Baseball Theme Decorated Christmas Tree

If you’re thinking of decorating your tree a little differently this year consider doing a Christmas Tree Decorated with a Baseball Theme.  You will likely be the only one doing this in your area and you will certainly have a unique and fun Christmas tree.

Make a Baseball Theme Christmas Tree

Are you a fan of sports?  Ever thought about decorating your tree in a baseball theme?  Here’s how:

Get yourself a white tree and some white ball ornaments.  Turn the ornaments into baseballs using red paints or red marker.  Make baseball gloves to hang on the tree by having your child place his hand on a piece of cardboard and then insert the cut-out prints into brown gloves.  Attach some brown wool and hang them on the tree.

Add some baseball bats too.  Get out your favorite cookie recipe and shape the dough into small baseball bats.  Get out your favorite cookie recipe and shape the dough into small baseball bats.  There’s no need for food color, they’ll brown during baking.  Tie the bats at their neck with ribbon or wool and hang on the tree.  Personlize the bats with your kids names or names of your favorite players by using melted chocolate in a pastry gun.

Use the colors of your favorite team to make a tree skirt out of fabric.  If you shoose the New York Yankees, for example, take some white fabric and add a black border.  Then cut out and sew on the letters to spell New York Yankees.  Add sparkles of red.If you have a team logo blanket or sheet on hand you may want to use this instead.

Create your favorite teams’ logo to go on top of the tree.  Using the New York Yankees logo as an example again, follow these steps:

Decorate a piece of cardboard by painting it with your teams’ colors, for example black and white pinstripes.

Punch two holes in the cardboard and put black wool through the holes to attach to the top tree branch.

Or, an alternative would be to hang your team’s hat on the top of the tree.

Don’t forget to add lights, they could be in your team colors or a complimentary color.  Now you’ve got a one of a kind Christmas tree for your home.

How To Make a Christmas Tree Ornament

Knowing how to make a Christmas tree ornament can save you some money, and it’s fun too.  Here are three ornaments you can make from things you’ve got around the house.

Make Ornaments With Items Around Your House: 3 Examples

It isn’t cheap to buy a bunch of decorations or ornaments for the holidays.  There are things you can make at home with less cost, here are three cute ideas for things you can make using things around the house.

1. Paper Tree Ornaments:  Cut a Christmas tree out of white construction paper.  Let your child personalize each one by coloring, adding his name, glitter, drawing, etc to make it look like it has ornaments on it.  You can use these trees and string them together for the tree or make a holiday border in a child’s room.

2. Stocking Ornaments:  You can use whatever material you have on hand to make your own Christmas stocking ornaments.  Using different style and color fabrics will make them very colorful and bright.  Take some ribbons, bows or beads and hot glue them on, personalize it by writing or sewing on the child’s name.  When the stocking is finished, take fabric cut into a loop and sew it onto the stocking for hanging.  Hang them on the tree with pride!

3. Cookie Ornaments:  Bake up cookies to hang on the tree using whatever cookie cutters you have available.  If you don’t have any cookie cutters, don’t worry, you can make your own designs.  For example, a pretzel shaped cookie can be easily hung on a branch or decorated with ribbons.  Take a small piece of your favorite dough and rool it out to about three inches, then take the two ends and overlap them at the top to form an upside down letter ”Q”, or any loop shape.  When you’ve got the pretzel fully baked, you can take some ribbon and tie it through the hole and then hang it on the tree.

It fun to make homemade holiday ornaments, not only does the family enjoy it but it lets your child get creative and work his imagination.  There is always more meaning attached to something that is handmade, and it’s a wonderful way to spend more time with your children.  You can also give handmade ornaments as gifts!

So take a look around your house before you go out and spend cash on Christmas ornatments.  It will surpise you that you’ll have things you can use without spending a cent.