How to Have a Beautiful Unbreakable Christmas Tree.

You can have a beautiful and unbreakable Christmas Tree.   Christmas is that magic time when kids of all ages want to be a part of the getting ready for this wonderful time. And, they can, with just a few changes to your "style" of decorating. If you go for good old-fashioned tree, I can help you out with this.  Things You'll Need: Christmas tree which can be: big and real you can't have a fake Big and fake, you can't kill a tree Tree's should sit on a table top so that little fingers and cats and dogs don't rummage around, it's safer up there. Oh, the taller the tree the better, every year we threaten to cut a hole in the ceiling cause the tree is too tall. um, and wide... Christmas tree stand that will hold plenty of water, you will need to freshen the water every day. um, not so often on the artificial tree. camera to capture everything your regular assortment of holiday ornaments any unbreakable ornaments large roll of ribbon, i used red, costco has 50yds for 7.50 last year. assorted width, get thinnest. hooks to hang tree topper garland which will come later (hey no butter and quit eating it) Step 1

The tree, this is a great time for family fun. Once it is picked out, cut and brought home tied to a car or truck, or purchased, a beautiful pre lit thank you very much tree in a box. The tree of your choice is now sitting in your home. Decide where the best location is, and put that baby up. I always want to have the tree put up forThanksgiving.  I was told by Halloween was tacky, so I do wait. So can you. If you go pre lit, you assemble that tree by slipping the three main parts together, plug the three parts together, and light it up.

If you choose real, I hope you also bought new lights, or started the untangle stuff in June. Lights are inexpensive now, and with the amount of time they are left burning on the tree's and the fact little tiny lights stay cool, I'd go with new. but i make all my ornaments, so it's a cost tradeoff.

Step 2

Wait till all the lights are in place and to the big ta daa thing, before the ornaments. That way, when you place the ornaments on, you will see how they will look, you get a better feel for them. Usually the smaller more breakable ornaments would go near the top of the tree, but first one precaution is to loop some wire around the tree top and then secure it to something handy. A nail in a wall, the curtain rod, something that will prevent the tree from falling over. After all you might just have a Rhodesian Ridgeback hound who weighs 120 lbs and the tree is where his bed used to be cept for the holidays and he didn't notice the 7' tree sticking out of the floor. Tie the tree to a wall or tall furniture.

Step 3 mil tree table top

Separate the sizes or ornaments, and also breakable from unbreakable. Get ribbon out, cut to be long enough to make a loop thru the ornament top and be enough to make a pretty bow. That will be how you will be attaching your ornaments this year. Yes, tie-ing one on, my husband insists started from this..... Help the littler ones manage the placement, they can point and you can tie. Might be a good time for a lesson on how to tie a bow. If you decide that might work, stand behind your child, and let them watch your fingers do the motions so they can follow you. I taught my daughter on her bathrobe and she sat in my lap she followed my hand movements and instant hugs worked. same thing.

Step 4 more ornaments some soft

Once your ornaments are on the tree, even with some of the breakable ones lower levels they are tied on, and should be fairly secured. Course you know your kids in question. At our house it was always our dogs in question. The one wooden hand painted ornament we used that was chewed by the big dog, just accident belonged to her. who knew she could read?

Decide if you want garland, if so, pop the corn, and start stringing it. thing about that stuff is it takes forever to do and i actually like it better with other touches. One year i used baby's breath in little clusters on the ends of the branches, it looked so cool. another year i had some poinsettia silk flowers i tucked into branches, looked really good with the bows.

you need to look at what you have, decide if you want the same thing every year for tradition, which I had most of the time, and the others sibs in my family do, yet I change some things around, one year i used small china dolls i got a great price and at the bottom of the tree, my doll collection. Another year, when they couldn't find my Christmas ornaments, I used white and gold doily thing like you use for valentines day, then bunches of curly ribbon, and had that in clusters curling down the tree. I did forgive the two of them for losing the ornaments, and since then, have gotten more into what can we do this year.

Step 5

If you need some ideas for kids ornaments, there is a great one that smells wonderful, with cinnamon sticks, get a short bundle and glue them with hot glue, so that the base is wider, 3 sticks 2 middle 1 on top. with a piece of ribbon, glue around the center of the bundle. add a decoration of your choice, I used a Christmas plaid with gold threads, and tiny pinecone, and a loop to hang. The house smelled like I was baking all day. poor husband walked in and to oven, with this grin. Poor baby should have known.... another similar would be use crayons to build the bundles. Small wreaths and candles can be made using tri beads... with a pipe cleaner as the base. and small clothespin can become ballerinas, with touches of paint for their toes, paint the torso to match, glue a wooden head with a gold hang cord already slipped in place, and a face painted on. for the tutu, a length of ribbon or lace gathered with wire, and secured to the "hips" of the pin. you can bring excess wire up over the shoulders and make an x with them, secure it back around. once you do it, it makes more sense. the reason for all that is you need a beige pipe cleaner for her arms. which you bend one up one down.  

Guess that could have been an article all on it's own huh.  sorry!  will get camera functional...

  I hope this gives you some ideas, if you want a real tree or fake... actually Jon is allergic so we have to do fake...and it looks very real and is beautiful. I make jokes but it really is.And since my tree is up long enough to dust, it makes sense to have one that will not die ideas for how to not lose ornaments to small children and pets by tie with ribbon method let the kids help with placement as you tie. be changable...don't stick to every year the same round silver bulb has to be at the very top.... good luck look out, its addictive and I plan on doing