10 Easy DIY Christmas Trees | Christmas in July

Hi friends, it's Jacqueline with Craftin' with Jacqueline and in today's video we are going to be doing a bunch of DIY cone trees for a beautiful display of Christmas, for Christmas in July. I displayed these up on like the tops of my cabinets and honestly I think it would be awesome to add a couple more but I do need a couple more ideas so if you've got them go ahead and leave them in the comments for me so that I can really make this top of my cabinets absolutely gorgeous for 2025's Christmas display. Okay starting off with this first tree I took some fabric that I have this is just some white cotton fabric that has a little bit of texture to it. It is kind of see-through so I don't usually use it for anything for sewing wise so I thought it would be perfect for this project and I am just taking those and cutting them into two inch strips and then cutting those strips into two inch like little squares. Once I think I have enough cut out, spoiler alert, I do actually need to cut out more later but once I think I've got a decent amount I am going to start by using a knitting needle or anything that can poke this styrofoam cone and I just got these styrofoam cones from Hobby Lobby. They come in a pack of two. I believe also Walmart has a couple or you could also get them on Amazon. I have found them there. I'll go ahead and link some for you in the description box below but once I get these little squares I basically just poke the center with the knitting needle and push it through to the foam. Now I did this last year I believe or two years ago for my Christmas in July video as well just using this same technique but for a ornament. I'll go ahead and also link that one for you guys or add it to the end of the video so that you guys can look at that one too but and then I just wanted to add a little bit more to this foam just because this foam cuts off at the very top so it would look a little odd not to have it all the way up to a point so I did just add one of these little pieces. These cones are actually from the Dollar Tree so I just cut off the top of that cone and added that to the top and just with some hot glue and then continued with the little square fabric pieces. For this next one I am also using a styrofoam piece and this one is just a little bit larger and then I'm also using some of these little cones that I got from Hobby Lobby as well and I'm just going to be inserting these little pieces these little pine cones into the foam with securing them just with a little bit of hot glue. And hot glue does melt foam so if you do have a low temp hot glue gun that would be preferred so that this does not melt the foam totally or what I did was just kind of like wait a little bit if the if I could tell that the hot glue was going to be too hot I just kind of waited a second. Now for this piece I could tell when I was doing that very top layer that you could see the very stark white foam so I ended up painting and I do think that I should have taken off all the pine cones at the top and then painted this this light brown but I didn't do that I left them just where they were and then painted around and honestly it didn't turn out too bad so you could actually do this but preferably it would be to paint it first and then continue with the pine cones going all the way around. I'm not sure if you can really tell from this video but I did try and use these very smaller or itty bitty pine cones at the very top and then gradually got bigger. The pack kind of has very similar but varying sizes and then at the base I did more of a thicker just pine cone that I already had on hand that wasn't a part of this pack just so that like the tiny on top and then kind of gradually get larger. This one honestly turned out better than I expected it is super sturdy and I love the way it turned out but let me know what you guys think. Okay for this next one we are going to be using this clear acrylic vase filler or gems I'm not sure exactly what they're called but I am just going to be hot gluing each of these little pieces together around this this right here is a like candle top they're usually the candles that you can get from Michaels but you can really just use anything round I just needed it to be able to shape these to make sure that I am getting a circle around the base. Now these are a little bit um skewampus I guess they definitely have some grooves in them so it is kind of difficult to make sure that you're using like the correct side to match up these but you kind of get the hang of it once you do a couple just because they do match up pretty well but at first it is kind of odd just because they are different shapes but then once I have this full section down for the base which can be like the very bottom of this acrylic tree then I can start up with the second layer just adding a little bit of hot glue and maneuvering the next piece and the next row just right on top of each other and now I am kind of like maneuvering these so that they do go inwards a tiny bit but really I don't know if that I really needed to because it kind of made it like super inwards and I do wish that I would have just continued going up because I think it would have gradually just gone up directly and gone straight to like a cone shape if I would have just gone upwards just because of the shape of them. If you guys do try this project I would love to know if you guys did have to angle them inwards to make the cone shape or if you guys could just angle them directly on top of each other just based on the shape of these that they did curb. I'd love to know if you guys do try this just let me know in the comments. And now here is kind of where I messed it up where I still had some of those acrylic pieces so I decided to continue adding layers down at the bottom and it did kind of make it so that the bottom is very jagged. I can still obviously keep it flat on the ground but it just looks a little odd because this first when I did it it's very like level and it looks pretty so I don't fully recommend doing that. I instead recommend just doing a larger base to start out with just because this kind of became like misshapen once I did that. Okay for this next one I am just showing you that you can absolutely use these little cone shapes. I believe I was just doing a two and a three because that's the price that I ended up paying for them but you can use these cone shapes that I got from Hobby Lobby but I decided to instead of paying for each one I am just going to be using some poster board and using just the one and then using poster board and kind of maneuvering it into this diagonal rolled shape and then just cutting it down and also using some hot glue so that it can be secure and then just once I've got it all glued down I can then just cut down the bottom so that it stands up perfectly straight and then I used this method for I believe all of the rest of the video. I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure I used this method for basically everything else moving forward and I just did different shapes use or not different shapes but different sizes so I did a lot a lot of these large ones and then I definitely did quite a few of the smaller ones but for this very large one I am just going to use some of this beautiful white fabric and then I'm just basically going to do the exact same thing I just did with the poster board and I'm just going to be using the same thing for the fabric where I lay the piece down and then I am just going to roll it to make the diagonal and then cut the fabric and hot glue the fabric down to the cone piece that I just made. This next tree is also a beautiful white tree and I'm just going to be using some cotton balls and another cone that I made just from the remaining poster board and I'm going to start off with one little cotton ball on the top using some hot glue and then just continuing with some hot glue and the cotton balls and just going all the way around the cone just to make this beautiful little cotton tree and then cotton balls also come in like those pom poms that are like those colors and I think these would be so cute in a bunch of different colors especially if you're doing like a Candyland theme and you do just those beautiful poms with like the sparkles in them I think that would be absolutely gorgeous. Moving on to the next one I did another large poster board for this cone and I am just going to be using this beautiful yarn that I've got on hand and this one is I believe it's the Bernet Light Snuggie that may not exist anymore so or at least it's discontinued so I don't know if you there's one out there that is similar if you guys do know let me know I'd love to check it out because I do love this kind of yarn but anyways I am just going to hot glue a little piece to the top and then just roll this all the way down I don't need a ton of hot glue for this project but I do use a little bit here and there just to make sure that this is really secured but then when I get to the very bottom I just use a little bit more hot glue and then I cut off this little piece of yarn and then secure it to you can just secure it to the top but I like to little wrap it around the bottom and secure it underneath I'm not sure why but this one really really makes me feel like Christmas time and Christmas season probably because I feel like the most Christmassy when it's like snowing and white and beautiful like that winter wonderland vibes so this one is really giving me those Christmas feels and I am absolutely loving it okay so I did want to give you another option just because I do know that yarn is discontinued so I did do one with this extremely fluffy yarn I'll go ahead and link these in the description for you but this one is absolutely stunning and another just option really you can do any yarn that you want I do show you a little bit later on that you can do some reds and some colors I also did some tans and then I used some little pearl beads and I stuck those onto the top just of the yarn and I think those turned out awesome but let me know what you guys would do and what colors are your favorites for Christmas time and what Christmas tree colors you would use I did just want to show you that there is options to do instead of yarn you could do this beautiful ropey ribbon this one is also from Hobby Lobby but I do know that there is some available at other stores like Walmart or Michaels but I just did this beautiful rope color and I think this one is also really fun and I didn't have very many reds and I would love to have some more reds this year but I couldn't think of any and I also weren't able to find a lot of reds so let me know if you guys can find or have any ideas of some red colors that I could add or do maybe I could do some ornaments like an ornament tree just with some of those red ornaments that you can get from Dollar Tree but let me know if you guys have any more options I'd love to continue to do more so that I can really absolutely fill those cabinets now sticking with the same theme from the previous trees I am just going to be using some of these pine cone picks you can get these at Dollar Tree or Hobby Lobby this one right here is from Hobby Lobby it's a round wire that looks like the pine tree little rope and I'm just going to be doing the same thing where I hot glue a little bit of the top and then wrap the little wire around the cone that we made from the poster board or you can also use just some paper probably use some like cardstock paper versus just paper so that it can be very sturdy and as I'm wrapping this around I do just fluff this out a little bit just because I loved the look of it being a little bit more fluffy versus like completely stuck to the paper once it was like stuck down I don't know if you can tell but that like layer right there just looks very like stuck to it and I loved the look of it being like a little bit more frayed so I just used the little piece and just fluffed them out a little bit and then that's what this one looks like with the wire and then the second one is those wire picks they are a little bit different colors and have a little bit more brown to them but both still a great option okay for this next one like I said continuing with the same thing of basically just wrapping things around poster board cones but for this one I am going to be using this beautiful ribbon that is this velvet color and it's green oh just so beautiful so this one is a little bit more difficult and I did not want the ribbon to have like little gaps in it so I am taking it from the very top and then going to use just basically all the way down to the very bottom kind of like a diagonal and then cutting and gluing down and then I'm just going to then add the next piece to the very top and I'm going to basically wrap it to the top so that there's going to be a bad section and a good section so like the bad section will be where the all the cuts are and then the good section will just be the front side where you can't tell that everything is cut in the back but I then just glued that piece down and glued it from the top and then glued it down down to the bottom and then that technique would work for any ribbon but as you can see that white velvet ribbon is a thinner ribbon so it worked to just wrap from the very top to the very bottom I do have a video on that but it was kind of seeming repetitive so I did not show that one but if you guys do want me to show that one I definitely can and speaking of repetitiveness here I go with the smaller and thinner yarn I just wanted to give you just a quick glance of how this one could look just showing you that when I do this one I do kind of do straight down but I also overlapped them over and over again just because I thought that look gave a little bit more of a textured look and I thought it was kind of cool and then here is also the tan ones that I did as I mentioned earlier I added just these little purl beads to them as well and I just stuck those on with some hot glue I'm not sure where that video went so I'm sorry you were stuck with the red yarn video instead now for today's final tree this is just going to be a cone that I got from Dollar Tree and I took off the tinsel just because I didn't think it matched my aesthetic and I'm just going to wrap some of this green ribbon that is also from Dollar Tree around now this one is kind of unique because instead of wrapping it very evenly I thought why not just go and do what the ribbon is already wanting to do when it's this thick ribbon which is kind of do like that little gap at the top but I kind of like the way it looked so I did it with this burlap green and then I also did it with just a plain burlap color and I kind of like it but what do you guys think? Does it kind of remind you of those slides that you see at carnivals? Let me know what you guys think if you think it gives a tree and a festival festive or if it gives you more of like a carnival festival but anyways this is the final one for today I really hope you guys enjoyed watching today's video and I would love it really helps and supports my channel if you guys like and subscribe to this video especially if you've made it this far because that really means that you are a true one and I really do appreciate you guys being here Thank you so much for watching and maybe click on one of these other videos to continue watching with me