Here’s a Christmas ornament for the crafty person in your life, a mini spool tree! While we painted our spools green, you can easily adjust the colors of this tree to suit your holiday decor, or make a year round version to decorate your craft space by wrapping the spools in patterned paper!

Things you’ll need:
Mini spools
Green acrylic paint
Paintbrush
Narrow ribbon
Craft glue or hot glue gun and glue stick

Things to do:
1. Depending on the size of the tree you want, set out your spools, making sure you have one more (for the trunk!) than you’ll need for the tree. Paint the tree” spools green and allow them to dry. Leave the final spool unpainted.


2. Thread your ribbon through the trunk spool and though the center spool on every row with an odd number of spools. Thread back through again, leaving a loop at the top and tying a knot at the bottom.

3. Between the trunk and the first threaded spool, sandwich two spools, gluing them to each other, the ribbon and the spools below and above it. Add enough spools on either side to make the bottom row.
4. Add spools to the next (odd numbered) row as well to finish the row, gluing them to their neighbors as well as the ones below.
5. Repeat this process until you reach the top. Allow the glue to dry and then hang it up and enjoy!