Are you looking for an inexpensive Christmas decoration that will look nice too?
Decorate your windows with Christmas paper cutouts!
Get inspired by the best, or print out the templates and start creating.
Christmas cutouts for windows
Paper cutouts are beautiful inside and out, especially when the windows are lit while it’s dark outside. Find your favorite theme. Will it be houses, towns, villages, or just flakes?
What will you need?
- a printed template (the more skilled you can draw your motif)
- paper cutting scalpel (available at craft stores)
- scissors
- clever hands 🙂
It’s up to you whether you use scissors or a scalpel. Classic snowflakes are cut out of folded paper (we’ll show that at the end), it’s better to cut templates with a scalpel.
Now take a look at the most beautiful Christmas cutout templates.
This is what the finished Christmas cutouts look like on the window. Beauty, right?
Where can I find more printable templates?
Search the foreign language internet and you are sure to come across other great Christmas templates. Just enter the link “Christmas window cutouts” in another language. Then you just choose the pictures.
Besides Christmas paper cutouts, there are other ways to decorate windows for Christmas. If you want to stick with paper, you should know one more thing. Do you know which one? Paper flake! It sounds simple, but creating a beautiful snowflake is not that easy. We will advise you how to do it.
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How to cut a snowflake out of paper
Snowflakes are traditionally cut out for Christmas by children in kindergartens and schools, where they decorate their windows and bulletin boards. You can certainly use the small flakes for other creations, for example, to decorate your Christmas card.
What will you need:
- A4 size paper
- scissors
- pencil
Instructions:
- We will make a square from A4 paper.
- Fold the opposite corners so that we get a triangle.
- Place the triangle so that the fold is close to you.
- Fold the sharp angles together.
- We will have a right-angled triangle.
- Repeat point 4.
- You will get an even smaller right triangle.
- Now we translate its top (the right angle) to the longer side of the triangle.
- Cut to the same length.
- We will draw a snowflake motif with a pencil on our creation. Attention! The side where there is a bend must remain whole – uncut. Otherwise, it will fall apart.
- We cut according to the drawn motif.
- We unfold very carefully.
- Iron the resulting flake with an iron to straighten it.
- And it is done!
Choose a simpler theme to try. If you succeed, you can start with more complex and smaller flakes.
The best free Christmas cutouts for kids
Simple Christmas cutouts are perfect for children and can be made together with them. This activity will not only be enjoyable but also save them from the long wait until Christmas. The best Christmas cutouts will continue to entertain children even after they are cut out. Playing together with the cutouts is the most beautiful thing during Christmas.
Christmas mask cutouts
Kids love masks. Make some Christmas cards with them and let them practice cutting them out. But you have to help them with the rubber band.
How to make a Santa Claus mask
Check out the tutorial on how to make a Santa Claus mask. Master the technique and you can then pre-draw a reindeer, a snowman, or any other motif you can think of.
Santa’s big underwear
It doesn’t have to be directly Santa. It depends on your imagination what you cut out of colored paper. Children will play with the finished creation for a long time.
What will you need?
- paper or a quarter, choose the size according to how big you want the clothesline to be
- string
- scissors
- colored papers or dress quarters
- possibly cotton wool (if you are going to make Santa’s clothes)
- clothespins
Instructions:
- Cut out your clothes. Either pre-draw it for the children or create a template for them.
- Finish painting, glue, or decorate with cotton wool.
- Make two holes on the sides of the large quarter as shown in the picture.
- Thread the string through the holes and tie it to the quarter.
- Now you can dry your clothes!
You can improve the image with the cord by adding rods from the clothes dryer. It will also be great fun if you draw a mess under the underwear and play with the children in the wind. You then wash the clothes “as is” and let them dry again.
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