I am decorating my tree this year using only pages from books turned into new things. The past few years I have had these very beautiful department store looking trees and wanted to do something a little different this year...without spending any money on buying new decor. I have a ton of books and while most of them are great stories, I do have a few that were too terrible to even get me past chapter one. If you don't have any books on hand that you don't mind destroying you can always get pretty cheap ones at the Goodwill or even your local library. I am also using some of my dollar store plastic bulb ornaments from the last couple years (great for when we had a little one crawling and toddling around - no breakage). Try to ignore my disgusting manicure.... I've been busy.
Things you will need:
Christmas tree bulb ornaments - glass or plastic
Old books - be sure no one in your house is reading it at the time
Hot glue gun and glue sticks
Scissors
Pen
Small circular item to trace around
Tear out about 8-10 pages at a time depending on the thickness of your pages and how many your scissors can cut through cleanly.
Trace around your circular item and try to get as many circles on the page as you can. I used a little condiment dipping cup, use whatever you like. It should be about 1.5" across.
Cut out all your circles
Using your hot glue gun and starting at the bottom of your bulb ornament glue on 4 circles. Repeat this step moving up the bulb for a total of 7 rows for a 2" bulb.... or as many as you like.
I think these are pretty cute and as an added bonus they look like a flower when turned over which only gives me more ideas!
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