Christmas Trees with Tissue Paper Lights
While looking for a Christmas craft that Sammie would like to make, I found this Light Up Christmas Tree craft. I knew Sammie would love making these and that she would get a kick out of seeing them “light up” so we decided to make some Christmas trees with tissue paper lights.
I took a piece of green construction paper, folded it in half and drew a Christmas tree shape along the fold. When I cut it out and unfolded it, we had a Christmas tree.
With a hole punch, I randomly punched holes in the tree. I tried to get the holes punched evenly and not too close together. Sammie wanted to help punch some holes, but had a bit of trouble squeezing the hole punch hard enough. I helped her with punching some holes in the tree.
She wanted me to make a tree with her, so I ended up making two tree shapes with holes punched in them.
We got out our tissue paper squares and ripped each piece into four smaller pieces. We tried using the full square, but they were too big.
Sammie used a glue stick to put some glue around each hole. Make sure to do this over something that doesn’t matter if it gets a bit of glue on it and that won’t stick to your tree. 
Our table was covered with glue by the time we were done lol
Place a piece of tissue paper over each hole. Sammie liked overlapping the tissue paper to get new colours
Here is the back of my tree when I was finished.
Our finished Christmas trees with tissue paper lights. I asked Sammie if she wanted to decorate the front of the trees but she wasn’t interested in decorating them.
Before we hung the trees up in the window, I punched out two stars from yellow construction paper and we glued them to the tops of our trees.
This is Sammie’s Christmas tree with tissue paper lights. I love how her overlapping tissue paper pieces made multicoloured lights.
My tree hanging in the window.
Later on, we cut out small rectangles from brown construction and added trunks to the bottoms of the trees.
Sammie loved how the trees “lit up” when we hung them up in the window She was quite fascinated by how it really looked like little lights on the trees.
These trees turned out so pretty, especially when the sun is shining through the windows.
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Soo cute! Love it!
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I love this idea! I never would have thought to use a hole punch, but that is brilliant.
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What a FABULOUS idea! We are definitely going to do this! Thanks so much for sharing on the Sunday Showcase!
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I LOVE this!!! I am featuring it in a round up of Christmas Tree Crafts from the weekly kids co-op at housingaforest.com
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Thank you for including our Christmas trees in your post
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Featured this this week on the Sunday Showcase! LOVE it!
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thank you very much for featuring our Christmas trees with lights
I love that!
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I love these and LOOK at all that snow you are really luck.
Thank you for linking up to Tuesday Tots and just to let you know that I’m featuring this post over on Rainy Day Mum this week.
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Ok, I’m back to say we made the trees and LOVED them so much that I wrote them up for one of my WRAL: Go Ask Mom craft posts with a link back to you. I just sent it in, so I’ll be back to let you know the link once it gets posted (usually within a few days to a week). Thanks for sharing such a cute craft!
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So glad you had fun making these trees.
We really liked making ours. I can’t wait to see yours
Thanks again
Soooo pretty! love the idea to use a whole punch.
Thank you for sharing on Kids Get Crafty!
Maggy
Wow – look at that view! Love the very clever trees too
Featuring this as part of my roundup of the Weekly Kids’ Co-op. xoxo P
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Thank you very much for featuring this post
I’m glad you like them and the view too 
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How did I miss this post?! I absolutely LOVE these!
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