Victoria of Reuse Craft shared with us this her kids’ lovely Cardboard Christmas Tree using painted cardboard, recycled beads, toilet paper roll covered with fabric scraps and a star made out of an empty coffee capsule.
Thank you Victoria for the lovely Christmas craft. Click here to check out Victoria’s entry.
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We are making a toilet paper roll snowman today 
Toilet Paper Roll Snowman
Cut a strip of white paper
Wrap and paste the toilet paper roll. You may opt to paint the whole roll white instead of wrapping it with paper.
Cut another toilet paper roll at 1/3 of the length and paint black as the snowman’s hat
Cut a circle and paste the top of the hat. Cut a bigger circle for the bottom of the hat.
Paste the hat on the white toilet roll.
Add details such as eyes and all.
Your toilet paper roll snowman is done 
Let’s make a handprint Christmas mitten today
Handprint Christmas mitten
Paint your palm white
Stamp your painted palm on red construction paper
Draw the shape of a mitten and cut
Paste some cotton on the mitten and you are done
I love Pyssla beads. We can make almost anything out of it!
Pyssla beads
The kids hard at work
Arrange the beads according to what you want it to be
Place parchment paper on the beads
Iron the beads, moving the iron about for 10 seconds or so
The beads will be attached to each other once ironed
Let it cool before removing the parchment paper
A beautiful ladybug
Now.. let’s see what else the kids did!
Smiley Face
Snowflake and Christmas tree
Let’s make a Christmas tree out of craft sticks today
Craft stick Christmas tree
Glue 3 craft sticks to form a triangle. Let dry.
Paint it green. Once dried, decorate as you wish.
Tie a silver / golden thread if you wish to hang it as a Christmas tree ornament.
Let’s make a reindeer out of toilet paper roll today
Toilet Paper Roll Reindeer
Cut four legs out of a toilet paper roll
Paint the reindeer brown
Paint the feet black
Paint a cotton ball red. Just dip the brush in red paint and dab the brush all over on the cotton.
Paint your thumb white
Stamp onto the reindeer as eyes. Glue the red cotton ball as nose.
Twist several short pipe cleaners and glue as the antlers.
Your toilet paper roll reindeer is done
We are making a giant Handprint Christmas tree today. Well, you determine how GIANT you want it to be 
Giant Handprint Christmas Tree
Get the kids to paint their palm green or yellow
How GIANT the Christmas tree will depend on how BIG your paper is.
Lightly draw a large triangle on the paper and get the kids to stamp their painted palm within the triangle area.
Repeat until the whole area is stamped.
Paint your palm yellow and stamp on the top of the Christmas tree as the star.
Let it dry
Once dried, paint your thumb and decorate.
You may also use sponge and rollers. Just have fun and decorate!
Wow.. that’s a pretty long name for the craft we are making today
Handprint Paper Plate Reindeer Card Holder
Paint 2 paper plates brown
Cut one plate in half
Glue the circular edge
Fold the other paper plate and cut both edges. Do not throw away the edges as you’ll need it for the ears, legs and tail.
Like this
Draw the outline of your palm and cut out
Glue the handprint cut-outs
Like this
Cut out ears, legs and tail and paste. Paste eyes and nose and glue the head to the body.
The kids with their handprint paper plate reindeer card holder
The reindeer will make a very cute card holder for your favourite greeting cards
It’s gonna be another round of ticklish affair
Footprint Christmas Tree
Paint your foot green
Stamp your painted foot onto a paper plate
Use craft punch and punch out various shapes using different coloured papers
Paste and decorate the tree as you wish
The footprint Christmas tree is done Tie a string and hang it on your real Christmas tree
Milton of Our Little Corners did some really cute Gift Box Christmas Tree Hanging Decor.
You need not spend a fortune to decorate your Christmas tree. Click here for instructions on how to make these cute Christmas Tree decor
Let’s make a paper plate angel today
Paper plate angel
Cut a paper plate half
Take one half and seal the ends together to form a cone
Cut hands and wings out of the other half of the plate
Paste it onto the ‘cone’
Cut a semi circle for the face and hair from coloured paper and paste together
Draw eyes on the face and glue to the body. We glued toothpick at the back to keep the head up
A lovely angel as your Christmas decoration
Rudolph the red nose reindeer… we’ll be making one today
Handprint Reindeer
Draw the outline of your handprint on a piece of paper and cut
Use that handprint template and draw on a brown craft foam
Cut a small oval and paste as the tail
Bend some pipe cleaners and paste on the reindeer’s head. Paste other small details.
Paste googly eyes and you are done
I’m in such a joyous Christmas mood that every single thing I see reminds me of Christmas!
Let’s make a footprint snowman today
Footprint Snowman
Paint your foot white. It’s gonna be ticklish!
Stamp your painted foot onto a piece of dark coloured construction paper
Help the little one cut the tiny details such as the hat, scarfs, buttons, eyes and mouth.
You may use construction paper, felt or foam
Paste the tiny details
Your footprint snowman is done!
P/S: I just realised the snowman doesn’t have hands!
Remember the Candle Polka Dots art we did not too long ago? Today we are going to use the same technique and create a Christmas tree out of it
Candle Drops Christmas Tree
Using a brush, paint lots multiple colours dots on a piece of art block
Light a candle and let the wax drip on the dots of colours.
Once the wax are dry, paint green over them.
Scrape away the candle wax and you’ll get beautiful dots of colours decorating your Christmas tree
Candle Drops Christmas Tree featuring Cavan of Life Muses and Ethel of Ling in De House
We did a very interesting art piece today
Handprint Santa Claus
First paint your palm white
Stamp the painted palm onto a darker coloured paper
Paint your thumb red
Stamp the painted thumb as Santa’s nose
Paint your thumb pink
And stamp as the Santa’s cheeks
Paint your thumb white and stamp as the eyes
Cut the Santa’s hat out of red felt. We use red foam as I happened to run out of felt! Improvise!
Paste on some cotton too
Paste a cotton ball at the end of the hat
Paint your pointer black and stamp as Santa’s eyeball and you are done
Handprint Santa – featuring cute kiddos Cavan of Life Muses and Ethel of Ling in De House
Come Christmas, all I can think of is a wonderful winter wonderland. Let’s get some paper plate and ‘build’ a cute snowman
Paper Plate Snowman
Glue two paper plates together. Put cloth pegs to secure it until the glue dries up.
I cut a carrot out of an orange foam for the nose. Glue it onto the snowman.
I cut circles out of green foam for the buttons. See my boy trying to photograph himself pasting the buttons here. He's learning to take over my job!
Use a hole punch to punch out tiny dots for the mouth.
I use felt for the scarf, pipe cleaner for the hands and foam and ribbon for the ear muffs. The snowman is ready to cheer up your wall. If you wish to convert it into a mobile, just do two of it and paste it back to back. Tie a string over it and hang. Nice
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Remember I did a gingerbread man using cork sheets? Well, we can always improvise and use craft foam instead. Always remember to do the same on both sides if you intend to hang it as a Christmas tree ornament. Here, I use glitter pen to line my gingerbread man. This is yet another very simple project to be working with the kids.
Foam Gingerbread man ornament
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Christmas Tree Ornament
Christmas tree ornaments are getting rather expensive these days. Why not try making some on your own? Not only will it be more sentimental, it’ll not burn a hole in your pocket.
This foam Christmas tree ornament is extremely easy to do. Try it, you’ll love it.
Foam Christmas tree ornament.
Draw a Christmas tree on a green foam. If you have Christmas cookie cutters will be great. You may use the Christmas tree cookie cutter to draw an outline on the foam.
Cut it out.
Add glitters.
Put a needle through it and tie a knot at the end of the thread. Your Christmas tree ornament is done. So simple.
We can actually use basically anything to make a Christmas tree ornament. It need not be expensive. Here’s a simple idea of making a Christmas tree using pipe cleaner.
Pipe cleaner Christmas tree ornament
Get a green or white {or any colour as you wish} pipe cleaner. My boy finds it ticklish handling it for the very first time.
Bend it to form the shape of a Christmas tree.
Decorate it as you wish. Tie a thread at the very top and add a star to complete it.
Click here to learn how to fold and cut the perfect star to be used for the above Christmas tree.
If you love this and want to try doing it, do share your version of the Christmas tree with us by submitting your tree here. We learn and we share.
I have always loved to have something nice to be placed on the corner table just to add some touch of cheerfulness this jolly season. Try this easy to make toilet paper roll Santa.
Toilet Paper Roll Santa.
Spread some glue onto a pink paper.
Wrap that paper along the toilet paper roll.
Put some glue onto the cotton balls.
Paste the cotton balls onto the roll.
Paste all over leaving a small square for the face.
Paste a red felt as the Santa's hat. You may draw the eyes and nose or cut out a face from a magazine and paste it onto the roll.
If you have any great Christmas craft ideas and wish to share it with us, feel free to submit your craft here. Thank you.
