How to Decorate a Christmas Tree to Celebrate Your First Baby
First-time parents tend to be enthusiastic about the arrival of their new baby, and for good reason. What better way to celebrate the season than to decorate your Christmas tree celebrating your baby's first Christmas? However, purchasing those "Baby's first Christmas" ornaments and decorations can be costly. This is a simple, endearing way to decorate the tree to celebrate the new baby and enjoy a memorable first Christmas. Does this Spark an idea?
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Things You'll Need
- Pacifiers
- Toy baby bottles
- Baby socks or mittens
- Several small stuffed animals
- Baby blocks
- Ribbon
- Christmas hooks
- Toy babies
- Wash clothes (to be folded into tiny diapers)
- Pictures of your baby (glued on Christmas paper and cardboard)
- Rattles
- Red and green scraps of felt material
Instructions
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Prepare the Christmas tree. Whether you purchase a fresh tree or use an artificial one, set the tree up in the stand. Make sure the tree is large enough to place all of those special baby items.
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Attach the Christmas ribbon to the ornaments. Glue ribbon to the blocks, tie ribbon on the pacifiers and tiny replicas of toy babies so you will be able to hang them on your tree. Thread ribbon through the baby mittens or socks.
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Decorate the toy babies. Fashion a small Christmas hat out of tiny pieces of red felt by simply cutting a triangle and making a cone shape which will be glued to the top of the babies' heads. Glue a small piece of cotton from a cotton swab for the tassel top. Finish by wrapping the baby in a green swaddling cloth and tie with colorful ribbon to secure the cloth.
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Arrange the ornaments by size. Place the smaller ornaments (pacifiers, rattles, baby blocks, socks) on the top portion of the tree. Use the larger items such as Christmas framed pictures of your baby to decorate the middle and lower portion of the tree.
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Place the stuffed animals around the tree. Create a "Noah's Ark" effect by using pairs of various stuffed animals and tie colorful Christmas ribbon around the necks of the animals.
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Glue a picture of the baby on pretty paper. Hang the baby's picture on the tree with the words, "First Christmas" either printed in colored marker or glitter on the picture frame.
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Tips & Warnings
Do not forget to take a picture of the tree for the baby book as a keepsake of baby's first Christmas.
Save the homemade ornaments in a box and give them to the "baby" when he or she has their first child.
Never leave the baby alone with a Christmas tree. Accidents can occur when babies try to grab at Christmas trees and the tree topples over on them.
