How to Decorate a Color-Theme Christmas Tree
Traditionally, Christmas trees are pretty discordant - multicolored lights, multicolored ornaments, paper chains from one kid's classroom and popcorn-and-cranberry strings from another's. This year, soothe your eyes and spirit with a color-coordinated tree. Does this Spark an idea?
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Things You'll Need
- Ribbons
- Christmas Tree Ornaments
- Christmas Trees
- String Lights
- Tree Stands
Instructions
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Buy a tree and set it up.
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Choose a color scheme, such as all white, blue and gold, or red and pink. You may want to take a look at the ornaments you have before you choose, to see if one or two colors predominate.
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Put lights on the tree. For best effect, all the bulbs should be the same color or at most three colors (such as red, white and blue).
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Collect the materials you'll need. Ornaments come in many colors, and many stores sell single-color boxes of icicles and glass balls.
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Remember that anything is fair game. For a red-and-pink tree, you might start with all your red ornaments and then add the decorations left over from last year's Valentine's Day party. For a "blue Christmas," start with blue lights and your blue ornaments and then add strings of blue beads (and don't forget to put Elvis on the stereo!). If you're a football fan, choose your team colors - and put the helmet at the top.
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Buy some ribbon to tie everything on. Any string or cord will work, but ribbon comes in colors to match any color scheme.
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Attach the decorations to the tree, starting with the biggest items. Move on to medium and smaller items, arranging as you go. Use the ribbon to tie the items to the ends of branches.
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Turn off the lights and enjoy your creation!
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Tips & Warnings
Scale your decorations to the size of your tree. If you're decorating a very large or very tall tree, you can use bigger items.
Generally, larger decorations look nicer toward the bottom of the tree, with the tiniest fitting better in proportion to the narrow top of the tree.
