How to make a Christmas tree from paper?

New Year and this festive bustle, bring beautiful memories. For children, the time for gifts of sweets and vacations. In general, probably most people have this is their favorite holiday. When the whole earth is strewn with silver snow, and in the house, it smells of Christmas tree and tangerines.

Each family has its own traditions, someone goes to rest, someone goes to visit the older generation. But what unites everyone is that for the new year a tree should be in the house, and it does not matter if it is live or artificial. From childhood, I remember this sacrament of dressing a Christmas tree in elegant colorful toys.

How to beautifully decorate an apartment for the new year with your own hands?

But if everything is clear with the Christmas tree, then how beautifully it will decorate the apartment for the new year? We already published on our website an article about Christmas decorations in the form of snowflakes (How to make a snowflake out of paper). Today we will share with you the secret of how to beautifully decorate a house with your own hands, using paper Christmas trees.

I think many of the readers know several ways to make a Christmas tree out of paper with their own hands. It’s not at all difficult to make one Christmas tree that can take only a couple of minutes. And what is there to do it, cut out the blanks, fastened it to you and you’re ready. This is indeed so, but we have found several options for you on how to make this very Christmas tree even more colorful and interesting.

We are all accustomed to small table Christmas trees made of paper, but we suggest thinking broader, you can make a very beautiful large Christmas tree made of paper and decorate it with, for example, garlands. Yes, everything here is not so simple as with small ones, but still, such paper Christmas trees look more beautiful. A large paper Christmas tree needs to be made from very dense cardboard so it will be more reliable. After you cut everything out you made a poor Christmas tree, you can paint it. There is already only your imagination, you can make it green, white and even black. It all depends on the interior.

We also picked up several options for how to make a small Christmas tree out of paper. These instructions are very simple and clear that even a child can handle them. In our article, you will find how to make a variety of Christmas trees, very simple and quite complex. We also found several options for how to make a Christmas tree using the origami technique. A lot of great ideas for your creativity.

New Year’s paper crafts are something comparable to the ceremony. For example, during this New Year period, you need to have time to eat sweet tangerines, walk along a snowy street, drink aromatic cocoa, watch some kind of New Year movie or cartoon, and undoubtedly make a New Year’s papercraft. This joyful vanity, should not deprive you of pleasure enjoy this joyful and cheerful period. When the gray boring streets are decorated with New Year’s garlands and the cities begin to shine with hundreds of lights. You just need to be able to just stop and breathe in the frosty air of winter, and enjoy this wonderful time.

Also, our article will be useful for primary school children. Our ideas will come in handy for the embodiment of your paper Christmas crafts. In labor lessons, children often make interesting paper crafts in the New Year theme.

The simplest paper Сhristmas tree

All you have to do is cut two identical parts out of paper, preferably thick cardboard. And cut them in the middle, as shown in the picture. It remains only to connect them and decorate them.

Origami Christmas tree

You’ll need:

One sheet of paper
Scissors

Let’s start making a Christmas tree

We need to take a square sheet of paper and bend it in half on each side, Figure 1;
Fold the sheet of paper in half, in front of you is a rectangle, connect the upper right and left corners inside the figure to make a triangle, Figure 2;
Here is a triangle, connect the right and left corners in the middle, Figure 3;
Now you need to wrap the bent corner in the other direction, as shown in Figure 4, the same thing, you need to do with a different angle;
Repeat the same steps with the other side of the triangle, Figure 6;
Take the scissors and cut off the unnecessary parts, figure 7,8,9;
Done.

Volumetric simple Christmas tree made of paper

It is also a very simple way to make a Christmas tree, but such a paper beauty looks very stylish and beautiful. What we need is to cut 6 pieces of fir tree blanks from thick cardboard. When you cut the blanks, cut them in the indicated places and join. Done.

Volumetric multilayer paper tree

To make this Christmas tree from paper, you need to cut blanks of different sizes from colored paper, such as shown in the figure. The workpiece is large in size for the base and reducing the size of the workpiece to the top. When everything is ready, you need to wrap the protruding parts into a cone, as shown in the figure. Then it remains just to assemble a Christmas tree and decorate.

Snowflake tree

We already talked about how to make a snowflake out of paper. What we need to make a Christmas tree:

Snowflakes from the paper of different sizes, the more they will be, the more magnificent the Christmas tree will turn out;
Scissors;
Glue;
Beads;
Wooden or metal stick for the base;
The pot.

Prepare the snowflakes;
Take a base and put snowflakes on it, alternating a snowflake bead. Fix elements with glue;
When the Christmas tree is ready to fix it in a pot, you can, so that the pot is not empty, fill it with rain;
Done.