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Easy "Nutcracker" Themed Hanging Paper Wall Christmas Tree: Christmas DIY Using Simple & Recycled Materials + Links To FREE Resources!

Last year I tried making a paper "Wall Christmas Tree", I've seen a couple of wall Christmas Trees in the past but it was only last year that I finally go ahead and do one myself. I'm glad I went through with it, that tree ended up nice and for Christmas this year I decided to make another paper wall Christmas tree in a different style and theme with "Nutcracker" as its elements and decorations. DISCLOSURE:   T his blog and post contains affiliate links. This means I may earn a commission should you chose to sign up for a program or make a purchase using my link. It’s okay – I love all of these companies and you will too! The elements of this paper Christmas tree was inspired from "The Nutcracker Prince" animated movie and "The Nutcracker Ballet". I had clara , some  ballerinas , the  sugarplum fairy , the  nutcracker  soldiers, assorted colors of  lollipops  (from palace of sweets) along with other traditional Christmas candies such as c...
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Spiral Snake

12-31-2015 -- This was an art project that Lauren did in Brightly Beaming Resources' (Step 2: Letter of the Week) home school curriculum for the "s" sound as in "snake", I searched for some snake crafts for kids and found this art called "Spiral Snake" from artprojectsforkids.org.


I've seen other versions of doing a spiral snake out there but I chose this version because of it's convenience for kids to make. It has a "snake pattern" that is easy to cut with wide sections in them that the kids can easily color or paint alternately as well as draw designs on. Lauren painted the "snake pattern" with poster colors. I printed 3 patterns to be painted with 3 types of different color combinations for variety. 


When the paint has dried, I lightly draw some designs in the sections and Lauren traced them with black pentel pen. You can also try and draw other designs aside what is done in the original sample.


SNAKE STORY FOR KIDS: The Cunning Snake

After tracing the designs, Lauren cut the snakes herself. Additionally, I let her color the back of each snake with crayon, this way when the snake is hanged for display the back part would show some colors too and not just plain white paper. To finish the snake, Lauren added a red tongue sticking out of its mouth.


SNAKE STORY FOR KIDS: The White Snake

The finished "spiral snakes" looked absolutely artistic and colorful. I try to hang them using a white thread and see it spin around, you can hang it anywhere you wish as a decoration outdoors or in any room indoors too. See it spin around when it gets hit by wind or air (as you can see in the video below).

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