Christmas became popular in America in the early 19th century.Today Christmas is a time for family and friends and gaiety.The central part of Christmas is the Christmas tree, whether artificial or real, it is there in every household.If you are lucky, you may have the real one.If not, you get all varieties and shapes in the market.Alternatively, you can make one on your own.You need some Styrofoam, pinecones, berries, other decorative items and glue.Take a big or small piece of Styrofoam and cut into the shape of a Christmas tree.Glue on the pinecones from down up with the bigger cones at the bottom layers and getting smaller as you go up.Now add some tinsel papers, colored, glistening papers and the red berries.Cover the bare spaces with green paper rather than painting them, as the Styrofoam usually absorbs paints.Soon you have a perfect Christmas tree ready to have the tinsel balls and stocking s to hang up.The pine has a story of its own.When Herod's soldiers were pursuing the Holy family, an old pine tree sheltered and protected the family.Baby Jesus blessed the tree when leaving and the imprint of his little hand is there to see when a pinecone is slit lengthwise!Instead of throwing away old Christmas cards, you can make ornaments, baskets, angels and even placemats from them.The old cards can turn into new ones with a little ingenuity.To make some new cards, collect the old ones and segregate them according to their themes, e.G.Cards with snow on one side, Santa cards on one side, and traditional ones on one side and so on.Cut out the images from the old cards, collage, and make your own theme for every new card.Make your base cards from white or colored card paper, by cutting them in card size.Now paste the images as per your design and make new ones, with your own handwritten messages! Similarly, by cutting, pasting and attaching, you can come up with lovely items of decorations for the whole house if you have ample old cards.Hang a homemade wreath on the front door to make it special and unique.A pinecone wreath with berries is easy and takes little time to assemble.For this, you need a wreath bought from the market to which you wire the cones and then wire groups of clustered berries in-between.Now wire a colored ribbon in the centre bottom of the wreath.This way you can make as many wreaths as you desire and hang in all the doors.You can make holiday glitter wall hangings from fabric cut panel, cardboard cut to shape and tulip glitter gold.Put the panel on the cardboard, outline with glitter glue.Hang it up when the glitter dries.Ginger bread man comes to shape from sand paper - cut out two shapes of ginger man from the sandpaper and then glue them together with rough sides out.Rub some cinnamon stick on the rough sides for the sweet smell.Draw the face and other features and sprinkle some small candies or scrap paper to give a "frosty" look.Hang a wreath on all doors, inside and out, all windows, over the mantle, giving the whole house a grand holiday look.Personalize each stocking by writing each one's name with a silver or gold glitter pen.Decorate your home with poinsettias, Christmas rose and mistletoe, which are all traditional flowers.These bring in the purity and spirit of Christmas, thus enhancing the whole atmosphere.To add to the mood of Christmas, you could choose a corner of the house to make a mini "nativity scene".That would be unique!
Saturday, September 15, 2012
Christmas Decorations Made At Home
Christmas became popular in America in the early 19th century.Today Christmas is a time for family and friends and gaiety.The central part of Christmas is the Christmas tree, whether artificial or real, it is there in every household.If you are lucky, you may have the real one.If not, you get all varieties and shapes in the market.Alternatively, you can make one on your own.You need some Styrofoam, pinecones, berries, other decorative items and glue.Take a big or small piece of Styrofoam and cut into the shape of a Christmas tree.Glue on the pinecones from down up with the bigger cones at the bottom layers and getting smaller as you go up.Now add some tinsel papers, colored, glistening papers and the red berries.Cover the bare spaces with green paper rather than painting them, as the Styrofoam usually absorbs paints.Soon you have a perfect Christmas tree ready to have the tinsel balls and stocking s to hang up.The pine has a story of its own.When Herod's soldiers were pursuing the Holy family, an old pine tree sheltered and protected the family.Baby Jesus blessed the tree when leaving and the imprint of his little hand is there to see when a pinecone is slit lengthwise!Instead of throwing away old Christmas cards, you can make ornaments, baskets, angels and even placemats from them.The old cards can turn into new ones with a little ingenuity.To make some new cards, collect the old ones and segregate them according to their themes, e.G.Cards with snow on one side, Santa cards on one side, and traditional ones on one side and so on.Cut out the images from the old cards, collage, and make your own theme for every new card.Make your base cards from white or colored card paper, by cutting them in card size.Now paste the images as per your design and make new ones, with your own handwritten messages! Similarly, by cutting, pasting and attaching, you can come up with lovely items of decorations for the whole house if you have ample old cards.Hang a homemade wreath on the front door to make it special and unique.A pinecone wreath with berries is easy and takes little time to assemble.For this, you need a wreath bought from the market to which you wire the cones and then wire groups of clustered berries in-between.Now wire a colored ribbon in the centre bottom of the wreath.This way you can make as many wreaths as you desire and hang in all the doors.You can make holiday glitter wall hangings from fabric cut panel, cardboard cut to shape and tulip glitter gold.Put the panel on the cardboard, outline with glitter glue.Hang it up when the glitter dries.Ginger bread man comes to shape from sand paper - cut out two shapes of ginger man from the sandpaper and then glue them together with rough sides out.Rub some cinnamon stick on the rough sides for the sweet smell.Draw the face and other features and sprinkle some small candies or scrap paper to give a "frosty" look.Hang a wreath on all doors, inside and out, all windows, over the mantle, giving the whole house a grand holiday look.Personalize each stocking by writing each one's name with a silver or gold glitter pen.Decorate your home with poinsettias, Christmas rose and mistletoe, which are all traditional flowers.These bring in the purity and spirit of Christmas, thus enhancing the whole atmosphere.To add to the mood of Christmas, you could choose a corner of the house to make a mini "nativity scene".That would be unique!
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