Maggy from Red Ted Art (introduced by Party Delights) demonstrates how to upcycle corks into very cute little Santa decorations for your tree. This is a great festive upcycling project for the kids!
There’s also a couple of other craft projects involving pine cones and little pom pom balls and also lollipop sticks and buttons being turned into a cute star decoration.
The materials and equipment that you’ll need to make your upcycled cork Santa’s are shown below.
Materials
- Cork
- Red paint
- Red felt
- Cotton wool
- Ribbon
- Pine Cones (project 2)
- Thread (project 2)
- Mini pompoms (project 2)
- Lollipop sticks (project 3)
- Buttons (project 3)
- White Paint (project 3)
Equipment
- Paintbrush
- Scissors
- Glass jar
- Pen
- PVA / tacky glue
- Coffee stirrer
- Black marker pen
- Red marker pen
Did You Know?
2.65 billion Christmas cards are sold each year in the United States, that could fill a football field 10 stories high. If each American sent one card less, 50,000 cubic yards of paper can be saved ( Use Less Stuff ). Every year 200,000 trees will be cut down to make holiday cards.
courtesy of: 1st-ecofriendlyplanet.com
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