Recycling Your Christmas Tree: Hooks and Things (Online)

This is an online class hosted on Zoom. 

STOP . . . Don’t throw your Christmas tree out, recycle it! 

In this workshop you will be stripping the needles and bark from your 2024 Christmas tree. Using your creativity, or borrowing from others in the class, you can make coat/clothes hooks, key holders, jewelry, and ring holders, or use part or all of the tree to make a Valentines or Easter tree. The stripped tree with mini-lights is a natural and beautiful piece of art in and of itself. And don’t forget the needles. We will have a use for them as well. Bring your ideas to share! 

Any evergreen or pine tree will work for this workshop. Nature makes them all a piece of art, but you will use your creativity to decide what to do with the newly stripped tree. 

The three most popular types of Christmas trees are fir, spruce, and pine. All of these are coniferous evergreens that feature close-set needles. However, each evergreen and pine tree has its own characteristics that set it apart from the others. I prefer a tree that can hold more decorations than a fir. It takes much less time to strip than a bushy and full silhouette tree.  

Note: Once you take your tree down, store it outside in a shaded place. If you live in a warm climate, keep the trunk in water. If you have snowbanks, stick the trunk in the snowbank preferably in a shaded area. We want to keep as much moisture in the bark as possible. If it dries out too much the tree is not as easy to strip.

This class is on Saturday, January 11, and two Sundays, January 19 and 26 (10:00 am-Noon CT).