Making a Christmas wreath with children

The exciting anticipation of the New Year and Christmas is closely connected with pleasant chores. Need to cook present, choose an outfit for New Year's Eve, think through the festive table, decorate the house. Anyone who has small children is familiar with the situation when, in addition to all these worries, there is added the need to make holiday decorations for kindergarten or school. The child cannot always cope with this task on his own. But there are options when a child can complete the craft himself with minimal help from adults. Invite your son or daughter to make a Christmas wreath. A 7-8 year old child can make such a decoration. And the younger children will need a little help. But the kids will have a lot of fun. How nice it is to tinker with rustling tinsel, choose bright decorations, and then make a magnificent decoration yourself.



If you introduce into your family the tradition of getting together every New Year's Eve and making holiday decorations, this will help bring you closer together and make your relationship more kind and trusting.Spending time as a family is very beneficial; it creates a wonderful climate for the development of a friendly atmosphere and mutual understanding. Therefore, if you combine business with pleasure, you can get a lot of pleasure. Both you and your children will remember these moments for the rest of your life. You don't need expensive materials to make a Christmas wreath. Take apart the box of Christmas tree decorations, you may find everything you need there. If something is missing, you can buy the missing elements in any store.

What you need to make a Christmas wreath.
1. Tinsel – 1 meter. If you want to get a voluminous wreath, it is better to take fluffy tinsel. Choose the color at your discretion. You can combine several shades.
2. Decorative elements. Use your imagination and choose. These can be any Christmas tree decorations, bows, bells, snowflakes, balls, beads. In general, everything you like.
3. Cardboard. You can take unnecessary boxes of candy, shoes or children's toys. If you take regular stationery cardboard, it is better to glue it in half.
4. Glue.
5. Scissors.
6. Simple pencil.
7. 2 plates are needed to simply draw the base of the desired diameter.



If everything you need is ready, you can start working.
• We draw the outlines of the plates onto the cardboard to form the base of the wreath.



• Cut it out. If the cardboard is very thick, help your child; it may be difficult for him to cope on his own.



• Attach one end of the tinsel to the base using glue.



• Wrap the base with tinsel. The density can be any, the main thing is that the cardboard is closed.



• Glue the second end in the same way.

• Thread a ribbon through the ring and tie it, it will be useful for fastening crafts on the required surface.



• Decorate the wreath with your chosen elements.
• Attach beads in the same way as tinsel.



• Attach bows.



• The Christmas wreath is ready.



The child will proudly take this craft to school or kindergarten. It will be a worthy decoration for a classroom, group or any other room. You can make small wreaths that will serve as a wonderful gift for family, friends, and colleagues. You can decorate your home, apartment or office with this craft. And the manufacturing process will bring a lot of pleasure and will evoke only positive emotions.