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Sparkly Gold Christmas Garland with Paper Straws

By ProjectswithKids

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This Christmas garland with paper straws is sparkly and shimmery and would be a gorgeous addition to any Christmas tree or mantle! Paper straws are so fun and versatile to craft with, there are so many colors and patterns, they are becoming one of our favorite craft supplies.

This is a simple and easy Christmas craft to make, perfect for preschool-aged kids and makes a great fine motor skills activity. 

This Christmas garland with paper straws is sparkly and shimmery and would be a gorgeous addition to any Christmas tree or mantle! This is a simple and easy Christmas craft to make, perfect for preschool aged kids (and beyond!) and makes a great fine motor skills holiday activity.

This project had my kids focused and creating for quite a while, it was easy enough for my 4-year-old to do without any help and my 7-year-old loved stringing all of the sparkly beads and sequins. We can’t wait to put it on our Christmas tree this year! 

If you are looking for more Christmas projects to make take a look at our collection of creative Christmas arts and crafts for more fun ideas!

Make Your Own Christmas Garland with Paper Straws

This Christmas garland with paper straws is sparkly and shimmery and would be a gorgeous addition to any Christmas tree or mantle! This is a simple and easy Christmas craft to make, perfect for preschool aged kids (and beyond!) and makes a great fine motor skills holiday activity.

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Supplies

  • paper straws in different gold patterns
  • beads in colors to match your straws
  • gold bells
  • sequins (you want to make sure that the holes in your sequins are big enough to go through your string)
  • string (make sure that your string goes through all of your beads and sequins easily)


Instructions

1. Cut each paper straw into 8 pieces. I found this to be a good size, any bigger and the pieces are a bit too long making it frustrating for younger kids to thread through the string.

This Christmas garland with paper straws is sparkly and shimmery and would be a gorgeous addition to any Christmas tree or mantle! This is a simple and easy Christmas craft to make, perfect for preschool aged kids (and beyond!) and makes a great fine motor skills holiday activity. #christmascraft #kidmadechristmas #kidscraft #projectswithkids

Related: Easy Kid Made Wreath Ornaments with Paper Straws   

2. Gather your straws, beads, sequins, and bells and sort them into containers.

3. Cut your string to your desired length, you want to make sure that the string goes through all of your beads and sequins easily. We wanted to wrap our Christmas garland around our tree so I made our string fairly long. I gave each of my kids one end of the string to use so they were stringing everything onto the same garland and meeting in the middle.

This Christmas garland with paper straws is sparkly and shimmery and would be a gorgeous addition to any Christmas tree or mantle! This is a simple and easy Christmas craft to make, perfect for preschool aged kids (and beyond!) and makes a great fine motor skills holiday activity. #christmascraft #kidmadechristmas #kidscraft #projectswithkids

4. Let your kids have fun creating your beautiful Christmas garland! Tie both ends securely when the garland is finished, making sure that the knots are big enough so that they don’t slip through any of the beads.

I love how our Christmas garland turned out! All of the straws, beads, bells, and sequins are so sparkly and beautiful and will look so magical wrapped around our tree. Both my kids love stringing beads, they loved this project and are so proud of their finished garland.

This Christmas garland with paper straws is sparkly and shimmery and would be a gorgeous addition to any Christmas tree or mantle! This is a simple and easy Christmas craft to make, perfect for preschool aged kids (and beyond!) and makes a great fine motor skills holiday activity.

We love crafting with paper straws, check out these easy kid made wreath ornaments with paper straws that are so fun and colorful!

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This Christmas garland with paper straws is sparkly and shimmery and would be a gorgeous addition to any Christmas tree or mantle! This is a simple and easy Christmas craft to make, perfect for preschool aged kids (and beyond!) and makes a great fine motor skills holiday activity. #christmascraft #kidmadechristmas #kidscraft #projectswithkids

This Christmas garland with paper straws is sparkly and shimmery and would be a gorgeous addition to any Christmas tree or mantle! This is a simple and easy Christmas craft to make, perfect for preschool aged kids (and beyond!) and makes a great fine motor skills holiday activity.
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Filed Under: Christmas/Winter, Craft Projects, Holidays/Seasonal, Paper Crafts

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Comments

  1. Michele

    November 16, 2017 at 2:26 am

    Such pretty garland. I cannot believe those are paper straws. They look so much fancier to me!

    • ProjectswithKids

      November 16, 2017 at 5:31 am

      Thank you Michele! I agree they are pretty fancy looking for paper straws. šŸ™‚

  2. Bree

    November 22, 2017 at 5:17 am

    Great idea! I love that my kids will be able to help and it will be such a good motor skill building activity!

    • ProjectswithKids

      November 23, 2017 at 5:53 am

      Thanks Bree! It’s a great fine motor skills activity, my 4 year old really loved it.

  3. Theresa

    November 22, 2017 at 3:07 pm

    This is a really cute idea! It uses such simple supplies too.

    • ProjectswithKids

      November 23, 2017 at 5:54 am

      Thanks Theresa!

  4. Debbie

    November 22, 2017 at 9:25 pm

    Omg so pretty! That would be beautiful for New Year’s Eve. It looks like it would be therapeutic to make, too. Like making jewelry!

    • ProjectswithKids

      November 23, 2017 at 5:54 am

      Yes, it would be great for New Years too!

  5. Tamara

    November 22, 2017 at 10:36 pm

    I’ve never thought of doing something like this. Great for fine motor skills.

    • ProjectswithKids

      November 23, 2017 at 5:55 am

      Thanks Tamara! My 4-year-old loved helping with this, definitely a great fine motor skills project.

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