Hurray! It's December! My favourite month of the year, with things to do, places to go, people to meet and an assortment of celebrations to enjoy. School will be out soon and we're looking forward to the hols. But first...we have Christmas assignments at school to prepare for.
My daughter's class had a Christmas party last Friday and all the kids had to come dressed in Christmas clothes, bring Christmas snacks to share with friends, and a Christmas decoration for the tree in their classroom. As I couldn't bake anything (I'm one of those delightful personages who has never baked anything edible before in her life), I decided to, at least, try my hand at making the Christmas decoration.
This time, I managed to find some light weight paper modeling clay at an arts and craft shop in town. The clay was different from the one I used in the post 'Frosty or Rudolph, anyone?', which turned out like porcelain and was quite heavy. Here's a short tale of my experiment with lighter paper clay...
1. Take a piece of red 6mm grosgrain ribbon and glue the ends together.
2. Fashion a triangle with the paper clay and cut the triangle in half.
3. Apply glue to the center of both triangle pieces and attach them together with the grosgrain ribbon in the middle.
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| Forming the top of the tree |
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| Attaching the top of the tree to the ribbon |
4. Mold and cut bigger triangles for the lower half of the tree.
6. Attach to the ribbon.
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| The lower branches |
7. Smooth away the grooves between the triangles by molding in some flattened paper clay...just like applying putty to cracks.
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| Smooth away the grooves |
8. Mold and attach the trunk, and a circle for the base.
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| The 'snowy' base |
9. Leave to dry and harden, then paint the tree.
10. Once paint is dry, glue on colourful flat back pearls of varying sizes, glimmery sequin snowflakes, shiny flat back pearl stars, and apply clear varnish on the whole tree for that extra sheen.
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| Decorate the tree with sequin snowflakes and flat back pearls |
11. Let 3-year-old daughter carry the tree to school and proudly hang it on her classroom tree.
She wasn't the only child with a store-bought Christmas snack....but she was the only one with a homemade decoration :-)
(Note: This post is taken from our Facebook page notes written in December 2010)
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