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03 December 2012

Recyled Christmas Tree Ornaments

More Christmas ornaments made from recycling:

A stellated dodecahedron using the printable from Mini Eco. I started by gluing two sheets of the junk mail paper together to give it extra strength. With Mr 5 helping it took us less than an hour.

I love the patterns from the inside of the old envelopes on these ones.

So simple even a 3y/o can manage this one.

And the link to my tutorial on chocolate wrapper pompoms.




30 November 2012

Recycled Christmas Pompoms


Mr 5's school class are making a Christmas tree decorated entirely in things made from recycled material. Here's a tutorial for some chocolate wrapper pompoms I came up with.

 
Take 2 empty chocolate wrappers.

 Cut them in half.

Pile them together and use a small piece of sticky tape at each end to stop them from getting away from you.

Carefully cut small slits on each side of the wrapper. The slits need to stop just before the centre line (so that you don't end up with many small strips of wrapper).

Roll the wrappers up.

Tie them up with a piece of string or wool, pulling them together as tight as you can.

Fluff them up, and they're ready to hang!








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