If you’re looking for a sweet, easy craft to make this season, this is it! We had a week of rain and gloomy skies, and well, these are products of that! You can very easily go a traditional route and make these trees in shades of green, but we Sloop girls didn’t have green yarn on hand-shocker that we had pinks and coral, right?
The supply list is easy for these:
- Yarn
- Triangles cut from cardboard
- Box cutter (I just used scissors though)
- Tape
- Pipe cleaners as the garland
- Sequins or small jewels
- Craft glue
To get started, simply take one end of the yarn, and tape it to the back of a cardboard triangle. Then wrap the yarn around and around and around until the entire “tree” is covered. You can crisscross, or wrap evenly all the way up and down. We only crisscrossed a few times. I also never cut the yarn off of the skein-we just wrapped and wrapped and wrapped until all the brown was covered.
This is something my five year old could handle by herself once I got her started on the direction of the yarn. We wrapped all the way to the top and then wrapped all the way to the bottom, and then up again.
Once the cardboard was covered to our liking, I cut the yarn from the skein and made a knot on the back to keep it from unraveling.
The next part is where the magic happens. We took metallic pipe cleaners and simple wrapped them around the trees as garland. Since they are wire-based, it was very easy to get them to stay on the trees. If we needed longer pieces of “garland”, I twisted two pieces together to make one long pipe cleaner and then we wrapped it around. No glue was needed here.
We glued sequins in varying sizes and a wooden metallic star on the top to finish our trees! Didn’t they turn out so cute? If you make these this holiday season, please share! Tag me on IG at @kathryn.sloop
If you like posts like this, be sure to check out my other holiday crafts: diy pinecone trees and baby Jesus ornament
