Make A Paper Christmas Tree Collage

 Christmas Eve

My childhood's Christmases each brought to me

The wondrous glory of a Christmas tree;

Now, every year, since I've to manhood grown,

I buy a tree for children of my own. 

And so to-night my mind looks back and sees

Life a long avenue of Christmas trees.    

This little tree collage could look like anything.
Here is just one example using the patterns below.

      Print color and cut these little old-fashioned ornaments onto a printed Christmas tree. Younger children can paste stickers to their tree to decorate it. Don't forget to add gems or sequins to the tree for a bit of bling!

Old-Fashioned Christmas Ornament Shapes for cutting and
pasting into pictures by Kathy Grimm

Download this jpg. into a Word Doc file and stretch it out to fit
your paper's size. Then print it on a pale green paper for
the kiddos to decorate!

       Kids can also make a paper dove to hang on a Christmas tree at home, in school or at church if they like. Above is a pattern for a dove plus it's crown. Purchase white cup cake liners for the wings and tail. Little ones will need white school glue and child-safe scissors for this ornament craft.

Step-by-Step Instructions:

1. Download and print the pattern for a dove above. 
2. Cut out the dove body and trace it on top of heavy white posterboard.
3. Color the beak of the dove yellow.
4. Cut white cup cake liners in half and press the accordion folds back in place with your finger tips while gluing the wings to the paper birds body.
5. Do the same as step 4. for the ruffled tail of the dove.
6. Cut a small crown for the dove from gold tinsel paper and glue it to the head of the dove.
7. Poke a hole at the top of the bird's head for threading gold twine through. Tie the ends of the twine together so that the bird may be hung from the branch of a tree.