This was a fun project to complete and the first time I made "pipe cleaner" trees. For the floor of the forest, I just taped together pieces of thin cardboard. I then used chicken wire to create some hills which were covered with paper dipped in a very thin wallpaper paste. I then painted it using varying shades of brown and green paint. Next I added some craft foliage. Finally, I added headstones, gargoyles, dragons, and other creepy things.
I made some rocks by balling up newspaper, covering them with pieces dipped in the wallpaper paste solution, and painting them.
To make these trees, I took the cardboard tube from a roll of paper towels and taped pipe cleaners randomly to it. Some I would begin at the bottom and others I would begin half way up or three-quarters way up. I then bent them at different angles. I then filled in the trunk using wadded up newspaper. When I say I filled it in, I mean on the outside between the pipe cleaners. The tube is hollow except for the top. Again, I just wadded up some newspaper and stuffed it in the top of the cardboard tube. I then covered everything with newspaper dipped in the wallpaper paste solution. It took some time to do this because I had to use really small, thin pieces to wrap the branches.
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