How to Add Big Branches to an Artificial Christmas Tree

Video Transcript

"Ho! Ho! Ho! I'm Matt Cail, and on behalf of Expert Village, I'm going to show you today how to set up and decorate an artificial Christmas tree. Next, let's start getting our branches on our Christmas tree. This is where organizing your pieces is going to come in handy, because the bigger your Christmas tree is, the more different branch sizes you are going to have. It really helps to have all of those categorized. Here, I have my big branches closest to me and the smaller branches (which I'm not getting to yet) further away so that I don't accidentally confuse them. A lot of artificial Christmas trees will color code the branches. In this case, it's kind of like a brown-green that shows this is the longer branches. It will be a different color on your shorter branches. So let's install these branches on our main trunk. Your branch should have basically a metal strip which is bent right around a ninety-degree angle or so. And what you are going to do is you are going to fit this metal piece into the metal slot on your main trunk. You are going to make sure that it's further in there so that you have some wiggling, but not a whole lot. This base actually right here is going to be surrounded with these branches. So we are going to keep putting in the branches, all around this base until all of our big branches are hanging. Then, after we actually have all of our big branches on, we are going to make sure that they are all evenly spaced and that they are hanging at the same level around here and that they don't have something that is like hooked up like this; everything is nice and flush. At the same time, don't be jamming down on these branches. You don't want to break your trunk or bend the metal piece which is also holding your bigger branches. "