Christmas Decorating-Adorning
a Living Christmas Tree or any Other Tree With More Than Just Lights
By taking your
common indoor/outdoor light strand and combining it with some light colored plastic ornaments, you can make your house the
envy of the neighborhood during the holidays with a unique and festive light garland that most folks wouldn't have even considered
putting together.
You'll want to start out by prepping your ornaments first. If you don't have any that can be spared
for this project, you should be able to find starter craft making ornaments at any of your better craft stores or online.
You want to drill a hole large enough on opposite sides of each other on every ornament to be able to feed your strand of
lights through, but not so large that the lights easily fall out. You can make a pilot hole to get started with a smaller
drill bit.
Then, just feed your strand of lights through each ornament, evenly spacing however many you
made to give a nice coverage to the tree. I decided to not go overboard, since these were larger size ornaments, and
my Leyland Cypress they'd be hanging on might not take too kindly to so much weight. I spread 16 ornaments over the
5 foot tree. That's it. Hang and enjoy your festive light garland, and store it away as is for the off season
ready to hang again next year. You may want to try using a multi-display type of light strand to vary the light show.
Supplies:
- Single plug indoor/outdoor clear Christmas lights (Make sure your single strand will
be sufficient for your size tree)
- Solid color plastic ornaments (must be white or very light colored so light can
shine through)
- Drill gun (Don't get scared-it's only a power tool)
- Drill bit (9/32 size)
Merry
Christmas!
Stephen Baird is the founder and well renowned artisan of highly detailed custom
Harvest and Christmas villages for commercial Christmas decoration displays. Stephen's Village Fantasies company enables him to share his passion
for Christmas traditions and display ideas with everyone. This article may freely be reprinted, but must have author
reference box intact including links.
