Easy and Adorable Dotty Christmas Tree Paintings · Craftwhack

Christmas tree decor doesn't have to be all snowy scenes and ornaments; y'all can make some Christmas art to pull out every year too! The best function well-nigh this projection is that your kids tin make one, your 95 twelvemonth sometime Grandma tin make one, your pet elephant can make 1.

It's THAT EASY.

All you need are a few simple supplies and the magic of Christmas in your heart. Optional: Christmas music, wine, candy canes, cozy slippers, fairy lights, and a roaring fire.

Actual Supplies

Wood painting panels – I use these from Blick, but I have bought panels on Amazon. Maybe these? I can't remember…

Craft paints – My green is Avocado and my red is Candy Apple, both Handmade Mod acrylics from Target.

Spouncer or craft cream marshmallow (that's what I call information technology) I WANT THESE.

Palette or something random to squeeze the paint out onto

Printer newspaper

Craft knife or pair of scissors

This amazing repositionable record

Optional: Mod Podge PODDDDDDDDDDGE and foam brush

Directions

Impress out my cute little Christmas tree printout. You may have to impress out a few as you adjust the size you desire it for whatever size panels you decide to use. Minor tree | Large tree

I used 5×seven for the modest paintings and 8×ten for the large one.

Carefully cutting out the shapes with a craft knife. You can optionally use pair of scissors, but you will probably make a mess of the paper around the tree, and you will be needing this newspaper if you are making both of the ii styles of minor copse.

Tape some sweet, sweet repositionable record onto the back of your tree, trunk, and star cutouts, and place them down on 1 panel. Yous don't even take to be that careful with placement considering did I mention the tape is REPOSITIONABLE?

Tape downward the exterior paper onto the other panel. It helps to fold the paper down a little over the edges of the panel to center the cut-out.

Glob out a glob of paint in ii colors or more if you are feeling colorful. I used Handmade Modernistic paint from Target for the blood-red, and Blick paint for the dark-green.

At present is when you demand to brand a big, of import decision. Exercise you want to become all small dots, or some large and some small? I'thousand a fan of the 2 sizes, so I used my foam marshmallow starting time with the green paint, followed by the pencil erasers for the pocket-sized dots.

Yes, pencil erasers. I spent 35 minutes searching my house for arts and crafts foam to brand a small dot postage from, but couldn't discover any. Pencil erasers work merely fine, then you have an excuse to purchase a bag of beautiful erasers to employ with these painty-pencils.

When I made the tree with all small dots, I dotted the red on outset, permit it dry (with the help of a hair dryer), then dotted on the green.

Hither'south a li'50 tip: dot heavily around the edges of your paper shapes so the actual shape of the tree, etc prove upwardly when you remove the paper. Stagger the dots a bit so it doesn't look similar a directly line of dots along the edges of your newspaper. Does this make sense? Here, look:

You tin remove the paper as presently every bit you are happy with your dot placements. As you lot can see I made fewer dots toward the outside of the panel.

Big important conclusion #2 is whether or not you want to finish it with Modernistic Podge. A layer of Podge soaks into the woods a bit and gives it a slight sheen. Your phone call.