How to Make Trees Using Chicken Wire
- 1). Cut a piece of chicken wire whose length is 3 or 4 inches greater than the circumference of your finished tree trunk.
- 2). Connect the wire edges together to create a cylinder. Fold the raw wires over one another and cover sharp edges with masking tape.
- 3). Add contour and shape to the tree trunk. Chicken wire is very flexible and yields to pressure. Gently squeeze sections of the cylinder to compress it. Pull some material out of compressed sections to create knots.
- 4). Mold some of the chicken wire into tree branches. Cut varying lengths of wire to create branches with different circumferences. Shape branches as described above.
- 5). Attach branches to your trunk. Determine where you want the branches to sit and twist the raw wire ends at the base of each branch around the trunk wire. Turn any sharp points toward the inside of the trunk and cover with masking tape.
