Fest: Christmas

These fir trees are quickly crafted with children and they look particularly individual and original due to their different sizes and shapes. Even younger children can paint and cut the triangles for the fir trees. Tree trunks in different lengths can be easily glued afterwards.

Tip: A few dark green trees are set highlights and loosen up the overall picture of the tree rows.
Have fun trying it out!

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These pretty fir trees are made of packaging material. The cardboard is already black on one side and is suitable for making these trees. Paints small fir trees and cuts them out with scissors.
On the black side you embellish the trees with a white paint pencil. Paint patterns, candles, balls or chains of lights on the fir trees.
You can use these fir trees for a Christmas card, as a gift pendant or as a decoration pendant for a branch.
Very much, how easy this crafting is!

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These fir-tree breads can be used to create the children themselves with different ingredients. For example, cress, cucumber slices or cheese stars are suitable.
Cut a slice of toast into four triangles. From one triangle, the tree trunks are created and the others spread with cream cheese or soft butter. This spread keeps cucumber slices, cress or cheese stuck. Christmastime, the fir trees become if you chop stars from cheese or cucumber slices with a cookie cutter and thus the breads are covered. Have fun!

Aluminium snow crystals

These snow crystals sparkle and shimmer. They are made from round aluminium lids of dairy products. Cleaned and smooth painted you can use these for these enchanting snow crystals.
For this purpose, the aluminium cover is folded four times in half. Then you paint the cut line with a pencil. Make sure that the closed edge remains.
With the scissors you start to cut the open side with the one. Then you carefully fold the crystal apart again. Finally, you brush the finished snow crystals smoothly painted and hang them on the window, on a picture or on a branch.
Enjoy the idea of using packaging waste for handicrafts and making something beautiful out of it!

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With this method you quickly conjure up a beautiful Christmas card. For this purpose, advertising brochures are torn paper strips, which you then stick as candles on a card or clay paper. With a pen you paint wick and flame. After that you write your Christmas greetings and the card is ready.

3D fir tree

A fanned fir tree that looks very plastic. Whether used as a card or as an image, it is a challenging craft.
Try it out. Here you will find the instructions.

Little Santa's boots

A little Santa Claus boot as a gift pendant is easy to make and also looks great. Also suitable as a name tag or table card for the Advent breakfast. With a few fresh fir branches or also rosemary branches the boot smells particularly pleasant and looks great.
Follow the instructions and you will be amazed how quickly this craft work is to be done. Have fun trying out.

Star with wool

This star is cut out of a thin cardboard box and wrapped in yellow wool. Even small children can help with this work, here only the star has to be kept supportive.
You can see how simple this crafting is, explained step by step here.
School children can also record their individual star freely and thus receive unique items. Wrapped with white wool, the star also looks very noble. Try it out.

Pine-pinned sponges

Don't these fir cone bodies look cute? In itself, this handicraft work is not a big deal, yet requires some dexterity and manual skill.
With the pine cones you can use freshly collected ones or you can use which you might have found in the Christmas box from the previous year. The pine cones can be stored over several years and used again and again for great crafts or for decorating.
If you want to do the crafting as an upcycle project, you can use old clean felt cloths for your wicker hats. Alternatively, new felt wipes or thin craft felt are also suitable. The cut-up of the hat is made quickly, only when rolling and glueing the cap a little patience is required. Check out the instructions for this, then you can do it well.
Have you ever made a small cotton ball yourself? – no, then it's time! Because you need it for the wobble nose. Have fun trying it out.