Things you will need:
Synthetic steel wool in green.
Scissors.
Pinking scissors. (Those wild looking scissors your wife has in her sewing kit, ZIG ZAG CUT)
Round toothpicks.
Ground foam in various shades of green and a touch of yellow.
White glue.
A piece of foam or clay. (Used to hold the tooth pick bushes upright while drying)
Catch tray. (A plastic box top lid works well)
A couple of small jars. (Baby food size)
A small airtight container holding a glue mixture of 1 part glue to 3 parts water.
Make sure you shake it well so it mixes properly, and set this aside for now.

Take the pinking scissors and cut the synthetic pad into narrow strips. Then with the regular scissors cut in between each zigzag pattern, this should leave you with a bunch of small 1/4” diamonds.

Next take some white glue and pour it into a jar lid, roll the toothpick into the glue covering approx. 1/8” and poke it into the diamonds point. Stick it into the foam or clay to dry,. After making around 80 of them, I let them sit and dry for a few minutes.

I mixed up the ground foam in a medium sized jar until I got the color I was after. Then I poured some into the catch tray and the glue water mixture into a baby jar lid. Take the dried toothpick bush and dip it half way into the mixture.

Turn the glue side up and let the excess drip into the dry half. (You don’t want this sopping wet, tap it off until it stops dripping.) Dip the bush into the ground foam making sure to coat all sides. Replace the bush in to the foam and let dry.

These took us less than 30 minutes to make 81, and they are so easy to make my four year old can do it.

You can cut the toothpick down to size and stick it in to your layout or remove the toothpick and use white glue to secure them.

Note: Don’t worry about cutting the bushes evenly or the same size, you don’t want them all looking the same or they won't look natural. Have fun.