squares with a side of 20 cm, then 9 with a side of 18 cm and so on, reducing each group of squares by 2 cm.

* Choose the total number of squares yourself. You can also choose the size of the squares yourself - if your Christmas tree is high, then you can reduce the size of the next group of squares by more than 2 cm, and if it is short, then less - 1-0.5 cm.

4. Cut out a few small squares from cardboard that will be between the squares of colored paper.

5. Start stringing 3-4 squares of colored paper, between which there will be a small cardboard square.

* If you use 3 squares between the cardboard parts, it is most convenient to cut 9 squares of each size.

* You can fix the squares on the skewer with glue.

6. To decorate the Christmas tree, you can apply gently with a brush a little glue on the tips of the squares, then gently sprinkle sparkles on them.

7. On the crown, you can glue a button with a bow or something else - an asterisk or a bead, for example.

Original do-it-yourself Christmas tree made of colored Japanese paper


You will need:

colored cardboard

Thick paper with a pattern (can be replaced with colored cardboard)

Colored or wrapping paper (you can use a page from an old magazine)

White sheet of A4 paper

2 skewers

Pencil and ruler

PVA glue or glue stick

Scissors

Darning needle (if necessary).

1. Cut out 14 rectangles of 2 of the same size from colored cardboard. In this example, 2 rectangles are 21 x 28 cm, two more are 18 x 28 cm, then (also 2 each): 16 x 28 cm, 13.5 x 26 cm, 12 x 26 cm, 9 x 25 cm, and 6 x 22 cm.

2. Preparing the basis for the Christmas tree:

Cut plain A4 paper into strips 2 cm wide. Roll the strip into a circle, add a little glue at its end and glue the next strip (see image). Repeat the same action until you glue all the strips into one large circle with a diameter of 3.5 cm.

* The larger the circle, the more stable the tree will stand.

3. Take a large rectangle of colored cardboard and start folding it with an accordion, 1.5 cm wide. Cut the ends of the accordion into a rounded shape.

4. Fold the accordion in half and glue the sides - you have a semicircle.


5. Repeat the same with the second rectangle, then glue two semicircles to form a circle - these will be the branches of the lower level of the tree.


* To secure the halves of one circle, you can pass a thin wire through them and twist its ends from the back.


6. Make similar images for 6 more levels of your Christmas tree.

7. Take colored or wrapping paper and cut off several small rectangles from it, about 2 cm wide, with which you will later cover the skewers.

The skewers will play the role of the tree trunk.

8. Thread the skewers through one large circle. Since you need to leave gaps of about 2 cm between the circles, these gaps need to be hidden, so we will wrap them in small rectangles of colored paper.


9. After each circle, wrap the skewers with colored paper, 2 cm wide, and glue its ends. Continue repeating this action until all branches of the tree are put on skewers.

10. It remains to insert the skewers into the round base (see point 2) and fix them with glue.


* You can decorate the top of the Christmas tree to your taste - a paper star, a bead or a button.

Big Christmas tree made of paper


You will need:

Sheets of green paper (preferably 2 shades - the lighter ones will be at the top of the Christmas tree, and the darker ones at its base)

Cardboard cylinder 2 pcs. (from paper towels)

PVA glue or hot glue

Scotch tape (if needed)

Big bow.


1. From green sheets of paper, you need to twist a lot of cones of about the same size. Fasten the edges of the cones with tape or glue so that the cones do not unwind.


* Try to keep all the cones in one place for attaching with adhesive tape or gluing with glue so that they are not visible when creating the Christmas tree.

2. Glue two cardboard cylinders together so that the tree can become tall.


3. On the cylinders, draw lines at the same distance from each other so that you can evenly glue the cones.

4. Start folding the tree. Apply glue to the tip of one cone and press it to the cylinder, or rather to the drawn line. It is better to start gluing the cones from the bottom up.


* Glue so that the opening of the cone is on the side of the cylinder (i.e. tree trunk).

5. Glue the entire row of cones, pressing them firmly against each other and, if necessary, gluing them together.

6. Move up and glue the next row of cones. But you should not stick cones on the top of your head.


For the top of the Christmas tree, it is best to glue several cones together. Glue a large bow to them and "put" the whole structure on the cylinder. It doesn't have to be glued on.



The Christmas tree is one of the main attributes of such a large-scale holiday as the New Year. Nobody forgets about it, buying live or artificial Christmas trees to their home and decorating it with different outfits, souvenirs, garlands. We will make a Christmas tree out of paper, which can be placed somewhere in the apartment (for example, on the table), or it will not even be a shame to give such a craft to relatives or friends. Next, we will deal with several ways to create Christmas trees from paper.

How to make a Christmas tree out of paper (1 way):

You will need green paper, a ruler, compasses, glue, scissors and a pencil (or a tube for juices, cocktails).


1. Using a compass, draw a few circles on paper. Each next circle is 1-2 cm smaller than the previous one. Choose the number and size of the circles yourself, depending on what size you want to see the Christmas tree in front of you.

2. Fold each circle in half once, a second time and a third time (that is, you need to fold each circle three times in half). To make the fold lines clear, we draw along the edges with scissors.

3. We straighten the circles. We cut a hole in the center of each that matches the diameter of a pencil or tube (depending on what we will use). It is also worth saying that the circles are the tiers of our future Christmas tree.

4. Paste the pencil or tube with green or brown paper.

5. Now we begin to collect the Christmas tree. All tiers are strung on a pencil.

6. We decorate the top of the Christmas tree with a beautiful bead or star. You can decorate the Christmas tree, if desired, with sparkles.


How to make a Christmas tree out of paper (2 way):

You will need green paper, scissors, pencil, glue, compasses, ruler, needle, wire.

1. On green paper, draw a circle with a compass, the size of the lower tier of the future Christmas tree. Next, draw another circle inside the first circle, stepping back from the first one a little more than half the radius. Using a ruler, divide the circle into 12 sectors.

2. Along the lines of cases, an incision to the inner (second) circle.

3. We turn each sector into a cone, which we fix with glue.

4. In a similar way, we create the rest of the blanks, gradually reducing their size.

5. In the center of each blank, make a hole with a needle.

6. We turn the bottom of the wire into a spiral.

7. We collect all the tiers of our Christmas tree on a wire. We fix on top a cone made of paper.


How to make a Christmas tree out of paper with your own hands using the quilling technique (method 3):

You will need: green paper strips 5 mm wide and four 1 cm strips, red and yellow strips 3-5 mm wide, toothpicks, glue (instant and PVA).

1. We use four green strips having a length of 30, 20, 15 and 10 cm. Using a toothpick, twist them. We remove the part from the toothpick and let it bloom a little. We fix the end of the strip with PVA glue. We give all the spirals the shape of a drop by holding and slightly pulling one of the ends of the spiral up.

2. Tightly wrap wide green stripes on a toothpick and glue the tip to them, preventing it from blooming. This will be our tree trunk.

3. For the top of the Christmas tree, we make a drop from a green strip having a length of 30 cm.

4. Now we begin to collect the Christmas tree, fixing its elements with instant glue. We glue the parts of the trunk and give the glue time to dry.

5. Insert a toothpick inside the trunk and glue our droplets-twigs. We start gluing with the smallest ones, which we glue to the top of the Christmas tree.

6. Make toys from yellow and pink stripes by twisting paper without using a toothpick. You can fasten the ends until the paper is unwound, or you can make the toys a little looser and give them the shape of small droplets. Glue balls to the branches you like.

7. Glue the drop at the very top (do not forget about it), and decorate it on it.

8. You can make, if desired, a stand. To do this, you will need to make nine curls from white paper strips. Tightly glue the curls together. Now we fix the Christmas tree on a snowy white stand with glue.


How to make a Christmas tree out of paper with your own hands (4 way):

You will need: green cardboard, glue, scissors, adhesive tape, colored paints, pencils, felt-tip pens. Stickers, glitter, etc. can be used as additional decorations.

1. Bend a sheet of cardboard in half and cut it along the fold line.


2. Fold the resulting parts in half again.

3. Draw a half of the Christmas tree on one of the halves of the cardboard opposite the fold (see picture).

4. Fold the sheets together and cut with scissors along the drawn line. As a result, you will get two Christmas trees of a similar size.

5. Mark the middle of each tree discreetly using a ruler.

6. Make an incision on one tree, starting from the top to the middle, and on the other from the bottom (base) to the middle.


7. Insert the Christmas trees into the cuts to end up with one voluminous Christmas tree.

8. To give the Christmas tree more stability, use adhesive tape - use it to glue the lower and upper halves.

9. To decorate the Christmas tree, use pencils, felt-tip pens, sparkles and other materials. You can use a hole punch to make small multi-colored circles, which then stick on the Christmas tree. An asterisk can be glued to the top of the head with tape.

How to make a Christmas tree out of paper (5 way):

You will need: colored cardboard, glue, scissors, a hole punch, a small stick with a diameter approximately equal to the diameter of the holes that are obtained from the hole punch, decorations to taste.


A rectangular cardboard is taken, folded several times as shown in the picture above, and then pierced in the center with a hole punch. Then this cardboard is cut at an angle so that the craft in the end does not look like a Christmas tree (see picture). We drag our stick into the hole, and if it does not hold firmly, then we can fix it with glue. We decorate the Christmas tree. Jewelry can be attached with glue. Such a Christmas tree can be placed somewhere (if you make a basis for it), or you can hang it somewhere.


How to make an origami Christmas tree (6 way):

The material for such a Christmas tree will be one large magazine or several small magazines. If the magazine has a hard cover, then you can simply remove it.

Do with each page following procedure:

1. Starting from the top right corner, fold the page at a 45 degree angle.

2. Bend the sheet diagonally in half again.

3. The corner that goes beyond the borders of the magazine from below must be turned up.

4. We also do this procedure with the rest of the pages and as a result we get a beautiful origami Christmas tree.


How to make a Christmas tree out of paper using the origami technique (7 way):

First, you will need to make triangular modules, from which the Christmas tree will take shape. They are easy to make. You just need to know how to make them and be careful when creating them.


How to make triangular modules was discussed on our website in the article -? (look in the middle of that article for information on this if you don't know how to create them).

1. We fold the module

2. We collect twigs

3. We begin to collect the Christmas tree

Watch also other videos on how to make a Christmas tree out of paper:

Now you know about the many ways to create a Christmas tree out of paper. Happy crafting!


The Christmas tree is one of the main attributes of such a large-scale holiday as the New Year. Nobody forgets about it, buying live or artificial Christmas trees to their home and decorating it with different outfits, souvenirs, garlands. We will make a Christmas tree out of paper, which can be placed somewhere in the apartment (for example, on the table), or it will not even be a shame to give such a craft to relatives or friends. Next, we will deal with several ways to create Christmas trees from paper.

How to make a Christmas tree out of paper (1 way)

You will need green paper, a ruler, compasses, glue, scissors and a pencil (or a tube for juices, cocktails).

  1. Using a compass, draw a few circles on paper. Each next circle is 1-2 cm smaller than the previous one. Choose the number and size of the circles yourself, depending on what size you want to see the Christmas tree in front of you.
  2. We fold each circle in half once, a second time and a third time (that is, you need to fold each circle three times in half). To make the fold lines clear, we draw along the edges with scissors.
  3. We straighten the circles. We cut a hole in the center of each that matches the diameter of a pencil or tube (depending on what we will use). It is also worth saying that the circles are the tiers of our future Christmas tree.
  4. We glue the pencil or tube with green or brown paper.
  5. Now we begin to collect the Christmas tree. All tiers are strung on a pencil.
  6. We decorate the top of the Christmas tree with a beautiful bead or star. Decorate the Christmas tree, if desired, you can sparkle

How to make a Christmas tree out of paper (2 way)

You will need green paper, scissors, pencil, glue, compasses, ruler, needle, wire.
On green paper, draw a circle with a compass, the size of the lower tier of the future Christmas tree. Next, draw another circle inside the first circle, stepping back from the first one a little more than half the radius.

  1. Using a ruler, divide the circle into 12 sectors.
  2. Along the lines of cases, an incision to the inner (second) circle.
  3. We turn each sector into a cone, which we fix with glue.
  4. Similarly, we create the rest of the blanks, gradually reducing their size.
  5. We make a hole in the center of each blank with a needle.
  6. We turn the bottom of the wire into a spiral.
  7. We collect all the tiers of our Christmas tree on a wire. We fix on top a cone made of paper.

How to make a Christmas tree out of paper with your own hands using the quilling technique (3 way)

You will need: green paper strips 5 mm wide and four strips of 1 cm each, red and yellow strips 3-5 mm wide, toothpicks, glue (instant and PVA).

  1. We use four green strips having a length of 30, 20, 15 and 10 cm. Using a toothpick, we twist them. We remove the part from the toothpick and let it bloom a little. We fix the end of the strip with PVA glue. We give all the spirals the shape of a drop by holding and slightly pulling one of the ends of the spiral up.
  2. Tightly wrap wide green stripes on a toothpick and glue the tip to them, preventing it from blooming. This will be our tree trunk.
  3. For the top of the Christmas tree, we make a drop from a green strip with a length of 30 cm.
  4. Now we begin to collect the Christmas tree, fixing its elements with instant glue. We glue the parts of the trunk and give the glue time to dry.
  5. We insert a toothpick inside the trunk and glue our droplets-twigs. We start gluing with the smallest ones, which we glue to the top of the Christmas tree.
  6. We make toys from yellow and pink stripes by twisting the paper without using a toothpick. You can fasten the ends until the paper is unwound, or you can make the toys a little looser and give them the shape of small droplets. Glue balls to the branches you like.
  7. We glue the drop at the very top (do not forget about it), and decoration on it.
  8. You can make, if desired, a stand. To do this, you will need to make nine curls from white paper strips. Tightly glue the curls together. Now we fix the Christmas tree on a snowy white stand with glue.

How to make a Christmas tree out of paper with your own hands (4 way)

You will need: green cardboard, glue, scissors, adhesive tape, colored paints, pencils, felt-tip pens. Stickers, glitter, etc. can be used as additional decorations.

    1. Fold a sheet of cardboard in half and cut it along the fold line.

    1. Fold the resulting parts in half again.
    2. Draw a half of the Christmas tree on one of the halves of the cardboard opposite the fold (see picture).

    1. Fold the sheets together and cut with scissors along the drawn line. As a result, you will get two Christmas trees of a similar size.
    2. Mark the middle of each tree discreetly using a ruler.
    3. Make an incision on one tree, starting from the top to the middle, and on the other from the bottom (base) to the middle.

    1. Insert the Christmas trees into the cuts to end up with one voluminous Christmas tree.
    2. To give the Christmas tree more stability, use adhesive tape - use it to glue the lower and upper halves.

  1. To decorate the Christmas tree, use pencils, felt-tip pens, sparkles and other materials. You can use a hole punch to make small multi-colored circles, which then stick on the Christmas tree. An asterisk can be glued to the top of the head with tape.

How to make a Christmas tree out of paper (5 way)

You will need: colored cardboard, glue, scissors, a hole punch, a small stick with a diameter approximately equal to the diameter of the holes that are obtained from the hole punch, decorations to taste.


A rectangular cardboard is taken, folded several times as shown in the picture above, and then pierced in the center with a hole punch. Then this cardboard is cut at an angle so that the craft in the end does not look like a Christmas tree (see picture). We drag our stick into the hole, and if it does not hold firmly, then we can fix it with glue. We decorate the Christmas tree. Jewelry can be attached with glue. Such a Christmas tree can be placed somewhere (if you make a basis for it), or you can hang it somewhere.

How to make an origami Christmas tree (6 way)

The material for such a Christmas tree will be one large magazine or several small magazines. If the magazine has a hard cover, then you can simply remove it.
Do the following for each page:

  1. Starting from the top right corner, fold the page at a 45 degree angle.
  2. Fold the sheet diagonally in half again.
  3. The corner that extends from below the borders of the magazine must be tucked up.
  4. We also do this procedure with the rest of the pages and as a result we get a beautiful origami Christmas tree.

How to make a Christmas tree out of paper using the origami technique (7 way)

First, you will need to make triangular modules, from which the Christmas tree will take shape. They are easy to make. You just need to know how to make them and be careful when creating them.

Modular craft
1. We fold the module

2. We collect twigs

3. We begin to collect the Christmas tree

How to make a Christmas tree from corrugated paper (8 way)

How to make a Christmas tree from paper strips with your own hands (9 way)

You will need:

  • colored cardboard or green colored/wrapping paper
  • tape (in this example, its width is 6 mm and length is 25 cm)
  • fine brush
  • 1 brightly colored bead (golden in this example)
  • a few beads of a different color (in this example, 12 brown beads)
  • scissors
  • ruler
  • pencil

1. Draw and cut strips of colored cardboard 4 cm wide and long: 8, 10, 12, 14, 16 and 18 cm.

2. With the tip of scissors or a needle, make 3 holes in each strip: 1 on the right, 1 on the left and 1 in the middle.

3. Take a thin brush and make a small loop at one end.

4. Start threading a thin brush through all the holes in the paper strips. Start with the longest strip and add the next one in descending order. Add 2 beads between each strip.

5. When all paper strips are used, add 1 bright bead to the top of the Christmas tree.

6. Make a loop at the end of the brush so that the craft can be hung. Cut off the excess part of the brush.

7. Pass the ribbon through the loop and tie the ends into a knot.

How to make a Christmas tree out of colored paper (10 way)

You will need:

    • thick cardboard or fiberboard
    • skewer
    • PVA glue, super glue or hot glue
    • colored cardboard (possible with patterns and ornaments)

1. Cut a rectangle out of cardboard, which should be slightly larger than the base of the future Christmas tree.

2. Stick the skewer into the cardboard and secure it with glue.

3. Cut out several circles of different sizes and colors from colored cardboard, 3 circles in each group. Make a small hole in the center of each circle.

4. Add a drop of glue to each hole and start stringing circles onto the skewer, starting with the largest. The distance between the circles can be up to 1 cm.

5. Cut out a star from cardboard and glue it to the top of the Christmas tree.

How to make a beautiful paper Christmas tree with roses for the new year (11 way)


You will need:

    • old newspaper or unwanted book
    • cone
    • PVA glue
    • scissors
    • beads (optional)

1. Make a cone out of paper and make many roses - a few large ones for the base of the cone, medium ones for the central part, and small ones for the top part.

* If you purchased a foam cone, then you need to paste over it with pieces of newspapers (see image).

To make roses (any color), follow these simple instructions:

  • Cut out squares of 10x10 centimeters from thick paper.
  • Draw spirals on the squares.
  • Cut out a circular strip along the intended spirals.
  • Wind the paper spirals from the outer edge to the inner.
  • Wrap the pink bud tightly and fasten the tip with glue.

2. Start gluing the paper roses to the cone, starting at the bottom of the cone and moving towards the crown.

3. If desired, you can glue 1 bead in the center of the roses - this way you can decorate all the roses or just some.

4. You can add one more piece of jewelry to the crown - it can be a piece of tinsel, a bell or an asterisk.

* If you want to learn how to make an asterisk, visit .

How to make a Christmas tree out of paper (12 way)

You will need:

- colored paper, colored cardboard, an old music notebook or an unnecessary book

- PVA glue

- curly scissors and simple scissors

- thick cardboard

- skewer

- glue brush (optional)

- decorations (sequins, bows, beads, buttons, stars).

1. Cut out a platform for the future Christmas tree from cardboard.

2. Insert the skewer into the cardboard platform and secure it with glue.

3. Start cutting out squares from paper. It will be more beautiful if you cut with curly scissors (they can be found in stationery).

* You need to cut 9-10 squares - first 9 squares with a side of 20 cm, then 9 with a side of 18 cm and so on, reducing each group of squares by 2 cm.

* Choose the total number of squares yourself. You can also choose the size of the squares yourself - if your Christmas tree is high, then you can reduce the size of the next group of squares by more than 2 cm, and if it is short, then less - 1-0.5 cm.

4. Cut out a few small squares from cardboard that will be between the squares of colored paper.

5. Start stringing 3-4 squares of colored paper, between which there will be a small cardboard square.

* If you use 3 squares between the cardboard parts, it is most convenient to cut 9 squares of each size.

* You can fix the squares on the skewer with glue.

6. To decorate the Christmas tree, you can gently apply some glue with a brush to the tips of the squares, then gently sprinkle glitter on them.

7. On the crown, you can glue a button with a bow or something else - an asterisk or a bead, for example.

How to make an original Christmas tree from colored Japanese paper with your own hands (13 way)

You will need:

- colored cardboard

- thick paper with a pattern (can be replaced with colored cardboard)

- colored or wrapping paper (you can use a page from an old magazine)

- a white sheet of A4 paper

- 2 skewers

- pencil and ruler

- PVA glue or glue stick

- scissors

- a darning needle (if necessary).

1. Cut out 14 rectangles of 2 of the same size from colored cardboard. In this example, 2 rectangles are 21 x 28 cm, two more are 18 x 28 cm, then (also 2 each): 16 x 28 cm, 13.5 x 26 cm, 12 x 26 cm, 9 x 25 cm, and 6 x 22 cm.

2. Preparing the basis for the Christmas tree:

Cut plain A4 paper into strips 2 cm wide. Roll the strip into a circle, add a little glue at its end and glue the next strip (see image). Repeat the same action until you glue all the strips into one large circle with a diameter of 3.5 cm.

* The larger the circle, the more stable the tree will stand.

3. Take a large rectangle of colored cardboard and start folding it with an accordion, 1.5 cm wide. Cut the ends of the accordion into a rounded shape.

4. Fold the accordion in half and glue the sides - you have a semicircle.

5. Repeat the same with the second rectangle, then glue two semicircles to form a circle - these will be the branches of the lower level of the tree.

* To secure the halves of one circle, you can pass a thin wire through them and twist its ends from the back.

6. Make similar images for 6 more levels of your Christmas tree.

7. Take colored or wrapping paper and cut off several small rectangles from it, about 2 cm wide, with which you will later cover the skewers.

The skewers will play the role of the tree trunk.

8. Thread the skewers through one large circle. Since you need to leave gaps of about 2 cm between the circles, these gaps need to be hidden, so we will wrap them in small rectangles of colored paper.

9. After each circle, wrap the skewers with colored paper, 2 cm wide, and glue its ends. Continue repeating this action until all branches of the tree are put on skewers.

10. It remains to insert the skewers into the round base (see point 2) and fix them with glue.

* You can decorate the top of the Christmas tree to your taste - a paper star, a bead or a button.

Watch also other videos on how to make a Christmas tree out of paper:

Now you know about the many ways to create a Christmas tree out of paper. Happy crafting!

From what only needlewomen do not make Christmas trees: from wire, beads, fabric, cardboard and even a bottle brush. Simplest and an affordable way is to make a Christmas tree out of paper with your own hands. Even a primary school child can make such a Christmas tree at labor lessons. A paper tree looks very interesting, especially if you use colored holographic paper, which can be found in the stationery store or use gift wrapping. If you have not found holographic paper, then colored or just white paper will do.

For work we need square sheet of paper. Therefore, if a sheet of paper is rectangular, then we fold it diagonally and cut off the excess.

Folding the square diagonally one once.

The resulting triangle is folded in half second once.

Third once.

And fourth once.

superfluous cut off scissors.

Expanding. And once again align the edge, cutting the paper in a straight line from one edge to the other.

It turned out such a detail for a paper Christmas tree.

Now you need to duplicate (smooth well) all the folds. But, one fold should be outside.

Here's what it looks like from the side.

View from above.

We cut each side of the tree according to the following scheme.

We bend every corner on every facet of the Christmas tree one side.

An elementary Christmas tree made of paper is ready.

But you can have a Christmas tree complicate.
Each corner is not just bent in one direction, but push through along the fold lines inside.

But such a tree does not hold when folded, especially from thick, elastic paper, so at the base it will be necessary glue all edges or make a stand.
Stand(base) are exactly the same piece of paper as the Christmas tree itself, only smaller sizes. If you make a square for a Christmas tree from an A4 sheet, then a rectangular strip remains. From this strip you can make a square, which is just right for the base.

It turned out another version of the Christmas tree made of paper.
You can put such a paper Christmas tree on your desktop, or you can thread a ribbon at the top, decorate with a bead and hang it on a Christmas tree like.


You can see other options for paper Christmas trees.

In addition to the main Christmas tree in the living room, large, richly decorated, you can make a Christmas tree with your own hands in each room. Our master class is dedicated to how to make it out of paper. But first, let's look at which paper Christmas trees are popular. They can be flat (on a wall, postcard, gift box) or voluminous (cone, "book").

A very convenient material for making a Christmas tree based on a cone is corrugated paper. The cone can be made from cardboard, thick paper, or buy a plastic blank. Strips of corrugated paper are glued onto the cone in a circle or spiral from the bottom up.

According to another technique, individual petals are made from corrugated paper. Both stripes and petals can be made in one color, or you can take several close shades, then the tree turns out to be more picturesque, more natural.


You can make the Christmas tree cone unusual by taking not green, but, for example, pink corrugated paper.

You can decorate it with sequins, sequins, buttons, bows. Or collect beads on a string and hang them on a Christmas tree, or you can just let her wear her beads.

Instead of corrugated paper for making Christmas tree needles, you can use ribbons, fabric, lace.

You can corrugate paper by making small or large folds on the sheet by gluing the parts to the cone.

The role of a cone can be played by a bottle of champagne, and instead of toys, sweets are woven into paper needles. This bottle can be both a table decoration and a gift.

There is even an origami technique where the sheet is folded many times, very neat geometric models are obtained.

The most realistic spruce branches are obtained when cuts are made on strips of corrugated paper, needles are twisted, paper is wound on wire. Then small branches are collected into larger branches.


Flat Christmas trees made of paper

Corrugated paper can not only stick on the cone. It can be mounted directly on the wall, it is very convenient if there is not enough space. A Christmas tree on the wall can be made from anything, it is enough to observe a triangular shape and tiering. Thanks to the simple shape of the Christmas tree, it can be made up of any objects and materials: from paper stickers to shelves hung in the form of a Christmas tree.

Paper Christmas tree

There is another way to make a voluminous Christmas tree, without using a cone at the base. If you make 2 or more identical parts of a whole Christmas tree out of paper, stitch them along the vertical axis and lay them out like a book, you can get a very spectacular tree.

We propose to make just such a Christmas tree. If you choose a carved stencil, then it will become as elegant as lace.

Before making a Christmas tree out of paper, we will collect all the necessary materials and tools. Of the materials we need: a stencil-pattern, watercolor paper and gouache. The thicker the paper, the better the tree will hold its shape after painting. Watercolor paper is designed for strong wetting, it will not warp from the water contained in the paint, but printer paper and drawing paper will not work.

You will also need tools: a sharp paper knife, paper clips, 2 brushes, a sponge for dishes, a needle and thread. Choose a clerical knife with breakable blades or a small construction knife. With a large brush or sponge we will paint the Christmas tree, and with a small brush we will draw stars and a crown on it.

First, print the stencil. We take 2 sheets of watercolor paper and put a stencil on them, fix them with paper clips along the edges.

It is important that the sheets do not move out when cutting. Place many layers of newspapers under the bottom, on a soft surface it is easier to cut and you will not ruin the table.

Cutting openwork blanks is the longest and most difficult stage. When it is finished, the most pleasant creative component comes.

Now the details need to be sewn. First, you can take a thicker needle, and how to make punctures along the stitching line at a distance of 0.5 cm from each other with an awl. Then sew through these punctures and hide the threads.

It's time to start painting the Christmas tree with green gouache. Gouache is good because, like all water-soluble paints, it dries quickly, lays down in a dense opaque layer, covering all previous layers, with it a bright matte surface is obtained.

After the green paint dries, and this will happen in an hour, you can begin to paint the details of the Christmas tree. Our stencil is very handy in this regard. The asterisks are well cut, and it will not be difficult to paint over them. I had silver, yellow and red paints. Instead of silver, white gouache with a drop of blue or red is well suited. Snow will be bright white, so it is better not to use it so that the details do not merge.

It remains to revive the Christmas tree with snow - drops of white gouache. We spray them with a large hard brush or brush evenly, preferably in the center. No need to try too hard to do it carefully, the snow sweeps as it pleases.

So we learned how to make a Christmas tree out of paper. This method is low-cost and fast, which means that it is possible to make a lot of Christmas trees using watercolor paper and gouache. Many of your friends will like this Christmas tree as a gift, because you can put it on the New Year's table, window sill. You can make this Christmas tree flat from one piece. Then it is good to hang it on the wall, window, glass door.

Simple paper Christmas trees

If you need a very simple way to make a Christmas tree out of paper, it is better to take colored sheets right away. If the tree is without a frame, then the sheets are thick: cardboard or thick colored paper for the printer.

With the book structure of the Christmas tree, it would be better to use PVA glue, and make New Year's toys on it from colored plasticine balls or cut it from self-adhesive paper.

Quickly make Christmas trees from circles of various diameters, corrugated.

Such stylish minimalist models especially benefit from their conciseness when executed in small sizes and one color.


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