Cone Shaped Christmas Trees made from cereal boxes

With all of the construction and remodeling in our home from the tree damage, we also replaced the skylights in the front room, so I had to clean off the military stuff off the mantel and have yet to put it back.  A lovely, clean, empty mantel is begging me to decorate it this Christmas.  I finally tried a Pinterest project to make cone-shaped Christmas trees from cereal boxes.

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I considered buying the ready-made styrofoam cones at the craft store, but instead found several great pins on Pinterest and combined the ideas to make my own from cereal boxes.

The first thing you will need to do is cut off the end flaps on the cereal box and open it to lay flat.

To create the cone shape, cut the cereal box with two square sides and one rounded side to form the bottom.

Bring the two straight edges together and secure with hot glue.  If the bottom rounded edge of the cone is uneven, trim with scissors.

I used several different items to cover my cone trees.

Fun and whimsical cone-shaped Christmas Trees.

One is simply wrapped in burlap fabric strips, and another I wrapped with a fabric swatch and cut to fit.

I covered a third one with extra puzzle pieces, making sure to only use pieces with the most green color. This was not my favorite method because I constantly burned my fingers on the hot glue, and the puzzle pieces just didn’t fit well in a round shape.

I covered a fourth cone in red, green, and silver Christmas ribbon.

The fifth one I covered in variegated yarn in creams, greens, and browns. This one is my favorite. The outcome of the colors is unique.

These five cone trees are the first items for my newly decorated Christmas mantel.

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