We arrived on Saturday with the first Christmas craft this year, and interestingly, the technique is similar to the one we used to make our mats of intertwined paper strips. I have been looking for crafts to do with older children and it is not easy, because they have more autonomy and are also more selective, on the other hand the very sophisticated or expensive finishes may not fare much (sometimes we want to see adults in miniature and they are not).
I have opted for these seemingly simple trees, but whose complete realization cannot be done by young children because many strips must be cut and have a little perspective when it comes to 'arming' the spruce shape. So I present a beautiful craft with which to decorate the door of the children's room, the bottom of the Bethlehem, and with which to surprise the teachers when they return home on Monday.
Materials we will need
- Decorated or metallized cards, or pieces of wrapping paper or (even) the odd piece of felt, white, brown or black 'draft' paper for the background, scissors, white glue / glue, Christmas stickers.
How to make our Christmas trees?
We will start by cutting strips of all the papers (which does not stop you from having only patent paper, cellophane and colored sheets, you can get it this way) of a centimeter and a half in width, and variable length (from about 30 centimeters the longest). We prepare the bottom with craft paper, from which we will cut a rectangle of some - for example - 50 high / 35 wide. Now we are ready to mount the tree by gluing the widest strips at the base - agreed to leave five centimeters below for the trunk - and following from more to less wide.
We have our fir tree to which we can add a piece of felt or corrugated cardboard as a trunk, and now we have to decorate it, for which we can use stickers with Christmas motifs, or use the leftover papers drawing on them stars, balls, etc., and superimposing them (eye: when more color contrast is better) to the tree.
The work will be perfect, and once dry it is ready to be used.
The only recommendation that can be made to improve the result, is that if you are going to use cloth, it is in a small amount because it needs white glue to stick, and we do not want the base paper to get very wet, right? Enjoy it.
