A broom made from coconut tree leaves on a zero-budget... All parts of the coconut tree are useful in some way or other to humans. The yellowing coconut tree leaves can be used to make baskets, woven into mats to form roof thatching, used as mulching for plants and also for making brooms. You need leaflets from three to four fronds from a coconut tree. It will take less than two hours to make a broom from the leaflets.