Friday, December 2, 2011

Kid friendly Christmas Craft

I attempted three times to post this yesterday and each time something screwed up.  I had to stop attempting or I was sure to lose the Christmas spirit. It seemed only appropriate that on the first day of December I post a Christmas craft, but with Joey out of town I had no one to couteract my lack of computer competency.   For all my DIY friends and momma's looking for something to do with your children this one is easy.  I have discoverd that when making this with my class we did it "wrong".  We still ended up with an Ornament, but it would of been smaller and easier to fit on a tree if we had done it correctly.
You will need: about 4 toilet paper rolls or 2 paper towel rolls to make one ornament. In addition you will need two pipe cleaners and optional would be paint and or gitter and we covered ours in Mod Podge to seel in the glitter. 

Step 1- Flatten then decorate your cardboard roll, cover in Mod Podge and let dry.
Step 2- Cut the roll into one inch sections, they should look like little circles.. (this is the step we messed up, we used ten whole rolls for our first set, on our second set we cut them correctly and the look is much more delicate.)
Step 3- Use a hole punch and put a hole about 3/4 of an inch in on each side of the cut roll.
Step 4- Cut about 3 inches off one pipe cleaner and twist it to the other.  Thread the smaller pipe cleaner through the bottom set of holes, thread the larger through the top set of holes.
 Step 5- Bring the small pipe cleaner together and twist creating a circle, then repeat with the longer pipe cleaner.

Now hang your pretty star on the Tree.   I wish I had taken photos of the small stars too, but we did this at school and I only got ones of the large.

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