[Nfb-krafters-korner] Christmas Crafts - Magazine tree

[Marianne Denning]

This has nothing to do with Christmas but I made something similar using a 
Readers Digest and made a bird cage.  We spray painted it and put a little 
ceramic bird on top of the "bird cage."
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From: "Annette Carr" <amcarr1 at verizon.net>
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Sent: Friday, December 05, 2008 7:11 PM
Subject: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Christmas Crafts - Magazine tree


> Ok, all of this talk of bread dough ornaments and things to do with
> Styrofoam balls got me thinking about some things I did as a kid, so I
> thought I would share them with all of you.  I'm sending them in separate
> messages for easier retrieval in the future, and to increase the chances
> that I'll have time to get at least one idea shared before I'm 
> interrupted.
>
>
> Magazine Christmas Tree
> Great project for kids.
>
> Get an old magazine, one with more pages will result in a fuller tree.
> Place it in front of you as if you were going to read it.  It does not
> matter if it is up-side-down or not, just that the bound edge is the left
> edge as it lays closed in front of you.
>
> Open the cover by turning it to the left.
>
> Lift the Top right corner of the first page.
>
> Fold it down toward the bottom left corner of the magazine.  You will not 
> be
> able to make the corners meet because the page is a rectangle and not a
> square.  Your goal is to have the top edge of that first page line up with
> the left edge of the page.  This is the bound edge of the magazine.
>
> NOTE:  Use some type of object like a ruler edge, back of a spoon, side of 
> a
> pen or pencil, etc. to run along all of your creases to make them nice and
> sharp.
>
> You have now formed a triangle with the top portion of the page with a
> rectangle sticking out below the triangle.
>
> Lift the bottom right corner of that same first page.
>
> Fold it up and to the left so that what was the right edge of the 
> rectangle
> is now parallel to the bottom edge of the triangle you made earlier.
>
> Your page is now a lop-sided arrow that is pointing to the right.  The
> larger triangle is above the smaller triangle.
>
> Repeat these 2 folds on all pages and the back cover.
>
> As you proceed, things will begin to get a little crowded.  This is to be
> expected.  Just do the best you can.  You might find that using a thick
> phonebook to work on top of will help as the folded pages cascade off of 
> the
> edge.
>
> You are going to do the same folds on the front cover, but you are going 
> to
> first lay the folded back cover on the front cover and then fold the front
> cover over the back cover.
>
> Use a piece of tape or glue in toward the binding under the folded large
> triangles of the cover to keep the magazine from wanting to close up.
>
> Your tree has now been shaped.  Now comes the fun part, painting it. 
> Green
> spray paint works best, but be creative.
>
> set up outside.  lay newspaper down on the ground to cover a large area.
> You might want to lay rocks on the paper to keep it from blowing around.
>
> Place your magazine tree down in the center of the paper.
>
> Now it is time to spray paint your tree.  You can either go at this
> yourself, let your kids do this next part, or get someone sighted to give
> you verbal guidance on where to point the spray paint.  I recommend you 
> wear
> rubber gloves.  Go for it!
>
> When it comes to decorating your tree, be creative.  glue things on to the
> tree.  Cut out stars and glue them on.  Cut out stencils from paper and 
> tape
> them to the tree and then spray the tree with that fake snow and remove 
> the
> stencils.
>
> have fun!
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