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Christmas 2022 is coming and we all want to decorate our house with a beautiful Christmas tree. However, to protect the environment and take advantage of resources, this year we can opt for a Recycled Christmas tree: with more than 50 ideas for Christmas trees with recycled materials. Sounds interesting right? Let’s see.
To make these Christmas trees you can recycle any recycled material that you discard daily, such as DVDs, CDs, or soda cans.
One of the most original ideas that we have seen in a bookstore is to make a Christmas tree with books. But we can also do it at home if we have several books (the bigger the better) and we can cover them with green paper to make it look better.
These trees are made with sheet music pages but we can also do it with other types of paper and with other designs. Then we put some typical Christmas decorations on them and they are as beautiful as these.
Finally, with some cardboard and other decorations, and recycled materials such as toilet paper rolls, we can make a tree as beautiful as this one.
Do you have soda cans at home? Do not throw them away as they can be used to make a recycled Christmas tree. If you don’t have enough you can always ask your neighbors to save those cans of soft drinks that they consume. A great idea!
We all have CDs and DVDs stored at home that we don’t use because if you don’t know what to do with them, we’ll give you the solution!
You can use them to make a wonderful recycled Christmas tree. Of course, it does not have to be as big as the one in the photo but it will surely look great at scale in your house. A most original Christmas tree!
This Christmas tree is a bit more complicated to make. If you live near a forest or field, you can go out and collect small logs or branches to make this beautiful Christmas tree.
It is a perfect activity to share with children.
And for more tree decoration ideas, you can see this other article we have:
Something as simple as the cardboard of toilet paper rolls or kitchen rolls can become something amazing if you let your creativity run wild, giving rise to a spectacular Christmas tree.
If you want another Christmas tree option, see how you can glue each roll of paper and join them all with a red cloth and, to make it brighter and brighter, you can insert a decoration ball inside each of the rolls.
If you have a park or a forest near your house, get used to having your eye ready to quickly find fallen branches when you walk. Try to make branches of a similar thickness, in this way the tree will be more homogeneous, although I also have to tell you that you can play with its dimensions through the thickness of the different branches.
As you have seen in other blog articles, pallets are a sensational option to create all kinds of decorative elements.
How could it be otherwise, you can also create a tree with pallets, you simply have to disassemble it completely and design your tree, joining the boards with different sizes so that it gives the feeling of having a tree in front of you.
As for the decoration, the easy thing is to place a garland of lights but you can also put tinsel on it, draw on the boards or color them so that they have Christmas touches.
Here is another very creative version of using the pallet to create a Christmas tree. If you are good at painting and you have a room that you can prepare for this process, you can varnish a pallet with a darker tone and match it, then hand-paint or spray-paint the corners of the pine to obtain this Christmas tree.
Once you have it, you only have to add decorative Christmas objects with the help of small nails or thumbtacks.
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Green plastic bottles have never had a second life as beautiful as the one you can give them through a Christmas tree.
The one we show you in the photograph requires a lot of manual work since each bottle has to be turned into dozens of strips of green plastic. Then you go putting them together until you get this recycled tree.
Are you passionate about wine or are you in the middle of collecting corks? Surely you have never thought that so many corks could become a spectacular Christmas tree.
If you do not have time to get as many corks, you also have the option of creating a tree skeleton and then placing corks around it.
Or another interesting option for those of you who have few corks is this, you can make mini trees or decorative objects for the Christmas tree by recycling wine corks.
The passion for recycling can take us to unexpected places if you don’t look at how dozens and dozens of bottles have become a spectacular Christmas trees. This is done on a large scale but you can achieve the same thing if you gather a few bottles at home and create a skeleton of it, which can hold them and in which you can insert some strings of lights.
Books hide so many stories and so many worlds to discover that it seems like a great idea to be able to create a Christmas tree full of illusions with them.
As you can see, to create one of these dimensions you will need patience and height, they are not placed exactly in the same way so that they can hold up well and give a sense of volume.
If a woolen sweater or sweater you have at home no longer works for you, don’t throw it away! you can create small rugs of different dimensions to create this Christmas tree pyramid.
A delicious way to show children the value of vegetables and make them more attractive to them is this broccoli tree.
Broccoli is sensational for these purposes because it already looks like a little tree. If you are putting together different broccoli or you are breaking them up into little trees, you just have to put them together and add some cherry tomatoes as if they were the mousse.
An important point if you are thinking of recycling egg cups in this way is that you have the option of not needing dyes since in many supermarkets we can already find egg cups in shades of green.
If you do not find them, then before assembling the Christmas tree you will need to paint them green. If you get down to it, the idea is to use different shades of green that can give a sense of volume and differentiated branches.
To decorate it in the photograph they have used bows and coffee capsules all recycled!
For a few years, we have been able to see how stairs have ceased to be only to reach other heights and have become decorative elements.
On this occasion, we see a possible Christmas tree that has been achieved by adding decorative elements such as lights and hanging objects. It’s easy and pretty.
If you are passionate about the newspaper, this is your Christmas tree. The only thing you need is to roll up rolls and rolls of newspaper to end up creating a tree that champions recycling.
Here we have another Christmas tree that has been made with tree branches, well, as you can see, you only need rope to fix the different branches and Christmas decorative objects that give it that sensational touch.
Many times we accumulate cardboard at home, either from an order we have made or from a Christmas gift that has been sent to us. Well, this is a great way to give cardboard a second life and get an ecological Christmas tree.
There is nothing you can’t use to make a recycled Christmas tree if you don’t take a look at these scrap cardboard elements with which a tree with a lot of volumes, different dimensions and a sensational appearance has been created.
For this tree, can you use any kind of cool napkins at home, posters, fabrics, tablecloths that you no longer use, or gift cards from other years?
Bring it back to life and create a completely varied and beautiful Christmas tree.
We could call this the tree of wishes or messages or whatever you want because each number hides something that you will be able to choose. Use a material such as hard cardboard, branches, or sheets that you have at home to create the tree, and then hang the cards with each of the numbers: ecology, decoration, and illusion in its purest form.
If you are a glass user, store bottles and bottles of the same size for a while to create a Christmas tree like this one. In addition to the glass, you will need sheets of hard cardboard or other resistant material that can hold the bottles. The higher the height, the fewer bottles and decorate with colors that contrast with the green and provide light.
The coffee capsules have never been seen in another like it because now you can have a mini Christmas tree at home with the aroma of coffee and recycled.
This can be a decorative element as well as a Christmas gift because there is nothing more endearing than these tree pineapples, made at home and with a lot of love.
You will need pineapples, green paint to dye them and some white paint to make snow. If you add a star to crown the pineapple it will be sensational.
Can you imagine a car workshop where they have this Christmas tree in the street? It would be awesome and if you have one, don’t hesitate to do it because you can get a lot of views for originality.
Many people collect license plate numbers or buy license plates in different countries to decorate their homes, but not everyone has thought of creating such an original Christmas tree. Note that not much is required, just add some lights and it becomes something very cool.
You can make these trees with the little ones in the house since the structure is in the shape of a cone and you can make it or buy it already made. They can take care of going around the structure with thick colored rope or very thick wool, then the colored buttons are glued and that’s it!
Those of you who have small children at home or usually do crafts, surely have felt cutouts lying around, so why not bring them to life by transforming them into this original tree that is only seen in the central area?
Nice, easy, and practical to store.
Not everyone would have imagined that PVC pipes could become something as striking and beautiful as this Christmas tree. You will need them to be pipes of different width sizes and thus get something random, fill them inside with colored balls or objects that you like and enjoy it.
Again, we can see how plastic bottles can be turned into recycled Christmas trees. You can buy the pack or you can make the circles yourself at home to hang each bottle, it is necessary to take into account the thickness of the neck of the bottles and that the circles are of different diameters to give that pyramidal sensation.
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How could it be otherwise, the ecological trend that we are experiencing in recent years is becoming a fashion that the whole world is willing to adopt.
In all areas of home decoration, the words eco-friendly or ecological are being used to promote a new way of living. A way that proposes to coexist with the care of the environment and thus not harm our world and the climate. It was just a matter of time.
In 2009, this ecological Christmas tree with its name, the Green X-mas tree, was launched. A work by the Australian designer Buro North created a tree that is 80% more eco-friendly than the traditional one.
This new ecological Christmas tree can be found in 3 different sizes so that each client can choose the one that best suits their space and decoration. In addition, it is made with recycled materials and uses a production technique that uses a low amount of energy.
Recycling allows us to achieve impressive things, such as an ecological Christmas tree created with glass bottles that, in addition to being more eco-friendly, the color of the bottles radiate more light and some sparkles that can be sensational in your home.
Being a tree that you can make yourself, you will be the one who chooses the size of it as the decoration. We have chosen two different photographs that I think you can find tremendously inspiring to make something of your own and beautiful.
Of course, it may not be the ideal material if we have children or a pet at home, since it can break more easily than with other types of recycling.
Who would dare to say that this tree is made with tomato cans or whatever food after seeing the perfect finish they have given it?
Our colleagues at Vintagellous have done an impressive job to clean each of the cans well, paint them with a beautiful green tone, and if you look closely, have perforated them so that they transmit light with very Christmas motifs.
The photo that we have selected to head this article will go in this section, along with other images that we have chosen so that you can see everything that a walk through the countryside can give of itself, pick up a piece of a fallen tree and give it a life that even you imagined
You can create beautiful ecological Christmas trees, which do not necessarily require infinite hours of work, but rather a personal project into which to pour all your creativity.
Then, you just have to choose the Christmas motifs and the colors that you would like to be part of it and that’s it!