Things You'll Need:
- Butcher Papers
- Extra-wide Ribbons
- Christmas Figurines
- Appliance-size Boxes
- Crayons
- Glues
- Homemade Dough Ornaments
- Molded-plastic Santas
- Pins
- Satin-wrapped Plastic-foam Christmas Tree Ornaments
- Shallow Baskets
- Uncooked Pasta
- Pins
- Toothpicks
- Bottle Caps
- Adhesive Tape
- Writing Papers
- Adhesive Tape
- Monofilament Line
- Spray Paints
- Twine
- Twine
- Toothpicks
- Crayons
- wispy, pitiful Christmas trees
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Step 1
Create a floor display that will instantly set a fun mood for arriving guests. This could be a plump molded-plastic Santa, a pitiful Charlie Brown-type Christmas tree, or an appliance-size box wrapped in white butcher paper plus a large bow and crayons (so visitors can write a personal greeting on the paper).
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Step 2
String twine from corner to corner across one or more walls, and pin on holiday cards as you receive them.
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Step 3
Decorate the interior side of the front door. You or the kids could make a funky wreath by gluing bottle caps or uncooked small pasta shapes onto a circular cardboard cutout and spray-painting it; or craft a collage of your kids' Christmas art, past and present, on the door.
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Step 4
Arrange a simple conversation piece for the top of an entryway table, chest or console. Using toothpicks, build a "tree" sculpture of satin-wrapped plastic-foam Christmas ornaments, or simply seat a Santa, angel or snowman in a shallow basket full of colorful outdoor-type Christmas lightbulbs.
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Step 5
Suspend paper cutout snowflake or homemade dough ornaments from the handrail if a staircase is visible from the entryway. Let the kids help.
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Step 6
Post family members' and pets' handwritten Christmas wish lists on the walls or in windows. Encourage everyone to be as creative as possible, or ghost-write imaginatively: a new Jaguar for dad, 50 pounds of liver treats for Fido (signed with a faux pawprint signature), eternally dry diapers for baby, $1,000 worth of CDs for the teenager.
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Step 7
Hang a whimsical Christmas decoration from the center of the ceiling or a light fixture. Consider a plastic Rudolph reindeer, a smiling elf or a small stocking suspended from monofilament (fishing) line.
Comments
Anonymous said
on 11/22/2005 You can easily make a cute reindeer. First, by tracing 2 hands for his antlers and a foot for his face. Cut out these tracings. Next, attach the antlers (hands) to his head (foot), then draw two eyes and a nose for the face. This is a cute door decoration.