Color Santa Under The Christmas Tree

 

Description of Coloring Page: toys, tree, Christmas candle lights, dolls, boats, books, toy soldier, baubles, Santa delivers toys

• Here you can color Santa's bag of toys too!
  

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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!

Color St. Nick as he climbs 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.

Christmas Bell Tags in Four Colors

       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.

DIY an Old-Fashioned, Picket Tree Stand

       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.

Free Plans for A Tudor Doll House

Photos of Tudor architecture in England.

 

      The Tudor architectural style is the final development of Medieval architecture in England, during the Tudor period (1485–1603) and even beyond, and also the tentative introduction of Renaissance architecture to England. It is generally not used to refer to the whole period of the Tudor dynasty (1485-1603), but in prestige buildings to the period roughly between 1500 and 1560. It followed the Late Gothic Perpendicular style and was superseded by Elizabethan architecture from about 1560 in domestic building of any pretensions to fashion. In the much more slow-moving styles of vernacular architecture "Tudor" has become a designation for styles like half-timbering that characterize the few buildings surviving from before 1485 and others from the Stuart period. In this form the Tudor style long retained its hold on English taste. Nevertheless, 'Tudor style' is an awkward style-designation, with its implied suggestions of continuity through the period of the Tudor dynasty and the misleading impression that there was a style break at the accession of Stuart James I in 1603. Read more...

       Included below are three elevation drawings for building a Tudor doll's house. Also included is an amazing video of Gerry Welch's doll house below. Wow! He's quite talented.

 

Front and side elevation drawings of the doll's house with measurements.

Front and side elevations including the placement of the timber.

A elevation drawing showing the front of the doll's house swinging open.

"Building a 12th scale Tudor dolls house. A true timber framed dolls house . The plan I am using was found in a old Dolls House and Miniature Scene magazine from about 2009. The plan is by Gerry Welch of Manorcraft who builds wonderful dolls houses for adult collectors. This is my first attempt at building a dolls house." Fantastic Job!

• See my vintage Tudor dollhouse from the 1938?
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DIY Jacob's Ladder Toy for Christmas

       This is a very old and ingenious puzzle and an amusing toy. It is very simply made. A number of blocks of wood must be cut, 4"x 2 1/2" x 3/8". Any number may be used, but not less than seven - twelve for the most traditional type.

       Round the edges of the blocks and make them smooth with sand-paper, as in Fig 488. if the toy is to be given to a toddler. Cut strips of tape about 1/4" wide and long enough to go over the rounded ends of the blocks, a, b b, etc., in Fig. 488. There are three tapes to each block. Nail and glue tape a to the center of upper end of block A; it is then brought over and downward under the middle of the lower end of block B and fastened.

       Tapes b b are now fastened to the opposite end of A about 1/4" from the end on either side, and are then brought round the opposite end of B, as shown in the diagram. The center tape c is fastened to B and then brought down underneath to the center of the opposite end of C. The tapes must be arranged like this throughout the whole set of blocks. 

       Fig. 489. shows how the blocks are held when they are all complete. Top block A must be turned so as to bring the second block to the same level. The top of this block then falls, and it appears to pass rapidly down first on one side and then on the other, until it reaches the bottom. This is only what seems to happen. What really happens is that the second block becomes reversed and falls back again, in its former position. This makes it come level with the third block, which at once falls over on the fourth, and so on to the end of the ladder. A very illusive effect is thus produced. The blocks might be colored with some bright enamel paint, contrasting colors on opposite sides.

Jacob's Ladder Toys from Victorian Era

More Jacob's Ladder Toys:

• How to make a Jacob's Ladder toy with hand tools 
• Jacob's Ladder made from cardstock 
• Tricks to do with Jacob's Ladder toys

An Uncle Sam Jumping-Jack for Your Patriotic Tree

This Uncle Sam paper doll was designed
by George Piper in 1920.

   I've restored this 1920 Uncle Sam Jumping-Jack by George Piper for your all American, patriotic Christmas tree. You will need some tiny brass brads, scissors and string to assemble him after you have printed out this paper doll.

   Once he is assembled, use a hot glue gun to adhere a tiny bottle brush wreath or tree between his hands. 

   If you want your Christmas scrap to look "older" simply print it out onto yellowish-tan or beige paper.

More of Uncle Sam for Christmas Decorating:

• Uncle Sam Cookies from Melissa Joy
• Commemorative Christmas ornaments from The White House
• Lia Griffith shows how to make red, white, and blue paper stars that would look lovely on a patriotic Christmas tree
• DIY red, white and blue pinwheel rosettes for your tree and table displays
• Patriotic Prairie Point Star Ornaments
• DIY patriotic paper wreath

      Did you know that there are 38 total other countries that have red, white and blue colors in their national flags? Patriotic Christmas trees aren't only for Americans; countries like: Australia, Cuba, France, Haiti, Norway, Russia, Taiwan, and even the United Kingdom all have the red, white and blue as their very own national colors!