Christmas Tree Bags

These Christmas tree bags are perfect for a crafty afternoon with preschoolers. Our bags did not take long to make, but they provided a quick, enjoyable activity for two days in a row. The first step was to have fun and create customised card that would be used for our trees. I gave the children everything I had in the house for that purpose: several shades of green paint, cotton buds, paintbrushes, a sponge cut into small squares and cotton balls. You could use anything, really.

This is what the children used to make the customised card:

Newspaper to protect the table

Washable paints in several shades of green

Green card

Paintbrushes

Cotton balls

Cotton buds

Bits of sponge

I covered the table in newspaper and let the children have fun.

Jumpy was really happy with a paintbrush.

Beanie made dots with cotton buds and a paintbrush.

Crevette went for stamping with sponge squares.

We let their artwork dry for the night.

To make the bags and tags, we used:

Kraft string bags

Customised green card

Joyeux Noël & Merry Christmas in festive fonts, printed and cut

Scissors

PVA glue mixed with water

Red tissue paper

Kraft paper

Red card

Black pen

Ribbon

Twine

Crevette and I drew tree shapes on the card.

Crevette cut them and we stuck them on the bags.

We stuck Joyeux Noël & Merry Christmas above and below the tree. We then made baubles by crunching small balls of tissue paper before sticking them on the trees.

I made the tags with a small piece of Kraft paper backed on red card.

Et voilà!