Santa Toasts the Christmas Holiday

text, "Here's to you and a Merry Christmas."

Description of Postcards: Jolly Old St. Nicholas, toasting with Christmas punch, mulled wine or egg nog take your pick, Santa's beard, red suit, restored antique postcards for Christmas Greetings and crafts, holly berries and leaves

           

text, "A Merry Christmas, Cast dull care away, For here's to Xmas day. Join the festive bowl,
And be a jolly soul."

Vintage Christmas Carolers Clip Art

 

Children gather at the family piano to sing with their mother.

A couple sings carols from sheet music.

A musician and a servant carrying a boar's head celebrate Christmas.

Victorian carolers perform and sing in the street.

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More Christmas Carol Clip Art:

• The Boy's Choir and The Victorian Boy's Choir and Christmas Greetings from The Choir postcard
• Angelic Announcement "Christmas Carols"
• "Joy To The World!"

Quick and Easy Christmas Placecards

Step-by-step process for place-cards.

        A Christmas Place-Card: At Christmas dinner we like to have a card at each guests chair. The drawing, just right, shows step-by-step how to make a card that will hold a candle or perhaps a small sprig of holly.

1. Take a piece of heavy white paper that is six inches long and two inches wide. 
2. Fold it in the middle, like Figure 2.
3. Cut two slits in the fold, near the middle like figure 3.
4. The part you have cut makes a holder for a Christmas candle or holly sprig. Make a card for everyone at the holiday dinner table this year.
   

More Easy Christmas Place-Cards: 

• Mini tree stump Christmas place card holders
• Top 10 Creative DIY Christmas Place Cards

Christmas Spirit

by Adelaide Burnett, Age 15

The day had pulled its curtain and lit its multitudes of light.

Flakes of snow fell through the endless sea of night.

The world and all its cares were packed away,

To wait the herald sun's announcing of the coming day.

The fingers of the branches reached into the gelidity of air,

And formed a lacy network against the heavens everywhere.

God, seated on His celestial throne above,

Sent down to the world below rays of joy and love.

The Holy Spirit of Christmas settled over all the land,

And soon the nations everywhere would join hand in hand,

To sing, praise, and worship as with one great accord,

On the birthday of our Savior, Jesus Christ our Lord.

How to make double star ornaments for the tree, table or to hang in the window or on a garland...

1. Make two stars from heavy paper or cardboard.
2. Cut slits as shown in figures 1. and 2. above.
3. Insert one star into the other as shown in figures 3. and 4. above
4. Use a spray adhesive to make the surfaces tacky for glitter if you wish.

From All These Signs

"Boys should be good in summer, and better in the fall,
but along about December they should be best of all."
 Alice Crowell Hoffman.

From All These Signs by Blanche Elizabeth Wade

A Holly wreath; a Santa Claus;
A spray of mistletoe;
A candy cane; a rope of grease;
Some stockings in a row;
A chime of bells from tall church-tower;
A carol sung with glee;
Sharp, frosty air; a glowing log;
A stately hemlock-tree;

Bright tinsel gleam; soft candle-light;
A great star in the sky;
The sound of sleigh-bells in the air;
A hint of reindeers nigh;
A parcel tied with gay, red blow;
A secret, too, to hide-
From all these signs, why any one
Would know 'twas Christmas-tide! 

10 Free Woodcut Patterns for Tree Ornaments

       Christmas tree decorations that you can make yourself! The children will delight in watching you make these clever Christmas tree ornaments in so many different designs, that certainly will add beauty and individuality to the tree. Any light board, even cardboard may be used. Paint or decorate in bright appropriate colors. Enamel paints arc best to use, however acrylic paints work just as well when a coat of acrylic sealer is applied afterwards to assure durable beauty. Use a small brush.

       If you wish to enlarge the patterns or reduce them simply draw the same outlines on paper that has been ruled off in larger or smaller evenly spaced squares. Paint edges and both sides of ornaments in main color, then trace or draw in details; paint in color of your choice or use the following color suggestions.
       Each design is worked out carefully and is sealed 1/4" inch for each block. Draw your own pattern on wrapping paper by squaring off as large an area as required for design, then draw in the pattern outlines as shown for all designs and cut each out. Lay the paper on thin plywood or the material you arc using and trace around. Cut out design with jig, coping or keyhole saw.
       For hanging on tree, place a small screw eye in the edge of ornament near the top; pull a short length of colored string or tinsel through for fastening to tree.

Painting Suggestions:

• Horse— Make any desired color with markings in a contrasting color; mane and tail to correspond with color of horse; hoofs black; make the rocker black; saddle and bridle a light brown.
• Bell—Make red with black or gray clapper and yellow strip, make ribbons any desired color; all high lights should be white.
• Bear—Body and feet should he black or brown; red tongue and black nose and eyes; trousers could be any bright color in a check or plaid; derby and suspenders in matching color.
• Poinsetia—Paint red with black markings; make center yellow and green.
• Lantern—Red candle with a yellowish red flame; frame of lantern silver or gray and details in black; holder green; outlines in black.
• Lamb—White body, black feet, nose and eyes; pink or blue ribbon at neck; yellow or gold bell.
• Angel—Dress could be pink or blue, stripe white; wing white; details and folds black or dulled shade of color; hair brown or yellow; eyes blue, green, or brown; mouth red; cheeks pink; face and hands flesh color; holly should be natural with red berries and green leaves.
• Santa Claus Face—Face flesh with blue eyes, bright red mouth and nose; cheeks a light red; outline details in black; make cap red with white tassel; paint the four spots for ermine around cap black.
• Dog—Make body brown, tan or gray; red tongue; black nose; eyes green, brown or black; plaid ears to harmonize with the color of the dog.
• Candy Cane—Make white with red stripes.

Color this toy street peddler from 100 years ago...

Description of Coloring Page: selling old-fashioned toys, street peddler, clowns, balls, toy trains, sleigh bells, under the columns, an Old English Christmas

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It's up to you to connect the dots and see what the monkey saw at the Christmas fair!

Monkey has a friend he met at the Christmas fair.

A coloring page of Dear Old Santa Claus

Description of Coloring Page: Santa with a halo, baskets of toys, reindeer waiting patiently, old-fashioned St. Nick, beard, fur coat, black boots

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 Kriss.

Jolly old Kriss, what a fellow you are!
Riding all over the world in the air,
Sliding down chimneys thru ashes and smoke,
Fur-covered Kriss, you're a regular joke!

How do you manage to carry such loads?
How do you manage to keep the right roads?
How do you know all the good girls and boys?
Why don't we wake with your clattering noise?

 

       A colorful Christmas scene may be made to appear amongst this tangle of lines, by using crayons or colored pencils and filling in each area in accordance with this key. B means blue, BK black, Y yellow, O, orange; R is red; V is violet; G is green; P is for pink.