How to Make Christmas Tree Collage Decorations

No artistic talent required: anyone - kids or adults - can make these fun Christmas tree collage decorations.

Instructions

Difficulty: Easy

Things You’ll Need:

• At Least 10 Christmas Catalogs
• 2 Packages Tiny Metallic Star Stickers
• Craft Glue Sticks
• Scissors
• 2 - 3 Sheets Green Construction Paper

1. Collect all the Christmas catalogs you receive in the mail until you have a nice, varied stack of at least 10 (catalogs from museums and toy stores are the best). During December this should only take a few days.
2. Cut a couple of large (at least 18 inches high) Christmas trees out of green construction paper or lightweight poster board. You can print out a tree outline from almost any computer graphics software.
3. Give your children the catalogs, trees, a pair of scissors and a glue stick.
4. Tell your children to cut out pictures of all the images they like or think are pretty (such as toys or ornaments) and "decorate" the trees with them. The children can either cut out individual items and glue them on like ornaments or cover the entire tree with pictures and trim off any bits that stick out.
5. Buy a package of small metallic star stickers for your child to add on last to give the tree a "lighted" effect.
6. Have the children sign and date the backs of the trees when they're done.
7. Laminate the trees to preserve them and hang them on the wall.

Tips & Warnings

• All glue sticks are not created equal. Try to find the "craft bond" kind made for gluing paper.
• You can also cut out several smaller trees and have your child decorate each one for a relative. If Grandma loves cats, your child can cut out all the neat cat gifts pictured in the catalogs and glue them to the tree.
• Adults can also indulge ' cut out all the wonderful ornaments you could never afford and decorate your own "dream tree" with them.
• If you have more than one child, you may want to collect catalogs for a longer period of time or borrow a few from a friend so that your kids don't fight over who gets the best ones.

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