The Pleasant Times' Printable Christmas Village

2022 Note: I was getting a lot of requests for access to the files ("request to view" in Google Drive or Docs).  No matter how I updated the settings I still had to manually approve many people. Therefore for this year I have moved the PDF to a new hosting platform so the updated links will take you there. It is still FREE and should be accessible to you all 24/7 without waiting on me to approve you!

I hope The Pleasant Times' readers have enjoyed their free printable Christmas village!

You can make these as elaborate (by adding lots of glitter and cut-out pieces) or as simple as you please. They are also good to print out to keep little hands busy while you are wrapping presents or finishing up a project!

Here is the master list of links to each printable PDF, and a link to each blog post if you would like to see photos of how they look all made up.

The Meeting House and Woods (PDF page) (blog post for the Meeting House ) (blog post for the woods)
The Village Shops (PDF page) (blog post)
The Village Houses (PDF page) (blog post)
The Farm (PDF page) (blog post)

Mountain Background for the village was added here. See bottom of post for picture!

Here are some ideas of how to display your Christmas Village.
You can line them up all in a row on a shelf, mantel, or the window-sill (or two!);
you can put each section on different shelves in a bookshelf, and pretend they are different "streets:" a street of houses, a village street, and the country road;
 or you can scatter them around the room for interest.

I put a short string of Christmas tree lights behind mine; you can also put the LED plastic tea lights behind each one to make a glow.

When you are done with them for the season, you can fold them flat and put them in an envelope for next year. Or, you can cut out the centers and glue them on next year's Christmas cards!

Thanks for visiting! Merry Christmas!

UPDATE:
You can now print out a mountain scene to put behind the village.

Informational post here

Mountain and Skater Here

Christmas Village part five: Country Farmhouse and Barn

2022 Note: I was getting a lot of requests for access to the files ("request to view" in Google Drive or Docs).  No matter how I updated the settings I still had to manually approve many people. Therefore for this year I have moved the PDF to a new hosting platform so the updated links will take you there. It is still FREE and should be accessible to you all 24/7 without waiting on me to approve you!

For those of you anxious to finish up your village, the printable PDF for the last two pieces are here.

The last bits to add are the barn and farmhouse!

The PDF for the last two pieces are here.

The PDF for the last two pieces are here.

I added paper windows in place of the cardstock windows, and here is what my barn looks like with the light shining through:

 And the farmhouse:

It wasn't until I printed this out and started to color it, when I realized that something was missing... a wreath on the door! I forgot to draw one, so you will have to add that yourself:)

I also did not mount any extra bits on, but were I to do that, I would cut out an extra sled for the house, and an several extras to the barn: the wagon wheel, barn star, the pump and the sheep behind the fence and haystack piece. Foam mounting tape is ideal for it, but I had success with just regular tape rolled up, too.

I hope you have enjoyed this series! Here are the links to the posts about the rest of the Christmas village:
The Meeting House
The Village Shops
The Village Houses
The Woods 
New! Mountains and Skater

Christmas Village part four: Over the River and Through the Woods

2022 Note: I was getting a lot of requests for access to the files ("request to view" in Google Drive or Docs).  No matter how I updated the settings I still had to manually approve many people. Therefore for this year I have moved the PDF to a new hosting platform so the updated links will take you there. It is still FREE and should be accessible to you all 24/7 without waiting on me to approve you!

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. 

For part five of the village (the farm in the country) click here.

For the last addition, the mountain backdrop, click here

Christmas Village part three: Houses

2022 Note: I was getting a lot of requests for access to the files ("request to view" in Google Drive or Docs).  No matter how I updated the settings I still had to manually approve many people. Therefore for this year I have moved the PDF to a new hosting platform so the updated links will take you there. It is still FREE and should be accessible to you all 24/7 without waiting on me to approve you!

Here are a couple of houses to round out the village (click here for part one and here for part two, here for part four and here for part five). (Click here for the mountain backdrop) There will be a country scene next, so check back this week!

 This house (Click here for the PDF printable) is a cozy cottage, with a pie cooling in the kitchen, and gift wrapping going on in the library. The house glows in the snow with lots of Christmas lights! I colored my copy with crayons, but saved the Christmas lights for some bright bold markers, so they would stand out. On the printable, there is also a side yard with a snowman, and two kittens playing.

This is a grand house (Click here for the PDF printable), which could be all lit up for a Christmas party, I suspect. I felt there were enough lines in this drawing, so I did not add any more detail to the windows for you, but you can color in red velvet curtains, or evergreen swags (as I did with markers) and of course put lots of glitter snow on the windowsills! There is a garden on one side with a garden shed, and a mailbox on the other side for Christmas cards.

Here is the grand house, all lit up. This time I used markers on the paper behind the windows for the Christmas tree and the swags I added to the windows. I think it stands out really nicely when the lights are behind it.

Click here for the PDF printable. 

As you can see, my village is getting quite long! The two houses can be displayed on either side of the village shops, together on one side or the other, or by themselves. I did not want to glue them to the village shops as it would be too long to move and store, but of course you can attach them if you like.

I did the same cut-out and glue-paper-behind windows, and mounted some features as I described in the last post. On the yellow cottage, I mounted another front porch, and another snowman and tree over the printed ones. I'll try to add a better photo later on!

I'm listening to "Sleigh Ride" and other Christmas songs as I am glittering and posting these houses! It makes an enjoyable evening. Print enough out for the children to color, too!

For the Meeting House, click here.
For the Village Shops, click here.
For the post on the woods (that came with the meeting house page) click here.
For the Farm in the country, click here.
New! Mountain background and skating figure here.