You can craft cotton strawberries for the tree too!

Tiny cotton batting strawberries for the feather tree.

    Miniature cotton batting strawberries are the easiest ornaments one can make using unraveled cotton balls and a bit of glue and paint. These ornaments look lovely on any tree, not just feather trees and they can be made much larger if you prefer.

 Supply List:

• cotton balls
• red and green acrylic paints
• translucent glitter
• green felt or paper for leaves
• thin wire
• black permanent marker
  

Step-by-Step Instructions:

1. First unravel several cotton balls. 
2. Dab onto the wire a small bit of cotton and glue. Roll the wire between your palms until it is covered.
3. Roll a tight tiny ball of cotton and glue and then wrap the wire around this twisting one end around itself and forming the opposite end into a hook.
   
4. Take another piece of cotton and roll it again between the palms of your hands along with a squeeze of white school glue. Do not compress the cotton.
5. Gently attach this berry to the end of the wire with the small ball using more glue and cotton.
   
6. Add more layers of cotton and glue until you have formed the fruit into the size and shape that you prefer. Let it dry.
7. Paint the berry bright red at the top with acrylics and gradually water down the red paint in areas with lighter pigment. (see photo above)
8. Cut tiny green petals from paper or felt and glue these around the stem. 
9. Paint the stem green.
10. Add tiny black dots for seeds using a permanent felt ink marker.
11. Smear on the glue gently wear you would like glitter. 
12. Sprinkle on the glitter and hang the strawberry on the tree to display and dry.