Sometimes having a Christmas tree can be difficult either for financial reasons or space reasons. We’ve got a great answer for you! Its an easy DIY hanging wall Christmas tree made from dowels! You can make it any size you like. Its simple, inexpensive and beautiful! If you attach ornaments with glue you can even carefully store the tree in its entirety! It’s great for miscellaneous rooms too! If you enjoy this you might be interested in How To Make A Small Burlap Christmas Tree Using Hangers. Check out all our great Christmas ideas here!
Supplies
Notes: You can adjust the size of your tree however you wish. We used 5/8″ dowels to make it sturdy to hang things but feel free to purchase whatever size works best for you. You can also use thin tree branches if you have access!
- 10 36″ dowels The ones shown are approx 3/4. (this made a tree that was aprox. 45″ tall (without the star) and 36″ at the bottom.
- Saw (this is my FAVORITE hand saw!)
- Jute Twine (this is exactly what we used)
- Twinkle lights, LED is the best choice. We used soft yellow. Our tree took a string with 60 lights.
- Christmas decor (we got ours from the Dollar Store)
Instructions
Begin by laying out your dowels roughly 5-6 inches apart. This will give you the height of your tree. Using 10 three foot dowels, our tree was set to be about 4 feet tall.
Measure 5 inches in from the end of the top dowel and place a dot with a sharpie. Then, take a tape measure or string and create a line from that dot to the opposite corner of the bottom dowel. (The widest side, pictured in the bottom half of this photo, is the part of the dowels that you will be keeping for your tree. Be sure to take note of which side is which so that you can discard the right half of the dowels.)
Take a sharpie and mark each dowel where the tape measure crosses it. This will be your cut line.
Cut down each dowel at the mark made with the sharpie. (Be sure to separate your dowels, keeping the correct half as mentioned earlier!)
We chose to ‘stain’ our dowel with some watered down brown paint. This step is optional depending on the look you are going for.
Once dry, lay out your dowel from smallest to largest, roughly 5-6 inches apart, to form your tree shape.
Begin by tying your twine to the bottom dowel, a few inches in from the left. Once firmly attached, bring the twine up to the next dowel, also a few inches in, and tying it tightly. Continue this process of each side of the dowels, being sure to leave 5-6 inches between each dowel.
After all of the dowel are tied 5-6 inches apart down each side of your dowels, you can create a loop of twine at the center of the top dowel to hang your tree from.
We cleared a space to fit our 4 foot tree above our crafting desk.
Once the tree was hung, we did have to slide our dowels a bit to make sure that everything was even. As you can see, the bottom dowels were a little too close together.
To adjust, we simply cut and retied a few strings to make everything perfect.
After the tree was spaced to our liking, we wrapped our dowels in string lights.
Then added a few sprigs of evergreen to give it a cute pop of green.
These sprigs have wire in them and can be bought in small packs that are pre-cut to about 8 inches. They are normally used to tie lights to trees, but they were perfect for our project!
Then we began placing our hanging christmas tree decorations.
All of these were picked up at the dollar store.
Our completed tree turned out beautifully, giving us a seasonal art piece by day and a cozy tree by night. The perfect solution for small spaces!
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Is there a chance that you can measure the lengths that you used in each of the dowels you used. Like the length of the top dowel…all the way down to the last bottom one (perhaps that one, you did not cut at all). I am thinking that if I have the measurements for each dowel, I can perhaps Just cut the dowels that length and do the placement…It might save a bit of money for cost of the tree…and perhaps the scraps of dowel left will be a bit longer and can be used in another craft…thank you for the idea. amazing…would love to make one for a daughter’s house…
I used 8 branches… sorry no pictures. 5″ apart & 5″ for hanging twine. Tied with twine 1″ in from each end. Branches diameters were ½ to ¾ inches. Branch lengths in inches 5, 9, 13, 17, 21, 25, 29, & 33. Total from hanging to bottom 40″ with a desired bottom to end for decoration to shelf. (I used 8″.) NOTE: Branches were not straight, lengths measured straight end to end. Adjustments between made to prevent tree from looking lopsided.
I tied the bottom string (longest dowel) in 5″ from the end also and made my cut line from that. I got TWO trees from one set of dowels.
No waste at all. One for me and one as a gift!
SOOOO CUTE !!!! I love it
great idea .
Newly retired and traveling in an RV, I’ve been trying to figure out what to do for a Christmas tree in my tiny space. Now I have the answer! I will make it smaller to fit on the wall above my couch, but I think this will be perfect and lightweight. Thank you!
Such a great idea.. .now my kids can have a Christmas tree in their room! I think we’ll use actual tree limbs (we live next to state land.. .so many branches, we will find the the right sizes)!! My kids say “thank you” and I love that we have a project that has tradition written all over it!
Absolutely love this idea, well done! Love the pictures, I’m a sight learner…seeing how a project is made at each stage leaves a lasting impression for me. I’m definitely going to try this!
I’m always looking for ideas that I can create to help folks that can’t always have the things most take for granted .
I can’t think of a better way to live. We definitely take a lot for granted. Thanks so much for visiting!
Love your Christmas Tree. I will make this next year for sure. Great idea.
Nancy,
You’re Tree is really cute. I can just picture making one to hang at the bottom of our stairs as we then walk into the finished part of the basement. Great idea for hanging ‘themed’ ornaments.
This would be cute with rough branches and bird ornaments. Darling. Thank you so much for the idea. You did a great and creative job.
Kate
Thanks so much Kate for the kind words. I’m so glad you enjoyed it. Ü
Love it! Can’t wait to make a couple!
Thanks!
❤️
You’re very welcome. Always thrilled to inspire!
TFS. Fantastic idea. Love your final results. Merry Christmas and Cheers
What a beautiful tree and fantastic idea. That would look great for next year. Kinda wish I had not put up the tree with all the stress this year. Thank you for the idea
Absolutely gorgeous! Without looking closely, it actually looks like a real tree.
Thank you for creating and sharing! ❤️
You’re so welcome Joann. Thanks so much for the kind comment and visiting!
Love this idea! I can’t wait to make it. Where did you get the wired sprigs?
Thanks Janet! I got them at the Dollar Store. They were garland in a long piece. Didn’t even realize they were wired till I unwrapped them! Cut them and twisted them on. Ü
Lovely for my small apt & limited budget. I can do this…thank-you for sharing!
cute but dowels are expensive. could you make it rough with fallen branches and sticks in my yard??
Most definitely! In fact I mean’t to mention that in the post and didn’t I’ll add that now.
Thanks so much!