Christmas in July Drink Umbrella Tree DIY

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Square feature of a finished cocktail umbrella Christmas Tree with a starfish topper in a tablescape with a gnome holding a pineapple cocktail on a hot pink flamingo floatie. The colors of the umbrellas are bright pink, aqua, yellow and spring green.

This drink umbrella tree is a fun, handmade project made with cocktail umbrellas and simple supplies, perfect to kick-off Christmas-in-July.

Supplies to make a drink umbrella Christmas Tree. Shown is a container or paper and toothpick drink umbrellas in festive colors, a hot glue gun, a 12-inch bamboo skewer, a 12-inch foam cone and a starfish.

Supplies

How to Make a Drink Umbrella Christmas Tree – 4 Easy Steps

STEP 1:

Hot glue a starfish, a sand dollar, or your choice of topper onto a skewer and push it into the top of the foam cone.

Gluing a bamboo skewer to a starfish as a topper for a diy drink umbrella Christmas tree.
Hot glue a wood skewer to the back of your topper and push it into the top.

STEP 2:

Open the paper umbrellas and snap off part of the toothpick end (if needed). You want the umbrellas to fit close to the foam base so that very little of the white cone shows through.

Snapping off part of the toothpick to make a DIY Drink Umbrella Christmas Tree.

STEP 3:

Place the umbrellas into the foam cone, starting at the bottom and working your way up. Add a dab of hot glue to the tip of the toothpicks before inserting them into the cone to hold them in place. If you have gaps between umbrellas when finished, hot-glue another umbrella over top.

Layer umbrellas starting at the bottom of your cone and working up. Shown are two layers started at the bottom of the cone.
Vertical pinnable image for your Pinterest Craft board of a finished cocktail umbrella Christmas Tree with a starfish topper in a tablescape with a gnome holding a pineapple cocktail on a hot pink flamingo floatie. The colors of the umbrellas are bright pink, aqua, yellow and spring green.

And one more idea—

Use felt and pom-poms to dress up dollar store flamingos to create Christmas-in-July yard décor.

Photo of five plastic flamingos with santa hats in the yard grass in the foreground and flowers in the background.
Star divider used has two hand drawn lines with a star in the center, used as a content break and signals new or different content below. This doodle style illustration is in a medium charcoal gray.

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