Christmas Crafts for Kids: Tree of hearts
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Make a merry Christmas tree with heart cutouts and turn this Christmas craft into a cute table topper for the holiday season or use it in pretend play. We are really excited to share this Christmas craft with you. Christmas is an exciting time for kids and adults alike. It’s the season of love, joy, family, giving, baking, entertaining, gifting and crafting. I like to make Christmas crafts that are easy for my 4 yr old to do and still have some fun and learning with it. Here we have a Christmas craft brimming with love and joy from our favorite material- paper roll. { Access all our paper roll crafts here}
For this Christmas Tree craft you will need the following:
Materials {affiliate links}
We cut out three sizes of hearts from green and red construction paper (trying to stick to Christmas theme ). Next step assemble all the crafting supplies you are going to need. If you have a Heart Punch use it. { Very handy for Valentine’s day Crafts}Lot of hearts to cut out. Ha!
Since we did not have contact paper, we used a wide tape and wound it around the kitchen roll, nice and tight, keeping the sticky side up. Cover 3/4ths of the roll, leaving some room to show the tree trunk.
To create the Christmas tree, pinch the hearts at the bottom and stick it to the tape.
We are continuing with the sizes and proportions theme. { Check out our Christmas Tree Puzzle} Start with the small hearts on the top, medium hearts through the center and the large ones to the bottom. Big S loved to make more and we ended up making 2 more trees the following day. She made the hearts and needless to say how much of that tape got used !
And oh!, remember to make a cone shape and attach it to the top of the roll to create the “conical” effect. To help it stand up so she could attach the cone , she came up with a creative way: she walked in with a small can of her playdoh and set the tree right in it.
There mom, now you can take a picture “- Guess my kid knows that the camera is part of crafting and learning these days !
It is always interesting to see what sparks her interest and how creative she gets with it. Simple projects such as this one teaches kids an important mathematical concept which lays the foundation for all the learning to come over the years.
Well, once the trees were done , putting the ornaments was easy peasy! { Try our paper roll jingle car ornaments, jingle cup ornaments or even our simple star ornament}
If you are into sensory play and not crafts for kids, then don’t forget to see our Winter/Christmas sensory bin
What are you waiting for? Click on the image and purchase and download the book and get CRAFTING with your family.
Thanks for reading
For more Christmas Crafts for kids visit our Pinterest Board
These Christmas trees are a great idea. A really simple tutorial to follow and I’m sure the kids would have a ball making them. They are on the to do list!
What a fabulous post! Yep, it is so great that I featured it in my 53 Christmas Tree Activities for kids! Plus, I am pinning it to my Christmas board! http://3boysandadog.com/2013/12/christmas-tree-crafts-for-kids/
Great craft! Instead of winding packing tape around the tube, I used cheap adhesive lint roller sections (the perfect size) and rubbed glue stick on on the tube.
Ooh clever. Thanks for the great idea.
These are so cute!! Thank you for sharing at Sharing Saturday!!
I love how different these trees are and can’t wait to try them with J and T very soon.
Thank you for linking up to Tuesday Tots and just letting you know that I will be featuring this post over on Rainy Day Mum this week.
We enjoyed making them and hope you do too! Thank you for featuring us !
Awesome trees! I love them. Great colors, and great craft. Thanks for linking up to tip-toe thru tuesday.
Your trees are so beautiful! What a fun craft. And I love your color scheme! Thanks for linking up to TGIF! I featured this at TGIF this week here: http://www.livinglifeintentionally.blogspot.com/2012/12/tgif-linky-party-57.html
Have a great weekend,
Beth =-)
They were so much fun to make. Thanks for featuring us !