This document provides instructions for creating homemade reindeer and other Christmas decorations for outdoor holiday displays over multiple years. It describes how to make reindeer costumes out of tights, a clothes hamper, fabric and accessories. Other projects mentioned include penguins playing instruments, a gingerbread house, a toy shop, and themes involving Santa's sleigh having an accident or elves enjoying trains. The document discusses repurposing items like traffic cones, gloves and placemats to create decorations, and highlights some wooden bear figurines that have been part of the display for 15 years.

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6. How to Make Awesome Reindeer 2010…
•Two pairs of Brown Tights New and Improved Reindeer -
•A Collapsible Clothes Hamper
•Two Yards of Stretch Jersey Fabric for
Highlighted body and tail.
•A Red Felt Scarf
•A Deer Head (Plush) Over a Plastic Rudolph
Beer Mug.
Fill the panty hose with shipping peanuts, fill the
hamper with dry cleaner bags. Put the panty
hose over the hamper… you now have four legs
and a body… paint water bottles or any plastic
bottle to cover the feet/ hove's. Pin the fabric
under the belly, and clip at the end for a tail, and
add the scarf to hold it tight at the front. And to
hold the plastic mug to attach the deer head.
Voila! Reindeer!

7. Special Effects – The annual
redesign of ‘the train’.
The tunnel (shown left) is actually a
Igloo Dog House* covered in
a ‘snow ‘ blanket.
This same Igloo Dog House became
the Front of the Space Shuttle in
2011 Yard!

8. Santa in his sleigh, with his
earphones on , and two
astronauts with the Shuttle
and the reindeer chillin’.

9. Rudolph Reading a Space Discovery
Book from his wagon.

11. Projector 12 feet Projected image of Santa
In the air! Flying the Space Shuttle
Across the Roof

15. The wooden bears
have been part of
our display for 15
years. Every year
they get new paint,
and new
personality for the
theme.

16. Miss Peach, Mario, and

21. Penguins Playing Country Songs!

22. Items Needed: 30 “
•Traffic Cone T
• White Rubber Ball A
•Yellow Gloves (Makes 5 L
Beaks) L
•One Pair Kids Flippers
•White Felt
•Red/Green Felt Scarf
•Plastic funnel
•Black Vinyl Placemat
$1
Store
Cover or Paint traffic cone black.
Add White Felt to Front. (glue is fine, but ‘pinning’ to the rubber is also a good resolve.)
Staple Flippers to the bottom of the cone for feet. Cut Black Vinyl Placemat in half, put ends
on top of cone for arms .Using a plastic funnel, glue the ball to the funnel, and insert funnel
into top of cone. Cut off two fingers of the yellow gloves (for lips) Add Black vinyl to top of
face, Add scarf, hat, and eyes (buttons on top of any white fabric) .
Cones can be found for $5—7. Everything else is dollar store or garage sale finds.

23. The year we had the Toy Shop,
We also had a Gingerbread
House, complete with
Gingerbread House Chef.
In honor of our son, Joe…
Who is attending Culinary
School,
Joe the Culinary Elf was born!!

25. Theme:
Missed
the
Roof!
Or
‘OOPS!’

29. HO HO OH NO !
The Sleigh! The
Sleigh!

30. The Bear:
He is our
very first
wood piece,
and
has been in
every yard
for over 20
years!

31. Elves Love Trains

32. We use the dogs every year in some
fashion, (not all…) but
We have a pup for each Greerpuppy
we have had over the years past and
now. And those select few, are always
in view!
Honey, Harley, Hamlet, Pepsi, Othello,
Cookie, ….
Penguin was practicing Hockey. (Another
Theme From the Past Complete with Skates
and Rink!)