Free Christmas Shapes for Cookies and Decoration
Simple Festive Templates to Use as Outlines for Xmas Silhouettes
Oct 12, 2009
Simple Christmas outlines are a great way to make the Holiday season even more fun and colorful! Download the free files below, or create original, simple Xmas silhouettes, for endless possibilities for Christmas decorations and festive snacks.
Christmas Baking with Simple Festive Images
Instead of buying Christmas cookie cutters, use these simple Xmas images as templates for homemade cookies and savory biscuits:
- Print and cut out single copies of the Christmas outlines.
- Trace round the images onto baking parchment or greaseproof paper, and then cut out these new shapes.
- Place the baking parchment shapes lightly onto rolled out cookie dough, and then cut out the shape with a sharp knife.
- Add features such as eyes and berries using raisins or chocolate chip cookies.
Alternatively, dust Christmas shapes in icing sugar, cocoa or sweet paprika powder onto plain shaped cookies or savory biscuits:
- Cut out Christmas shapes in baking parchment or greaseproof paper as a silhouette.
- Place the silhouette of the image onto a cooked cookie or biscuit.
- Using a sieve, lightly dust the edible powder through the hole in the paper.
- Carefully remove the paper to reveal the shape
Kids Christmas Coloring Gets Creative!
Fire children’s imaginations by giving them simple seasonal shapes to complete and color in. Older kids will enjoy adding features such as berries, stripes and and baubles on several identical outline printouts, learning how small changes in patterns and design can dramatically change the overall effect. Younger children will simply enjoy having a big space to color in as they wish!
How to Make Original Christmas Decorations
Print several copies of the Xmas shapes onto colored card, and cut them out. Attach a short length of string to each cut out by punching a small hole at the top of each shape. Suspend the cut outs from a long piece of colored string to create a Christmas garland. Hang several Xmas shapes vertically on long strings, and then hang a number of these strings from a single string suspended across the top of a doorway to create a homemade Xmas door curtain.
Adjust the size of the printed Christmas shapes to suit each seasonal project, and if several shapes are needed, use computer drawing or image software to create the printouts needed. Colored card, or coloring the files on a computer before color printing, offers endless creative possibilities. Save money and fire the family’s imagination by inventing new ways to use these free Christmas pictures as cutouts, silhouettes and stencils.
Readers may also enjoy trying out these Home Made Christmas Decoration ideas.
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