[Nfb-krafters-korner] Christmas Crafts - Magazine tree
Susan Roe
dogwoodfarm at verizon.net
Sat Dec 6 05:06:08 UTC 2008
We use to do the very same thing with the thinner phone books and we would
put two or three pages together because they were thinner than a magazine.
Susan Roe
dogwoodfarm at verizon.net
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From: "Annette Carr" <amcarr1 at verizon.net>
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Sent: Friday, December 05, 2008 5:11 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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