Trimming a Christmas tree is easy when you have help…and what a great excuse for a party! Invite your trimming crew over, and try these fun ideas…
Decorating your tree with strings of popcorn is an attractive, natural and inexpensive option—but fresh-popped kernels tend to break apart when you try to string them. Solution: Air-pop the corn kernels a few days before the stringing. Stale popcorn is a lot easier to work with than fresh—it’s tougher and holds together better. And fresh popcorn is too tempting to eat!
Ask each of your tree-trimming guests to bring one inexpensive ornament. You can have a contest to declare the sweetest, goofiest, classiest, most retro…whatever categories you’d like. Tell your trimming crew in advance that homemade ornaments are welcome…even preferred.
Try to keep your food selections to easy handheld munchies because people will be busy decorating your tree. The best holiday-party food we know is take-out pizza cut up into small 3-x-3-inch squares. What says Christmas better than a Margherita pizza—red sauce, white cheese…topped with fresh green basil leaves. Finish up with Christmas cookies and hot cocoa.
More ways to make your holiday special…
