Are you ready for some Christmas crafts? We have another fun craft idea for you – make a Christmas tree craft out of paper strips!
What a fun way to practice cutting and fine motor skills, while creating a great project.
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We love Christmas tree projects! And if you frequent this corner of the internet, you know we love crafting with construction paper strips. Making a paper strip Christmas tree is just a matter of time.
This is a great project to do in the classroom and you can adapt it to different age groups with a few changes – doing crafts with preschoolers? Ask them to make wider strips or have you cut them out. Preschoolers should be able to complete this project on their own.
Older kids can “upgrade” this Christmas tree craft by making thinner tree strips and adding small Christmas ornaments to the tree itself.
You can also use this idea to make a large bulletin board or classroom door decoration, just make the tree really big.
Let’s start crafting!
How to make a Christmas tree with paper strips
What you need:
- green paper (regular printer paper or construction paper)
- white paper (construction paper or thicker printer paper)
- brown paper
- yellow paper
- scissors (+ optional paper cutter)
- glue
- pencil or crayon
Optional: decorations to hang on the tree – sequins, tassels, gems, rhinestones…
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Or follow the step-by-step instructions below
Cut strips of paper. The length and width will depend entirely on the skill level of your kids and the size of your project. This is something to play with.
Once you have enough strips of paper, move on to the next step, you can always cut more.
Draw a large triangle on a piece of white paper (Christmas tree shape).This will help you to do this project.
Cut a square from brown paper and glue it to the bottom of the triangle.We have finished the Christmas tree trunk.
Apply glue to one end of the paper strip and glue the two ends together.
You will see a loop.
Make these paper rings from all the paper strips.
Now it’s time to start making the Christmas tree from paper strips.Apply glue to the strip of paper (at the end where you glued the two ends together) and glue it onto the white paper, starting from the bottom.
Keep inside the triangle border.
Once the bottom row is complete, continue with the next row and so on until the top row.
Draw a star on yellow paper (if you like templates, we have a printable star template that you can get in this accordion Christmas tree craft and you can print it on yellow paper).Cut out the star.
Stick the star on top of the Christmas tree.
And there you have it! You’ve made a beautiful Christmas tree out of paper strips – now it’s ready to hang on your wall.You can make it more beautiful by adding decorations.
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