If you love ballet, a ballet themed Christmas tree might be perfect for you.
Whether you are or were a ballet dancer, your child is a ballet dancer, or you just love the ballet, a ballet themed Christmas tree might be a great addition to your home.
Here are some clever ideas for how to create a ballet themed Christmas tree.
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Decide whether you want to use a real or artificial Christmas tree - either is fine.
Also decide whether you want to have a traditional green Christmas tree, a white flocked Christmas tree, or a pink Christmas tree.
Make sure to add at least 1 strand of 100 mini Christmas lights per foot height of tree, so a 10 foot tall Christmas tree would get 10 strands of lights.
Feel free to add even more considering most of the lights would get covered by ornaments.
For a sparkle effect, add one or two strands of slow twinkle string lights #ad, but avoid traditional blinking or flashing lights that can be too harsh.
Color Scheme
Decide on a color scheme for your ballet Christmas tree.
The obvious choice is powder pink, but you can use whatever color scheme you like.
Feel free to mix many different colors of pink for variation instead of purchasing a big box of the exact same ornament.
Also, try not to use the exact same quantity of the same color - a designer concept is to use 60% of one color (perhaps white), 30% of another color (perhaps pink), and 10% of an accent color (perhaps silver).
Christmas trees that are monochromatic (all one color) need a lot of textural items so they don't look flat and boring. You can add feathers, crystals, metallic items, rhinestones, rustic items like pine cones, mirrored items like disco ball ornaments, or whatever you feel would look best in your home.
Garland
If you wish to use garland, apply it before adding the ornaments.
You might want to use a garland made of ribbon, grapevine, popcorn, beads, or whatever appeals to you.
Christmas Ornaments
Start collecting Christmas ornaments and decorations that remind you of ballet.
You can use ballet shoes (ornaments or real shoes), ballet dancer figurines, feathers, mirrored ornaments, shiny pink ribbon, metallic ornaments, glittered ornaments, flowers, snowflakes, pearls, swans, nutcrackers, tiaras, ticket stubs, playbills, or whatever is reminiscent of ballet.
You can make your ballet Christmas ornaments tell a story of your progression with ballet with your ballet shoes that you wore as a small child towards the top of the Christmas tree and your more current ballet shoes towards the bottom.
Christmas Tree Topper
Your ballet Christmas tree topper can be anything you desire.
You can use a collection of ballet slippers, an angel wearing a tutu, a star, a photo cutout of yourself doing a ballet pose, a tiara, or whatever reminds you of ballet.
Christmas Tree Skirt and Gifts
You can purchase a color coordinating Christmas tree skirt or you can make one out of tulle to resemble a ballet skirt.
Also consider wrapping your gifts to complement your color scheme. You can purchase 3 different wrapping papers and 3 different ribbons and mix & match the papers and ribbons to create several different wrapped gift combinations.
