We Made A Floating Christmas Tree From Reflective Foam Insulation, And Here’s The Result

Every year my husband and I create our own Christmas tree from random materials. This year our tree floats! We used reflective foam insulation to create 3d snowflakes in different sizes. Because the fabric was so light, we were able to hang the entire thing from the ceiling with a fishing line and a few nail hooks. Luckily in the dark, the fishing line is barely visible. Here’s how it turned out:

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Daytime

We Made A Floating Christmas Tree From Reflective Foam Insulation, And Here’s The Result

Night-time

We Made A Floating Christmas Tree From Reflective Foam Insulation, And Here’s The Result

Details

We Made A Floating Christmas Tree From Reflective Foam Insulation, And Here’s The Result
We Made A Floating Christmas Tree From Reflective Foam Insulation, And Here’s The Result
We Made A Floating Christmas Tree From Reflective Foam Insulation, And Here’s The Result
We Made A Floating Christmas Tree From Reflective Foam Insulation, And Here’s The Result

This is the material we made it from. 50 feet of reflective foam insulation

We Made A Floating Christmas Tree From Reflective Foam Insulation, And Here’s The Result

Measuring and cutting the snowflake sections

We Made A Floating Christmas Tree From Reflective Foam Insulation, And Here’s The Result

An assembled snowflake

We Made A Floating Christmas Tree From Reflective Foam Insulation, And Here’s The Result

All the snowflakes ready to be hung

We Made A Floating Christmas Tree From Reflective Foam Insulation, And Here’s The Result

Each snowflakes is hung from a series of nail with fishing line from the ceiling

We Made A Floating Christmas Tree From Reflective Foam Insulation, And Here’s The Result

It doesn’t touch the floor

We Made A Floating Christmas Tree From Reflective Foam Insulation, And Here’s The Result

Adding strip lights with a sticky back so they stay in place

We Made A Floating Christmas Tree From Reflective Foam Insulation, And Here’s The Result

Strip lights before peeling off the tape

We Made A Floating Christmas Tree From Reflective Foam Insulation, And Here’s The Result

Going with a “cool” theme, we did a series of blues

We Made A Floating Christmas Tree From Reflective Foam Insulation, And Here’s The Result

Finished

We Made A Floating Christmas Tree From Reflective Foam Insulation, And Here’s The Result

Us

We Made A Floating Christmas Tree From Reflective Foam Insulation, And Here’s The Result

Here is a video of the building process: