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Kids crafts Easy to make - Christmas
Decorations
Pine cone Christmas tree decoration
Materials needed:
Dry pine cones
Green, gold and red glitter
Glue
Card
Ribbon
Paint the pine cone with glue and sprinkle the green
glitter over it and leave
to dry.
Make a little star from the card and cover it with the yellow glitter. Once
the glitter has dried on the tree make some wavey lines with the glue and sprinkle
the red glitter (so it looks like tinsel on a tree) shake off the excess. Tie
the ribbon in a circle and glue to the pine cone and hang from the Christmas
tree.
Bead garland
Materials needed:
An assortment of plastic beads
String
Scissors
Cut the string according to the length desired for the garland.
String on the first bead and tie a knot to stop it falling off. Now continue
putting the beads on the string until there is just a bit left. Tie a knot at
the end of the string. Now you are ready to hang your bead garland from the
tree.
Christmas tree card holder
Materials needed:
Large piece of card
Scissors
Craft knife
Paint
Glitter
Glue
Ribbon
Hole punch
Draw a large Christmas tree on to the card and cut it out. Paint the tree and
leave to dry. Once dry draw your decorations then paint them and leave to dry.
Apply glue as if it was tinsel dangled across the tree then cover with the glitter
and shake off the excess. Now that you have completed your tree, decorations,
tinsel and all punch a hole in the top and thread the ribbon through.
With help from an adult cut roughly 20+ slits all the way down the tree. Now
you can hang your Christmas tree card holder from the door or wall and show
off all your cards.
Paper chains
Materials needed:
Lots of paper in a variety of different colours
Scissors
Sticky tape
String
Cut the paper into strips of roughly 40cm x 10cm. Take one of the strips and
tape it together so it forms a loop. Thread the next strip through the first
one tape together and continue. You will see it begin to look like a chain.
Continue this until it is long enough to stretch from corner to corner a cross
the ceiling. Make another one for opposite corners. Tape a piece of string in
a loop to each end of the chains. Now get an adult to hang it from the ceiling.
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