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Christmas Craft: Pinecone Carolers

Pinecone Carolers

Total Time Needed: 1 Hour

These small-scale singers are poised to echo their joyous strains this holiday season.

Materials

  • Acrylic paints
  • Capped acorns
  • Hot glue
  • 2 small twigs
  • Small pinecone, between 1" and 2" tall
  • Glue stick
  • Small piece of photocopied sheet music
  • Colored construction paper

Instructions

  1. To make your own tiny choir, first use acrylic paints to create faces on a collection of capped acorns and allow them to dry.
  2. Use hot glue to secure each acorn head and 2 twig arms to a small pinecone (ours were between 1 and 2 inches tall).
  3. For each songbook, use a glue stick to attach a small piece of photocopied sheet music to a rectangle of colored construction paper.
  4. Give each book a center crease, then attach the music to a carolers hands with hot glue.

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