Christmas Craft for 2014

 

 One day as I was scrolling through my FB news feed I came across a tutorial on how to make this fireplace. I fell in love with it and printed the picture out. I mentioned to my husband that I would love to make it. Of course he didn't take me seriously....until my son saw the picture that is. So for about a month our son asked everyday for about a month when we would be making the fireplace. Finally hubby came home with the boxes and a plan was formed.

The only supplies we purchased were two rolls of red wrapping paper, one roll of white wrapping paper, and two bottles of glue. We purchased all of this at the Dollar Tree. The boxes hubby got from his work. This was time consuming, but very inexpensive.

STEP 1:  Assemble your boxes, this can take some time if they are all different sizes. The hubby tapped them together with packing tape.

 

STEP 2: We used the flap from one of the smaller boxes to cut out squares that later became bricks. This is where the two rolls of red wrapping paper came into play.

 

 

 

STEP 3: Cover the boxes with your white wrapping paper. We were actually short a wee bit and ended up using the back of the red wrapping paper to finish covering the boxes. We bought the small rolls of wrapping paper, so if you buy larger rolls you may only need one.

 

 

STEP 4: Begin gluing your red squares to the white paper.

 

 

THE FINISHED PRODUCT:

 

 

 

This was our families first ever craft together. The kids do crafts at friends houses or at school, but we don't normally do crafts at home. I highly recommend this project if you have the space and the time. It brought us all together. Our five-year old son helped cut the squares out. Both kids helped put glue onto the back of the squares and the hubby and I glued them on. It was a lot of fun, and a nice accent to our Christmas Tree.

THREFORE THE LORD HIMSELF WILL GIVE YOU A SIGN: THE VIRGIN WILL BE WITH CHILD AND WILL GIVE BIRTH TO A SON, AND WILL CALL HIM IMMANUEL.
Isaiah 7:14