Original ideas for a Christmas tree, decorated with a fantasy

New Year's songs, the ringing of bells, champagne ... The long-awaited holiday is already approaching. All of us will be in the warm company of native people. And even if this year 2014 you celebrate not as planned, then do not despond. It's a magical night, and maybe it's all as it should be.


But what a New Year without a Christmas tree? For several centuries Elkaya is the main attribute of this holiday. The first Christmas trees appeared in Europe, and this tradition began to spread throughout the world. Originally decorated with a New Year tree apples and nuts, and already later began to make wooden toys on the tree.

For today people buy by the New Year a live or artificial Christmas tree, decorate it with usual balls and a snowball. Only some people approach this issue with imagination.

But we recommend this year to put an artificial Christmas tree. The symbol of 2014 is a tree. And ruining a tree - bring on trouble in this year. And if you like the smell of needles, when it is in the room, you can simply buy twigs and make a New Year's wreath. It will smell and delight you. Or just light an aroma lamp with pine needles and enjoy the smell. Perfect aromatherapy for body and soul.

Fashionable toys on the Christmas tree

In the world there is also a fashion for Christmas toys. The first one was decorated with fruit and all kinds of sweets. Then the fruit was replaced with glass toys. And then the glass-blowers began to produce different figurines for the New Year tree. So the era of toys for the Christmas tree began.

Everyone liked the idea of ​​decorating a Christmas tree with glass toys. This fashion spread throughout Europe. Very soon, "glass" and reached the United States. It was fashionable to decorate the sleeper with toys made of cardboard, wax and wood.



By 2014, a green wooden horse will symbolically decorate the tree with a wooden toy.

Very beautiful look blue balls with a picture of a horse. It's just a fairy tale!

Let's remember the 2012 fashion. All toys were made in the style of minimalism. Strict balls without excess. It was still topical to decorate all the bows. But in 2013, again came the fashion for bright and cheerful balls and toys. Multicolored joyful garlands delight the eyes.

On the eve of 2014 it is fashionable to decorate a Christmas tree with natural materials. Choose toys of wood or straw. This will please our Loshadka. Very nice looking toys made of cloth and felt.

Want a stylish Christmas tree? Then decorate in the style of Provence, this is what is now a success. Choose soft shades of blue and green, look good cream, gray. Designers are advised to decorate herringbone tastes. Remember the past you can tie cookies and candy on herringbone. Delicious little girl will please the kids!

Decorating a Christmas tree is interesting and exciting, especially with children. But what if you want something original? Today you have a great mood and you have a desire to make a merry Christmas tree! So let's try.

Fir-tree from photos

How delicious the fir smells ... Is not it? But I want something creative. Let's try to make a Christmas tree from photos. For this, it is necessary to build a stick and twigs with a green cardboard box. And hang on your twigs your photos with loving people. And we put gifts under our Christmas tree. And do not forget to decorate the children with toys!

Pillows for the Christmas tree

Have you seen a Christmas tree from pillows? It's very funny looks. Pillows should be all different size. And we stack them on each other. Beautiful Christmas tree can be decorated with colored light bulbs.

Book tree



Do you like reading books and you have a lot of them? Then build a New Year tree. You can make it yourself. The more books, the better. Now such trees can be found in bookstores.

Original Christmas tree of different materials

For such a tree, you can take any material. Let it be chestnuts or bumps, you can take pasta or coffee beans. Make the cone of the fir tree and glue it with the selected product. It looks nice. Such a Christmas tree can be put on your desk.

Cardboard tree

With children, you can make an interesting Christmas tree from cardboard or even paper. The easiest way to make a New Year for yourself. The size can be made anyway. There are actually a lot of options. We recommend making a couple of cardboard circles of different sizes and fixing them on the spoke, making dashes at the edges, and hanging toys on them. It will be fun!

Spiral herringbone

It looks like a spiral Christmas tree. It can be made of metal or wire. You will need a rod or a spoke on the stand. All this construction will be attached to it. From a thin metal or cardboard you can cut a circle. Cut it in a spiral, and then just untwist the rod. Here and the simple Christmas tree is ready. Decorate your Christmas tree as your soul will be beneficial. You can decorate even with Christmas tree branches.

So if there is no opportunity to buy a Christmas tree, then it is always possible to make it yourself from improvised materials. Best of luck and merry New Year!