"All Merry and Bright" chalkboard paint design wired into a grapevine wreath.
My firstborn loves to fashion wreaths during the holidays. She assembled this one using a chalkboard painted logo on a bauble shaped, galvanized steal sign. After wiring the sign to the inside of a grapevine wreath, she wrapped wire around pine branches and faux berry picks, just at the top of the wreath only. Then she hot glued pine cones between the branches for a bit more texture. This wreath hangs cheerfully on my pumpkin colored front door!
Here are photos of my Welsh cupboard decorated for a crowd of family members coming for egg nog and gingerbread. I made the gingerbread earlier in the day so that little ones can decorate these quickly before their movie night begins. The egg nog will be prepared just before serving it to our older guests. The kids prefer milk with their cookies.
Left, fill up a glass container with vintage blown glass ornaments; it's an easy way to decorate! Right, a retro glass egg nog service set; it has adorable old-fashioned ladies and gents dashing through the snow to Grandma's house!
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Left, a retro glass cookie jar with vintage graphics. Right, paper chains mimic white icing and gingerbread, plus vintage peppermint candy picks.
Left, vintage Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer gummies for fun. Right, vintage glass containers for sugar, cinnamon and spice.
Left, a vintage looking candy cane sign, real retro milk bottles and candy canes decorate the second shelf of my Welsh cupboard. Right, apothecary jars stuffed with spice gumdrops, chocolate candies wrapped in tin foils, peppermint pillows and marshmallows.
A cardboard display of a gingerbread house, tree and boy are behind the cutting board set up for decorating gingerbread cookies.
Premixed white icing, sprinkles and gum drops are prepared in advance to make cookie decorating easy for the youngest guests at our house this year.
Wooden flat of a poinsettia, coated with black chalkboard paint and then chalkboard pencils used to add details.
These rustic ornaments remind me of grade school days. Yes, I'm old enough to remember when chalkboards, which were green then, were still being used inside of classrooms! However, I'm not so old that the kids were using individual slates to copy sentences from a chalkboard. We copied our assignments using pencils and paper, wise guy...
Supply List:
black chalkboard spray paint
chalkboard markers or pencils in white and Christmas colors
Treat the wooden ornaments with black chalkboard paint. I think that spray paint gives the smoothest coat but you may have some of this paint already in a can and wish to use it instead.
After the paint has dried completely, draw on the designs using a white outline from a chalk pencil.
Then add a few color accents using red, pink, yellow or green chalk pencils or pens if you prefer.
Spray the finished versions with acrylic sealer to keep the chalk drawings from smearing or fading.
Left, a Christmas bell painted to look like a chalkboard. Right, a rocking horse painted with chalkboard pencils too.
Left, old Santa with hat and Right, a traditional candy cane both painted with chalkboard paint and then decorated using chalk pencils.
See Andrea Chebeleu paint chalkboard wood slice ornaments.
