Christmas Owl Bulletin Board

I am super proud of my Christmas bulletin board. It went through a lot of last minute changes. I planned all of my bulletin boards at the beginning of the school year in a two week span, and I thought I had completed everything for all of the boards for the entire year. But as I was pulling out the Christmas decorations for this board I realized that I had forgotten to complete the larger pieces of my bulletin board. Oops! 

In the end I still really liked how it turned out, even though it barely hinted at the white Christmas decked with Christmas lights like I had been going for. But we had a fairly dry December so it all worked out. 

                                  

Aren't they adorable?? I put a lot of time into these guys, so you better think so! I drew the sweaters entirely on my own, which is why they are a little less polished than everything else. The caps and bow-tie are a hybrid of free internet clip art and my personal touches from Photoshop. It was an unnecessary amount of effort, when I discovered that Etsy sells clipart a few days later.
 
The ornaments and lightbulbs were purchased from an Etsy store. I did recolor the ornaments to match the color of the light bulbs.

To create the owl snowman, I just traced the original owl onto white construction paper and drew in the buttons with a sharpie. I also drew the carrot free-hand on orange construction paper.

The gift and the hat were free clipart from the internet, but I recolored the hat to match the gloves, which were purchased in a set with the ornaments (I think).

The original plan was to turn the leaves of the tree into holly leaves and drape the Christmas lights from branch to branch. And I also wanted to cut out some white construction paper to run across the bottom of the board to look like a blanket of snow, but obviously I didn't get to that either. Just some cute ideas to keep in mind for later.

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