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  Create pretty Christmas tree skirts that both adults and children can make using a variety of materials. A holiday-themed tree skirt will add special interest around your decorated Christmas tree and protect your floor at the same time. Make a variety of tree skirts to give as gifts, to fit a small tabletop tree, or a traditional tree for friends or family.
  
  

Family Photo Tree Skirt

• Decorate the border of a tree skirt with photographs from prior Christmas celebrations. Include different scenes with friends and family from opening presents to holiday meals. Images can be printed on ink jet printer-friendly fabric sheets and sewn onto the tree skirt by hand or machine. Use dimensional paint to write names, dates or other details around the photos. Add glue-on decorative trim, gold glitter or appliques to enhance the skirt. A family photo tree skirt can become a treasured heirloom.
  
  

Crazy Quilt Tree Skirt

• Make a freestyle "crazy" quilted tree skirt with small fabric remnant pieces in Christmas themes and colors. Cut basic squares, circles, triangles or odd shapes. Work in sections of the tree skirt, arranging the pieces in a random fashion, mixing solid colors with prints. Use iron-on fabric adhesive to attach the material. Embellish the skirt with cording, ribbon, buttons and other decorative accents to make the tree skirt special.
  
  

Hand-Stamped Tree Skirt

• Create a hand-printed Christmas tree skirt using acrylic paints, such as the one suggested at the Disney Family Fun website. Have children and adults paint their palms and fingers with acrylic paint and stamp their handprints all around a solid-colored felt tree skirt. Use dimensional paint or permanent markers to write each person's name by his handprint. Use glitter glue for decorative touches.
  
  

No-Sew Decorated Tree Skirt

• Create a festive holiday tree skirt decorated with large Christmas-themed images cut from printed fabric. Available at craft and fabric shops, the fabric can include colorful ornaments, snowmen, Santa Claus, Christmas trees, reindeer or candy canes. Arrange the images in a random fashion on a felt tree skirt secured and secure them with white glue. Embellish the skirt with novelty buttons, trims and dimensional paint.