Fall Tree Straw Craft

Create a beautiful fall tree display using smoothie straws!
Materials
- Brown Fuzzy Sticks
- Yellow, Green, Orange & Red Smoothie Straws
- Dark Green Felt
- Foam Core
- Scissors
- Craft Glue or Hot Glue**May Require Adult Assistance
- Ruler
- Pen/Penicl
Instructions
Step 1. Gather your materials. | |
| Step 2.
Begin gluing the end of a brown fuzzy stick to the end of a large smoothie straw. |
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| Step 3.
Wrap the fuzzy stick around the straw. |
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| Step 4.
Continue wrapping brown fuzzy sticks around the straw until it is completely covered. |
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Cover a piece of 9″ x 6″ foam core with dark green felt. |
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| Step 6.
Find and mark the middle of the foam core using a ruler. |
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| Step 7.
Cut out a hole in the middle, through the felt, that is the same width of the straw. |
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| Step 8.
Glue the straw tree trunk into the hole. |
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| Step 9.
Cut a small piece of brown fuzzy stick. |
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| Step 10.
Slide half of the fuzzy stick in between the tree truck fuzzy sticks, then bend. |
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| Step 11.
Glue the fuzzy stick down to the felt to create a root. |
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| Step 12.
Repeat steps 10 & 11 until you have plenty of roots. |
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| Step 13.
Wrap a brown fuzzy stick around the tree trunk, about a quarter of the way up. Trim as desired. |
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| Step 14.
Keep adding fuzzy sticks and bending them into crooked branches, until you think you have enough. |
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| Step 15.
Cut red, orange and yellow smoothie straws into thin circles, no thicker than a 1/2″. |
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| Step 16.
Flatten the straws to create points on each end that appear leaf shaped. |
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| Step 17.
Begin gluing on the straw leaves. |
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| Step 18.
Keep gluing until you are happy your tree. |
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| Step 19.
If you have extra straw leaves, glue some of them onto the felt. |