My roommates and I wanted to get into the holiday spirit but we had no money and a lottttt of empties! So we decided to make a tree out of beer bottles and it looks pretty awesome! Tutorial below!
What You Will Need:
- Enough beer bottles to make your tree. We used a total of 56 bottles to make 5 tiers.
- White or hot glue
- Cardboard
- A Pencil/Pen
- Scissors
Steps:
1. Rinse out all the bottles, you don’t want your tree to start smelling!
2. Put your bottles in piles of 1, 3, 7, 15 and 30.
3. Start gluing the bottles onto your base.
5. On a sheet of cardboard, put the next tier on, trace around and cut out the circle.
6. Glue the tops of the bottles.
7. Put the cardboard cutout on top and start gluing down the second tier.
8. Repeat steps 5 to 7, for the next tiers.
9. Make a star! We made one with paper and a stick 
10. Carefully add lights and you have a 100% recycled tree!!!
hahahaha omg you girls are amazing. it looks good
xo
I LOVE THIS!! GREAT IDEA!!!
Will the beer store take the empties on the 27th?
I think this is an amazing way to use up those lottttttts of empties……our beer store takes empties back everyday, year round, however, dunno if they’ve ever taken back a beer bottle tree!!! I’d love to be a fly on the wall, when you take it back, especially if you keep it assembled…..LOL! Celebrate On ladies, and perhaps by New Years, you’ll have a tree bigger than the one in times square! Have fun…..
I’m really excited to return it back as a tree!!
haha bad ass! Love the spirit
Happy xmas!
Although the bottles provide the tree with its breathtaking green hue, the statue’s design is not so eco-friendly. Instead of diverting empties from the recycling bin and repurposing them, designers opted to use full beer bottles to make the tree! We’re not quite sure why designers chose this material because we’re guessing it would’ve been just as easy to build the statue from the oodles of empties available .