For my ward's Relief Society Enrichment Activity for November we had the theme of "Christ Centered Holidays." We wanted to do something fun, but also start the holiday season off with a reminder of what the holiday represent. For the lesson part of the Enrichment activity, I shared a story that I have about all of the symbols of Christmas. It was fun to be reminded of the meaning behind everything we use as our Christmas decorations, ranging from bells to candy canes, to Santa himself. After talking about the symbols of Christmas, I played a narrated story on my IPad of the "Story of the Three Trees". I found a great recording with the pictures from the book on YouTube.
From the story, came the craft. Each woman made a Christmas decoration of 3 trees. I was trying to find a cheap and easy way to make this Christmas tree craft. After scouring Pinterest, my friend (who is very crafty) and I found a way.
I bought a 2x8 board, 2x10, and a 2x12 from Home Depot. I can't remember how long they were, but whatever length it is that they sell, that is what I bought (maybe 8 ft long?) I had my neighbor cut the wood at on angles, so we were able to get almost 40 skinny trees out of each piece of wood. My friend spray painted all of the trees before our activity, so that we wouldn't have to wait for drying time. We had pre cut triangular pieces of scrapbook paper that the ladies trimmed to size and then decoupaged them on. Then they sprayed glitter spray on them, let them dry and tied jute around them. SUPER easy. We also had sandpaper and stamp pads for those that wanted to use them on the edges of the trees. They turned out so great!
