I originally posted these cute button Christmas trees a couple of years ago as one of my first ever crafts but I decided it was time to revisit them and give the post a little freshen up! My little guy has made several of these today in so many different styles and he has them all lined up in the windowsill like a little Christmas tree forest! I love these little trees and will be sharing a couple of different ideas for how to decorate them.
We finally put our Christmas tree up today and the little ones are starting to get super excited. We won’t be able to have our big family Christmas that we normally have but we’ll make the best of it that we can and what better way to start the season than by decorating the tree and watching home alone! How do you start the festive season?
Here’s what we used
Strong crafting card (flimsy card won’t be able to stand and will bend, if you use thin card you will need to mount it on thick card so it can stand)
Start by taking the empty toilet paper roll and covering it in brown paint before putting it aside to dry.
Cut out a Christmas tree shape, don’t forget you can use our free printable as a template!
Glue down a selection of buttons over your tree
Cut out a star for the top of the Christmas tree and glue it down in place. Put the Christmas tree aside to dry.
Cut a slit in one end of your toilet roll and then another equally sized one directly opposite. Slot the Christmas tree into the toilet roll trunk and your adorable Christmas tree craft is finished!
I really can’t believe how fast Christmas is rolling around this year, it seems as if the last one has only just been and gone. I think we’re all expecting this one to be a bit different from the normal with everything that’s going on in the world right now. Our normal Christmas day is a big family event but its looking like it may be a smaller one this year. Its a real shame but at the end of the day we all have to try and do what we can to keep ourselves and others safe. Personally we’re still determined to make the most of it and i can’t wait to decorate our house up like a grotto with all of our handmade crafts and décor, just like these yarn weaving Christmas tree decorations – perhaps we might even put it all up a little earlier this year!
Here’s what we used
4 green (or painted green) popsicle sticks
Green yarn
Silver card
Scissors
Glue gun (pva does work but requires a lot more time)
Optional pieces to decorate with.
How to make our yarn weaving Christmas tree decorations
Take three of your popsicle sticks and glue them together at one end to form an arrow shape then leave your sticks to dry. I would recommend using a glue gun for the best results.
Take the yarn and tie the loose end onto one of your sticks as close to the point as possible. Begin weaving your yarn through the sticks in an over, under pattern as above. You can just tuck the lose end of your knot into the weave to hide it.
Holding your yarn tight, push the woven yarn upwards to remove any gaps.
Repeat this process until you near the bottom of you tree. Once you are happy, chop your yarn to length and secure the lose end on the back of your tree by sticking or tying it.
Take your last popsicle stick and glue it stretching from the bottom of each side popsicle stick. Add a little star to the top and it really starts to look like a festive Christmas tree!
Finish off by decorating your tree and attaching a loop to the back by either tying or gluing it. Once dry the Christmas tree decorations are ready to display!
For todays craft we decided it was time to use up some of our mountainous pile of tissue paper. We’d recently made some cute rainbow suncatchers and decided it would be nice to add some more colours to our windows. My son decided that we should make some stars. I find stars a pain to draw (I can never get them equal), so we made our star template on the computer and have also added it below to make our cute magic star suncatcher craft that little bit easier for anyone else who has the same problem! I think these suncatcher crafts are loads of fun and hopefully we will have some more to share soon!
Here’s what we used
Black card Star shape template(optional) Tissue paper Crepe paper Scissors Double side tape
How we made our magic star suncatcher craft
First you will need to make your star shape outline. To do this you can either free hand draw a star and then draw another star inside at a 1-2cm gap or you can print, cut out and draw around our star shape. Once you have drawn your star you’ll need to cut it out.
Place your double sided tape around the edges of your star. Then cut out some strips of tissue paper, stretch and stick them tightly across the centre of your star.
Trim around your star to remove any excess.
Then, cut out some long coloured crepe paper strips and using double sided tape secure them to the bottom of your star so that they hang freely.
Your cute magic star suncatcher craft is finished! Dont they just look adorable in the windows!
I know, I know.. ANOTHER Christmas tree craft in may! Like I have said before though, if I don’t get the ideas down whilst there fresh I’ll have forgotten them by December! How adorable is this little fingerprint Christmas tree craft though? I came up with the idea for them whilst making our embellished Christmas tree and fingerprint apple tree. It’s sort of a mix of the two. I’m so in love with them, personally I think Christmas isn’t Christmas without all the kids crafty bits and Bob’s. They’re so simple and easy to make too so are fab for toddler groups and preschools!
What we used.
Green and yellow card
Black marker
Coloured paint
Cardboard tube (if you use tp roll you will need to make smaller trees. we used the tube from inside of a silver foil roll and then cut it down to length)
Scissors
Glue
How to make our cute fingerprint Christmas tree craft
Take your piece of card and fold it in half. Draw a curve starting in the bottom right corner going up to just past the halfway line of your fold. Your curve should look like a quarter of a circle.
Cut out your shape and fold it in half at the point trim of any excess so that your curve is even all the way around.
Open your shape up and you should see four equal sections. Now for the fun part, cover three sections of your tree in little ones brightly coloured fingerprints. Put your tree aside to dry.
Whilst your tree is drying, take your tube and cover it in brown paint to make your trunk. Then put your trunk aside to dry too.
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Once your tree is dry, optionally take your marker pens and add some swirly lines to join up your fingerprint fairy lights.
Now take your glue and cover your undecorated section with it. Pull your glued triangle round and stick in place on the back of your other end triangle to make a pyramid shaped cone.
Cut out a star and add it to the top of your tree. Then, finish off by balancing your tree on top of your trunk! Aren’t they just the sweetest? A perfect keepsake to look back at year after year!
