Pipe Cleaner DIY Tutorial Grand Christmas Tree

Introduction:

Hi! This is Thomas, the founder of fuzzypipe. A bit about me: I was laid off earlier this year, felt very lost and got pretty depressed, nd moved back to my parent’s house. I tried everything to get out of my own head and somehow found pipe cleaner crafts. The hands-on experience was really fun and also had a meditative effect on me that I gradually stopped having racing thoughts and self-doubts. I started this business with the intention to introduce more people to this fascinating craft and to help those who are in tough mental states. 

This is the tutorial for our Christmas Tree DIY kit, here’s everything you have in the kit or the miso en place in cooking terms. You can also check out our tutorial video here!

What's in the kit:

Here's everything you have in the kit: 60 dark green pipes, 5 green pipes, 2 sparkling pipes, 1 white pipe, 1 red pipe, 2 decorative balls, 1 white decorative ribbon, 1 red christmas ribbon, a piece of nonwoven fabric, a free glue gun and a few glue sticks. Feel free to plug in the glue gun now, just be careful with the tip and the hot glue. We’ve also put extra pipe cleaners of each color in the kit, so don’t worry about messing up, you should have more than enough pipe cleaners to work with. I’ve also spent a ton of time searching and found the most premium pipe cleaners in the market, so you wouldn’t have much of those annoying fluff falling off. 

Step 1: roll the fabric into a cone shape

To start, roll the non woven fabric into a cone shape. This will be the foundation of your christmas tree. You can either fold it in half to make the cone smaller, or roll it directly into a much bigger cone. Depending on how you roll the fabric, each christmas tree will be slightly different. I folded the fabric in half to make a smaller tree for demonstration purposes, feel free to skip to the end to see the size comparison.

Step 2: apply glue with glue gun

Once you figure out the intended size, use the glue gun to glue the outermost layer of the fabric to the cone, so the fabric doesn’t unravel itself. Next, cut the extra fabric at the bottom of the cone so that the cone has a base to stand on its own. Remember to start with smaller cuts and make adjustments accordingly. You should now have a basic cone shape structure

Step 3: make the first layer

Next we will make the first layer of the christmas tree. Grab two dark green pipe cleaners, and twist their ends to tie them together. Now grab the pipe on the left, wrap it around the one on the right and make a couple 1-2 inch oval loops until there’s not enough length. Cut out the extra pipes and continue to make more loops with a new dark green pipe. This will be the first layer of the pine needles.

Step 4: complete the wrap

Half way through the process, measure out the length you’ll need to completely wrap the pipe around the cone. Add more pipes by twisting the ends together if it’s too short, trim the extras if it’s too long. Now use the hot glue to attach the pine needles to the bottom part of the cone. Only glue the top part of the needles to the cone, so the rest of the needles hang down past the bottom. Once you’ve attached the first layer of the pine needles to the cone securely, bend each individual pine needle upward at about the half way mark. 

Next, make a few more layers and attach them to the cone. Just like the first layer, only glue the top part of the needles to the cone so the rest of the needles hang down past the layer of needles below.

Continue to do so until the pine needles cover the entire cone structure. 

Step 5: decorate your Christmas pipe cleaner tree!

Next we will make the decorations, to make the candy cane, twist the white pipe and the red pipe together really tight, bend it at the top and cut to the desired length. To make the wreath, twist the green pipe and the red pipe together really tight, make a circle, cut out the extra length, and twist the ends together.

Decorate the christmas tree however you’d like, in this demonstration, I cut the silver sparkling pipe into pieces to use as decorations, tie a knot at the ends of the white ribbon and wrap it around the christmas tree, and lastly glued a sprinkling star at the very top.

You are done!

Now that you have seen our Christmas Tree DIY Pipe Cleaner Tutorial this holiday, check out other FuzzyPipe pipe cleaner kits! Our team selects the best pipe cleaners, and our pipe cleaner craft designers spend every week designing these DIY plushies that you can make at home as home decor 🎁

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This article is written by Thomas Xu.