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5 Easy Ways to Make Cute Miniature DIY Christmas Trees

Modified: Jun 2, 2025 by Vanessa Beaty · This post may contain affiliate links · 2 Comments

When you’re trying to get your home ready for the holidays, it’s easy to get sucked into spending a lot of money. But you don’t have to. Some of the best holiday decor ideas can be made at home using the simplest of supplies, many of which you probably already have.

5 Easy Ways to Make Cute Miniature DIY Christmas Trees

For example, consider this project to make a Christmas wreath using nothing more than some cheap ornaments and an old hanger. You can also try these merry projects using clay pots.

But today I want to show you how you can make cute “Christmas trees” using paper cones!

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  • Materials:
  • Steps:
  • 1. Twine Christmas Tree
  • 2. Pasta Christmas Tree
  • 3. Shell Christmas Tree
  • 4. Bean Christmas Tree
  • 5. Flower Petal Christmas Tree

Video Tutorials:

Materials:

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  • Paper cones
  • Twine
  • Pasta
  • Shells
  • Beans
  • Starfish
  • Faux flower petals
  • Hot glue and glue gun
  • Any additional decorative elements you see fit to use.

Steps:

All of these projects start with the same initial step, so I’ll just describe it once. You fold a piece of paper or cardboard into a cone shape. Cut around the bottom to make sure you can set it upright. Then you are ready to decorate the cone and make it pretty. Here are the different projects!

1. Twine Christmas Tree

1. Start with the paper cone and grab some twine.

Twine Christmas Tree - 5 Easy Ways to Make Cute Miniature DIY Christmas Trees

2. Using hot glue, attach the twine around the paper cone.

Twine Christmas Tree - 5 Easy Ways to Make Cute Miniature DIY Christmas Trees
Twine Christmas Tree - 5 Easy Ways to Make Cute Miniature DIY Christmas Trees
Twine Christmas Tree - 5 Easy Ways to Make Cute Miniature DIY Christmas Trees
Twine Christmas Tree - 5 Easy Ways to Make Cute Miniature DIY Christmas Trees

3. Embellish your finished twine Christmas tree as you see fit.

Twine Christmas Tree - 5 Easy Ways to Make Cute Miniature DIY Christmas Trees
Twine Christmas Tree - 5 Easy Ways to Make Cute Miniature DIY Christmas Trees

2. Pasta Christmas Tree

1. Use hot glue to attach pasta around a paper cone.

Pasta Christmas Tree - 5 Easy Ways to Make Cute Miniature DIY Christmas Trees
Pasta Christmas Tree - 5 Easy Ways to Make Cute Miniature DIY Christmas Trees
Pasta Christmas Tree - 5 Easy Ways to Make Cute Miniature DIY Christmas Trees
Pasta Christmas Tree - 5 Easy Ways to Make Cute Miniature DIY Christmas Trees

2. Use metallic spray paint to add a metallic veneer to the pasta, and embellish as you see fit.

Pasta Christmas Tree - 5 Easy Ways to Make Cute Miniature DIY Christmas Trees
Pasta Christmas Tree - 5 Easy Ways to Make Cute Miniature DIY Christmas Trees

3. Shell Christmas Tree

1. Hot glue clam shells to a paper cone. In theory, you could use other types of shells, but the clam shells will work best.

Shell Christmas Tree - 5 Easy Ways to Make Cute Miniature DIY Christmas Trees
Shell Christmas Tree - 5 Easy Ways to Make Cute Miniature DIY Christmas Trees
Shell Christmas Tree - 5 Easy Ways to Make Cute Miniature DIY Christmas Trees

2. Add a starfish to the top.

Shell Christmas Tree - 5 Easy Ways to Make Cute Miniature DIY Christmas Trees

3. If you want, use some metallic spray paint to create a shining finish.

Shell Christmas Tree - 5 Easy Ways to Make Cute Miniature DIY Christmas Trees
Shell Christmas Tree - 5 Easy Ways to Make Cute Miniature DIY Christmas Trees
Shell Christmas Tree - 5 Easy Ways to Make Cute Miniature DIY Christmas Trees

4. Bean Christmas Tree

1. Hot glue some beans of your choice to a paper cone.

Bean Christmas Tree - 5 Easy Ways to Make Cute Miniature DIY Christmas Trees
Bean Christmas Tree - 5 Easy Ways to Make Cute Miniature DIY Christmas Trees
Bean Christmas Tree - 5 Easy Ways to Make Cute Miniature DIY Christmas Trees

2. Embellish as you see fit.

Bean Christmas Tree - 5 Easy Ways to Make Cute Miniature DIY Christmas Trees

3. Spray paint the beans with metallic paint.

Bean Christmas Tree - 5 Easy Ways to Make Cute Miniature DIY Christmas Trees

Bean Christmas Tree - 5 Easy Ways to Make Cute Miniature DIY Christmas Trees
5. Flower Petal Christmas Tree

1. Use hot glue to attach some faux flower petals around a paper cone.

Flower Petal Christmas Tree - 5 Easy Ways to Make Cute Miniature DIY Christmas Trees
Flower Petal Christmas Tree - 5 Easy Ways to Make Cute Miniature DIY Christmas Trees
Flower Petal Christmas Tree - 5 Easy Ways to Make Cute Miniature DIY Christmas Trees
Flower Petal Christmas Tree - 5 Easy Ways to Make Cute Miniature DIY Christmas Trees

Look how dainty and ethereal the result looks!

Flower Petal Christmas Tree - 5 Easy Ways to Make Cute Miniature DIY Christmas Trees

I hope you enjoy crafting these beautiful Christmas tree projects!

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  1. RELM

    December 14, 2017 at 2:19 am

    Precios, económicos y fácils de hacer

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  2. Layla mendoza

    December 15, 2017 at 11:09 pm

    I love your guises ideas and get a notification every new idea.

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