Excerpt from Trim a Tree - 25 Christmas Ornaments You Can Make
by Allison Gertridge
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TINSEL CHAIN
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With scissors, carefully cut through all layers along the outline you have drawn, being careful to leave the tab ends uncut.
Using the dull pencil, emboss your shape with swirls, dots or any pattern shows all the layers. To make a hole at the top, using a hole punch.
Slowly unfold your chain.
To touch up your design, lay the unfolded chain on a magazine and draw over it again — gently this time — with the pencil.
You can also make this craft with regular aluminum foil. Use at least three layers, rather than just two.
OTHER IDEAS
This craft can also be adapted to create individual embossed foil ornaments.
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heavy-duty aluminum foil,
two strips 10 cm x 100 cm
glue
scissors
a dull pencil
a magazine
a hole punch (optional)
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HOW TO MAKE IT
Glue the two strips of aluminum foil, dull sides together.
Trace the template on this page, or use your own, cut it out.
Fold the foil accordion-style into sections 4 cm wider than your shape.
Position the template in the middle of the folded foil and trace around it with the pencil. If using your own template, draw tabs on either side of the shape.
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RIBBON ANGEL ACTIVITY
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Make a ring with the pipe cleaners by twisting the end of one around the next. Make the ring almost as large in diameter as your fabric cutout.
Place your fabric circle on your work surface, good side down. Glue the pipe cleaner ring to the fabric, making sure it is centred.
Glue the raw edges of your circle over the pipe cleaner ring. To make this easier, you can cut tabs along the outside of the fabric circle and fold them over the pipe cleaner, gluing them one by one. You can also use paper clips to hold the fabric tabs down.
When the glue has dried, shape the pipe cleaner hem into ripples to create the angels skirt.
Place the styrofoam ball in the centre of fabric and enclose it in the fabric by tying a piece of thread around the outside to create a head.
Tie the ribbon into a bow and glue it tot he angel's back to make wings. Continue shaping the bottom of the angel's skirt until your happy with it.
If you like, glue on pieces of thread or yarn to give your angel hair or a halo, and use felt tipped markers to draw a face.
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a square piece of fabric, 24 cm x 24 scissors
a pencil or fabric marker
tacky glue
a ruler
pipe cleaners
a styrofoam ball, approximently
2 cm in diameter
wide ribbon
yarn or thread
felt tipped markers (optional)
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HOW TO MAKE IT
Fold the square piece of fabric diagonally in half to make a triangle, and fold in half twice more into smaller triangles.
Measure 12 cm from the closed tip of the triangle, along the longest edge, and mark the spot with the pencil or fabric marker. Draw a curved line to connect the mark you just made to the opposite point of the triangle and cut along the line with scissors. When you unfold your fabric you will have a circle.
Fold the foil accordion-style into sections 4 cm wider than your shape.
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Copyright © 2002 Allison Gertridge and Susan Gardos
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