A small pipe-cleaner tree brings a classic accent to your holiday decoration, contacting memories of the childhood Christmas crafts you adoringly produced your parents and grandparents.
This project calls for chenille stems cut into several different size pieces, then twisted together to create snowflakes in 5 sizes. The stacked snowflakes end up being a sweet Tannenbaum that you can decorate with other small pipe-cleaner accessories.
What You’ll Need
Devices/ Tools
Pliers
Scissors or wire cutters
Materials
Green pipe cleaners
Guidelines
Twist the pipeline cleaners into snowflakes:
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Use a wire cutter or old scissors cut the pieces for the snowflakes. Make two 1-inch-long pieces and three each of 2-, 3-, 4-, 5-, and 6-inch-long pieces.
Different the pipe cleaners by size, and twist each group of 3– the 2-, 3-, 4-, 5-, and 6-inch-long sets– together at their midpoint to produce six-pointed stars. Twist 2 1-inch-long sticks into a plus sign shape.
Include branches to the biggest star:
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Starting at center of each spoke, twist on 2 2 1/2- inch sticks; tighten by clamping down on twist point with round-nose pliers. Follow with a 2-inch stick, then a 1 1/2- inch stick. Keep spacing even.
Make the smaller sized snowflakes and the tree trunk:
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Complete other snowflakes as shown:
For 5-inch snowflake: Use six 2 1/2- inch sticks, 6 2-inch sticks, and 6 1 1/2- inch sticks.
For 4-inch snowflake: Use six 2-inch sticks and six 1 1/2- inch sticks.
For 3-inch snowflake: Use 6 1 1/2- inch sticks.
For 2-inch snowflake: Use six 1-inch sticks.
Make the trunk: Twist 3 12-inch stems of same green chenille around an equal length of 16-gauge flower wire, working from bottom up for about 3 inches. (A wood spindle makes a great tree stand.).
Build the tree:.
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Slip greatest snowflake onto “tree trunk”; the 3 sticks fit in between spokes of snowflakes. Twist the three trunk sticks firmly for another inch before moving on next snowflake.
Use other pipe cleaners in red and white to make small candle lights, sweet walking canes, and other mini accessories.
