Would you prefer art than kitsch on the Christmas tree?

And on which Christmas tree?

If you have learned from the article "Disenchanted- the myth of the White Christmas" that the fairy tale of the "White Christmas" is really just a fairy tale and the articles "Do you lack the real Advent mood? Art can bring you to rest" , "Advent mood- in and out of the computer" and "If the Christmas mood is dark, light helps you to get a little advent and Christmas mood hope), the next stress is already pending:

For everyone who enjoys Christmas - or would like to enjoy Christmas - there is a Christmas tree (also with "good environmental conscience", see below), and decorating this tree is a Christmas highlight.

This Christmas highlight becomes more beautiful when it is also a creative highlight, and it also brings more Christmas mood. "Art on the Christmas Tree" follow :

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 prophylactic agreements, you can then put a stop to the motto "The best horror scenes in film history as a scene on the Christmas tree", but accept the idea of ​​small watercolors of the craziest cupcakes in the world 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 also offer handicrafts in addition to the usual frills, you will also find some “art for the Christmas tree” . At www.kunsthandwerkermarkt.de you will find markets that only offer the works of artists and artisans.

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 .

In theory, this madness has already noticed many people in our country uncomfortably, but Christmas comes very suddenly every year, and the ideas about 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 to rent out in an exemplary manner for Christmas and spruce as Christmas trees . Well, this tree nursery was/is in Luxembourg, but "Rent a Christmas Tree" is now possible in many regions in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

It is becoming increasingly popular and you can get your tree "naked" or with jewelry, prices between 30 and 100 euros, including a detailed instruction for non-gardeners who also guarantee the tree a nice Christmas season. It is not dramatic, it is more about roasting the tree on the heating nor in candle flames nor to flood it in a well -intentioned intent to irritate the roots.

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.