Part Four of our printable paper Christmas Village!
Remember the Woods from the printable in the first post, that printed out with the Meeting House? I said we would use them later on. Now you can add the woods to your Christmas Village (if you haven't already!)
(If you did not print out the first part of the village, or lost the woods part, here is the link to the PDF printable.)
When you leave the village, you'll go through the woods to the countryside. Maybe that is Grandmother's house behind all the trees!
This is what I did with mine:
I cut around each tree for interest, but you can just cut straight across and color in the sky to make it simple. All the trees are covered in snow, which cuts down on the amount of coloring you have to do, but of course if you want to color them in you can.
I used big chunky glitter over Elmer's glue on mine-- I imagine each tree has about six inches of snow on it, and about a foot of snow on the ground, and the chunky glitter worked delightfully for that effect.
You can cut out more trees to layer with mounting tape for dimension, and also cut out an extra stone bridge and mount it over the other one. You can mount another Christmas tree over the other as well, but I chose to do another effect on mine. I took a straight pin and poked little holes where the string of lights are. When there is light behind the woods, the lights on the tree "turn on!"
The Christmas tree really stands out with no snow and its string of lights! (Don't ask me how the lights are working out in the woods-- probably a really long extension cord, or battery pack, or a hidden generator! Or maybe they are solar!)
Here are the posts for the previous parts of the Christmas Village:
For part one of the village (Meeting House and woods), click here.
For part two of the village (the shops that connect to the Meeting House) click here.
For part three of the village (the houses) click here.
Remember the Woods from the printable in the first post, that printed out with the Meeting House? I said we would use them later on. Now you can add the woods to your Christmas Village (if you haven't already!)
(If you did not print out the first part of the village, or lost the woods part, here is the link to the PDF printable.)
When you leave the village, you'll go through the woods to the countryside. Maybe that is Grandmother's house behind all the trees!
This is what I did with mine:
I used big chunky glitter over Elmer's glue on mine-- I imagine each tree has about six inches of snow on it, and about a foot of snow on the ground, and the chunky glitter worked delightfully for that effect.
You can cut out more trees to layer with mounting tape for dimension, and also cut out an extra stone bridge and mount it over the other one. You can mount another Christmas tree over the other as well, but I chose to do another effect on mine. I took a straight pin and poked little holes where the string of lights are. When there is light behind the woods, the lights on the tree "turn on!"
Here are the posts for the previous parts of the Christmas Village:
For part one of the village (Meeting House and woods), click here.
For part two of the village (the shops that connect to the Meeting House) click here.
For part three of the village (the houses) click here.