To create a New Year's mood, you need to put up a Christmas tree. At home, you can dress up a real or artificial beauty. And what about at work? Not all organizations allow festive paraphernalia. If you want to decorate your desk, make a paper tree. Such a product will not be very conspicuous to strangers, and will cheer you up.
If you do not know how to make a Christmas tree out of paper, and have never been involved in such creativity, then the diagram that will be described below is for you. This is the simplest version of a paper tree; it is quite possible to attract a child to creativity.
For the craft, you will need the following:
- Cardboard sheet;
- Paper glue (PVA or any other);
- Old newspapers and magazines. The main thing is that the publications have bright pictures;
- Pencil;
- Scissors;
- Shaped hole punch. Of course, you can do without it, but it is a very good thing that helps in creativity.
The stages of making a Christmas tree from paper are as follows:
- Fold the cardboard sheet with a cone, glue it, trim the bottom of the workpiece if necessary - this is the basis for a Christmas tree made of paper.
- Cut out as many bright sheets of paper as possible from the magazine. Now, armed with a shaped hole punch, create identical curly blanks that resemble flowers. If you do not have a voiced thing, then turn on your imagination and work with scissors. Cut out triangles from old magazines, for example, which you later glue with a wide part to a cardboard blank.
- Armed with a pencil, slightly twist the pieces of paper you cut out from magazines. You should end up with blanks with nicely curved edges.
- Cover the cardboard cone with leaves, starting to move from bottom to top. When working, glue the workpieces so that they slightly overlap each other. This will add splendor to our paper tree. Try to keep the rows even, otherwise the product will turn out to be sloppy.
- Glue the top of the cone with a solid circle cut from an old magazine. The paper tree is ready.
If you connect children to the creative process, then you can make a lot of paper Christmas trees. They will be a wonderful decor for your apartment and will help create a festive mood.
How to make a Christmas tree out of gift paper
Let's look at another simple option for creating a paper tree. The product will turn out to be very bright and festive. To make a craft, take:
- Gift paper of any color;
- Cardboard;
- Simple and double-sided tape;
- Scissors;
- Glue;
- Ribbons, rhinestones, sequins, beads and other decorations.
The scheme for creating a paper tree:
- Take a piece of cardboard and fold it diagonally to form a cone. Secure the blank with tape. The size of your product will directly depend on what size you take the cardboard. The larger the blank, the larger you will get a paper tree.
- Armed with your scissors, flatten the bottom of the paper tree. Do this carefully so that the product can be placed on the table in the future.
- Unfold the gift paper, tape it to the top of the cone. Take your time to wrap the cardboard blank with gift paper, make sure that it fits snugly.
- When the cone is completely decorated, secure the edges of the gift paper with double-sided tape, cut off the excess wrapper.
- Cut 2 stars out of the remaining cardboard. Glue the edges of the workpiece, but don't overdo it. It is important that at the end of the work the star can be planted on a cone (paper tree).
- Decorate the star. To do this, use glue to glue sequins, beads, rhinestones, etc. to the workpiece.
- Decorate the paper tree the way your fantasy tells you, fix the prepared star on top. That's it, the paper tree is ready.
Such crafts are interesting and fun to do with children. Instead of gift paper, the cardboard cone can be pasted over, for example, with a cloth. As decorations, you can use improvised materials, making garlands from pasta, and Christmas tree decorations from rhinestones.
