Themes for Christmas Tree Festival

7roland8

Our local church wants local groups to get involved and do various trees.

I am in the history group and do the village website and newsletter so was thinking of:

HISTORY - old pictures of houses mounted on card and strung on twine. Maybe white snowflakes. Cones form chapel yard painted or glittered. Base wrapped in hessian sacking. Printed images of old pocket watched and titled '(village name) through time'.

NEWSLETTER - Cut out and folded stars from newsletters. maybe doing paper chains too. Round coloured numbered balls laminated to represent the 100 club.

WEBSITE - thought this could be old computer bits etc and mice but this may be too fiddly to bother with.

Any idea or comments welcomed.

7roland8

Also planned on wrapping small boxes in brown paper and string for the history tree to go round the base and maybe newsletter wrapped packages around the newsletter tree. I always like using the variety cereal boxes as they are just the right size.

PasturesNew

For history - how about going down the local archives to dig out old photos of that town, then take a photo of them and print them onto very thin paper. Then either paste those onto round cutouts of card to hang on the tree, or go out of your way to paste those onto cheap baubles.

7roland8

Nice idea to put onto baubles PasturesNew.

vikki_louise

I think it was on Kirsty's homemade Christmas but they had a Christmas tree decorating competition and someone did it with photographs, it looked fantastic and would be great if they were local pictures from days gone by

7roland8

Thanks Vikki - yes I have some old b/w pictures of properties - don't want to use ones with people in as someone will end up complaining its in bad taste or something!


Thought I'd mount some on brown card and hang on twine.


Have also thought of doing a Rupert Bear tree - its his 95th year now.