12 Days of Christmas Count Down Tree

I know advent starts earlier, but this year, since I like to give little candies or small toys each day, I thought I’d limit the gifting to 12 days and made this cute little gold 12 Days of Christmas Count Down Tree.

As part of December’s Dollar Bin Challenge, a bunch of Bloggers and I got together and purchased mini trees from a retail store dollar bin. We all put our very own creative spin on them. Here’s the tree!

Cute, right? It was only $3.00 at Target. Here is how I made mine.

Materials:

Mini Tree
Glittered Letters
Raffia Ribbon
Scissors
Glue
Tree Topper Embellishments of Choice
12 Small Boxes and Bags
Gift Wrapping Embellishments of Choice (ribbon, stickers, decorative tape)

I wanted to put “Merry & Bright” on my mini garland, so I found these cute adhesive gold sparkly letters.

I removed the paper backing and carefully hot glued each letter onto some raffia ribbon.

For the tree topper, I found these to pieces in the Christmas bins at Jo-Ann’s and intertwined them together.

I also wrapped 12 small toys, candies, and chocolates in different boxes and mini gift bags. I used any small boxes I could find around the house. I embellished them in gold stickers and ribbon to match the tree.

We will start our countdown on December 13^th this year through the 24^th. Mia’s three cousins will be here on the 19^th, so I made sure to put a little extra in the boxes for her to share.