With your box cutter, carefully slice down the pencil line, being sure to only pierce one side of the cardboard (leave the side that’s face-down intact). Step 2: Using the star shaped cookie cutter, cut out the clay stars and set them aside on a cooling rack. And you won’t have to worry about cleaning up faux green bits and pieces, messy decorations or dried leaves, hurrah! If you’re using a saw, it’s really easy to layer 3 pieces of cardboard and cut them all out at the same time.

A few years ago Big Brother started noticing other people had their tree up earlier than that, and started asking why we couldn't have one sooner. Our playhouses are great for imaginative self-decoration and role play, being tremendously popular with schools and childcare providers, as well as at home, parties and other special occasions or events. Third level slotted inAll the time I was cutting the cardboard, my other half and daughter were cutting shapes (stripes, baubles, trees, candy canes etc) from any paper they could find and decorating the plain cardboard with them. To enable personalized advertising (like interest-based ads), we may share your data with our marketing and advertising partners using cookies and other technologies. Step 4: When the star ornaments have dried, thread a piece off raffia through the holes of the smaller stars and tie a double knot.Step 8: To make DIY Painted Striped Wrapping Paper simply apply a thick coat of paint onto the side of a plank of pine, then stamp it onto a sheet of butchers paper.

This cardboard Christmas tree comes in two pieces with a slit that allow them to fit into each other. The plan is to decorate the room in a Winter Woodland theme but I didn’t want to decorate a regular tree for in here. I ran a line of glue down the center of the tree, positioned the half tree along the glue line, then held it in place while I ran a second line of glue along the base of the half tree on either side. I had an idea to create some Christmas trees that could somehow fold away flat for people with limited space, and I love how they turned out! If you’re using very thin cardboard, you can probably skip this step and just crease your trees down the middle so that they can fold in half.In the mid-1800s, Prince Albert brought Queen Victoria a tree from Germany and it was placed in Windsor Castle. NB: A cooling tray is perfect to dry clay ornaments because it allows air to flow underneath the ornaments while they’re drying. I really love the idea of making one of these for a child and handing them a bunch of art supplies to decorate it.