Craft a Christmas Tree from Your Reader's Digest Magazine

I remember staying after school to help one of my teachers make these trees. The finished trees were given to residents in nursing homes. It is one of my best memories from grammer school.

Yes, I have plenty of RDs to make the Christmas tree! Does anyone remember making angels? I made one in Camp Fire Girls and my Grandmother took it out every Christmas for many years. Fold the right corner of the page into the spine then bring the bottom right page up to meet the folded edge. they stood up on their own. We spray painted them gold, added a styrofoam head with curly angel hair and sequins for eyes. We added foil wings and were so proud of our resulting angel!

I was so happy to see the Readers Digest Christmas Trees on Pg. 4 of the December issue - it brought back so many memories. Forty years ago or thereabouts, I was a Den Mother and my Cub Scouts made them for Christmas - so much fun and a very nice decoration.

I am just now planning to make the Christmas trees from old reader's digest mag.. But the way you have them folded is not the way my mom taught me to do them back in the '70's. We folded the top right corner down into the center and then brought bottom right corner up to meet (about center of that fold at the bottom). It gave you a slight base, so the tree did not topple over. Wish I had a drawing for you, but no can do here.

I am a long time reader of Readers Digest. I want to Thank you Tina for making this sight. I made the Christmas trees with the books when I was in Brownies and Girl Scouts. We would make one to take to shut-ins or nursing homes and make one for our family. I wanted to make them this year for gifts and could not remember how to fold them. Thank you so much and Readers Digest for the continued great stories. Have a great holiday this year 2009.