Christmas Pipe Cleaner Crafts

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name is Miss Nancy, and I'm an elementary school teacher here in Tampa, Florida and a mother of three. Today, we're going to teach you how to make Christmas pipe cleaner crafts. You're going to need pipe cleaners and something you can stick them into. A cork would work. In this case, we're using some foam, but just about anything that'll hold it. Even a marshmallow, if you want to be creative and hungry. And we're also going to need some beads and maybe just one or two shiny sticky stickers -- hearts -- for the top. Hearts will work, stars will work. You can always just use a little...another bead with some glue. First thing we're going to do is cut a length. Okay. We're going to cut a length of our pipe cleaner, just about three inches or so, and fold it in half and give it a little twist. It doesn't have to be twisted tight, just a little bit. And then stick it right down into, again, whether it's your cork or, in this case, we're using foam -- whatever you have that'll stick into. Stick it down. That's going to make our tree bark for our Christmas tree. Now, we're going to take some leftover pipe cleaners and cut them in half to be about the same length. Anywhere from an inch to two inches to three inches. And easy as pie, just wrap them around the base. In this case, we'll just do two so you can see them. Now comes the best part: the decorating part. Take little beads and put them on the edges to showing it look like...to make it look just like a regular Christmas tree in your own home. And for the top of a tree, no tree is complete without a star or an ornament of some sort. In this case, we use a sticking heart. You can always use glue and make it stick. Just like that. And of course, you can decorate them. You can put little boxes down there to be presents or anything you want. And that is how you make a Christmas tree ornament."