The Wonder and Joy Involved in Christmas Tree Decorations

Added: 01/05/2007

The anticipation of the Holidays, especially Christmas is just as wonderful whether you are an adult or a child. The favorite part of gathering the family together and doing the Christmas Tree decoration, seeing ornaments from your childhood put on the tree with care and love. The Christmas lights twinkling and bringing everything to life. Christmas is a time when we as adults get to re-live our childhood memories and even act childish for a little while. That is all a part of Christmas magic. Remember, Grandma baking cookies in the kitchen and Mom sitting the table for a great Christmas feast. Christmas tree decorating is a very important step in getting the Holiday off to a roaring start.

Do you know how Christmas tree decorations are supposed to be done? The Christmas lights should be the first thing to go on the tree. They play an important part of making the ornaments shine and glisten. You can use the clear lights either twinkling or steady or multi-colored lights that twinkle or are steady, it’s really which ever you prefer. It tends to work the best if you start placing the lights closest to the inside of the tree, this will help illuminate the tree more. Then, wrap the lights down the trunk and along the Christmas tree branches. Use lots of lights, as many as you want too. More lights are better than not enough lights at Christmas. It is said to use 100 numbers of lights per every foot of your Christmas tree for decoration.

Next, add you’re beautiful, ornaments to the tree branches, some people say you should put the heaviest and larger ornaments toward the bottom of the tree. I prefer to place the ornaments wherever I think they look the best. Hey, it’s your Christmas tree decoration so, do whatever you like the best.

Last, add your tree topper which can be an angel or a twinkling star or anything else that is special to you, add the tree skirt around the tree and tinsel (as long as you have no pets in the house) and garland if you do have pets in your home. Now, just sit back and relax and bask in the lights and beauty of your Christmas tree.

If you have a fresh cut Christmas tree instead of an artificial pre lit Christmas tree use this little formula to help your tree have a longer life span: just mix bleach about 1tsp., corn syrup light about Ѕ tsp. and quart of water, mix it all together and place it into your tree stand. It’s that simple.

Looking to do something a little different with your Christmas tree decorations this year, instead of the same thing every year? Try some of these helpful holiday decorating ideas: You can use ornament’s that are over-sized with a tree topper that is pretty large too, in color schemes that coordinate with each other such as Red and Gold, Blue and Silver, Gold and Silver, Red and White and so on. You can even use the unusual colors like Fuchsia and Purple. Artificial fruits, leaves and flowers clumped into small bunches make beautiful ornaments also and give it that fancy and unique feeling. If you love bird’s, you could even have a whole nature-themed Christmas tree with Small fake birds, bird nests, bird houses, berries and much more the possibilities are endless.

Do you know some of the history of Christmas tree decorations? Well, Christians of the 16th Century would bring wonderfully decorated trees into their houses in the celebration of Christmas, in Germany. This is where it all supposedly was born.

In Europe, Christmas tree decorations also began getting even more popular.

Queen Victoria’s husband, Prince Albert of England, decorated Windsor Castle first ever Christmas tree. Other English families of wealth began to copy the Prince, and started to decorate their own trees.

The 1830’s was considered the first ever recording of a Christmas tree being displayed by settlers from Germany, who now resided in the state of Pennsylvania. The settlers had a lovely show they all put on for the township to help raise some money for one of their local area churches.

In the 1890’s ornament’s were being made in Germany and Christmas tree decoration was becoming very popular in the United States too.

The Europeans preferred smaller trees averaging about three to four feet in their height, whereas, American’s had to have their Christmas tree’s as large as possible and filling space from ceiling down to the floorboard.

However you decide to decorate your Christmas tree, and whatever kind of tree be it a real or artificial pre-lit Christmas tree, the magic, wonder and joy of the Christmas season rings through and our love for our families along with the true meaning of this most special of days shines forever in our hearts. So, have a very Merry Christmas and a wonderful and bright New Year too.

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