Let the Christmas Crafts Begin!

I watched Elf a couple weeks ago with my kids for Friday night movie night.  We love that movie, and when I saw a bunch of "Elf-type" crafts on Pinterest, I knew I had to make one!  I love the quote, "The best way to spread Christmas cheer, is singing loud for all to hear."  I am a huge fan of the 2 x 4 crafts. I think they are cute and so cheap.  I have just never made one before myself.  So here is my first 2 x 4 project.  I love it! I actually ended up making two because we are doing a white elephant gift exchange at church in a couple weeks.  I think this will be perfect. There has to be another Elf fan out there who would enjoy this as much as I do.

Easy Christmas Trees

We have been finding so many fun crafts on Martha Stewart's website. If you haven't ever perused it, I highly reccommend it!  Apparently these Christmas trees made out of magazines have been around for years, but I have never made them.  They were so easy and turned out really well.  Fun to do while watching tv, too! 
You fold down the corner of each page, fold it in again, then turn up the bottom.  It does take a while because you do every single page.  (There's a video on Martha's website if this is confusing.)

I then spray painted mine silver, added some spray adhesive, then dumped on the glitter.  I did a few in different sizes. I think they turned out really well.