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Four Homemade Trees: Foil

Sheets of foil are twisted and scrunched into stars, balls, and canes, all hung with yarn. Turn cupcake liners inside out; stack, and then glue back-to-back; tie on yarn to hang. Poke string lights through small liners for a radiant glow.

More liners decorate a foil-covered cardboard star (with a toilet-paper tube back).

A silver mouse sits atop shining gifts.

Foil Ornaments How-To
For bell, cut away bottom third of cup; wrap cup in foil. Roll foil into clapper, catching end of yarn inside. Knot yarn about 2 inches above clapper; slip other end through hole in cup bottom. Loop to hang. For candy cane, roll two strips of foil into rods; twist together and shape. For star, fold rod into zigzag with ten sections; shape, and glue ends together; tie on yarn.


Foil Mouse How-To
1. Twist a small piece of aluminum foil into a tail.

2. Squeeze foil into a ball for mouse's body.

3. Cut a slit to the center of a small metallic doily; form a cone for the snout; secure with hot glue. Hot-glue snout to body; hot-glue on a tiny ball of foil for nose.

4. For ears, turn foil candy cups inside out; use red paper fasteners to pin cups to body, placing as shown. Glue on the tail.

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