Christmas Tree Decorating Ideas

“Oh Christmas tree, Oh Christmas tree!
Thy leaves are so unchanging
Oh Christmas tree, Oh Christmas tree,
Thy leaves are so unchanging”

-Nat King Cole

This week the focus is on Christmas trees. Last week we were giving you ideas in advance for the outfits that you could wear to the holiday parties that you’ll be attending, so this week we are giving you ideas of how to decorate your Christmas tree. We have found some cool themes that you could use to decorate your trees. Take a look at the pictures and little write ups that we did and be inspired. Again, these are just some ideas. There are so many other themes out there that you can do.

White: 

It may not be for everyone as it is not as traditional, but a white tree can look nice with the right decorations. You probably want to stick with one or two colours for the ornaments too many colours and types of ornaments may be too much and take away from the colour of the actual tree. 

White and gold always compliment each other nicely; actually white and any metallic colour always look very sharp. 

If you want to add some colour in with the white tree and make it look more traditional, try the traditional red and green and it will make the white tree pop.  Blue is another colour that looks so nice with white too.

Frames:

A way to make your tree more personal is to decorate it with different framed pictures of your family and friends.

Metallic:

Metallic colours are a nice way to spruce up your Christmas tree. If you combine it with a solid color then it will look really classic.

Two combinations that look good are blue and silver and red and gold.

Christmas Cards:

I’ve seen people do this before. They use their current Christmas cards or Christmas cards from previous year to decorate the tree. Very inventive!

Food:

Food is another good choice to use to decorate your tree. Try and pick something that won’t spoil. Candy is always a good idea; it’s very colourful and usually wrapped and then you can eat it after you take down your tree! I also found a tree that is decorated with seed packets for the garden lovers and one that is decorated with utensils, very different and cool. 

Kids/Homemade Trees:

You can get the kids to make a bunch of decorations or use their saved artwork to decorate the Christmas tree. You can also join in the fun by getting everyone in the house to make some decorations to put on the tree.

Beach:

Beach themes are always fun to work with. You can make more sweet and cute beach-like or you can make a fancy beach theme too.

Rustic:

Rustic can include a lot of things but I think of more neutral earthy calm colours with elements of tartan, wood, and burlap.

Mish-Mash:

Here we have a few trees that don’t fit in the rest of the categories but they are cool ideas all the same to try out.

Hearts!

Simple

Winter

Purple

Snowmen

Traditional

Bears

Angels

Cottonballs

Colorful

Rainbow