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I am looking forward to Christmas and all the
colourful lights and decorations. I have some
things here to help you make pictures and Christmas cards. You can then
spend your money on presents instead. Everyone likes a special hand-made
card and they will not want to throw it away afterwards.
Make sure you have a right size envelope for the
card before you start on your art work!
Here is a picture of me and Brown Teddy, Yellow Parrot and Pink Parrot,
trying to get to sleep on Christmas Eve a few years ago. The parrots
kept talking so I told them to close their eyes, imagine a starry
Christmas sky and count the stars. They got tired at about 45 stars and
it was not long before they were fast
asleep. Brown Teddy likes to be in the middle because it is cosier.
When we put on all the Christmas lights in the
evening, we do not need any other lamps. The best bit is the coloured
circles that they make on the wall. After a busy day, I like to just sit
and look at them for a rest. They normally stay up in January to
brighten the grey days. If it snows, we open the curtains and let the
colours go onto the snow outside the window.
COLOURING PAGE
I hope you like my Christmas Story colouring page. If you save the
picture, you can print one to colour in and another one to cut the
figures out and stick on your own hand-made Christmas cards! I think
sticking on the glitter is the best part, especially the star and the
wise men's clothes. Nobody really knows how many wise men came, but I
think these three were the first ones to get there.
The Main Colouring page
page has more downloads like this, for Nativity Sets and Cutouts, and I am being allowed to borrow this one from the
drawings folder.
Dino has coloured it in on screen so he can email it to Mr Webmaster, as a
thank you for making the website for us. Dino will stay much cleaner
that way, than with paints and water. He has put in a huge pile of hay
for the camel, and grass for the donkey and sheep, so they don't get
hungry – it was the first thing he thought of!
These Christmas Story colouring booklets are just what I like. I
have been testing them for the main Colouring page. Someone had
already folded these, but I am sure I could fold them up on my own
next time. Here I am just giving the sheep some extra grass. I don't
like a picture where there is no food for the animals. I am not sure
whether the camel wants grass or brown hay. The shepherd should
probably be in dull brown, but I am giving him a red costume to
cheer him up when he is out in the fields with his sheep. I am going
to colour his feet in dark blue so that it looks like warm winter
socks underneath his sandals! Brown Teddy has made a good job of
making the star stand out by scribbling lines round it.
A SHINING CHRISTMAS STAR
This is how you make a star shine. You draw a
dotted circle around the star. Then you put in the main guidelines
for the rays. Then you draw all the dark blue lines with a
coloured pencil or crayon. The white spaces that you leave look like
rays of starlight. The yellow round the outside of the star
makes the middle look brighter. If you make 2 and then stick them back
to back, you can hang them on the Christmas tree. If you stick them to
some card, they make good gift tags.
SOME PHOTOS FOR YOUR CHRISTMAS CARDS
These are very small pictures. You have to click on
them to get the bigger version.
We have had these tree angels for a long time. I
always stay up a bit later when the Christmas lights are on – there is a
space on the picture to write words in.
Evergreens have always been brought into the house
in midwinter, people thought they were special because they stayed
alive. I think they are special because the leaves are very shiny and look
good with all the berries.
I think everyone wants snow at Christmas because it
looks so clean and fresh, and it is a good excuse to have another mince
pie on a cold night!
These are Christmas lights when the camera was moved
up and down very quickly.
You can get a good photo if you move very
slowly towards the robin with the camera, and especially if you
don't look straight at him.
Aunties like flowery Christmas cards. The first two
are Christmas Rose (Hellebore), then Winter Jasmine and Snowdrops.
Aunties are well-known for sending cards with pocket money inside, so it
would be very polite to send them back a colourful flowery thank you
with very neat handwriting. They will probably keep it forever.
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