Let\'s Decorate A Small Christmas Tree Together!
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By alfablue
Published on 12/23/2009
How can children decorate a little tree for themselves and their friends? Best adornments are the ones they managed to do by themselves!
Let\\\'s Decorate A Small Christmas Tree Together!
There is a great Christmas tree in the living room as a sign that Christmas is really here with all the joy it brings.Mother has adorned it with all kind of stylish ribbons and cones in the colours that suit the arrangement of the room best. Children have helped her and have contributed with their own original ideas that can make Santa come to our tree and stay for awhile with us, resting comfortably in an armchair and taste some of the sweets mother have baked for the guests. The reindeers would wait for him on the roof of our blockhouse without damaging the aerials there unless for making the TV programmes really joyful and childish. The tiny bells that always adorn them and the sleigh full of presents for everybody would sing joyful songs like the angels in heaven. No cold and hunger in any house would be and every child would be much loved by his mother. Even Snow White and Cinderella would be loved by their stepmothers as if they were really mothers for them, and Andersen' little girl with a box of matches would have a great Christmas tree at home. For all these to become true we will adorn our little Christmas tree in our room.
We fix the little tree on a solid wooden support and check if it is straight and good looking. Then we make some paper chains by cutting slices of golden paper an put a bit of glue at an end of every new link and give it the shape of a ring. Every new ring will embrace an already made one and link to it until our chain is long enough to adorn the whole little tree. We must not not forget to direct the chain all around the tree. The longer the golden chain, the happier our new year will be.
We make then golden and sparkling red little bells. We choose a large round shape like the bottom of a coffe bottle and put it on golden paper.We draw its shape with a pencil on the paper and cut the circles we've made. We take such a sphere of paper and cut a line into it from an edge to its bottom. We can now put a bit of glue on a margin of the cut we've made and fix it over the other margin. This way we've managed to give the paper sphere the shape of a cone. We can also use staples to fix the two edges of the cutting we've made. At the sharp point of the bell we can stick a nice red velvet ribbon. It's easy to thrust the paper with a needle and direct a red thread of wool from the ribbon side to the open part of the bell. A pearl or a golden little ball can be attached to the end of the thread. It will be a little longer than the bell's lower margin.
We fix the little tree on a solid wooden support and check if it is straight and good looking. Then we make some paper chains by cutting slices of golden paper an put a bit of glue at an end of every new link and give it the shape of a ring. Every new ring will embrace an already made one and link to it until our chain is long enough to adorn the whole little tree. We must not not forget to direct the chain all around the tree. The longer the golden chain, the happier our new year will be.
We make then golden and sparkling red little bells. We choose a large round shape like the bottom of a coffe bottle and put it on golden paper.We draw its shape with a pencil on the paper and cut the circles we've made. We take such a sphere of paper and cut a line into it from an edge to its bottom. We can now put a bit of glue on a margin of the cut we've made and fix it over the other margin. This way we've managed to give the paper sphere the shape of a cone. We can also use staples to fix the two edges of the cutting we've made. At the sharp point of the bell we can stick a nice red velvet ribbon. It's easy to thrust the paper with a needle and direct a red thread of wool from the ribbon side to the open part of the bell. A pearl or a golden little ball can be attached to the end of the thread. It will be a little longer than the bell's lower margin.