Foam Christmas Tree

Day 5 of our crafts.  Bella gets up every morning and asks when we are going to do our craft for the day.  We didn't start this one until 8pm.  We ran a little past bedtime tonight.  Hopefully she will sleep in tomorrow.  We don't want any crabby crafters!

Today we decorated a foam Christmas tree.   You can use green paper if you don't have foam.  Works just the same!

Supplies:
Green foam
glitter
sequins
glue

Well, the glitter was flying for this craft!  I usually am very cautious with glitter.   I let loose a little and, well, you'll see.

First you need to draw and cutout a tree template.  I already had one from previous projects.  Outline your tree onto the foam and start cutting.

a little sequin explosion happened while we were getting ready

squeeze some glue where you want your glitter to be on your tree

Then, watch out for the flying glitter

The second one that Bella decided to do was REALLY full of glitter.  The picture that is not shown is when we took the glitter off the tree.  Next time.  :)

Now you can start decorating your tree.  We used sequins

And, we're done!

Looking good!

So, as I was saying earlier about the glitter.  We had a mountain of glitter that we wanted to try and save to reuse for another project.  So, we tried getting it back into the container.  As you can see, that wasn't an easy job.

So, we improvised and are now using a tupperware container that you can shake (and has a larger opening to pour all of that excess glitter into).

We'll try and start earlier tomorrow!  Good night!