Christmas window silhouettes: printable templates to cut out

A December decoration to make with the children, for example before the evening you draw names for Secret Santa: eight Christmas silhouettes to print, cut out of paper and stick on a window. Easy, medium and hard – the easy ones are almost all scissor work.

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Open one by one

Star ✂ easy147 × 140 mm

Bells ✂ easy177 × 133 mm

Snowman ✂ easy131 × 204 mm

Christmas tree ✂✂ medium136 × 212 mm

Lantern ✂✂ medium106 × 198 mm

Reindeer ✂✂ medium174 × 186 mm

Sleigh with presents ✂✂✂ hard169 × 138 mm

Winter village ✂✂✂ hard179 × 90 mm

How they look on a window

Star
Bells
Snowman
Christmas tree
Lantern
Reindeer
Sleigh with presents
Winter village

How to make the window silhouettes

  1. Pick a silhouette: the ✂ easy ones are mostly scissor work, the ✂✂ and ✂✂✂ ones have more holes to cut with a craft knife.
  2. Print its page at 100% scale – then the silhouette has the size shown beside its name. Another scale works too; it only changes the size.
  3. First cut out the grey holes with a craft knife on a cutting mat. This is a job for an adult.
  4. Then cut along the outer line with scissors.
  5. Stick it on the window with the printed side against the glass – any bits of line left won’t show from the room. A few small pieces of tape will do, or a little glue stick, which washes off with water.
  6. After the holidays, peel it off and wash the glass with water.

Tips

Thicker paper (120–160 g/m²) holds its shape better. Children can cut the outline of the easy silhouettes by themselves with scissors; an adult cuts the holes. You can also hold a cut-out silhouette against the glass and spray artificial snow around it: take it away and a clean shape is left in a frame of snow.

Also useful

Drawing names for gifts too? Secret Santa on santa.haus.

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