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The world is your oyster when it comes to DIY country Christmas crafts for your home. Oft times that world is your backyard.

* Acorn Christmas tree

Gather as many acorns as you like depending on the size tree you are looking to make. Bake acorns in the oven on low temp for 30 - 45 minutes to get rid of any weevils that have infested the nuts. You can also do this by soaking them in water and discarding the nuts that float to the top.

For your base you can make it out of a flat, square piece of plywood which you can paint green or brown or whatever color you would like, some have even used decorative wallpaper or ordinary wrapping paper around it. You can also make a base by using a square wedge of plywood, 4-5 inches high. You could then use another flat piece of plywood on top of that.

Take the caps off and decide the color you want your tree to be. A deep green, brilliant white, gold, purple, or silver tickle your fancy perhaps? Let the paint dry overnight. What you are doing to do first it to make the foundation layer. Lay the acorns out in the shape of a triangle as if you are racking them up in order to play pool. The next layer will be a little bit smaller and so on. The layers are not going to be perfectly even but they will be close enough. Build it up until you are ready for the final acorn. However, you are going to leave that last acorn off so that you have room to add a star or angel or whatever image you like for the top of a tree.

This tree is a simple foundation for further decoration. What you choose to decorate your tree with is completely up to you. You can run miniature lights around it, ribbon, glue crystals or beads to the gaps between the acorns, glue small twigs in those gaps and hang other tiny ornaments from their tips. Around the base you can add some cotton, sprinkle a little glitter on top of the cotton to give a magical twist.

You can do this same craft with large and medium size pine cones! I have seen a pine cone Christmas tree 5-6 feet tall and it was magnificent.

* Paper mache Christmas ornaments:

All that scrap newspaper can be wadded up into different sized balls, secure the paper with some strips of masking tape, then paper mache over top. These balls can be then painted, glittered, covered with fabric, rolled in colored glittery sand to make an impressive display. Stack them in a glass vase or before you paper mache, tie twine or fishing wire around them and then paper mache over top. This way you will have a way to hang

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