Santa and Elf Block

Items You Need:

• Wood (ours is cut from a 2x4)
• Red and green paint
• Silver paper
• ribbon, rickrack, and buttons
• HOT GLUE!!! (happiness!)
• Christmas paper

Directions:

Santa

• Paint the wood red.  You can sand edges if you want.
• Choose how you want your Santa to look (horizontal or vertical.) 
• Glue the black ribbon with hot glue across the brick and glue it securely to the back.  
• Cut a belt buckle from silver paper and glue.  
• Glue on buttons.

Elf

• Paint block green.  You can sand the edges if you want.
• Glue ribbon and rickrack onto block.  
• Cut collar the shape you want and Mod Podge it on. Sand top edge of paper.
• Glue on fun buttons.  

Joy Block

Items You Need:

• Block of wood
• Raffia
• Paper
• Paint/ Paintbrush
• Mod Podge

Directions:

• Paint the piece of wood
• Sand the edges after it dries
• I didn't have a fancy cutting machine so I chose a font I liked from Microsoft Word, wrote JOY, printed it off and cut it out.  I traced it on my nice paper and cut it out again.
• Mod Podge the letters on by layering the glue on the front of the block, place the letters, and layer the Mod Podge over it all.
• Once it all dries, tie raffia around and make a bow on top.