Arts & Crafts: Special X-mas card for special people

Christmas is coming and to give the care-givers at our childrens day care a special little something we made this X-mas tree ornament.

Before I've started I made sure that I had enough paper shapes punched out, so that my toddler didn't had to wait for his mommy.

I started out with drawing 6 circles with a glass (any other round shape will do) on two different colors of paper. Cut them out, fold them in half and put glue on one side, completely covering it. I used a glue stick (like Pritt) because the stains are easy to remove from hands, clothes or any other object my toddler could get is hands on.

Green circle (about 7cm diameter)

Use a glue stick (is easier to clean)

Then I gave the circle with the glue facing up to my little boy and let him have his way with the circle and the paper shapes. While he was sticking the tiny little shapes onto the circle I made sure the supply of paper shapes kept coming (I needed to, because a lot of them ended up on the floor).

Let's stick 'm to everything but the circle!

When I thought that he was finished with sticking the shapes, or that there was no glue available to stick any more shapes to, I took the circle and gave him a new one. I continued until I had five circles or when he was bored and wanted to do something else. All in all it should be fun. I let him stick five circles full of shapes because I wanted to write a personal message on the sixth one.


Six full circles

One full circle

As you can see in the picture below, I folded the circles after they were covered with little stars, hearts and christmas trees, but I think it is better to fold the circles before adding glue (as mentioned above). In that way I didn't destroy my sons masterpiece and had to glue some of the shapes back on.