What decorations could I make with a couple of hundred strips of different coloured paper a metre long?

[StarlightMcKenzie]

That's it really.

Any ideas?

Lots and lots and lots of paper chains .

Or you could papier mache (sp?) some things. I think papier mache is what I'm on about. Where you tear strips of paper up and layer it on with pva glue. It dries hard and shiney. You could make baubles for the tree (inflate a balloon a little bit, cover it in paer and glue and when dry pop the balloon with a pin).

Or buy blanks from a craft shop and cover them.

Did I mention paper chains?

There's a way of folding.strips of paper I.to.five-pointed stars. Don't know what.it is, but I'm sure it'll be on the net somewhere!

Oooh - I'll try and find it. The strips aren't actually that long by themselves. My ds has cut up lots of pages of A4 and then joined them together with glue, staples or selotape depending on his mood.

Silly question - can I ask why he did that?

Dunno. All the strips are covered in numbers. He has autism. I was collecting some of them up to put them in the bin (he's currently making about 10 a day) and then stopped and thought 'you know what.........'.

Paper stars here I have made these with my God daughter and they are lovely .

lol starlight -sorry just realised I had actually misread that and thought it was your DH that had made them. I think they'll make lovely stars if he'll let you use them!

The paper ornaments from this page, you'll have to scroll down a bit to find them. They are number '5'

Adorable paper hearts here

Your DS sounds brilliant. My (non autistic) DB used to do things like this. He would know if you'd moved or removed anything though and would be most displeased!

Make these: www.craftideas.info/html/german_star_instructions.html