Have you seen the little trees Dollar Tree sells?  Today, I am going to share with you how I styled them in our home for Christmas.  Also, several of my friends will be sharing how they styled the little tree as well.

It’s the first Wednesday of the month, which means time for the DIY challenge blog hop!  We thought it would be fun this month to share our inspiration on how you could style the Dollar Tree mini tree in your home for the Christmas season.  The rules were very simple,  use one or more of the Dollar Tree mini Christmas tree any way you want.  I am so excited to be hosting this challenge.  I have gathered a group of talented DIYers to share their inspiration for you.  I listed all of my friend’s blog links at the bottom of my page, all you have to do is click to head over to their homes where they will show you how they styled their trees.

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The Dollar Tree in our area had both green and white mini trees.  Not often will you find them still on their shelves, normally they sell out fast.   This was the case with some of my friends in this month’s challenge.  They are so bound and determined to share how to style a mini tree they found a similar tree from thrift stores or other department stores to share with us, they are so sweet.  :).   I purchased three white mini trees and one green tree to share with you today.

I placed the green tree in my upper cabinet.  To make my mini tree fuller I used the garland wire ties Dollar Tree sells.  Taking a couple ties and twisting them around the tree’s center pole was all I needed to do.

I wish they make those little garland wire ties in white, but they don’t so I bought a third tree for extra branches.

Here is what the tree looks like right out of the box after I shaped it.  Not too bad…I wanted mine to be a little shorter and fuller so here is what I did.

I took one of the trees out of the box and removed the tree off the stand center piece.

I unraveled the threads to release the branches off the metal pin.

I divided the branches up into two piles since I am going to style two trees.

On both trees I removed the tree stand and unraveled the first section from the tree only.  I tied the threads so they would not unravel anymore.

I am going to cut mine down about 2 inches.

I placed the tree back into the stand while working on the branches.

I painted the trunk of the tree with Waverly Truffle chalk paint.

Taking the branches I removed off the bottom of the tree and adding them to each of the bottom branches.  I took one loose branch and twist it once on the bottom tree’s branch.

I took the branches I removed off of the first tree and add to the rest of the branches.  I cut the pieces to keep the same length and shape.

When it came to the top.  I added smaller pieces by wrapping the end around the very top of the tree.  To keep the tree’s shape I snipped some of the branches.

I shaped my branches to make a pretty shaped tree.

Look at the difference.

Removing the tree from the stand one last time.  I found pails from the Dollar Spot at Target.  They were once white, I painted them to match my kitchen’s theme.  Filled the pail with floral foam and push the tree down in the foam.  I added Dollar Tree battery operated lights.

I added red, aqua and dark aqua ornaments along with red check ribbon.

I added the decorated trees on the top shelf of my kitchen hutch.

 

If you have one of the Dollar Tree mini trees and want to do something like I did, pin this on one of your Pinterest boards until you are ready to style your tree.  Can’t wait to see how your tree turns out !!

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Next up is Kelli over at K’s Olympic Nest Kelli has the cutest inspiration on styling her Dollar Tree Christmas tree.  I love how she made her’s fuller as well.  Go check Kelli out and then click on the list below or the photos to see what the other girls did with their mini trees!  Click on our names and it will take you to our inspiration.