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Christmas decorations with Gold foil
Children can be kept especially busy at Christmastime by making small and simple decorations. The craft ideas explained here are simple and quick to make. A home-made Christmas decoration is much nicer and much more interesting. Children love Christmas even more if their own decorations are glittering on the tree or if their own light is flickering in the window.
Gold foil Christmas baubles
Beautiful Christmas baubles can be made using gold or silver foil which is available to buy in craft shops or in shops which sell wrapping paper. The baubles are put together with lots of pointed cone shapes (similar to the playing pieces in “Cluedo”), which are all stuck together. First of all, to make the baubles you will need to produce lots of cones shaped cylinders. Circles are drawn onto gold foil using a compass. The circles should now be cut out then cut into halves or quarters. The quarter or half circle should now be made into a cylinder and the edges stuck down. If the cones are made from half circles, you will require fewer cones than with the quarter circles. The size of the bauble is dependent on the size of the circles drawn. Once enough cones have been produced, they are all stuck together. Before the last cone is stuck into place, a piece of ribbon for hanging the bauble up should be placed inside and stuck down.
Gold foil Christmas stars, building a mobile
When Christmas baubles are dug out of their box, some are broken or crushed and can be used to produce stars by carefully cutting out a square shape. This square would be concave. However if two square are laid on top of each other, an eight corner star is produced. With a sharp pencil, you can now draw/imprint a pattern onto the foil and then use a pin to make little holes along the lines drawn. This technique produces very nice patterns which catch the light and twinkle superbly. You might also be able to produce a complete mobile from stars. Strong straws can be used for the hangers.
Pine cone and wooden leaf Christmas stars
Beautiful Christmas stars for the Christmas tree can be produced simply using pine cones and wooden leaves (from a craft shop). The wooden leaves are simply pushed into the pine cones at a sloping angle.
Gold foil Christmas stars
A square piece of gold foil is folded 3-4 times and then shapes are cut into one side. When the foil is folded out again, each child has an individual design.
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