Apple Barrel Colorful Christmas Village
Take an unconventional approach to creating your snow village this year with items from your garden! Then use Apple Barrel Acrylic Paint to make your village come to life with color.

Other Things You'll Need

  • Small birdhouse
  • Medium size terracotta pot
  • Small paper mache cone
  • Silicone mat
  • Hot glue

Instructions

  1. Use your hot glue gun to create a scalloped pattern detail on the roof of your largest birdhouse.
  2. Basecoat your houses, cone, and upside-down pots with your favorite festive colors from the PROMOABI kit. Let dry.
  3. Paint doors, snow, windows, candy wreaths, and solid green trees, wreaths, and bushes on your dry houses. Let dry.
  4. To make a more realistic foliage detail, use a dry flat brush to spounce a lighter green color on top of the dark green foliage.
  5. Use a thin liner brush to paint a Black string on your houses and christmas tree and let dry. Paint small dots on your black line to make Christmas lights.
  6. Apply irregular, icicle shapes onto your silicone mat and let harden. See project photo for reference.
  7. Glue your icicle strips onto the trim of your roof and paint it White. Let dry.
  8. Use the same dry brushing technique from step 4 with White to add snowy details to parts of your village.