Things You'll Need:
- Styrofoam balls
- Colorful beads
- Gilded lace and string
- Pine cones
- Crocheted doilies
- Spray starch
- Glitter
- Applesauce
- Cinnamon
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Step 1
Glue beads and dried flowers on plain Styrofoam balls. If you're using hot glue guns, make sure you monitor the kids closely and use a cool temperature glue gun. Add small Christmas nick-knacks and hang on the tree by a colorful ribbon.
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Step 2
String red, gold, silver and green beads alternately on fishing line with pieces of popcorn and dried cranberries for a glitzy touch to a old favorite. Drape the long strings on the boughs, letting some of the excess hang down.
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Step 3
Hang fresh pine cones, gathered at your favorite park, from festive ribbons and complete the decorations by gluing on some colorful beads and sprinkling on some gold glitter.
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Step 4
Use lots of starch on inexpensive crocheted doilies and allow them to dry and stiffen. Trace outlines on the doilies and cut out carefully. Hang by delicate ribbons for a Victorian decoration on your Christmas tree.
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Step 5
Combine a small amount of applesauce to dried powdered cinnamon to form a soft dough and roll it out on waxed paper. Use tiny cutters to make small shapes and let them dry for up to two weeks. Hang them on the Christmas Tree for a decoration that will make your whole house smell like the holidays.
Comments
hopekee said
on 10/29/2008 Sounds fun! FIVE STARS!!
taskeinc said
on 10/27/2008 This is a good family project.
Susang6 said
on 10/25/2008 very creative family craft
Kilogramm said
on 10/23/2008 All of these ideas sound fun, 5 stars!