FreeWW.com presents: Christmas Patterns and Shapes for Christmas Yard Art Christmas yard art can easily be fabricated by using simple Christmas shape patterns and plywood. Various Christmas shapes in basic colors with a few accessories added create distinctive outdoor accents for your yard. Christmas trees, presents, ornaments and stocking shapes work particularly well. Begin with a few patterns of basic Christmas shapes. We have some basic Christmas shapes below that you can print out. For presents, just use rectangles or squares. Transfer the shapes to plywood after enlarging them. Use a jigsaw to cut your shapes out of the plywood. Painting: Since you are using more than one shape to make a grouping, it's best to just use 2 or 3 colors for all the shapes. Red, green and gold look nice and show up well outside. Also gold, silver and white add an elegant touch to your shapes. Using your main color for each shape, paint both sides of the plywood. If you are using 4 shapes, paint 2 in red and 2 in green. After the base color is dry, you can add extras to your shapes, like adding ribbon to the presents and stripes to ornaments. Stakes: Whatever you use, paint them to match your shape. You can use dowel rod or steel rod (attach with conduit hangers) or wooden stakes. Use 2 of the stakes for each shape. Extras: Use 3" gold metal bells, stars and outdoor gold ribbon to accessorize your shapes. Bells can be strung on wire and added to the Christmas tree shape as garland. Put a star on top. Add ribbon to the presents and let the 3" gold, green or red bells hang down as bling for all your shapes. Add some outdoor holly to your ornaments. Visit a craft store and you will find lots of shape accessories that will withstand the weather.
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FreeWW.com presents:
Christmas Patterns and Shapes for Christmas Yard Art
Christmas yard art can easily be fabricated by using simple Christmas shape patterns and plywood.
Various Christmas shapes in basic colors with a few accessories added create distinctive outdoor
accents for your yard. Christmas trees, presents, ornaments and stocking shapes work particularly
well.
Begin with a few patterns of basic Christmas shapes. We have some basic Christmas shapes below
that you can print out. For presents, just use rectangles or squares. Transfer the shapes to plywood
after enlarging them. Use a jigsaw to cut your shapes out of the plywood.
Painting: Since you are using more than one shape to make a grouping, it's best to just use 2 or 3
colors for all the shapes. Red, green and gold look nice and show up well outside. Also gold, silver and
white add an elegant touch to your shapes.
Using your main color for each shape, paint both sides of the plywood. If you are using 4 shapes,
paint 2 in red and 2 in green.
After the base color is dry, you can add extras to your shapes, like adding ribbon to the presents and
stripes to ornaments.
Stakes: Whatever you use, paint them to match your shape. You can use dowel rod or steel rod
(attach with conduit hangers) or wooden stakes. Use 2 of the stakes for each shape.
Extras: Use 3" gold metal bells, stars and outdoor gold ribbon to accessorize your shapes. Bells can
be strung on wire and added to the Christmas tree shape as garland. Put a star on top.
Add ribbon to the presents and let the 3" gold, green or red bells hang down as bling for all your
shapes. Add some outdoor holly to your ornaments. Visit a craft store and you will find lots of shape
accessories that will withstand the weather.
If you want an angel to go with your nativity scene, here she is:
And the angel in a smaller size and a larger size:
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Don't put up the same BORING decorations that everyone else has...
Do something DIFFERENT this year!
Giant blow-up Santas (been there, done that), icicle lights (they don't really look like icicles - do they?) and -eeks- faded plastic toy soldiers (YUCK!)
Same stuff, different year.
Why not bring back the creative decorations and displays of yester-year?
These displays are EASY to make and fun to paint.
Plywood, paint and a jigsaw is pretty much all that is needed and a pencil to draw out the pattern !
Whether it's Santa and his reindeer charging across the top of your roof, or a fireplace on the front lawn, flanked by red-flamed candles, an outside decoration gives your home a special and UNIQUE holiday look.
Use these vintage Christmas display directions to make new, unique and eye-catching displays that will delight young and old alike.