On the eve of the New Year, the entire population of our vast country is seized with a pre-holiday fever: bright decorations are hung in every house, snowflakes are cut out of paper and gifts are wrapped. Today we want to contribute to the exciting preparation and teach you how to create crafts from scrap materials. A Christmas tree can be a wonderful gift that will decorate the home of your friends or relatives. Such a souvenir will look great on your desktop and will transform a strict office environment. To make this little miracle, you will need a good mood, scrap material and aromatic coffee beans.
Crafts. Master Class
We will take:
Thick paper or a piece of foam for the base.
Coffee beans.
Twine or dark paints.
Beads, ribbons and sparkles for decoration.
Glue gun.
There are many options for decorating a Christmas tree made from coffee beans, but we will start with the simplest.
Stages of making crafts
First you need to make the base for the holiday tree. Roll a cone of the desired size from thick paper and secure it securely with glue. If you want the structure to be more stable, then cut out a foam base for it.
Cover the base with dark paint so that the gaps between the coffee beans are not noticeable. You can also use it to braid a cone. Don't forget to secure the thread with glue, otherwise it will start to slide down and your work will look sloppy.
Once everything is ready, you can start working with the grains. First you should decorate the top, and then gradually go down.
The Christmas tree made from coffee beans is almost ready. In order to decorate it, you can use any available means. For example, form bows from ribbons, tie them with threads and pin them to the base. Large and small beads can be placed nearby.
Christmas trees made from coffee beans. Second option
This product will look more elegant, but you will have to spend a little more effort and time making it. But the result will undoubtedly please you. You will need the following materials:
Sequence of work
Braid the base with twine so that no gaps are visible. Secure the rope with glue.
Fold the thin wire in half, tie a thread on the fold and wrap it around the “tail”. We insert the ends into the top of the future Christmas tree and fix it with glue.
We insert a thick wire into the base of the cone and also wrap it with twine.
Using a gun, glue the grains. In this case, you should start from the sharp bottom edge. After that, close the entire lower part and go up. The top should be left open.
We randomly wrap the glass jar in burlap and secure it with hot glue.
To make the tree stable, fill the pot with diluted alabaster or any similar material. Cover the surface with coffee beans.
We decorate the finished tree with threads, bronze pendants and dried lemon slices.
The Christmas tree made from coffee beans is ready and can delight you until the next New Year.
The third version of the craft
If you liked working with such a wonderful material as coffee beans, then we advise you not to stop there. Now you can easily make your own funny animals, stylish watches from coffee beans, or an original panel. Decorate your home with cute little things, and it will immediately become cozier and warmer.
Recently, various types of DIY crafts have become increasingly popular. A special trend is topiary, decorative trees made from coffee or other scrap materials. Today I want to show you how to make a herringbone coffee topiary. It's very easy, even easier than regular coffee topiary. And so, let's get to work, or rather, to prepare materials.
To create a coffee tree you will need:
coffee beans can be bought in packages or by weight,
hot glue,
a cup or glass for the base of the Christmas tree,
ribbon for decoration,
twine,
cardboard,
brown acrylic paint.
First, we need to prepare the base for the Christmas tree - it will be a cone. The cone can be made from cardboard. Or make it out of plain paper and use the papier-mâché technique to seal the cone. It all depends on you, I have a papier-mâché cone. 
We paint the cone with brown paint, since the coffee beans are not ideal and do not have the same structure, the base of the cone may be slightly translucent, so we prime the surface with brown acrylic paint. We begin to glue the grains. I glued them starting from the bottom. The grains were glued with the flat side down. Since we will be gluing the coffee in two layers, we will be gluing the second layer with the flat side up. 
And so, row by row, we get a cone blank covered with grains. 
We do not cover the top with grains, leaving room for decoration. This is the first layer of grains. 
We glue the second layer on top of the previous one, trying to fill all the empty spaces so that the base is not visible. 
Now let's make decorations for the Christmas tree. This will be a bow. I just beautifully folded the ribbon in the shape of a bow and secured it with special wire. 
We insert the decoration into the top. You can fix it with hot glue. The Christmas tree is already so beautiful. You can make a base and leave it that way, but it won’t be topiary. And we will make a leg for the Christmas tree. 
Now we are preparing a pot for our tree. You can take any cup with a coffee theme, or take a paper glass, you can cover it with twine. We glue it with PVA glue, then your cup will look neat. 
You can use a tree branch or wooden skewers as a trunk for topiary.
The weighting agent in our cup will be pebbles from the sea, or you can simply fill everything with plaster, whichever is more convenient for you. Attach the base of the trunk with hot glue 
We seal our Christmas tree with paper. 
We cover the cardboard with coffee. 
Attach the Christmas tree to the base. 
Here our Christmas tree is ready. It turned out to be a beauty. 
You can attach coffee beans to the pebbles. 
This is how a miracle happened for me. Try it, I'm sure you will succeed too.
This tree will decorate your kitchen or living room.
Happy creativity! 
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Almost everyone wants to make something with their own hands for the holiday. And if you haven’t practiced making topiary yet, it’s time to start. The New Year tree is traditionally made in the form of a Christmas tree. But the master class (MK) will tell you what the Christmas tree itself will be made of.
Lovers of such aromatic drink as coffee will definitely like this gift. But just a coffee topiary is too banal, let it be a coffee... Christmas tree!
To make it yourself, you will need:
- Coffee beans (about 200 grams);
- Cardboard cone and cardboard circle;
- Stick (pencil or skewer);
- Glue moment;
- Double-sided tape;
- Gypsum;
- Plastic cup for stand;
- Jute twine;
- Sackcloth;
- Ribbons and beads.
The first thing you will do with your own hands according to this MK is prepare the barrel. Take either a pencil or a skewer and wrap it with twine. After this, you put the finished cardboard cone on this trunk. This master class also offers such a solution - you can weave braids from twine, tie a thread in the middle to the braid, thread it through the top into a cone and secure it on a skewer.
Then fill the inside of the cone with napkins so that it is not hollow. This master class suggests taking napkins as a simple option, but it can be anything - cotton wool, fabric, etc.
Tape the cardboard circle underneath with tape. The base for the coffee Christmas tree is ready. Make sure it is strong enough, because the next step is to form the crown.
Coffee Christmas tree topiary: decorating master class
Glue the grains one by one, tightly to each other.
The master class continues as follows:
- The first layer of coffee beans dries in about half an hour, and only after this time can the second layer be applied.
- The crown is ready, now it, or rather the tree, needs to be planted somewhere, in some kind of pot. You can also do it yourself. Take a simple plastic cup, pour plaster into it, and place the Christmas tree in it. Make sure it is firmly in the pot.
- Now, following MK, the pot needs to be decorated, it should also be in an elegant form. You can do this like this: wrap the glass in burlap, use twine to weave another braid with your own hands and wrap it around the pot.
- You can also easily make a bow from twine, in the middle of which you can decorate with a coffee bead. Such bows can also be at the ends of a braid that you pulled out through a cone, like a Christmas tree decoration.
The main part is ready, and now you can improve this universal master class. For example, put fir cones in the top layer of the pot to cover the plaster. Or paint the same coffee beans with gold acrylic paint. This Christmas tree in the shape of a coffee tree will definitely surprise your friends and family.
Coffee Christmas tree topiary (video master class)
Topiary Christmas tree made of threads: original DIY decor
A Christmas tree made of threads is also, in its own way, a classic of the genre. There are many MKs that describe the process of creating such a tree. This may not be the most traditional topiary, since there is no traditionally high trunk, the pot can simply serve as a stand, etc.
Master class - Christmas tree made of threads:
- Ideal if you have a foam cone. It will be a better base and you won't have to worry about whether the topiary is durable or not. But if there is no such blank, you can make something similar with your own hands.
- Make a simple cone from cardboard or any other dense material. A papier-mâché blank will also work, although you will have to tinker with these.
- Almost no MK “undertakes” to paint a foam plastic cone, but another cone, the same cardboard one, needs to be painted to match the color of the threads (so that everything is uniform).
- The cone needs to be wrapped with thread. Which threads to take, decide for yourself - it’s better to be heterogeneous, for example, white-green, fluffy.
- Secure the ends of the threads with glue. To prevent them from “running away” during the work process, they can be secured to the base with pins. The winding goes in the “bottom-up” direction.
- When the entire cone is wrapped, secure the threads again with pins. To keep the spruce fluffy and nothing showing through from under the threads, wrap the threads in another layer.
Now the spruce topiary can be decorated. Decorative berries, beads, rhinestones, buttons - in the process of work it will become clear what will be useful.
Topiary Christmas tree made of threads (video master class)
DIY herringbone topiary: final design
It's time to make this New Year's tree look like a traditional topiary. This means it must have a trunk and a pot.
Use a wine cork as a stem. There are MKs that offer to simply paint the cork; you can wrap it with thread or twine. In a word, transform the cork with your own hands so that it looks like a trunk.
Next, the master class suggests gluing the stem plug to the cone. A heat gun will come in handy. Well, all that remains is to choose a pot. You can do this: wrap a regular plastic cup with sisal. Sisal has a pleasant texture, and you can choose any color. And then the master class is up to you: ribbons, lace, twine, mini-Christmas balls, tinsel... You can decorate the pot with your own hands in the way that suits your spruce, which should blend harmoniously into your interior.
Here are a few more ideas from different MKs:
- Such a spruce also requires gifts at its foot! A small case with elegant decoration is the best master class for giving gifts for the New Year.
- Some MKs suggest combining the same threads and candies, or threads and coins as the top layer of a pot, so that financial success does not pass you by in the new year;
MK with spruce, the top of which is slightly twisted, is also popular; an aluminum cable will help create such a bend.
Decorating a Christmas tree topiary (video master class)
Such a tree will not only decorate your home. You can create something similar as a craft for kindergarten, the child will definitely be happy! And it will take only one evening to complete not the most difficult task.
Topiary Christmas tree for the New Year - design
New Year traditionally smells of tangerines and Christmas trees. However, you can add variety and add a little coffee, cinnamon and vanilla. Christmas trees made from coffee beans in the interior delight with their appearance, as well as the aroma of warmth and comfort.
Making a Christmas tree from coffee beans is very close to the technique of creating topiary, but has its own nuances.
To create New Year's decor with your own hands we will need:
- foam cone
- small glass jar
- wire
- alabaster + water
- glue gun for crafts + 3-5 glue sticks
- jute twine
- coffee beans
- dried citrus fruits
- floral moss
- sackcloth
- decorative elements
How to make a Christmas tree from coffee beans
We connect the glue gun for needlework, since we will work with it first of all, and while it heats up, we work on the base for the Christmas tree.
Take a foam cone and wire. We make a hole in the cone and carefully insert the wire into it.
We take jute twine and wrap it around the base of the Christmas tree.
We fix the twine with a glue gun. To make it look neat, we do it pointwise.
As a result, we get a Christmas tree like this.
Take a thin wire. Fold it in half and twist it together.
We thread the twine into the “eye” that we have made and tie a knot, then wrap the wire with jute along the entire length.
We insert the wire into the base of the Christmas tree. We ended up with a playful ponytail, which we fixed with a glue gun.
The leg of the Christmas tree should also be wrapped with twine.
Let's start working with coffee beans.
On the base of our Christmas tree we glue coffee beans individually.
We start with the sharp edge at the base of the Christmas tree.
Then we cover the bottom with grains...
And the whole Christmas tree.
We try to place the grains as close as possible.
Making a pot for the Christmas tree.
Take a glass jar and burlap.
We make a jar in a bag (according to the diagram in the picture).
To prevent the bag from unfolding, we fix it from the inside with glue.
We “plant” our Christmas tree using any method available to you (we use alabaster) and make a “green meadow” from moss.
We decorate our Christmas tree with threads, ropes, an orange and a bronze pendant.
Our Christmas tree is ready.
If you don’t have moss, it doesn’t matter, you can replace it with the same coffee beans.
Happy holidays everyone!
A homemade Christmas tree made from coffee beans is a great New Year gift for every coffee lover. Such topiary can become not only a cute table decoration at home or in the workplace, but also a kind of flavoring agent: many coffee lovers love the smell of coffee beans. The advantage of this gift is that it is very inexpensive: to make it you will need simple available materials, many of which can be found in almost every home. But its value is not in the cost, but in the fact that you put your soul into such a gift, painstakingly creating a future tree with your own hands, grain by grain.
- Actually, coffee beans are approximately 150-200 grams.
- Thick cardboard or paper - A4 size sheet.
- Glue (it is better to take transparent “Moment” and PVA).
- Thick threads, such as jute twine.
- Scissors.
- A small pot for flowers.
- Sackcloth.
- Plasticine or plaster to fill the pot.
- A wooden stick for the trunk of the future Christmas tree (for example, a pencil, a sushi stick or a skewer).
- Cotton wool or newsprint.
In addition, you will need various decorations for the future Christmas tree. Here you can give free rein to your imagination, for example, make balls from shiny beads, snow from semolina or cotton wool, decorate the Christmas tree with braid, miniature snowflakes, or cover some of the grains with gold paint.
Gallery: Christmas tree made from coffee beans (25 photos)
Making a Christmas tree out of coffee with your own hands: job description
The first step is to prepare base, on which our Christmas tree will be held. We take a small flower pot (you can buy it at a regular flower shop) and wrap it in burlap, securing it with glue. We fill the pot with heavy contents (plaster or plasticine) so that the Christmas tree stands quite stable.
Now you can start making the Christmas tree itself. Cut out two circles from cardboard or thick paper. One large one, its diameter should be the same height as the crown of the tree. From this circle we roll and glue a cone. The second circle should be slightly wider than the base of the resulting cone, with allowances for gluing along the edges. You need to make allowances of about a centimeter and a half, make cuts in a circle and fold them over. You also need to make a small hole in the center of the base: a tree trunk will be inserted into it.
When the glued cone has dried, we trim its edges from the bottom so that they are as even as possible. Then the cone must be filled with contents so that it is light enough, but at the same time does not bend under the weight of the coffee beans glued to it. For this purpose, you can use cotton wool or cut and crumpled newspaper sheets. We also insert a stick into the middle of the cone - the future trunk.
By the way, the trunk does not have to be straight: you can make it from rolled wire and give it an interesting curved shape, only in this case the main thing is to make the finished structure stable.
Apply glue to the edges of the cone and the allowances on the small circle and glue the “bottom” of the future Christmas tree. Wait again for the glue to dry.
If you don’t want to cut and glue, you can purchase it at a craft store foam cone, which can also become the basis for a Christmas tree.
Using glue, we attach a jute thread to the trunk of the tree and begin to carefully wrap it with threads - in one layer, but quite tightly. We do the same with the cone, having previously coated it with PVA glue so that the threads do not fall off. Why wrap a cone? The fact is that coffee beans have an oval shape, and no matter how tightly you glue them, there will still be small gaps between them in which the base will be visible. Jute thread will look much neater and more beautiful as a base than regular cardboard. In addition, if you glue the grains directly onto smooth cardboard, there is a risk that they will fall off.
The tree leg does not need to be wrapped completely: we leave part of it and insert the future tree into a pot with a base just up to the point where the thread wrapping begins. Now our tree is standing firmly, and we can start gluing it with grains.
We will stick the coffee beans onto the tree from the base and from the bottom up, in two layers. Apply a thin layer of glue to the base (here it is better to take transparent “Moment” so that it is not visible) and glue the grains onto the base with the flat side, in a checkerboard pattern. At the same time, it is important to arrange them so that there are as few gaps as possible between them - this way the Christmas tree will look more neat. Glue the second layer of grains outward with the flat side, so as to maximally close the gaps remaining in the first layer.
Available another option for gluing grains: Flat side up and at a slight angle. Then they will resemble real paws of a spruce tree, and our Christmas tree will not be so smooth, more like a living tree.
Decorating a Christmas tree from coffee beans with your own hands
Decorating a future Christmas tree is not limited by anything except your imagination! Can be used the following ideas:
Remember that each next stage of decoration must begin only after glue dried on the previous one so that nothing falls off during the process!
