Choosing Color Schemes for Christmas Trees

Series Summary

The celebration of Christmas marks one of the most festive holidays of the year. Traditionally a Christian holiday celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ, Christmas has taken on a myriad of secular customs and activities. The exchange of gifts and presents placed under a Christmas tree by Santa Claus is certain to bring fond memories for many children in Western cultures, and tales of Rudolph leading eight reindeer on the roof are classics. Often Christmas activities incorporate winter activities like sipping hot cocoa or using winter foliage as Christmas decorations.

In this free video series, our expert will demonstrate how to decorate a Christmas tree. This classic holiday tradition takes place in many households sometime in between the days after Thanksgiving and before Christmas Eve. A variety of ornaments can be used to decorate the Christmas tree and our expert will show you how to add large and small ornaments, ribbons, bows and garland. You will also get tips on how to set up an artificial Christmas tree, and add the Christmas tree topper. So get out your Santa hat and start up your holiday party!

Video Transcript

"Hi! My name is Leslie Mosselle and I'm Tony Ramirez, and we're from Tampa Bay. On behalf of Expert Village, this is how to decorate a Christmas tree. First, let's talk about color schemes. What I've got here, this is my actual tree skirt. I kind of based everything that I have for the Christmas tree that we're going to setup off of this. Before you start anything, if you do want a tree that matches, something that's going to look like Macy's would have or any of these big department stores, you want to have a good color scheme. My color specifically. I have this wine red color, plus this golden color here too. It's a little majestic if you want to say. With this, I can go on. I've got bows in gold. I have some snow flakes in red, some more ribbons, some more ribbons, and just everything. As you can see here, everything still goes together. I have my reds and I have my golds. If you want to have a Christmas tree that looks like department store Christmas tree, make sure you have some type of color scheme. If you're going to have your greens and reds just for classic Christmas, if you're going to have blue and silver. Whatever it is it's your choice. Whatever you want to do. In this case, I'm using red and gold, so we'll keep with this color scheme throughout the rest of the video. That's your color scheme."