Easy To Make Wool Christmas Tree

If you love making Christmas decor then you will love making these cute wool Christmas trees. They are really simple to make using only a few supplies that you may already have. If you do not have these supplies they are quite cheap to buy and easy to find. These are great to get the kids involved with too. I especially love crafts like these as you can get really creative and make some really cool looking Christmas trees. In this blog i am sharing step by step how to make these easy to make wool Christmas trees.

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Step 1

To get started, take 2 pencils and wrap the wool around the pencils and tie in a knot. Make sure the knot is tight as you want it stay tied up.

2 pencils with some green wool tied around them both. The wool is tied in a knot.

Step 2

Wrap the wool around the pencil and make a loop by wrapping the wool around your fingers.

Wrapping green wool around 2 pencils to make a loop

Push the wool over the end of the pencils and pull the long end of the wool tight.

Showing the loop made using green wool and 2 pencils.

Once you have pulled the wool tight it should look like the picture below. This will now have made another loop of wool on the pencil.

Pulling the green wool tight to make a loop around the pencils.

Continue to do this until you covered the whole of the pencil.

Showing the pencil fully covered in green looped wool.

Step 3

Heat up the glue gun and add hot glue all the way down the underside of the wool. The underside of the wool will have the small twists of wool as apposed to the smooth wool on the other side.

Adding hot glue to the underside of the wool.

When you have glued the wool remove it from the pencil. The wool should easily slide off. When it has been removed it may curl up like the wool in the picture below but that is quite normal.

The looped wool removed from the pencil. the wool is a starting to curl round.

Repeat this process approximately 9 times. This should give you enough wool curls to cover the cone. If you have a larger or smaller cone, simply make less or more wool curls.

Multiple pieces of looped wool ready to apply to the cone.

Step 4

Now we need to add the wool to the cone. Heat up the hot glue gun and add the glue to the bottom of the cone.

Adding hot glue to the bottom of the polystyrene cone

Whilst the glue is hot add the wool. straighten out the wool and press it firmly into the glue.

Pressing a strip of the wool curls into the hot glue.

Keep repeating this process until all the cone is covered in the wool curls. Where one wool ends just start the next wool curl right next to it. The wool will curl around the cone and naturally work its way up to the top of the cone.

Polystyrene cone covered in green wool loops

Step 5

Next make the pompom to go on the top of the cone. To make the pompom wrap the wool around your 3 fingers. Wrap the wool approx 50 times.

Wrapping wool around 3 fingers. This is to make the pompom

Remove the wool from your fingers and tie another piece of wool through the middle. cut through the hoops with the scissors.

Trim the pompom to make it look neat, like the pompom in the picture below.

Using hot glue, glue the pompom to the top of the cone.

The wool wrapped cone with the pompom on the top

Step 6

To finish off the Christmas tree add some coloured beads in random places to make them look like decorations. Use small amounts of hot glue to stick them to the wool tree. This step is totally optional.