VIDEO: Instructions for making poinsettias

There are innumerable handicraft instructions for poinsettias - but they are often too complicated and difficult to carry out, especially with children. But there is also an easier way ...

Instructions for making poinsettias

1. Draw star shapes of different sizes on a sheet of paper and then cut them out - the paper stars will later form your templates for the wooden stars.
2. Then take the leftover plywood and sand each part thoroughly with sandpaper.
3. Now find a suitable piece of plywood for each paper star (that you cut out earlier) and transfer the shape of the star to it wood.
4. Once all the plywood pieces have been starred, start sawing out the poinsettias. Make sure that you place the fretsaw at an inclined angle and push or pull it evenly. pull so that the saw blade does not break too often. In any case, keep some saw blades ready as a reserve.


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5. When all the poinsettias have been sawn out, a small hole will be made in the upper end of the
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   Stars drilled so that you can hang them up later too.
6. When this is done, take the sandpaper again and sand off all the edges nicely. The tips of the stars should not be rounded too much!
7. When all the stars have been sanded off, they are painted with red stain. This then has to dry for a while - then the poinsettias can be glazed.
8. Since poinsettias should of course also have a nice glitter, you can coat them with a little UHU Glitter Glue. If you don't have something like that, just take normal glue, smear it on the stars and then pour some normal glitter over it.
9. Now you are almost at the end of the instructions: Wrap the silver thread unevenly around the for decoration Poinsettias and form a hanger with the end of the thread - you have a special hole in the stars for this beforehand drilled.

The creative poinsettia is ready!