Dear friends Wish you a very very Happy New Year.
The end of the year had quite a few ups and downs for me so blogging took a big backseat.I did miss my blogland friends and am so glad to be back.
During the festive season, I was obsessed with making trees using different media …I made a
Beaded Christmas tree , a Stacked
Star box Christmas tree and several different types of paper Christmas trees!
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| Paper Christmas Tree |
I had seen paper cone wreaths and paper cone flowers on the net and my little one and I tried making our version of a paper cone Christmas tree .We used squares of thin chart paper to make our paper cones and stuck them to a cardboard tube [the recycled central remaining part of an Aluminium foil roll] to make our handmade Christmas tree.
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| Paper Christmas Tree |
Used a spellbinders die to cut ornaments from glitter foam and attached it to the under surface of some of the paper cones using transparent twine and a sticky tape.Added snowtex [also used in this Christmas diorama]on tips of the paper cones and also dabbed on some festive glitter on our tree[my daughter was rather critical of the random glitter!]  |
| Paper Christmas Tree |
We made the festive ribbon bow atop our tree by gluing together varying strips of ribbon.This was one of the rare times I could make a passable bow and my daughter was full of encouragement! I do so admire ladies who make gorgeous bows!
Sharing how we made our
Paper Christmas treedo it yourself web diyChristmas Tree Tutorial
Materials Required
- Paper- Thin chart paper , pattern paper,magazine sheets,newspaper all work fine
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Central Support- we recycled the central cardboard tube of an used up Aluminium foil roll .You could also use a wooden /plastic cylinder or a Styrofoam cone if that is available in your country[never seen it in Indian stores]
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Sticky tape – using sticky tape/cellotape is the fastest and easiest way to make your paper tree
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Stapler-We found using a stapler the easiest way to make our paper cones.If you are working with very young children maybe tape is a better option to prevent stapling little fingers!
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Base-Any plastic /glass /metal container to fix the central support of your tree.The base of this paper cone tree was made using a plastic container and play dough in a similar fashion to the base of my
Beaded Christmas tree
We used 4 sizes of
squares [6,5,4 and 3 inch] to make the paper cone layers of our paper tree.
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| Paper Christmas Tree Tutorial |
Here is my little one rolling up her paper cones.
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| Paper Christmas Tree Tutorial |
Rolling up the paper cones wasnt as easy as expected and my little one got it right only after quite a few trials and lots of encouragement!
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| Paper Christmas Tree Tutorial |
Stapling the cones was the easiest and quickest way!More variations on paper cone formation and size
here.
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| Paper Christmas Tree Tutorial |
Making these trees actually required 4 hands!!..One pair of hands to hold the central support and the paper cone in place and another pair to tape the cones to the central support! So this is an ideal craft to do as as a family or in a craft class.
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| Paper Christmas Tree Tutorial |
Here is my young crafter all proud of her first layer of her paper tree!
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| Paper Christmas Tree Tutorial |
We stuck our 2nd layer of paper cones about an inch above the tips of our base layer [no hard and fast rule—go by what looks good to you].
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| Paper Christmas Tree Tutorial |
You need not be very tidy while sticking the cones to the central tube as the tip is going to get hidden by the paper cone layer you will add on top.
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| Paper Christmas Tree Tutorial |
Our tree did manage to look quite wobbly at a certain point of time and I had to nudge some of the cones around to get a bit of order in our do it yourself web diyChristmas tree!
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| Paper Christmas Tree Tutorial |
My little one made the snowman ornaments by painting and altering[with bead eyes and pom pom noses] some garish store bought ornaments.
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| do it yourself web diyChristmas Tree |
I hope you liked our homemade do it yourself web diyChristmas tree…hope the idea will come in handy for the festive seasons in the coming years.
Edited : this do it yourself web diyPaper tree was featured on Artsy Craftsy and was finalist at Itsy Bitsy Festive theme challenge
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