Home-Made Christmas Tree Decorations

Every year since The Boy was born, we buy him his own special Christmas decoration (to help build up a collection for first adult Christmas tree) and write the year on the bottom of it. I always aim to buy traditional style decorations that have a story to them and he's fascinated by them. This year he's old enough to start making his own decorations and I can't wait to see our Christmas tree filled with his home-made decorations in the future.

You'll need:

• green felt
• red felt
• green or red ribbon
• green, white and red buttons
• felt holly leaves and berries (I bought these from Baker Ross)
• PVA glue
• scissors

1. Draw two large circles (one red and one green) and then draw a small inner circle in the middle (I used a large coffee mug rim to draw around).
2. Cut two smaller circles out of the green felt, and two from the red. These will also need an inner circle, but this must be bigger than the inner circle on the large red or green circle.

Holly wreath decoration:

1. Cut a 20cm length of ribbon and feed it through the middle of the large green circle, glue it into place and tie the end.
2. Glue the red circles into place over the ribbon on each side of the large green circle.
3. Stick holly leaves and berries over the top of the red small circles on both sides and leave to dry.

Button wreath decoration:

1. Cut a 20cm length of ribbon and feed it through the middle of the large red circle, glue it into place and tie the end.
2. Glue the green circles into place over the ribbon on each side of the large red circle.
3. Glue a selection of red, green and white buttons over the small green circles on both sides.

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