Hi, friends! How are you? How has your week been? It has been busy here, our girls had a nice time participating in kids day of the Central Pa Arts Fest. If you are in Central PA you should come and check out the fest along with the several other craft shows in the area the same weekend. Our oldest will be selling at People's Choice tomorrow in the kid's tent.
What have you guys been creating? Please share them in the comments below or on our DIY Facebook page.
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| Our girls and their friends at Kids Day. |
Paper Christmas Tree
Hi everyone, it’s time for my second craft for the Christmas in July crafting challenge. For the second one, I’ve chosen another fast, easy to do a craft that is pretty cute and fun to do; a paper Christmas tree. Kids who can handle scissors and glue will enjoy this.
I was inspired by one I saw at the Krokotak website, there is a video tutorial for making it and you’ll find a link to that below after the photo tutorial.
To make the paper Christmas tree you’ll need Paper (I used computer paper), scissors, a glue stick and any small items you might want to decorate it with. Notice that my paper isn’t square - it needs to be.
In the #1, 2 and 3 photos below you can see how I folded over my paper and trimmed off the edge piece this will make it square. Then in #4 photo, I cut strips into the triangle toward the fold. I cut toward the fold almost to it but not through until I got to the short end. I didn’t measure but if you want yours perfectly even get a ruler and place dots to guide your cutting.In picture #5 you can see what it looks like when open.
You can see in the Picture below where I have them cut and started to glue each strip to the center. Bring the first strip down to the center and glue it down and then the next one and glue it on top of the first. I used a glue stick.The strips get progressively shorter as you get to the top forming the tree shape.
Once you have them all glued Your tree will look like image #1 in the photo below then you’ll need to fold up the bottom of the tree and glue that down as in image #2. Next, cut a square from a piece of brown paper and glue that behind the tree to make the base.
Decorate if you like; I added a poinsettia and a Santa I cut out from old Christmas cards ( a great reuse for them) and decided to write on mine and use it for a package decoration this coming Christmas. Have fun!
Here’s the link to the video tutorial from Krokotak: Paper Christmas Tree
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