Layered Paper Plate Christmas Tree

      This Christmas project is made from layers of paper plates stacked together to form a ruffled looking, three dimensional tree. Just cut the bottom layer in the shape of a triangle and then each following tier will be slightly shorter. Use the first triangle as your template, measuring length and size against it as you progress up the tree. Trace, cut and glue until your tree is finished. Then mount it, with additional white glue, onto an uncut round paper plate to form the background. After painting the tree and background, you may need to apply additional glue to the sections to keep the tree intact. Let everything dry and then add your ornamentation. I used a fancy hole punch to make the shimmering stars and also pasted on pom-poms to accent my little tree.

More Christmas Trees From Paper Plates:

• Paper Plate Christmas Trees
• Paper Plate Christmas Tree from Star-Bulletin
• Paper Plate Pop Up Christmas Tree

The Christmas Feast

Upstairs, while folk with quip and joke were there-from kid to cat:
At Christmas dinner, down below another company sat.
For merry mice with manners nice were in the basement met
To celebrate the day of days and all their trials forget.
The brightest mouse about the house put whiskers on his face
And, thus disguised as Santa Claus, crept slyly to the place.
The laugh went 'round: each diner found himself in merry mood,
And, blessed with keenest appetites, enjoyed the festive food.