To sit around  the kitchen table to make decorations for the Christmas tree is a cosy way of making a pre-Christmas tradition of beeing together.

All you need is some glossy paper in different colours, pair of scissors and paper glue. And everybody can make somethink - plait baskets, glue easy baskets or make long, long chains. 

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1. Cut 2 cirkles

2. Fold on the middle 

3. Attach with glue inside the dotted line

4. Glue the handle

It's nice to decorate with a small sticker on each side.

It's not that difficult to plait paper baskets. Remember the paper should be folded ("brett") and that one have to spare som uncut space on the top. The pattern may be enlarged or decreased as wished. 

The picture shows the pattern folded in the bottom (brett) and is to be cut along the dotted line.

Look to that the handle is long enough - it shall hang on a branch.

Following the drawing it's not that difficult. The blue and yellow strips are supposed to be put inside and outsice each other - on both sides simultaneously.

It's easier to plait large baskets. With some exercise you may increase to 5 stripes and reduce the size. Tiny, tiny baskets are in itself a small work of Art.

Start plaiting as the numbers show.

And don't forget the real purpose of the baskets; some nuts or sweets inside - 

even if it is somehow just vanishing....................

Norwegian kids love making paper Christmas chains (sometimes to the despair of their parents......).

In the Norwegian paper "Namdalsavisa" I read that a lot of Children are trying to get into Guinness book of Records, trying to make the longest paper Christmas chain in the World! (approx. 1,93 miles)

I really wish them the best of Luck!!!

Foto: Bjørn Tore Ness, Namdalsavisa