Would you prefer art than kitsch on the Christmas tree?

And on which Christmas tree?

learned from the article “Disenchanted – The Myth of the White Christmas” “White Christmas” is indeed just a fairy tale, and if the articles “Are you missing the true Advent spirit? Art can bring you peace” , “Advent spirit – in and from the computer” , and “When the Christmas spirit is dark, light helps” have helped you to still create a little Advent and Christmas spirit (which we very much hope), then the next stress is already looming:

For everyone who enjoys Christmas – or wants to enjoy Christmas – there is a Christmas tree (also with a “good environmental conscience”, see below), and decorating this tree is a Christmas highlight.

This Christmas highlight becomes even more beautiful when it's also a creative one, and it brings more Christmas cheer as well. Here are a few ideas for "art on the Christmas tree" :

For all parents, children's art is in the foreground, logical.

In kindergartens and at schools there is tirelessly tirelessly tirelessness, sometimes evenly fearless when it comes to the motifs; If you don't want to adorn your cool living room with every idea from these sources, you need a few diplomatic detours.

For example, your own (handicrafts) Christmas tree for the children's room, and a motto for the living room, which the worst handicrafts do not happen to fit ... or some acting skill with which you ask for selected parts for the family-Christmas tree ... or both ...

It can be a lot of fun if some older children to set a motto - not entirely harmless, but you can reserve the same choice or set a list beforehand, which you definitely don't want to see.

With such preventative agreements, you can put a stop to the motto "the best horror scenes in film history as scenery on the Christmas tree," but accept the idea of ​​small watercolors of the world's craziest cupcakes on the Christmas tree..

Adults can really make their Christmas tree a work of art , simply with the art postcards of the calendars of recent years, a little more complex with figures that are cut out of photos collected throughout the year.

This can be a collection of the craziest loops that are conceived in the trade for gift packaging, or the most diverse colorful candies, nice and close, or the most beautiful pieces of jewelry that they could discover in the shop windows of the jewelers - you can collect photos from many things, print them out, cut out and use them as a tree trailer for Christmas.

If you like the idea, but have not collected you: you can also put together a series of pictures on the Internet, pull it onto a stick and have it printed out on a special paper in the next copy shop ...

If you visit Christmas markets that offer handcrafted items in addition to the usual trinkets, you'll find plenty of "art for the Christmas tree" . At www.kunsthandwerker-markt.de you can find markets that exclusively offer the works of artists and craftspeople.

Two creative ideas for the Christmas tree

The ecologically correct Christmas tree

If the jewelry is not to be a commercial trash, the Christmas tree must of course also meet this noble. The pesticide contaminated, needle-absorbing drying frame from the next (mixed forest) Christmas tree monoculture would probably bring more mockery than Christmas joy in environmentally responsible Christmas visitors ...

Seriously, at a time when the citizens finally start to fight against that half of our food will be thrown away, it is certainly no longer up to date to buy an entire tree and to throw it away a few days later, per household, 40 million in all of Germany if every household would buy such a one-way Christmas tree.

the and the numbers do not go down, but also rise slightly (source: main association of the German wood industry e .

Theoretically, this madness has already been noticed by many people in our country, but Christmas comes very suddenly every year, and the ideas surrounding the “sustainable Christmas tree” are postponed to the next year every year.

There have been alternatives for a long time, several, here, a small overview if you really don't want to celebrate a Christmas tree murder this year:

For all people with a garden, the Christmas tree is the solution, which spends its first Christmas in the pot in the living room and is then planted in the garden, if possible in a place visible from the house, so that it can give his Christmas performance from outside next year.

Also possible in residential complexes with green spaces in front of the house, even as a fairly magnificent tree if the residents collect and can agree with the landlord (should actually occur against lautating rumors - there should even be municipalities in Germany in which all citizens have understood that they have to pull together if their community should not soon be history, sometimes even a Christmas tree for everyone).

If you don't have a garden or don't want to see any conifers in the garden (could then take a larch), you don't need to become a large plant destroyer.

Around 15 years ago, the first tree nursery started renting out impeccably cultivated fir and spruce trees as Christmas trees . Okay, that nursery was/is in Luxembourg, but "Rent a Christmas Tree" is now possible in many regions of Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.

It's becoming increasingly popular, and you can get your tree "naked" or decorated, with prices ranging from 30 to 100 euros, including detailed instructions for non-gardeners, which also guarantees the tree a happy Christmas season. It's not dramatic; it's more about not roasting the tree on the radiator or in candle flames, nor flooding it with well-intentioned watering to the point where the roots rot.

The next contact points are event agencies (party service) and hardware stores, both rent Christmas trees. However, this is sometimes mere marketing gags to attract customers, and the trees are destroyed according to the festival - so be careful and inquire what becomes out of the tree after Christmas.

If no one has taken up this business idea at your home town, you can even order your Christmas tree on the Internet, from the Christmas tree & more company at www.weihnachtbaum-and-more.de .

For moderate costs, Christmas trees are available from € 18, and the shipping costs of smaller Christmas trees start at € 7.90, only with the 6-meter fir does the shipping then cost more than € 100, but such a huge part is probably ordered by companies/organizations anyway, which can deduct these costs from the tax.

Lina cream

Passionate author with lively art interest

www.kunstplaza.de