Before people had christmas trees,they put plants in their homes in the cold,dark winter.
Sometimes they hung greemn boughs over a door.This helped them to thik of springtime.Christmas in Germany started to use trees at Christmas in the 16th century.Germans brought the first Christmas tree to American around the year 1700.But they were not popular.In1834,Prince Albert,the German husband of Britain's Queen Victoria,first brought s Christmas tree to their castle.Then the trees bacame popular.Other people wanted to have a Christmas tree too-even Americans!Today Christmas trees are everywhere at Christmas.Sometimes they are not real trees. People may use other things to make a tree.This has become a sign of Christmas.