Learn how to make DIY Christmas trees with paper cones and fabric for the holidays.
DIY Christmas trees can be made in so many ways, by wrapping different types of string around paper cones or styrofoam cone forms.
We made trees of wrapped rope, jute, and twine, and mini Christmas trees wrapped in yarn, and chunky yarn-wrapped trees.
Today, we are making handmade paper cones, and wrapping them in fabric to create a new variety of DIY Christmas trees!
DIY Christmas Trees with Paper Cones and Fabric
Step 1: Gather Supplies
Supplies Needed:
- Cardstock - I used 9x12 sheets and 12x12 sheets.
- Scissors
- Hot Glue Gun and Glue
- Fabric
Step 2: Make paper cones with cardstock.
Step 3: Hot glue fabric around the paper cone.
Step 4: Finish the top of the cone tree.
The cardstock cone will have a hole at the top of it.
To finish it off, first, fold the tip of your fabric and glue it down over the hole.
Then glue the remaining edges together to finish off the fabric Christmas tree.
Trim off any visible cardstock from the bottom of the tree.
Repeat for all of your fabric choices.
I used a 12"x12" sheet of scrapbook cardstock to make a large cone, below.
I bought a sherpa sweatshirt at a thrift store to use for this fabric tree.
This is also a great way to repurpose worn-out, stained, or damaged clothing.
I cut fabric from the thrifted shirt, and glued it around the large cone.
You can create paper cones of different sizes to wrap in fabric, and create a fabric Christmas tree forest!
Chances are you already have cardstock, glue, and fabric in your craft supplies.
You can easily make DIY Christmas trees using paper cones and fabric, and have affordable, cute Christmas decor for the holidays!
Jenny
How do you measure the cut fabric to fit for different size trees? (Or if you wanted to cover only half of the cone in one fabric and the other half in another?) I printed your template, but even at 100% it's still very small and my trees are large)
Laura
Hi Jenny! Did you make your own cones? Or are you using pre-existing cones like styrofoam ones or cardboard from the craft store? If you made your own cones using posterboard or something, you should be able to basically use the shape you used to make the cone as your fabric template.
If you are using pre-existing cones from the store, what I would probably do is take a big scrap piece of fabric and try to cut a demo piece of fabric for whatever the size of cone you have. You know the general height of the fabric you need; you need it to be just a little taller than your cone. I would use scrap fabric to see if I could make a template that covers the cone, and then once you have the correct size and shape, you can use that to cut out the fabric you actually want to use. Or, you can sew two or more pieces of fabric together and cut your fabric from that. Or lastly, you could use that template piece of fabric to see where you could cut and splice smaller pieces of fabric together to cover your big cone.
I hope that makes sense and is a little helpful. It's tricky to explain via words haha! When in doubt, you can just wrap and trim the fabric to the best of your ability, it doesn't matter if it's a little rustic - that's my motto when making things haha!