Friday, October 23, 2015

Shoe Box Christmas Tree

Our church has a large foyer with floor to ceiling windows. Every year before National Collection Week for Operation Christmas Child, we build two Christmas trees out of shoe boxes. We put an OCC brochure in each one and then our members can take the shoe boxes they want to fill. It is fairly easy to re-make the tree as the boxes disappear, until a large portion of them are gone. We also put a tree in our Welcome Center, as many people enter the church there. This helps us to promote Operation Christmas Child in a visual way and makes it easy for our people to pick up their empty boxes.



 I don't know where we originally got this diagram/instructions to build the trees but I'm passing it on to you. It takes 141 boxes to build each tree. We are a mid-sized church and we collect over 2000 filled shoeboxes each year for OCC. 
Here are the directions that we use each year. Hope it helps you.


Wednesday, August 12, 2015

Whale, frog for Sewing Cards

These are patterns of a whale, frog and heart that can be used for sewing cards.

Snail & Rabbit for Sewing Cards

Here are patterns for a snail and rabbit that can be used for making sewing cards.


Monday, May 12, 2014

Superman Emblem

This pattern is for the Superman emblem. The diamond shape is red and the smaller pieces are yellow. The yellow pieces are the negative to make the S show in red.

Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Note card/pad pattern

Here is the pattern that you can use for the note card or note pad set that was posted on July 17. I found the original pattern on a website several months ago but I'm sorry that I do not remember where that site was. I drew this pattern from my memory of the other one.


Cut on the solid lines, except the solid line on the top left. That should be dotted as a fold line. Score and fold on the dotted lines. The tab should be folded over and then glued to attach the decorative line to the fold.

Friday, October 5, 2012

Popcorn Box Gift Bag

This is the pattern for the gift bag post Oct. 5. All instructions are there. While I decorated it for Christmas, it can be used for any ocassion. The complete box/bag is 7" tall, 6 1/2" wide at the top and 3 3/4" wide at the bottom. The sides are 1 7/8" wide. You will need to cut two patterns to make this box/bag. This pattern fits on 8 1/2 x 11" paper or cardstock.