Things You'll Need:
- Raffia
- Christmas Tree Lights
- Christmas Trees
- Garden Shears
- Garden Trowels
- Gardening Gloves
- Hand Cultivators
- Miniature Clay Pots
- Watering Cans
- Bass Fishing Lines
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Step 1
Set up your tree.
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Step 2
String the lights on your tree first. Look for garden-related novelty lights to enhance the effect of the garden theme.
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Step 3
Collect old garden tools such as trowels and hand cultivators from secondhand stores or garage sales. Clean the rust off the old tools with a wire brush and lay them out on newspaper. Spray-paint the clean, dry tools with the color of your choice. (Red or gold stand out well against the green foliage of the tree.)
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Step 4
Tie red or green velvet bows onto your painted garden tools. Hang them on the heavy branches of the tree with fishing line. Thread the thin, transparent line to the thick branches near the trunk. (Fishing line will support tools up to 16 pounds, depending on the weight test of the line.)
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Step 5
Decorate the handles of plastic watering cans with bows and sprigs of holly. You can even paint the cans to match the tools, if you like. Support heavy tools with heavy test line, or snuggle them into the foliage of the tree.
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Step 6
Spray-paint old garden gloves to match the other tools. Staple red bows to the gloves. Hang the gloves on the tree by stapling a loop made from fishing line directly onto the glove.
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Step 7
Make clay-pot and raffia tassels. Grab a handful of raffia, straighten it out strand by strand, double it over, and then wrap the midpoint with a single strand of raffia. Thread this single strand through the drainage hole in a tiny clay pot. Trim the tassel so that the bottom is even. Tie a loop in the strand that runs through the drainage hole and hang the ornament on the tree.
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Step 8
Make a garland by folding and pleating seed packets, then threading them onto fishing line. Use one packet every 8 to 10 inches along the line. (The packets should resemble little butterflies when pleated.)
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Step 9
Tuck silk plants and flowers into any bare spots to complete the gardener's Christmas tree.
