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Stand out from the crowd this Valentines Day and make a Valentine's tree decoration. A Valentine tree makes a decorative centrepiece for the month of February. A Valentines Tree is easy to make and lots of fun. The actual 'Tree' part is a mug tree, you could use and old one, or buy a new one especially for this Valentines craft idea. To decorate your tree you need to create 12 individual love hearts to hang from the branches of the tree. Go on, get crafty and make a Valentine's tree!
To make a Valentine tree you will need...
A mug tree, a wooden or a metal one is fine. You could pick one up cheaply at your local car boot.
Paperclips
Craft Foam
Clear drying PVA glue
A pipe cleaner (A coloured one looks great)
Lots of odds and ends from the crafting box to decorate the hearts with.
Cut out 13 identical heart shapes from craft foam or think card.
Decorate the heart with sequins, buttons, ribbons, sequin waste, stickers, beads, artificial roses, glitter, tin foil, tissue paper, shiny sticky paper, rick-rack and anything else that you can find to embellish the hearts. Leave the hearts to one side to let the glue dry.
When the hearts are dry you can decorate the mug tree. Take a paperclip and fold outwards the smaller 'U' shape, thus making an 'S' shape. Now use the small hook, and push it through a heart where the two humps join. Squeeze the hook closed. Now hand the heart on the tree with the large hook; you can bend the hook to accommodate the trees branches.
Each branch should bear 2 hearts. To make the heart next to the trunk hang lower so that it can be seen, use 2 paperclips. Small hook in the heart, and the big hook into another paperclip, and this second paperclip should be suspended from the branch.
For the tree topper, wind a coloured pipe cleaner around the top of the tree making it come in at the top to cover the top. Then take the last heart and glue it point down to the pipe cleaner. When the glue is dry the pipe cleaner will support this last heart.
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