Wire Tree Tutorial

Trees made from wire and decorated with beads can make attractive decorations.

You can craft small trees from wire to make decorations, ornaments or jewelry. You'll only need a few simple tools and you can easily learn the basic techniques required from online tutorials, such as Kimberly Chapman's Beaded Tree tutorial.

Features

Small wire trees can be made into pendants or brooches. Larger versions can be made into ornaments. Because you can attach such items as beads or small novelties to the ends of the wire, you can even make wire tree holiday decorations as suggested in Fantasy Whispers' Halloween Tree tutorial.

Materials

Craft wire is inexpensive and easy to work. You can find it in a range of thicknesses and colors. You can also use recycled copper wire or telephone wire. You can decorate your tree with glass beads, gemstones, buttons, small toys or mini holiday decorations. For jewelry, precious metal wire works well as in the Tree of Life tutorial from How To Make Jewelry.

Tools

You will need a pair of pliers and some wire cutters. If you are recycling wire for your tree, you may need wire strippers. Many tutorials recommend that you use pliers with smooth round jaws that won't mark the wire. Needle-nose pliers are a good choice.

References

• Kimberly Chapman
• How To Make Jewelry: Tree of Life Wire Work Tutorial
• Fantasy Whispers: Halloween Tree
• Princeton Online: Art Lesson Plan: Wire Sculpture

Resources

• Kimberly Chapman: Wire Twisting Tips