DLTK's Holiday Crafts for Kids
Colour Changing Christmas Tree Craft

Christmas trees are so beautiful and so fun to decorate. This craft takes christmas tree decorations to a whole new level, because they change colour with this spinning paper plate craft! This is a fun craft and a great way to let your creativity shine!

Materials:

• a variety of colourful paints and paintbrushes (use your imagination, and choose lots of christmas colours or your favourite colours),
• two paper plates,
• brass paper fastener,
• scissors,
• glue,
• paper,
• printer.

Instructions:

• Trace the tree and the star onto the bottom of one of the paper plates.
• ADULTS ONLY: Using scissors or an exacto-knife, cut the star out of the paper plate. Be very careful as it can be a challenging shape to cut.
• Paint the top of one paper plate a bunch of different colours. Feel free to be as creative as you want; younger children may want to use their fingers and get really messy while older children may want to make a colour wheel in the ROY G BIV fashion.
• For an Christmas theme, paint the paper plate a bunch of different Christmas colours (green, red, white, blue, yellow).
• While the first paper plate is drying, paint the tree on the second paper plate and a background colour (I used blue like the sky) if you want.
• Mark where the middle of the tree paper plate is.
• ADULTS ONLY: Using scissors or an exacto-knife, cut small circles out of the tree part of the paper plate. Be very careful as it can be a challenging shape to cut.
  • IMPORTANT: Stay about 1 inch away from the center of the christmas tree when cutting circles in the paper plate.
• Place the tree paper plate on top of the colourful paper plate and secure them together with a brass fastener through the middle.
• To play with the craft you can turn the top paper around and around and watch the ornaments of your christmas tree change colour!

Craft Templates:

• Close the template window after printing to return to this screen.
• Set page margins to zero if you have trouble fitting the template on one page (FILE, PAGE SETUP or FILE, PRINTER SETUP in most browsers).

Tree Template    (B&W)

Printable version of these instructions

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