Christmas Tree - Phonebook Xmas Tree

Christmas is for Crafts

Make a Phone Book Christmas Tree
by John Martin

I'm not sure who showed my sister and I how to make a Christmas Tree out of a phone book all those years ago, but someone did, and I it made my mother quite happy. Why you ask? Well, considering that we lived in a fairly good size town, the phone book was pretty hefty, and folding all of the pages to make the tree was time consuming... my mother got an early Christmas gift.

Here's how to do it:

Materials:
An unused phone book or an old paper back that no one wants anymore - the book has to be fairly wide
Tempra paint, or spray paint, depending on how old your kids are, and how much supervision you're willing to provide
Elmer's glue, or any other "white glue"
A stapler
Trinkets, buttons, macaroni, or tiny ornaments

How to do it:
Open the book and grab the upper right hand corner of the very first page. Fold the page so that the top now lines up with the spine, and crease so it is flat. Depending on the difference in the width of the book as opposed to the length, there will a space at the bottom of the folded page once you've got the first page done, repeat until you've folded every page in the book including the covers. Now, bring the front cover around to meet the back and staple the two together. Paint the tree and allow to dry, then use the white glue to add decorations to the tree, and there you have it.