DLTK's Holiday Crafts for Kids
Christmas Tree Shapes Craft

This Christmas tree paper craft provides a good opportunity to practice shapes -- it's made from triangles, squares, diamonds, circles and stars.

Possible activities:

Point out the different shapes used (circle, rectangle, diamond, triangle, star).
Count the sides of the different shapes.
Sort the 4 triangles from largest to smallest.

Print out the craft template of choice.
Colour (where appropriate) and cut out the template pieces.
Glue the triangles together to form a tree from largest (base) to smallest (top).
Glue the rectangle trunk onto the bottom.
"Decorate" as a Christmas Tree with star, diamonds and circles.

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).

Alternate Decorating Ideas:

Copy template onto Fun Foam or Felt for a more permanent tree. Poke a hole in the top to make a christmas tree ornament.
Cut out wallet sized picture of child and paste in center of tree. If you used paper to make the tree, you can put clear contact paper/mactac over top and bottom to make it sturdier. If you used fun foam or felt you don't need to. Poke a hole in the top to make a Christmas Tree Ornament that is a great gift for Grandparents! (You can use marker to mark the year on the trunk).
Colour in the tree decorations (star, diamonds and circles) with glitter glue or sparkles).