Homemade Handprint Tree Christmas Card Holder

The day after Thanksgiving, you may be pulling out a Christmas card from your mailbox. You may receive a few or many during the several weeks that follow prior to Christmas. What are you going to do with all those Christmas Cards? Here is an easy fun Christmas activity that you and you family can do together, a homemade handprint tree Christmas card holder shaped like a Christmas tree. This is very simple and everyone in the family can be a part of it.

What you will need:

Green construction paper

Brown construction paper

Scissors

Family hands

Scotch Clear Removable Mounting Squares

The first step in creating your homemade handprint tree Christmas card holder is to trace your family's hands on the green construction paper. It is nice to have some large handprints as well as small handprints. Next, you will want to cut out each handprint. This part is easy, but will be a little time consuming. You may want to have each family member (except the little ones that can't use scissors) cut out his or her own handprint.

The next step is to cut a piece of brown construction paper that is shaped like a rectangle to resemble the tree trunk. Find an open place on your wall or a large door inside to place your tree trunk where you want the bottom of tree to be. You may use tape applying the handprints to the wall, but a great product to use is the Scotch Clear Removable Mounting Squares by 3M that you can find at an office supply store.

The next step to creating your homemade handprint tree Christmas card holder is to find a spot on your wall or if you have a large door where you can place the handprints. Begin with the largest handprints and you are going to turn the handprints upside down where the fingers will be pointing to the ground. This will be the bottom part of your tree and you are going to take approximately 10 handprints hanging upside down and make a row on the wall where you want the bottom of your tree to be. Place the handprints fairly close together so that the fingers that are upside down are going to represent Christmas tree branches.

After you make your first row, you will create your second row on top of the first row. It is important that you move the hands slightly closer together so you can start to make each row smaller just like a Christmas tree is small at the top and large at the bottom. You can continue to keep making these rows upwards. You should use the smaller handprints towards the top. It is fun to create and shape your homemade handprint tree Christmas card holder with your family.

As you Christmas cards start rolling in, you can hang them on your homemade handprint tree Christmas card holder.

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