Spruce up your home this holiday season with an alternative Christmas tree! If you live in a small apartment or dorm room — or simply don't want to deal with the hassle of getting a tree — you can channel holiday spirit in your home without any pine needles.
Below, we've rounded up the most adorable DIY Christmas tree ideas we could find. We also put together a list of our favorite homemade Christmas decorations that are guaranteed to make things merry and bright!
1. Cut out your own Christmas tree — no need to cut down one.
2. Get crafty with paint to make a plywood Christmas tree.
3. Use leftover gift wrap ribbon to make mini trees.
4. Fold scrapbook paper into cute Christmas trees.
5. Use string art to draw a tree.
6. Glue together some twigs.
7. Or reuse scrap wood.
8. Black stenciled Christmas trees look great in a spare black-and-white room.
9. Repurpose a ladder.
10. Decorate a small, dried tree with ornaments.
11. For the beer drinkers: Layer bottles to form a very impressive Christmas tree display.
12. Hang ornaments on your house plants.
13. Use washi tape to draw a Christmas tree on the wall.
14. Create a winter forest diorama.
15. Use books to build a tree.
16. Make a felt-shingled tree.
17. Draw a tree on a chalkboard painted wall.
18. Draw a Christmas tree on craft paper or fabric.
19. Make a branch ladder tree.
20. Give a money tree as a gift.
21. For a more kitschy decor, hang a bunch of knickknacks in the shape of a tree on the wall.
22. There are a few options for Christmas tree origami...
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23. Create a Christmas-tree garland.
24. Create a tree tower using boxes.
25. Put up a tree Advent calendar.
26. Create a centerpiece with green paper rolled into trees.
27. Make trees wrapped in the fabric or wrapping paper of your choosing.
28. Use Post-It Notes.
29. The layers of these trees are made from wire wrapped in ribbon.
30. Hang balloons on the wall in the shape of a tree.
31. Make a light tree.
32. Glue together wine corks to form a tree.
33. Make a family of 3-D gingerbread Christmas trees.
34. The simplest tree: Tape paper plates to the wall.
35. Reuse your old newspapers.
36. Create an outline of a tree using a rainbow pom-pom garland.
37. Make a Christmas tree crudité as a table centerpiece.
38. This tree is made from slivered almonds:
39. For the gardeners, here's a Christmas tree made from a tomato cage.
40. Create a display from Christmas cards.
41. Make a rosette tree using satin fabric.
42. Create a hanging ornament structure that resembles a tree.
