What you need:

• Roll of solid green foil wrapping paper
• Roll of wrapping paper with toys or ornaments on it
• Poster Board - full sheet (1 3/4' x 2 1/4')
• Brown construction paper
• Small piece of Gold foil wrapping paper
• Glue (tacky or Elmer's)

What you do:

1. Cut the poster board into a large triangle. Parts cut off can be taped together to make a 2nd tree.
2. Cut brown construction paper for the trunk. Glue to base of triangle. I attached it to the back side.
3. Unroll the green wrapping paper face down. Use your and everyone else's hands. Trace around all hands. Be sure to spread your fingers apart alittle and use both hands. Cut out the hands a row at a time.
4. Glue the hands, starting at the bottom of the tree. Glue fingers down. (The pinkey side goes well on the edges.) Don't overlap, just put close together. The next row over laps the first a little bit (Like shingles on a roof). Cover the posterboard like this all the way to the top. If you have little bits of posterboard peeking thru, use your scrap pieces to fill in.
5. Next cut a star from shirt board/poster board. Cover with the gold foil paper. Glue to top of tree.
6. Take the paper with toys/ornaments and cut the whole items from the paper. I only used about 2 full rows of items down the length of the roll. Glue these on the tree.
7. Now you have a fully decorated tree!

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