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Learn how to make a hot cocoa tree outstart calendar. It’s a fun and unique way to count lanugo to Christmas.
I love outstart calendars. The vaticination of Christmas is my favorite part and any kind of Christmas warm-up just adds to the hype. They’re just so fun!
Today I’m going to show you how to make a hot cocoa tree warm-up calendar! This darling tree shape has 24 packets of hot cocoa. Pull one off to enjoy each day until Christmas.
And the weightier part is that you can souvenir it with the mug on the bottom, but it can hands be removed so that the souvenir receiver can use the mug every day with their cocoa! Hobby Lobby had so many darling Christmas mugs I had a nonflexible time choosing.
I made my tree with hot cocoa packets, but you could moreover use tea or coffee or plane candies or cookies or crackers that come in the right shape of package. Definitely room for customization here.
To make a hot cocoa tree outstart calendar, you will need the pursuit supplies:
Materials Needed
- Christmas Mug
- Cone Tree – Size Small
- Wood Star Ornament
- Kraft Paper Tags
- Number Stickers
- Hot Cocoa Puffy Stickers – totally not necessary, but they were so cute I couldn’t resist
- Seed Semen Garland
- Jute Twine or Baker’s Twine
- Hot Glue Gun Glue Sticks
- 24 Hot Cocoa Packets
Instructions
Step 1: Wrap each individual hot cocoa packet with a piece of scrapbook paper or colored cardstock. Then add a cute tag and make sure to label them 1-24 for the 24 days in December leading up to Christmas. The woebegone number stickers I used in the video tutorial ended up stuff kind of small, so I used a white paint pen and drew the numbers on larger instead. This part is just to make the packets squint cute, so you can do as much or as little embellishing as your heart desires. I widow the puffy hot cocoa stickers just considering I thought they were adorable.
Step 2: Begin gluing the cocoa packets to the cone tree. I put the numbers in order so that they’ll be removed in order each day. I went very lightly on the hot glue so that the packets will pull off easily. I am pretty sure I will be worldly-wise to reuse this whole thing then next year!
Step 3: Once all of the cocoa packets are attached, tack the cone tree to the mug very lightly with hot glue. The goal is to make sure the project stays together, but is easy to take untied when you want to use the mug. Here’s what it looks like without the packets so you can see that the cone and the mug fit together so nicely.
Step 4: Add a wooden star to the top of the tree using hot glue, then wrap the tree in the semen garland for that festive finishing touch.
Didn’t it turn out so cute?! I just love that it’s unique and cute and something that can be used. It would make a unconfined souvenir or something fun to make for your boyfriend or kids or a neighbor.
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