Retro Santa Tree Decoration

Last weekend, all of the women in my family met up at my mom’s house for a craft day.
Here’s what our four generations of girls created together.

Here’s how we made it.
Supplies:
red crepe paper
white crepe paper
fine glitter
thin wire
wire cutters
narrow silver ribbon
glue – we used a glue gun
double sided tape or glue stick
santa scrapbooking paper
coordinating scrapbooking paper – we actually used old sheet music and stamped it
circular punch – 1 3/8″
slightly larger scalloped edge punch – 1 3/4″
Instructions:
Cut the red crepe paper into 2 3/4″ x 17″ strips
Cut the white crepe paper into 3 1/2″ x 17″ strips

Put the red crepe paper on top of the white crepe paper, centering it. Then fan fold about 1/2″ folds. (We had three different people folding, so I’m sure our folds weren’t all exactly 1/2″ and it didn’t seem to matter.)

Cut a small piece of wire, about 6″ and wrap it around the folded crepe paper, twist it and cut off the extra wire.

Put glue or tape on sides, then fan out to form a circle.

Set that aside and cut out santa faces using the circle punch.

Then glitter the circles. We used watered down glue put on with a paintbrush, then sprinkled the glitter over.

Cut the scalloped circles out of your coordinating paper.

Glue the santa onto the scalloped circle.

Hot glue the scalloped circle onto the crepe paper fans. This took two people. One of us held the fan in the desired shape while another glued on the santa.

Hot glue a 6″ silver ribbon hanger onto the back.

That’s it. We made 10 in around an hour. We plan on using them for gift decorations and tree ornaments.