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| An Earth Friendly Tree Has Ornaments the Can Be Recyled. In this case they can feed the Birds. |
The trend over the last
few years to go green fits nicely with those who want to trim a country
Christmas tree. There are ways to decorate your tree with completely
biodegradable ornaments and trim. Most of us will not totally go with an earth
friendly Christmas tree, but putting one together can give your home a country
Christmas look and be a fun holiday project for the family.
Try trimming your tree with dried apple and orange slices.
You take twine and loop a piece through each slice and hang them on the tree.
To add a nice smell to your tree you can dust the fruit slices with cinnamon.
When you are finished with these edible decorations remove the twine and put
them out for the birds and critters in your back yard.
No country Christmas tree would be complete without strung
popcorn and cranberries. Take dental floss and a large needle and string
popcorn and cranberries together. The wax on the floss makes the cranberries
and popcorn slide on easy. After Christmas simply string the garland on the
outside bushes for a nice New Year's treat for the birds.
Take the mittens that your kids outgrew last year and hang
them on the tree. Do the same thing with bright colored socks that have lost
their mates and hair ribbons your girls no longer use. You can save the lone
socks for the tree next year or make them into dust mittens (they are great to
put on your hand spray with polish and get into nooks and crannies when you
clean). You can save the old mittens or donate them to Goodwill.
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| Make a Hat and Mitten Tree and Donate the Ornaments to Charity |
You can make your cookie cutter do double duty. When you
are done with your holiday baking clean them up ;and uses green or red ribbon
as hangers and put the cookie cutters on the tree. Cookie cutter ornaments make
great gifts too. Hang the cookie cutter on a piece of cardboard that you have
covered with red or green construction paper. Print your sugar cookie recipe on
white paper and paste it on the cardboard. Make it small enough that the whole
cookie cutter and recipe can be hung on a tree.
You can recycle a white sheet for a Christmas tree skirt.
A cute idea is to outline each child's handprint on the sheet and embroider the
hand print with the year and child's name. You can add a new hand print for
each child every year. If you do not want to keep the tree skirt simply give
the kids laundry maker pens and let them decorate the sheet. When you are
finished with the sheet cut it into cleaning rags.
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| let the kids dress their bears for Holiday Decorations |
f you have babies or toddlers in the house have the older
kids 'dress' their teddy bears in out grown clothes and take up residence under
the tree. Dressed bears from Build a Bear cost a fortune and the younger kids
will get a thrill out of seeing the teddy bears dressed in their old clothes.
Don't forget the family pets when decorating the tree.
Hang a fuzzy mouse from the dollar store somewhere on the tree when the family
cat will not see it. You can also hang colored milk bones on the tree.
Christmas morning give the pets the "ornaments" to keep them occupied
while you open your family presents.
With a little creativity you can create a very unique and
even somewhat edible tree that looks great and is very earth friendly.
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