How to Make Repurposed Tart Tin Trees

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Feature image of Christmas tart trees. The one in the front has a red diamond shaped bead at the top and the other has a green one. You can use any topper you like and the trees are assembled with three different size tart tins, wider at the bottom and a smaller found one at the top. They are all fluted and vintage style.

Make these adorable repurposed tart tin trees to give as gifts, tiered tray décor, or even charming place-setting holders.

I love how easy these little trees are to customize. The first set I made featured classic red and green beads for Christmas, and later I swapped in heart toppers for Valentine’s Day. With a simple change at the top, this same craft works beautifully across multiple seasons.

Supplies

How to Make Repurposed Tart Tin Trees – 4 Easy Steps

STEP 1:

Decorate the edges of your tins with glitter before assembling them (optional).To decorate with glitter, apply E6000 to the edges and sprinkle glitter over the glue. Note: I don’t recommend using hot glue, in my experience, hot glue tends to peel off smooth surfaces.

Photo of red glitter on the edge of a tart tin used to make repurposed tart tin trees for Valentine's Day.
Sprinkle glitter over the glue.

STEP 2:

Use E6000 to glue the wood spools to your tins. Glue one large spool onto your largest tin and two smaller spools onto the middle and top tin. Let everything dry before moving to the next step.

Photo of three different sized tart tins with wood spools glued on, drying upside down.
Glue the wood spools on as shown here and let them dry.

STEP 3:

Assemble all of the tiers of the tree with E6000 and let dry completely.

Photo of E6000 being applied to a wood spools to put the top tier together to make a repurposed tart tin tree.
Put all of the tiers together to make a tree.

STEP 4:

Top with a bead! E6000 wasn’t working on the heart-shaped beads because of the pointed bottom—so I used Gorilla Glue 2-Part Epoxy and added a small metal washer as a base to sit my bead into. This did the trick and that bead isn’t going anywhere!

How to use 2-part epoxy… 2-Part Epoxy is actually very easy to use and it dries clear. Just squeeze the top trigger and epoxy solution will flow from both chambers. Mix the two parts together with a toothpick on a disposable paper plate and use the toothpick to apply the epoxy to the pieces you want to glue together.

Closeup photo showing a pink heart bead secured to the top of a tart tin tree with 2-part epoxy.
Closeup of bead secured to the top using 2-part epoxy.

Looking for more ways to reuse vintage tart tins? Explore these clever repurposed tart tin ideas.

Horizontal feature image of two red tart tin trees for Valentines Day.
Red Tart Tin Trees

Above is a better photo of the red tart tin trees. I found the floral glass beads through Funky Pretty Beads, and the pink beads are flat-sided gems from Dollar Tree that I glued together.

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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