Easy Dove Christmas Card Craft

This pipe cleaner card is the perfect way to create contemporary Dove Christmas cards in a matter of minutes. Homemade Dove Christmas cards do not have to look country or traditional if you do not want them to.

You can use fun and fuzzy white pipe cleaners to make a contemporary Christmas tree to add to a homemade Christmas card. This contemporary homemade craft is fun, easy, and looks great!

If you do favor a traditional Christmas Dove design, then feel free to create any style of Christmas Dove you wish.

To Make a Pipe Cleaner Dove Christmas card you will need:

White pipe cleaners

Tacky glue or hot glue

Red or green card stock

To get started you need some green or red card stock. You can simply buy pre made card stock cards at the craft store or even cut out your own cards from sheets of card stock.

Now, you need to take a piece of paper and a pencil and trace your card on the paper. In this rectangle or square you want to create a line drawing of a Dove.

If you have a dove cookie cutter, then trace it on the paper. Now, use this as a guide to draw the dove in one continual line.

Drawing this line first will really help shaping your Dove on the homemade card much easier. Drawing this simple line drawing of the Christmas Dove is a also a great way to create a pattern if you need to make a ton of homemade Christmas cards to fill your card list this year.

Now, take the white pipe cleaner and start folding it to match the line drawing you made of a tree.

Put the end of the pipe cleaner at the start of the line and start bending and matching.

Now, once the body of the white pipe cleaner Dove is in shape you need to add some glue to the back of it.

I used tacky glue here, but hot glue would also work well.

Run a bead of glue on the back of the pipe cleaner tree. Now, press the Christmas Dove into the front of the card. Use an old book to weigh the pipe cleaner Christmas Dove craft down on the paper and hold it in place while it dries.

Once the Christmas Dove has dried to the front of the card you use green paint to paint on a holly leaf and berries hanging from its mouth. This is optional, but a great way to add color.