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Making a Paper Plate Christmas Collage


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December 1, 2015

Christmas decorated paper plateTurn a paper plate into a beautiful artwork for Christmas and wow your friends with your creativity this year. This craft uses simple materials, but the end result is very pleasing to the eye. A great way for the kids to have some Christmas fun!

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Total Time: 30 minutes

Yield: one collage

Supplies:

  • standard white economy paper plate
  • sheet of dark green crepe paper
  • leftover pieces of brown, yellow, and pink felt
  • one star anise seed
  • nine 3mm pearl stickers
  • natural 2mm wide jute ribbon
  • powder blue acrylic paint
  • Pilot silver marker pen
  • red and black felt-tip pens
  • paintbrush
  • pencil
  • ruler
  • standard scissors
  • quick-drying craft glue (such as Bostik Clear)
  • plastic lid with a diameter of 6.6

Steps:

  1. Use the ruler and draw a triangle in the middle of the plate.
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  3. Cut 2" x 1.6" sized rectangles from the crepe paper. Take a rectangle and crumple it up. Use glue to affix it to the triangle. Continue adding crumpled pieces of crepe paper to the triangle until the whole triangle has been covered.
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  5. Place and centre the 6.6" plastic lid onto the paper plate and trace all around it. Now use the red felt-tip pen to make a candy cane frame all around the paper plate. Color each red strip up to the pencil circle.
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  7. Use the paint and brush to add an uneven light blue wash to the background of the plate. Do not paint over the tree or the frame.
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  9. Use the black felt-tip pen to freehand draw over the pencil circle.
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  11. Cut a rectangle from the brown felt to make the tree trunk. Glue the trunk in place, and add the star to the top of the tree.
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  13. Glue the pearl rhinestones to the tree to add Christmas lights.
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  15. Make a bow with the jute ribbon and glue it to the tree trunk.
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  17. Cut a square from the pink felt. Glue the present below the tree and add a jute bow to the present.
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  19. Cut an oval shaped present from the yellow felt. Glue it below the tree and add a jute bow. To finish it off, use the silver pen to draw small stars all around the tree.
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Comments

Anonymous
December 7, 20150 found this helpful

wow!beautiful

 
Anonymous
February 26, 20160 found this helpful

its nice i made it

 
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