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Be innovative and let loose your creative instincts, experiment with patterns and designs and invent your own format during the holidays cause the festive season is here to rock you. Try something unique, something that would bring out the latent talents in you. Try your hands at Christmas woodcrafts and bask in the glory of admirations and praise that would surely follow. Christmas calls for celebrations and especially when the holidays coincides with the festive season the ambiance gets merrier. Holidays are the time when
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the Children get a welcome respite from their study schedules and the adults from their routine, mundane existence. You are likely to get stumped if you sift through the huge corpus of craft books for that perfect Christmas craft item as most of them are written keeping in mind a professional following. Keep these books, magazine cuttings aside and start trusting your common sense. Christmas Wood Crafts are easy to get by, as you don’t require delving deeper into the recesses of details and information, just implementing it in a simplistic manner, that’s the rule.
Make beautiful additions to your holiday shelf by adding on a few wooden snowman, Christmas trees, reindeer, Nativity scenes and the list seems unending. You would require wood scraps (varied sizes and shapes), sandpaper, acrylic paint in (white, black, and orange), brown antiquing stain, material scraps, children's socks, ribbon, raffia, buttons, white craft glue, small and large paintbrushes, dry rag.
Sand the rough edges from the wood to smoothen it and paint it white on all sides. Let it dry and apply a second coat. Allow that to dry as well. Leaving enough room at the top for the hat, paint the face by dotting on two black eyes, an orange nose and a mouth. Let it dry completely or else the antiquing would stain the whole surface.
Use tea dyed socks and gingham prints for the antiqued snowmen. The ice blue color is the most popular one used on a white snowman. Fringe the ends of the scarves with sharp scissors, string small pieces of raffia through button holes and tie in knots or bows. Cut small scraps for patches and fringe the ankle ends of a child’s sock for hats.
When the paint dries up, brush on a layer of brown antiquing stain, ensuring that all cracks and crevices are filled. Wipe off with a dry rag immediately and your snowman’s looking all worn and antiqued. Allow the stain to dry up.
Tie a scarf around the neck with a bit of glue and make the hat by gluing the brim in place, let the cuff of the sock hang as a loose end while the elastic forms the brim. Tie a ribbon or piece of raffia around the fringed top and tighten but don’t forget to fluff up the fringe by pulling and adjusting it with your fingers. You can also glue a small patch on the hat brim or use material scraps to fashion a hat and glue a pom pom on the top. Paste buttons on the body or hat.
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