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.
Description of Coloring Page: toys, tree, Christmas candle lights, dolls, boats, books, toy soldier, baubles, Santa delivers toys
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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.
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!
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.
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.
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!
This graphic comes from a very old catalogue that is about 100 years old. I've cleaned it up of course. I hope that those of you who have red, white and blue Christmas themes on your trees this year will enjoy including it with a few tinsel trims among the the branches of a dusty green pine.
There are many other countries around the world that also have red, white and blue colors to represent their flag. So this new category here at my Christmas blog may inspire their holiday projects during December as well.
More eye candy about an antique, patriotic Christmas:
Two suggestions for temporary pendent trims of a chandelier making alternative use of the shield graphics.
These vintage suggestions come from a vintage Dennison company catalogue.
A Vintage Canadian/British shield graphic.
"This is our Christmas Tribute to military men and military families.
Thanks for your sacrifices so we can have the freedoms we do."
These girls have lovely voices; check them out. Watch out for those
The completed baby owls stare out from their cozy candy
container. These are adorable on a woodland inspired
Christmas tree or a cotton batting themed Christmas tree.
This woodland inspired ornament craft includes both natural materials and traditional cotton batting applications. It is made from a hollow cardboard tube so that Santa's elves may insert small toys or candy inside of it on Christmas morning.
In order to complete this ornament with success, I am presuming that visitors here have been working with cotton batting for a while. If you are new to my blog and have never tried crafting with these materials I will include links to simpler cotton batting projects where I describe the techniques in greater detail within the text of the step-by-step directions.
Supply List:
cardboard tube
white school glue
masking tape
acrylic paints: yellow, white and black
tiny paint brush
cotton balls
dryer lint
wire for hanging
extra cardboard
one walnut, cut in half
black thread
scissors
Step-by-Step Directions:
This tube was not masked properly, but I have
included the picture for you to see how the
walnuts look when glued in place.
Select a cardboard tube and cut it to the size you prefer. Mask all of it's surfaces with tape.
Use the sharp end of your scissors to puncture two holes on opposite sides of each other at the top of your cardboard tube in order to thread a wire for hanging.
I covered a wire with cotton before looping it through these two holes at the top. (wrapping wire with cotton)
Use the sharp end of your scissors to poke two holes into the side of the tube where you will glue the walnut shells into place. These will become your baby owl's heads. Do not make the holes too big! When gluing in the walnut halves, you want a little resistance from the cardboard tube. These shells should be nestled into the tube with both glue and the firm application of dryer lint surrounding them. Saturate the dryer lint into place under the edges of the nut shells with glue and then let the tube dry over night. You need to make sure that your walnuts are set firmly into the tube before continuing with your process. The tube may take on a warped shape after drying but this will lend a natural appearance to the tree trunk idea.
Cut from extra cardboard a circular shape to fit and seal off the bottom
of the tube tree trunk. You can do this by setting the tube on top of a piece of cardboard and drawing around it's circumference with a pencil or pen. Cut the shape out and tape it firmly to the bottom of your tree trunk.
Now apply with white glue and your finger tip, the dryer lint to the opening of the trunk.
Unravel your cotton balls and glue down a first layer of faux, white bark to the remaining sections of the tree trunk.
This faux sheave of wheat is made by first covering the outside of a paper tube with wheat stalks before gluing on the choicest kernals onto it's surface. By doing this you will: stretch your budget and make the Chrismon lighter weight.
Note also that there is a difference between a sheave of wheat symbol and a singular wheat stalk Chrismon in symbolism. Although their meanings are related, these two symbols are not necessarily interchangeable. Many stalks bound together refers to a group of people.
Supply List:
hot glue gun and hot glue
preserved wheat stalks (pricey, I know)
cording to tie the stalk off
paper tube
masking tape
scissors
metallic spray paint (optional)
Step-by-step Directions:
First cut the length of a paper tube and shape it to the thickness you desire your sheave to have. Tape that shape in place.
Cover the tube entirely with masking tape.
Cut the straw parts of the wheat to cover the tube entirely using hot glue. It isn't necessary to measure these so much; they are easily cut even after applying them to the tube.
Select the nicest kernels and leaving these attached to an identical straw length to that of your "sheave" tube, proceed to hot glue these to the ornament every 1/4 of an inch around the outside of the tube.You will need far fewer of them to make your Chrismon sheave look full, had you simply bound a giant handful of wheat stalks. This way of making the ornament may be a bit fussy but it allows for the finished product to be considerably lighter weight.
Tie a rough looking cord around the sheave and trim.
Spray paint the Chrismon metallic gold to match the traditional color scheme of a Chrismon tree if you like. I actually prefer the natural gold color.
Left, the cording and preserved wheat stalks for my project. Center, paper towel tubing cut and
masked prior the hot gluing the straw on them. Right a finished Sheave of Wheat Chrismon unpainted.
A simple interpretation of the Open Bible Chrismon.
This contemporary Chrismon, an Open Bible is described at The Christian Clip Art Review. I used the traditional gold and white Chrismon colors to make this simple Open Bible Ornament.
Supply List:
corrugated cardboard
masking tape
hot glue gun and hot glue sticks
metallic gold spray paint
gold ribbon
white paper
stapler
printed paper that reads "Holy Bible" and verse from Luke 4:16
double stick tape
Directions:
Cut a cover for the Chrismon Bible ornament out of corrugated cardboard. Cover this in masking tape.
Trim off the masking tape.
Bend the book cover in half.
Spray paint this cover with gold metallic paint outdoors. Spray paint inside a cardboard box so that it may be tossed in the recycling bin after use.
Cut and staple several sheets of white paper that may be fitted between the covers of this Bible Chrismon ornament. Make sure that the printed pages are stapled at the inner-most fold.
Hot glue these stapled pages between the corrugated cardboard Bible cover after using double stick tape to position the pages open permanently.
Hot glue a long gold ribbon down the center of the pages seam. Make sure the ribbon looped at the top of the book is long enough for the Chrismon to hang easily from the tree.
Far left, cardboard book cover, masked. Next the cover trimmed. Center, paper pages lined up and stapled. Right, pages are taped open with double stick tape.
Karen Barber shares her Chrismon tree with the web.
Crafting snow houses was very popular during the Victorian era. Most antique snow houses are valued for hundreds of dollars; that is why I decided to make my own, of course.
This snow house began as little shed that was donated to a resale shop for charity. In it's original state it was quite unextraoridinary, dusty and unattractive. I purchased a wooden picket fence at a local hobby store for a few dollars and added a bottle brush tree and wreath. The snow baby was made by gluing a Sculpy face onto a popcycle stick and wrapping a simple gown of snow white cotton batting with white glue.
I have decided to decorate one of my Christmas trees with cotton batting homes and churches. This will be my summer project. Perhaps I will be able to complete enough of these little structures to turn the tree into an entire village? (We shall see, if time permits.)
To top off my tree, I recycled a small wooden music box. I payed $3.00 for this charming little church in a resale shop. Often I see discarded items such as this these and wonder how can I transform them into something more appealing? It's seems so wasteful to just toss something with that much detailing on it.
Although the music box was broken the church still had all of it's green, tinted glass windows intact; plus a very cute, little steeple. It's sturdy wooden form also made it a perfect object to cover with cotton batting. I would not need to reinforce it's walls to prevent the glue from warping the church structure and with the removal of the music box, there should be plenty of room for top tree branches to fit inside!
So I gave it a try and here is what it looks like now. I think it will make a fine tree topper!
I purchased a small broken music box at a resale shop. I thought it would need just a bit of sprucing up before topping off one of my Christmas trees with it. Left, this old music box was manufactured in China. Center I removed it's base so that it could be neatly snuggled inside the tree branches of a Christmas tree. Right, here you can see the old music box inside. I removed it to make room for branches.
Left, I prepared the cotton balls by unraveling them. Center, the surface of the church was quite clean, so I began to glue my first layer of cotton batting to it's surface walls. Originally I thought I might paint the roof, steeple, doors and windows. However, I changed my mind quickly as I worked; the little church began to look like gingerbread and I found this very appealing. Right, here you can see the church is almost finished; all it needs now it just a few added touches, a couple of bottle brush wreaths and a cross at the top of the steeple.
Here is the completed project, I'm very pleased with the results and I can't wait to nestle the little fauve gingerbread church at the top of my Christmas tree this year!
These Eight Christmas, retro gift tags are redrawn, colorized and made printable by Kathy Grimm. Enjoy crafting your own personal, retro thematic Christmas designs with three color options: black, green and red.
"All In the Family Gift Tags" by Kathy Grimm for Baby.
"All In the Family Gift Tags" by Kathy Grimm for Daughter.
"All In the Family Gift Tags" by Kathy Grimm for Grandpa.
"All In the Family Gift Tags" by Kathy Grimm for Brother.
"All In the Family Gift Tags" by Kathy Grimm for Sister.
"All In the Family Gift Tags" by Kathy Grimm for Mother.
"All In the Family Gift Tags" by Kathy Grimm for Son.
"All In the Family Gift Tags" by Kathy Grimm for Grandma.
