- Try a "bear" tree and use bear clothes along with the small bears in the tree, and a bear tea party underneath. Same with a "doll" tree. Wire your bears or dolls to the branches with floral wire.
- Themes can be as simple as using one single color. Or theme a tree with Santas, angels, and snowmen. A rustic tree may have the dried oranges and apples along with wired nuts, pine cones, bird's nests, and dried natural florals.
- I love to include small pictures of family and pets framed and tied to branches with ribbon. I take them from their everyday spot, to make room for the holiday items.
- How about an outside tree for your feathered friends and squirrels? Decorate a pine tree in your yard by doing the following: spread pine cones or bagels with peanut butter, roll in birdseed and hang with wire. Make large red ribbon bows and staple to the ends of dried field corn to hang. String cereal such as Cheerios or Fruit Loops with dental floss for garlands. Popcorn strings more easily if it is stale. Also hang apples and pears. Hopefully, you have a pine tree outside a window so you can watch all the activity you've created.
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