How to Make Book Page Trees

Learn how to make rustic chic book page trees in this easy craft tutorial. It's the perfect way to recycle old books!

Cut sticks to the height you want your trees to be.
Ours are about 8-10" long.
Err on the side of being too long at first; you can always cut them shorter later on.
Hot glue the sticks into the holes in the wooden rounds.
This will create the base and the trunk of the book page trees.
Rip pages out of an old book.
Cut a handful of pages into triangles - try at least 10 or 15 pages to start.
Using a sewing machine, sew a straight line down the center of the stack of triangles.
If you don't have a sewing machine, you could glue each layer of paper triangle together.
Start folding different layers of the paper back over the seam.
This will start to add dimension to the paper tree.
Hot glue the stick along the seam of the tree.
This part made the paper layers warped and wavy on my tree, so I decided to cut slits in the edges of the paper to help camouflage it. (You'll see that in step 8.)
The fringe gives the tree a rustic look and helps hide any imperfections.
You can also skip the wooden stem and just fold the paper pages to add dimension.
As they are folded and fanned, they will create a beautiful tree shape that stands up on its own.

You can find books to use for book page crafts on your own bookshelves (anything you'll never read again), or else look at thrift stores, garage sales, free boxes at libraries or used book stores, or ask on social media if your friends have any to declutter and offload.
You can make different sizes of book page trees by cutting different-sized triangles.
If you like book page crafts, check out our book page wreath and book page tassel ornament tutorials.