Making Tabletop Christmas Trees

Approximate Time: 1 hour

Supplies

• green Styrofoam cone
• craft leaves
• small round paper box
• decorations of choice
• glitter paint
• white paint
• hot glue

Instructions

1. Glue the small round paper box to the bottom of the Styrofoam cone for the trunk.
2. Cut the metal stems off of the craft leaves, leaving about a half an inch.
3. One row at a time, insert the metal stems straight into the Styrofoam cone and then hot glue down. The larger your cone the more leaves you will need.
4. After all the rows have been added, shape the tree by bending the leaves until you have your desired shape.
5. Paint the tips of the leaves with glitter paint and/or white paint.
6. Hot glue on the decorations of your choice. I used tiny pinecones, two tiny doves, the beads from holiday picks that I cut apart, and a star for the top.

By Lynn from Albany, NY

Boy, I sure do! I haven't thought about that in years. Only, I don't think we used phone books - too many pages where I grew up. We used magazines, but I am sure it is the same process.
Happy Holidays!

So how is it done? Does anyone know how to do it, or does anyone have a picture of it?
thanks!

Susan Sanders-Kinzel
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December 11, 20070 found this helpful

I thought we had instructions here on ThriftyFun but haven't been able to find them. Here are some instructions but they don't have a picture of a finished one:

www.robeth.com/.../phonebookchristmastree.htm

Melody Bressler-Hay

December 11, 20070 found this helpful

I remember making them from Reader's Digest Magazines. Back then I only liked the jokes anyway. Here is a website with instructions to do it

Like the other responder, our telephone books were too large for such a craft.

I am sure I remember making a different variation of this in grade school. We did use a magazine, but we cut out the shape of pine tree branches - like a flat half of a tree. Then when you folded it back on itself it fanned out and looked like a tree (with no trunk of course, or it would fall over LOL). I remember it was spray painted gold as well.

Tina - Oshawa, ON

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December 11, 20070 found this helpful

For Mia, who wanted to know how this was done: you simply fold the pages, including the covers, in half on the diagonal(top left corner to bottom right corner). When completed the front and back covers were taped together and it formed a cone shape. Then we would spray paint them green, then add glitter, those little lick-and-stick stars, etc....

I remember doing this with Reader's Digests in school, but we made them into Angels instead of trees. You just put a foam ball for the head and a pipe cleaner halo and some sort of wings.