Christmas is a time for celebration with all the pomp and fun comprising of lights and decorations, feasts and parties. A Christmas celebration looks incomplete without a Christmas tree properly decorated. Christmas tress are adorned with twinkling lights, shiny balls, tiny bells and stars and the maximum beauty is exhibited with its proper decoration. Christmas trees are the best decorative symbol of a Christmas celebration and they do pep up the festive mood of the season.

Christmas tress was accepted as a symbol of festivity since a long time and it also found its presence in different cultures to pep up festivity. The closest association of the Christmas tress could be linked with Martin Luther, who was the founder of the Protestant Church.

Christmas trees are of varied types. It depends on the nature – artificial or natural. Either of this tress can be decorated according to your choices. It absolutely depends on your discretion.

Natural Christmas trees can be:

1. Silver Fir
2. Serbian Spruce
3. Balsam Fir
4. Grand Fir
5. Scots Pine
6. Eastern White Pine

Artificial Christmas Trees can be –

1. Feather Tree, made from green dyed goose feathers
2. Modern tree, made from animal hair or plastic bristles
3. Outdoor tree made out of steel wires. They are lighted with multicolored Christmas Lights and Candles

Ornaments used for Christmas tree decoration –

• Silver and Gold Bells and Baubles and golliwoggs
• Tinsel, garland and ribbons
• Miniatures of Santa Claus
• Snowflakes and stars
• Electric Christmas Lights, also called 'Fairy Lights'
• Cotton, to give the illusion of snow
• Glass ball dolphins and glass ball Angels
• Snowflake Tree Skirt

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