My absolute favorite holiday is Christmas. I love celebrating the birth of Jesus. I also love to decorate. The twinkling lights, a plethora of snowmen, nativity scenes, and fake snow bring me such joy. The great part about decorating is that, not only do I get to spruce up my house, but I also get to have fun at work.
My co-workers and I decided to decorate our department in a classic Christmas movie theme. I drew out the characters and one of my co-workers helped me paint them. We probably put in almost seventy hours to get them all made. My other co-worker set them in a scene. All the characters were drawn on the back of bulletine board paper. Once they were painted, I coated them in a layer of Modge Podge and added a touch of glitter to each one.
The first one we made was "Frosty the Snowman." We addd more detail later (not shown in picture).
The next one is "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" by Dr. Seuss.
The longest wall in our department is dedicated to "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer."
We had some windows that we weren't sure what to do with, so we put the Heat Miser and Snow Miser on them.
We had to include the famous leg lamp from "A Christmas Story." To make the lamp shade work, it had to be cut in half and then glued to a piece of cardboard. We then attached a battery operated light under the shade.
One of my co-workers designed our office door with Snoopy. She attached a plush snoopy to the dog house by using fishing line. The dog house is made from cardboard.
I had a lot of fun making this last wall. I painted a tree and put real lights on it. I made the star by cutting out a star shape on cardboard. Then I taped a strand of battery operated lights onto it and wrapped the star in yellow tissue paper. Next, I printed out a star clipart and taped it to the front. I wrapped various sizes of cardboard in Christmas paper and taped them under the tree. After painting the fireplace, I used packing foam from our IT department to make the stonework and mantal. I have since added lights to the fireplace.
The last area we decorated was the playroom/therapy room. We set up four trees and added various clipart style images thoughtout the room. These are just a couple of them.
Being on a budget can make it hard to decorate. However, with a little teamwork, we made a fun Christmas atmosphere that the kids love.
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