Christmas Tree Decoration Ideas
Brighten up your Yule celebrations with interesting Christmas tree decoration ideas. There is so much you can do to make your tree special. The custom of using winter plants to decorate thresholds and homes began long before the advent of Christianity. Installing and decorating Christmas trees began in Germany. People used logs to build pyramids and decorated the entire structure with pictures, floral patterns, streamers, and homemade ornaments. It is popularly believed that the first Christmas tree as we understand the concept today was set up in Pennsylvania.
You can decorate your tree with traditional ornaments such as sweets, apples, glittering tinsel, painted pine cones, candles and skirts. You can also use cloth dolls, German style glass blown ornaments and angels and dolls made of straw.
Another very popular Christmas tree decoration idea is to deck your tree with sparkling LED lights. In case you want to do it in a more traditional manner then use little colored balls and candles. Wrap the branches of your tree with LED strings to give it a brilliant look. Retro bubbles look quite good on lush green firs.
You can paint pop corn kernels and string them to make attractive garlands. Wrap these pop corn garlands around your tree to give it a special look.
