This TISSUE PAPER CHRISTMAS TREE SUNCATCHER CRAFT is a great way to brighten your windows this festive season.
These Christmas suncatchers are really easy to make with the FREE PRINTABLE TEMPLATES and layers of torn tissue paper.
Kids will love tearing up the tissue paper, it’s great fun! It’s also fantastic for building little hand muscles and fine motor skills too.
When the light shines through the tissue paper the colours look amazing, just like stained glass!
This easy Christmas craft will appeal to kids of all ages. It’s simple enough for your little ones and so pretty that your big kids will love it as well.
You can hang these pretty suncatchers up so that they can spin in a breeze or tape them to a window. Eaither way the stained glass effect it truly lovely.
We love crafting at Christmas and have lots of other Christmas tree crafts for you to enjoy too:
We think these pretty Christmas Tree Sun Catchers go really well with our Handprint Christmas Tree Cards, Curled Paper Christmas Trees, Yarn and Twig Christmas Trees and Christmas Tree Fairy Bread Recipe.
Tissue Paper Christmas Tree Suncatcher Craft Tutorial
Supplies To Make Christmas Suncatchers:
- Free Printable Christmas Tree Templates (Get yours at the end of this post.)
- Tissue Paper
- Marker Pens
- Red Ribbon
- Glue Stick
- Sticky Tape
- Scissors
How To Make Tissue Paper Christmas Tree Suncatchers
1 – Download and print your free Christmas tree templates. (Get yours at the end of this post.)
2 – Cut the middle of the Christmas tree pattern out.
3 – Tear strips of tissue paper long enough to span from side to side of the Christmas tree suncatcher craft.
4 – On the back of your tree template add glue to each end of the tissue paper strips and stick them across the Christmas tree.
5 – Use marker pens to colour in the Trunk and star on the front of your printable Christmas tree.
6 – Sticky tape a loop of ribbon onto the back top of the Christmas suncatcher.
7 – If you want your Tissue Paper Christmas Tree Suncatcher craft to be neat on both sides then print a second matching tree template. Cut out the middle, colour the trunk and star and glue it on to the back of the first tree.
Now your Christmas suncatchers are ready to go on display.
You can tape them to a window or hang them from the ceiling and let them spin. They look gorgeous with the light shining through them.
You can also print the instructions below if you need them.
More Fun Christmas Crafts To Try:
Tissue Paper Christmas Tree Suncatcher Craft
Make gorgeous Tissue Paper Christmas Tree Suncatchers. These look so pretty in the window.
Materials
- Free Printable Christmas Tree Templates
- Tissue Paper
- Marker Pens
- Red Ribbon
- Glue Stick
- Sticky Tape
- Scissors
Instructions
- Download and print your free Christmas tree templates.
- Cut out the middle of the Christmas tree pattern.
- Tear strips of tissue paper long enough to span from side to side of the Christmas tree suncatcher craft.
- On the back of your tree template add glue to each end of the tissue paper strips and stick them across the Christmas tree.
- Colour in the Trunk and star on the front of your printable Christmas tree.
- Sticky tape a loop of ribbon onto the back top of the Christmas suncatcher.
- If you want your Tissue Paper Christmas Tree Suncatcher craft to be neat on both sides then print a second matching tree template. Cut out the middle, colour the trunk and star and glue it on to the back of the first tree.