There's nothing that evokes Christmas quite like a tree-trimming party. To make it even more fun, make strings of edible ornaments. Cook up a huge batch of popcorn and thread the pieces along some heavy thread or some doubled-up regular thread using a large needle. You can do the same thing with gumdrops, candied fruit, Lifesavers and any other foodstuff solid enough to survive a needle. But be sure to have plenty more of the "ornaments" than you plan to actually wind up on the tree--pieces tend to "disappear" in the threading process. And if you live in bird country, make a few extra edible wreaths to hang outside and attract feathered friends to your backyard trees.
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