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What you’ll need:

• Brown paper bag
• Paper towel roll
• Tissue paper in red and yellow
• Child friendly paint in green, orange, red, yellow and brown
• Paint brushes
• Scissors
• Crafting glue
• 12 x 12 white scrapbook paper
• Popsicle sticks (optional for swing)
• String or yarn (optional for swing)
• Hot glue gun with glue sticks (if making a swing)
• Leaf template found HERE

Paper Bag Tree Kids Craft for Thanksgiving

Firstly, print out the leaf template and trace it onto a paper bag and some coloured tissue paper. Each tree needs about 15-20 leaves.

Secondly, the tree trunk needs to be painted, using the brown coloured paint and then set aside.

While the tree trunks are drying, paint the “ground”. Using the 12×12 scrapbook paper, ask your child to paint the ground underneath the trees. This is fun to watch as most children will come up with their own way of doing it. We suggested using finger tips to make “fallen leaves” but only one of the three wanted to paint their picture that way!

While the kids are painting their ground scene, begin cutting the tree trunk. Make four cuts in the bottom of the paper towel roll, then pull the cut pieces up. Add some crafting glue to the bottom of the cut pieces then place it onto the painted scrapbook paper.

Next, make more cuts on the top of the tree trunk – thinner ones this time to create branches. Fold them down gently.

Using the crafting glue, glue the leaves to the tree branches.

*Optional* add a swing to the fall paper bag tree! This part will need to be done by the adults.

What’s an awesome backyard tree without a swing?? Cut a 2 inch piece from the popsicle stick using scissors. Add two pieces of string to the each side, securing with a hot glue gun. Tie a knot in to bring the strings together and then glue gun the knot to a lower “tree branch” on the paper towel tree.

Paper Towel Fall Tree

We hope you and your kids love this Paper Bag Tree Kids Craft for Thanksgiving! Looking for more amazing holiday DIY’s, certainly check out our Leaf String Art .

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What You’ll Need:

• Yarn
• Command Hooks (mini size, value pack)
• Flat decorations (snowflakes, stars, circles etc)
• Scissors
• Measuring tape
• Useful but optional – laser pointer

How to make your own Three Step Yarn Modern Christmas Tree:

Find the centre of your wall or table – wherever you are making the tree. A laser pointer is useful but not necessary for this step. Attach one command hook to the wall to make the top of your tree, with the hook facing the ceiling.

At the bottom on your tree (either at table height or the floor) measure how wide the tree will be. The closer to the ground you go, the wider the base of the tree will be. Decide how far apart you want the ‘branches’ to be (our tree was table height and we did them 6′ apart). Keep in mind that the bigger the tree, the more command hooks you will need. Stick the command hooks to the wall at your chosen intervals with the hooks facing the floor.

Start the tree with the top hook, tying the yarn to the hook to secure.

Wrap the yarn back and forth from the top hook to the bottom ones, looping back on itself each time. Tie another knot at the top hook when finished.

We hope you love this quick modern Christmas tree as much as we do, happy crafting!

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