O Christmas Tree Decorations Need Not Be Expensive.

For those who have a hard time buying all those fancy Christmas tree ornaments available on the market, creating your tree on a budget can be cost effective and rewarding. You, too, can have a nice-looking, ornamental Christmas tree without looking cheap and commercial. Beside being easy on the budget, these Christmas tree decorations for students are a joy to make. The instructions can serve well for the budget-conscious individual.

COOKIE TREE:

Make a nice-looking and yummy cookie tree. Be imaginative by baking cookies in a myriad of shapes and sizes. Brighten it up by adding color to the cookies with unique rainbow or colored sprinkles to give the cookies an extra color boost. To put the cookies up on the tree, roll a piece of thick paper - the size of a dime - and insert it in the surface of the cookie before putting it in the oven. Doing this will allow the holes to remain open during baking. After baking, thread ribbons into the holes of the cookies and trim the tree with your cookies.

On the top of the tree, place a large gingerbread cookie with a small Christmas light in its center. Before putting this gingerbread cookie in the oven, follow the same trick by inserting a rolled piece of thick paper in the center of the cookie. You can dress up the gingerbread cookie using colored icing with Christmas color themes.

Furnish a cute tree skirt by using an apron that has nice images of fruits, or even cookies. Now you have your very own Christmas cookie tree.

SNOWY TREE:

There is another cheap way to build and decorate a beautiful tree with a snowy Christmas tree. Gather cotton balls and stick them on the tips of the branches. Have white glitter ready and sprinkle it over the cotton balls to give it a sparkling effect. Or you can cut silver garland into little tiny strips to achieve the same effects.

Need something to put on top of the tree? Build a snowman. Just by using your favorite pastry dough, shape the dough into the form of a snowman. Cover the entire snowman with white sugar frosting. Use chocolate chips for his eyes, and carve a nose using a knife for a small carrot. Make a smile on his face is easy by using chocolate from a pastry bag.

To make the tree skirt, a large piece of cardboard will do. Form the cardboard into an arc shape design. Add water to a couple cups of flour. Paste the flour onto the cardboard to make it appear like fresh, fallen snow. Also sprinkle white glitter to heighten the effect.

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© Kerry Beck, 2007
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