Are you someone who hoards wine corks? My fiancé loves a good Malbec, so we are never short on corks in our household. In fact, we’ve collected so many that I felt like I had to do make something out of all the extra corks we have floating around. This DIY Christmas tree is made entirely of wine corks, but it’s super simple to assemble and also incredibly easy to personalize.
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Wine Cork Christmas Tree
Materials Needed:
- 19 Wine Corks (you can buy wine corks if you don’t have a large collection)
- 1 Champagne Cork (or plain cork for star and tree base)
- Hot Glue Gun and Glue Sticks
- X-acto knife
- Start by arranging your corks in rows. You’ll want two rows of four corks, one row of five corks, one row of three corks, one row of two corks, and a single cork for the top.
- Heat up your hot glue gun and glue each row horizontally together. You’ll want to make sure to hold each row delicately and give it time to dry in between gluing the corks. This will ensure that your tree is stable.
- Once all of your rows are glued together horizontally, it’s time to start stacking the rows. The bottom row will start with stacking the row of five corks on top of the base row of four corks.
- Once the base has dried, you’ll stack the remaining cork rows. Then next four cork row will be stacked on top of the five corks, followed by the three cork row.
- Finally, you’ll add the two cork row and the singular cork on top.
- Take the champagne cork and cut off the round top section. Then glue the bottom piece to the bottom part of your tree to create a solid base. If you don’t have a champagne cork, you could also just cut a regular cork in half to create a stable, short base.
- This part is entirely optional, but I took the top portion of the champagne cork and carved a small star out of it. I drew the outline with a pencil and then used an X-acto knife to carve our the shape of the star.
- Hot glue your star to the top of your tree.
- (Optional) Paint your tree as desired.
- Display proudly with your Christmas decor!
I left my cork tree completely plain and unpainted, but it would also look great with a few dots of festive green or red paint. I think it would also look cute with a few beads added to the gaps as mini “ornaments”. You could also easily alter the number of rows to create an even larger tree.
