Christmas is an enchanted time of year for everyone, but especially so for children. With the celebration of the birth of Christ we are inundated with foods, gifts, lights and, of course, Christmas trees. Why not make this year's tree especially memorable for your little ones?
Sites such as pinterest make creative genius simply a pin away. However, sometimes pins on a board are simply pictures with no external directions of links. This Examiner experienced that first hand with her first sighting of a a tree design loving dubbed "Frost the Snow Tree".
This tree was a bit more complex and intense when it was first spotted on pinterest. It seems that the image that insipred this version of the tree possessed a paper mache head and real top hat. With a 5 year old and a 3 year old roaming the house, neither of these items seemed like feasible options. So here is the alternative that I created.
You will need:
1 prelit white tree
2 branches from an evergreen tree
3 pinecones
Black marker
Pair of black boots
2 pieces of white paper
1 piece of orange paper
2 pieces of black paper
Tape
White sheet or piece of fabric
Scarf (red or green work best)
Simply set up the tree as normal and skirt the base with the piece of white fabric. Fashion a cone out of the orange colored paper to represent the carrot nose. Tape the 2 pieces of white paper together and cut out the largest circle that the paper dimensions will allow. Fold one piece of black paper in half long ways. Place the 2 black pieces of paper together perpendicular to each other with the full sheet centered and behind the folded sheet. These two pieces of paper should now resemble a black top hat. Tape the top hat to the white circle being sure to only take up 1/5 of the white circle. Adhere to orange cone to the center of the white circle with tape then draw coal eyes and mouth with the black marker. You should now have Frosty's face. Tape the face to the very top of the tree making sure to push away branches that are in the way of it laying flat. Wrap the scarf just below the face.
Use the wire in the tree branches to adhere the pinecones on the proper places down the front of the tree to resemble buttons. Do the same to hold the two evergreen branches in place to resemble arms. Place the black boots under the tree and viola! You have your very own, simple, version of Frosty the Snow Tree!
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