Chenille Yarn Tree

I created this tutorial on how to make a chenille yarn tree. See how these chenille yarn trees add some handmade decoration to your home.

We recently had a lot of snow around here. It inspired me to make this craft. I’d like to share it with you. Maybe you will get inspired to make some too.

Trees aren’t just for Christmas.

The great thing about these trees are that they are décor that you can leave up all winter.

The chenille yarn trees are versatile and fit into lots of home décor themes. They also add texture to your room.

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What you need:

I bought this chunky chenille yarn at Walmart. I found some similar yarn at Amazon here:

Chunky Chenille Yarn

Craft Sissors

Hot Glue Gun

FloraCraft CraftFōM Cone 4.8 Inch x 11.9 Inch White

FloraCraft CraftFōM Cone 3.7 Inch x 8.9 Inch White

How to:

To make these chenille yarn trees start by heating up your hot glue gun. Get a pair of scissors. Grab the yarn and find the beginning of it. Once your hot glue gun is ready, put a few dabs of glue on the bottom of the styrofoam cone. Attach the beginning of the yarn. Then, take about a 4 inch section and attach that to the cone, making a loop about 2 inches long. You can make the loops as big or as small as you want. Whatever the look you like, go with that.

Continue to go around the cone gluing the loops on all the way to you reach the top of the cone.

When you get to the last row of loops on the top, glue the loops so they stick up above the styrofoam just a little but to hide it. Then, cut the yarn leaving about a 2 inch tail and glue the end of the tail to the center of the top of the cone, making sure that none of the styrofoam cone is visible.

I made 3 chenille yarn trees. Using 3 different sizes. I used two of the same size and one different size. I love to decorate in groups of three. It is appeasing to the eye. There is also science behind it if you look up the rule of thirds.

Here is an article from Wikipedia about the rule of thirds:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_thirds

Some places to put your trees

For some placement ideas you can add them to a table near your front door, a buffet table in your dining room, on the kitchen counter, and on the fireplace mantle.

Some other places may be in your bedroom on a dresser, a kids room or a bathroom.