The finished painted morels rest on a mossy bed
just outside my kitchen door.
Grandpa took a trip to Kentucky this last weekend. He visited the Shaker Village, The Kentucky Folk Art Center , Noah's ark, The Creation Museum, and quaint restaurants etc... He brought back these three hand-carved, wooden mushrooms for me to paint. He wanted them to be painted as morels and to display them under a Christmas tree, of course!
Supply List:
tiny soft paint brush
acrylic paints: burnt umber, a redish tan, and creamy white
wood varnish
eye hooks (if you plan to hang them on a tree)
a soft sponge or soft rag
Step-by-Step Instructions:
Make sure your mushroom blanks are clean, free of dust and dirt.
Select the burnt umber acrylic to paint the deeper pits and ridges of the morel cap. Load the small brush with paint at the tip only and randomly place the ridges over the entire surface of the cap only. Let the caps dry.
Layer random washes of a reddish tan water color over the surface. Let dry
Paint the bottoms of the stems burnt umber.
Paint the underside of the caps burnt umber.
Water down the creamy white acrylic and brush this over the surface of the wooden morels. Rub some of the paint off quickly with a soft sponge or soft rag. Let the morels dry.
Brush the surface with a thin coat of wood varnish and let the wooden fungi dry overnight.
Screw in the eye hooks to hang these natural looking ornaments on the tree or leave them without hooks and put them in a woodland display underneath your Christmas tree.
Description of Coloring Page:wooden blocks for play, wooden wagon for storing blocks
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Can you draw a stocking? It's easy to try; just follow the simple steps below and fill it with the toys you would like for Santa to bring to you!
Left, "Now Tommy was'nt very tall; in fact he was quite short and small." Center, "But he hung up his biggest sock, in hopes that Santa Claus might stop." Right, "And fill it up with presents fine, so Tom could have a jolly time."
Description of Coloring Page: pretend horse, large enough to ride, safe enough to tumble from, stuffed pony, child sized saddle
The following illustrated Christmas toys may be duplicated larger,
smaller, or the same size by the use of a grid drawing system. Read about Enlarging and Reducing Pictures Here. After
learning this method you can use these pictures as patterns for
ornaments, artwork or for making a picture with them. Illustrations
include: a child hanging up her stocking, a pine tree, Santa climbing down the chimney, a sled and a small girl rolling a giant snowball.
Learn to draw using a grid system.
Description of Coloring Page: reindeer in barn, Santa's visit, sleigh bells, antlers, boy greets old friends, barn stall
Young Tommy says, "What's this I see?
Santa's reindeer so close to me!"
He has another surprise in store,
For Santa himself is at the door!
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Description of Coloring Page: St. Nickolas, snow, wind, holly frame
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Once you have colored Santa and the holly wreath for fun, why not try drawing a wreath all by yourself?
Left, "A circle is an artist's friend, you lat it on the desk and then." Center, "You draw another one inside, some ribbon lines that flare out wide," Right, "Some holly leaves with edges fine, and here's a wreath for Christmas time!"
Description of Coloring Page: St. Nickolas, armful of dolls, stuffed animals, sailor boy, bunny, monkey, china dolls too
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The foundation for this doll is a lollipop. The head may be traced on a piece of cardboard and painted with acrylics. Miss Lollipop's cap is white crepe paper gathered with a thread and needle. The back view shows the adjustment. The head is pasted to a piece of white around the upper edge to xx, leaving room for the top of the lollipop. Paste and use needle and thread to fasten on clothes. Follow this order in dressing: cap, underskirt, over-skirt, cape, tie. The cap edge should have a frill. All is white except the violet over-skirt and tie. For a Christmas doll replace the over-skirt and tie with red or green colors.
Steps for lollipop doll illustrated.
Paper cut silhouette pattern of a Belsnickle and two reindeer.
Description of Coloring Page: Victorian child cradles her Christmas doll, old-fashioned costume
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Now you many try to draw a doll of your very own. All it takes is paper, a pencil and your favorite crayons for coloring the doll in.
Left, "A circle and an oval, too, will do so many things for you." Center, "This time we put in face and hair, add legs and arms on her and there." Right, "A sweet rag doll with a happy smile is ready now for some small child."
Description of Coloring Page: portrait of St. Nickolas, toy piano, doll, wicker cradle, smiling twins, holly
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Christmas Eve by Christopher Moreley
Our hearts to-night are open wide, The grudge, the grief are laid aside; The path and porch are swept of snow, The doors unlatched; the hearthstones glow- No visitor can be denied.
All tender human homes must hide Some wistfulness beneath their pride; Compassionate and humble grow Our hearts to-night.
Below is a word scramble of Santa's 5 Favorite Christmas Tunes.
Can you unscramble the letters and fill in the correct words for the blanks provided?
Look up favorite children's Christmas songs on the web to figure out this puzzle quickly!
Description of Coloring Page: portrait of St. Nickolas, boy and girl, smiles, wishes, tassel, fur trimmed hat
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Try cutting a paper Christmas Bell chain or border using the template below. Then hang it on the tree, window or anywhere about the house that needs a bit of Christmas cheer.
Download and print out the pattern below. The dotted lines indicate
where the image will be folded to continue the tree silhouette
seamlessly after it is unfolded. The number of images "linked" together
in one continuous chain is determined by the length of the paper being
cut. Use a very thin paper to make your cutting easier. Cut away the
areas indicated by the design. (see image above and read text on the
pattern below. This paper-cut may be used as a border around a Christmas
bulletin board in a classroom or as a paper chain for the Christmas
tree if you like.
The twins think Santa is the best! They sit on old Santa's lap and tell him just what they want for Christmas.
Description of Coloring Page: Santa, the twins, gloves, beard, fur trimmed hat, holly
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Can you draw Santa Claus? Remember to draw his snow white beard.
Left, "By the North Pole, mid snow and ice, there lives a man who's always nice." Center, "He spends his time, as you will see, just making things for you and me." Right, "I know you'll like him, just because this jolly man is Santa Claus."
Below is a mask that you can wear and pretend to be Santa with. Color it as you wish, cut it out, fold on the dotted lines near the ears and string a piece of elastic through the holes to keep it attached to your face. On this mask, Santa wears a red felt cap with holly and he smokes an old corn-cob pipe. The original drawing is older than 100 years!
Click directly on the mask to download the largest available size.
Description of Coloring Page: portrait of St. Nickolas, holly berries and leaves, text "A Merry Christmas To All" big beard
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Did you know that holly grows in practically every country in the world, as there are more than one hundred and fifty varieties, so that some flourish in every climate. The custom of using holly at the winter festival is of great antiquity and is believed to have come from the ancient pagan festivals. It was used at Christmas by the early Christians. According to tradition holly is the bush in which Jehovah appeared to Moses.
"There the angel of the LORD appeared to him in flames of fire from within a burning bush. Moses saw that though the bush was on fire it did not burn up." Exodus 3:2
To see what Santa sees, take a pencil and, starting at dot one, draw a continuous line from dot to dot in consecutive order. Where two numbers appear beside one dot, use the dot twice.
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Merry Christmas
M is for mistletoe. If you get caught, you know! E is for evergreen. Prettiest tree ever seen. R is for reindeer that draw Santa's sleigh. R is for ringing the bells Christmas Day. Y is for Yule log that makes a bright fire.
C is for Christmas, a day we enjoy. H is for "Hurrah!" when I get my new toy. R is for "Rejoice." Let our songs reach the sky. I is for incense wafted on high. S is for Santa Claus full of good will. T is for "toe" of the stockings he'll fill. M is for music to gladden the heart. A is for angels that watch from above. S is for "star" whose beauty we love.
What if your Teddy bear was Santa Claus? How would you draw him on the roof top with a big bag of toys? Well, you can draw that with just a few shapes and a sharpened pencil. Then color him in and hang the picture over your bed so you can think of a story to go along with the idea...
A step-by-step drawing of Teddy going down the chimney!
Description of Coloring Page: chimney, snow, rooftop, bricks, bag of toys, Santa, St. Nick, attic window, bells
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Did you know that the popular notion that Santa comes down the chimney personally originated in Germany. It was formerly the custom to have someone impersonate Santa Claus and distribute gifts to children in person. Gradually this custom died out, and the presents were left for them, generally at the hearthstone. As the giver was no longer seen by the children some explanation was necessary, and the youngest children were told that Santa Claus came directly down the chimney, left their presents, and then departed in the same way. Undoubtedly the poem, "Twas the Night Before Christmas," published in the United States in the early days of the nineteenth century, spread the explanation enormously throughout English speaking countries.
These vintage Christmas bell, gift tags come in blue, green, gold and
red. I have cleaned, redrawn and restored these designs for visitors to use personal
crafts only please.
Nobody will deny that a Christmas tree has plenty of backbone, but somehow it doesn't seem to have intelligence enough to use it. Or else it resents the taking away of its roots and the substitution of a shop-made standard that it considers inadequate. As a matter of fact the standards that you can buy in the shops are inadequate for a tree of any size. And so, if the boy of the family is handy with tools, it is up to him to make one.
A very good standard for a Christmas tree - strong, durable, and ornamental as well - may be made from a strip of one-by-two-inch-dressed" lumber 12 ft. long (which costs about a cent and a half a foot), and some pieces of an old dry goods box.
First, saw off from your one-by-two-inch strip four pieces twelve inches long and four pieces eleven inches. These are to make Figs, i, 2, and 4. Make four pieces like Fig. i and two pieces like Fig. 2 ; the notch at the end is cut with a saw across the grain, and then saw out with a chisel.
When these are done, join two of the twelve-inch pieces and two of the eleven inch to form a square frame. The joint is shown in Fig. 3, and it should be glued or nailed, or both, which is safer.
Next make the other two eleven-inch pieces like Fig. 4. These are just like Fig. 2 except that a groove four inches wide and one inch deep is cut in the middle of each. Then they are joined with the other twelve-inch pieces to form a frame similar to the first. The first frame is to go at the bottom of the standard, and the second frame, placed with the grooves tip, is for the top.
Now cut from the remainder of the strip two more pieces twelve inches long. With a compass set at an inch-and-a-half radius, and the center in the exact middle of one edge, draw a half circle on each, and chip it out with a chisel like Fig. 5. The use of these will be described later.
The remainder of the strip will make four pieces eighteen inches long, with a bit left over. These are to stand on their two-inch faces, and the upper edges of each end should be rounded off with a ''block'' plane. Then two grooves are cut in each piece, two of the pieces having the grooves on the upper side and two on the under side, like Figs. 6 and 7.
Now cut from your packing box sixteen strips or pickets one and three-quarters inches wide and fourteen inches long, like Fig. 8. These may be "ripped out" with a saw and smoothed up with a plane and sandpaper.
To "assemble" the standard join
first the two Fig. 6 strips and two Fig. 7. This leaves a hole two
inches square in the center and two strips projecting from each of the
four sides. Place the first square frame that you made on this, so that
its sides will be equally distant from the center, and nail in position.
Next nail the pickets in position so that the lower end of the pickets
will be "flush" with the lower side of the frame. Next, hold the upper
frame, with the grooves up, in position, eight inches above the lower
frame and nail the pickets to that. Fig. 9 shows the complete assembly.
Now give the frame, and the two pieces like Fig. 5 a coat of dark green
paint, and the standard is ready for use. Slip the tree into the square
hole in the base. If the trunk is a bit too large, whittle it to fit.
Then place the two pieces like Fig. 5 around the trunk at the top of the
frame for a clamp, and slip them into the grooves in the upper frame,
and you will find your tree quite ready to stand up and behave.
The finished picket tree stand.
Build a Christmas Tree Stand Box by Gray House Studio.
