Salad Spinner Christmas Trees!

Using our salad spinner again (see post: Salad Spinner Leaf Art ), we created Christmas trees to decorate our classroom for our party!

All you need is a salad spinner ($4 at Ikea), green paint, glitter, and paper.  Oh, and willing spinners.  Ha.

Once their spun art dried, we cut the circles in half, stapled the halves into cones and then stacked them.  Super cute and pretty darn easy!



Below, one of my fours is adding sequins to her wet paint.

FYI:  The sequins did tend to pop off the trees as we curved them into cones.  So perhaps gluing them on would be better once the paint is dry.

Salad Spinner Leaf Art

This was so much fun!  I thought I had posted about it, but I haven't!  So here goes!

I bought a salad spinner at Ikea for $4.  Cut a bunch of white cardstock circles to fit in the bottom.  Pulled out red, yellow and orange paint.  Found some gold glitter.

I had the kiddos write their name on the back of their circle, we switched to first letter of their name as they did more and more.  Then I squirted in the paint and they got to add the glitter.  Lots and lots of glitter!  Ha!

Then I snapped the lid on tight and let them spin to their hearts content.  We found that spinning REALLY fast first off is the best.  Here are a few shots of our finished spinnings.

We were able to cut two leaves out of each circle to decorate our classroom tree (see post by same name).

I love how they turned out!

The kiddos will take them home next week after our Thanksgiving feast.

I can't wait to use the spinner for another project.  Maybe green cardstock that we can cut into tree shape for a decorated Christmas tree!

I did scoop all the excess paint and glitter out of the spinner bowl when we were all done and saved it in a container for another day.  (See post:TP Turkeys)