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Triangle Christmas Tree Craft & Fun Ways To Use Them
Let your creativity have some fun turning a simple triangle into Christmas tree. You can use the printable pattern page located at the end of the post or make your own for this activity.
Trace onto plain paper and draw an intricate design inside of it.
Trees can be made from construction paper or traced onto paper and decorated.
Decorate with ribbons, sequins, beads, and other fun embellishments.
Create a one of kind coloring page and give to a friend to color.
Use the pattern to make a Christmas or holiday card shaped like a tree.
Use multiple triangles to form a Christmas tree mosaic.
Make a tree from construction paper and glue yarn to it to outline or decorate it.
Consider using decorative paper and gluing it to a piece of cardboard to make a Christmas tree ornament. Pop a hole in the top and add a ribbon.
Make a bunch of trees to use as present tags.
Make a 3-D tree by putting two trees together. Cut one tree from the bottom to the middle, and other from the top to the middle and slide them together. For stronger trees, use cardboard or cardstock paper.
Make a diorama of a forest filled with decorated Christmas trees.
Use the triangle to cut a Christmas tree shape in the middle of a circle or another shape. Craft knives work best for this idea.
Make A ‘Snowflake’ Tree: Fold a tree in half length wise, then fold it in half again, and cut some areas out as if you were making a paper snowflake. Open it up to see the pattern you’ve created. Use a craft knife to get to the middle areas. Paper punches can also be used.
What else can you turn a triangle into with a Christmas theme? A Santa hat? A reindeer?
Let your creativity have some fun with these ideas.
Make A Pattern: To make a pattern, rough cut around each triangle, then, using a thin layer of glue, adhere each one to a thin piece of recycled cardboard. Allow the glue to dry completely, then carefully cut out each triangle as straight as possible. Trace to use.
Pattern making tips:
White or clear glue works best, but stick glue will do in a pinch.
The regular glue method produces patterns that are strong enough to use over and over and stored for other activities.
These patterns can be used for paper, fabric, wood, felt, etc..
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3-D Ornaments
When it comes to learning math, we enjoy exploring it in fun and challenging ways and do our best to turn simple items into cool, useful things. Making 3-D ornaments from paper and/or recycled cardboard is a great way to do this.
3-D Geometric Shapes
3-D Geometric shapes make really nice tree ornaments. When I did craft programs for kids and families, the kids really enjoyed the challenge of making these and had a lot of fun decorating them.
Octahedrons have 8 equilateral triangles, they look like two pyramids put together.
Enchanted learning has a printable octahedron that can be used to make this 3-D shape. Just follow the directions on the page to put it together. Decorate the triangles before or after folding and gluing it.
Sphericons are an unusual 3-D shape, and a bit of challenge to make, but look really nice once you get them together. Print these sphericon templates to make them.
Print out, make and decorate a cube, dodecahedron and a tetrahedron too.
We made ours by printing out a template, making a pattern out of it by gluing it to a piece of cardboard, cutting that out carefully and tracing it onto construction paper or a piece of festive paper. Once we cut out our pattern, we carefully folded the edges, glued it together, decorated them with stickers, and put ribbons on them.
3-D Basic Shapes
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Another way to make 3-D ornaments is to take two identical shapes, that are the same size, and put them together by cutting one shape from the bottom to the middle and the other from the top to the middle, then sliding them together. A small amount of tape may be needed to keep them in place.
We cut our shapes from cardboard, covered them with festive paper, put them together and added ribbon. We used our own stencils to do this project, but if you don’t have any, you can use the suggested templates below, or trace around cookie cutters.
Hang these on the tree, in corners or along the tops of door jams.
Tip: 3-D ornaments can be made from construction paper, card stock, and recycled cards as well.
Suggested templates…
Tree, star, bell, round ornaments, gingerbread man and snowman
Origami Projects
Some origami projects make really nice tree ornaments as well.
We made our origami ornaments with foil origami paper that we purchased in a craft store, but copy paper can be decorated and used and so can wrapping paper, if it is cut into even squares.
A sticker or a picture can be put in the middle of the star box and the paper balloon can be wrapped like a present.
Suggests for origami ornaments…
Crane, star box, paper balloon, star and stocking
Click here for more holiday origami projects.
3-D ornaments make great gifts and additions to holiday gift wrap too!
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