Christmas

Festivals
Tree

Work with a partner. The instructions are for two trees, one for each of you!
You will need:
two toilet-roll tubes scissors glue
green and white paper tape sweet wrappers
a plastic/paper plate red or brown paint

Put the paper plate Tape the sides together. Do the same for
onto the green paper all the halves and you’ll have two sets of
and draw a circle six cones which get smaller in size.
around it. Then, cut
the circle out.

Next, cut out a circle of Cut a zigzag pattern along the bottom
white paper, but make edge of the green cones and a wavy
it a bit smaller than the pattern along the bottom edge of the
green one. white cones.

Then cut out a circle of green paper which

is a bit smaller than the white one you have
just cut out.
Repeat until you have six circles which get
smaller and smaller: green, white, green,
white, green, white. For each set of six, put
one cone on top of the
other, and glue each
cone to the one under
it. Start with the
largest cone at the
Cut each circle in half. bottom, and finish
with the smallest
cone at the top. Paint
each toilet-roll tube
red or brown, let it dry,
and then stick it on the
bottom part of the tree
to form the tree trunk.
Curve each half so that the sides
meet, to form a cone.

8 Roll some sweet

wrappers into tiny
balls and then glue
them onto the tree.

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