You will need: 
Hot glue gun or Thin wire
Colored Paper
Glitter and glue (optional)
Little items to go with the Holiday your are making it for like holly for Christmas and little bells.  Orange leaves for Halloween, Easter you could use some tiny plastic easter eggs 

Instructions
A.  Cut your colored paper in 1 inch strips.  Form each strip into a circle and staple it, do the next strip and hook it inside the strip you had done, repeat.

B.  Decorate your garland chain with some thin spots of glue and sprinkle glitter on the glue before it dries.  You can also hang things on the chain as long as they are light weight, like tinsel, little bells, holly, leaves and more.

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