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Our Lego Tree

December 15, 2006 at 8:31 pm · Filed under home education

I mentioned this in one of Steph’s posts about being overwhelmed. I’m not one for perfectly coordinated Christmas trees and have been known to do some kooky things with our trees. One year we decorated it all in paper (think astrobright copy paper) so that little hands couldn’t do any damage. No matter what you might envision, it was beautiful! Two years ago we did a lego tree. No stress. No requirements. All fun. And best of all, the boys created all of the ornaments - except a few that I made myself. Maybe it wouldn’t make the front page of a home decor magazine, but they (and their friends!) loved it. I wish the photos were better, but note the lego garland and the lego wreath in the upper left of the pictures.

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Not June Cleaver said,

December 16, 2006 @ 4:21 am

I’m smiling! That is such a neat idea. My kids would love doing something like that too.

JoVE said,

December 16, 2006 @ 9:00 am

And I’m thinking that is just a different way of doing a coordinated tree — ALL in paper ornaments?!

Those of us who really don’t do coordinated trees don’t think that hard about it. We take out the box of ornaments and hang them on the tree. No theme.

I like your themes though.

Steph said,

December 16, 2006 @ 10:19 am

I never even thought of having a theme. This is SO cool.

Andrea (admin) said,

December 16, 2006 @ 10:50 am

Well, i have a few (4) magazine-trees in my house this year. They look really pretty.

But I miss the little-kid trees, and all the special handmade kid-safe and meaningful “remember when..?” ornaments that are still in boxes because they weren’t pretty or co-ordinated enough.

I am tempted to swap them.

How’d you do the lego garland??? I love it!

paradisefound said,

December 16, 2006 @ 8:52 pm

LOL, Jove. I guess they are themed, though not very traditionally. My friends and family always just roll their eyes at the trees we do because the are so weird. The paper ornament tree was one of my favorites - the tree was giant, and so were the ornaments. The boys made pinwheels (non-functioning), paper chains, twists, etc. It was really cool and my mother was quietly horrified.

Andrea, FOUR trees? Yikes. The lego garland is just a long piece of cotton string with two legos stacked on either side and pushed together so that they stay on the string. I think there was about 2″ between each stack of two bricks, so the string was visible, but not obvious.

willa said,

December 17, 2006 @ 4:04 am

My boys’ bionicles and lego guys always seem to make it onto our Christmas tree one way or another. And once we had a Lord of the Rings Christmas with action figures climbing the branches and little index-card ornaments with quotes from the books : ). Glad to know we aren’t the only ones with customized, even kooky Christmas tree motifs!

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