Homemade Christmas Decs

Christmas is such a jolly time of year and there is no better way to prepare for the festivities than with homemade Christmas decorations. We've made a vintage inspired Christmas tree decoration, which can be made in different sizes for a hanging decoration, or be made slightly bigger for a table top decoration! It will look great with the rest of your Christmas decorations this festive season!

Firstly get all your materials together, now you don't have to use music score sheets, you could alternatively use Christmas wrapping paper or old pages from a book. You will need some scissors, 10 sheets of your chosen paper and a pencil and stapler.

Cut out a Christmas tree shape from all your sheets of paper. You should have about 10 sheets in total.

Pile your sheets up and then staple them all together in the middle of the tree shape.

This means you can now fold over all the sides of paper to start making the structure stand up

Voi La! You now have a standing Christmas tree decoration! This one is slightly too big to hang on the tree but if you make it smaller you can easily attach some string to attach it to the tree! 

Happy making! 

Homemade gift tags

Making homemade gift tags for Christmas is a great activity for the whole family, getting the kids involved and giving them a chance to be creative. Gift tags are so easy to make, and they can be made from any materials you have at home. They are a great addition to give with your gifts for grandparents and family from the kids.

We've get together some materials we could potentially use for our Christmas gift tags. We have some old music score sheets, old Christmas cards and some kraft paper. See what you can find and get it all together!

We are going to use the kraft paper for the gift tags, and then the little shapes made from the music score sheets can be glued onto the tag for a simple and vintage design. You can create the gift tag shapes easily and cut them out ready to be designed by the kids. 

We've simply cut out Chrismassy shapes and stuck them onto the tags, using a whole punch to make the hole for the string. They are now ready to be stuck on your Christmas gifts. Easy peasy! 

The circular shape we used to make a bauble shape, using a pen to create the handing string to finish off the design! 

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