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Wednesday, 18 December 2013

Tiny Christmas Tree

I discovered yet another craft while visiting someone who has a pine tree. A gathered a bunch a pine cones for something else which I still want to make, but since I don't have my hot glue gun yet I took one pine cone to make this easy craft.

A tiny Christmas tree.

What you will need:

  • 1 pine cone
  • Cotton balls
  • Paint
  • Glitter
  • Ribbon , straws , or anything which would look like streamers
  • Cut off wrapping paper
  • Paper
  • Pipe cleaners
  • Scissors
  • Paintbrush
  • Glue(optional)

 Starting:

As always find everything you think you will need and put them together on a surface which is aloud to get a bit messy.

Firstly a paint the tips of the pine cone white to ensure the glitter will really be displayed nicely, as you proceed you can add glitter onto the wet paint or you can wait for the paint to dry and just glue the glitter on afterwards.




Secondly I used some ribbon and straws to decorate the tree. I took some of the ribbon and tide it around the straws, I used about three of them. Just cut some gaps inti the straw to make it a bit more flexible.


Since I was going to move my pine cone a got a paper plate to use as a platform, as you can see in the image below. Now I just placed the pine cone in the middle and added cotton. 



Now since a Christmas tree looks a bit bland without presents, I decided to make some props. Simply cut it out of a piece of paper as indicated in the image:



The green block indicates the top of the box. The blue bocks indicate folds that need to be made. I drew it on paint since I mine was a bit croocked. Now just wrap them up or you can simply glue it.

To finish it off, I took a pipe cleaner, folded it into a star and tide it around the top.


Now just pull the cotton so the plate isn't visible and place it on a table as a decoration.


Please tell me what you think about the Tiny Christmas Tree and how you would improve on it. Please send photos of your creations to my email adress: ruanput1234@gmail.com


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