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Christmas Ball Clipart

Receiving a handmade Christmas greeting card always makes me feel special, and today I would like to help you make someone feel just as special by using this red Christmas ball clipart with fun white stars on it, to make an elegant gift card with a little sparkle. Does this sound like fun?

Kids you might need to ask your parents for some help to make this Christmas greeting card. To turn this greeting card into a memorable Christmas gift, you’re going to need a few craft supplies.

You’ll need: white or cream colored crafters cardboard, safety scissors, ruler, pencil, eraser, glue stick and SILVER GLITTER or silver glitter glue pen and this Christmas ball clipart of course * Remember to make sure your printer can print on the thickness of cardboard that you have chosen.

O.K Let’s start by downloading the Christmas ball clipart and printing it onto the craft card that you’ve chosen. Next measure your card to the size you would like to be, using your ruler and pencil. Parents this where you step in and help them to draw straight lines.

Next grab your safety scissors and cut the card out of the cardboard. If they kids find this too difficult, just go ahead and cut it out for them. Once the Christmas card is cut out, can you use the eraser and rub out the pencil lines around the edges of your card.

Here is the fun part yippee!!! With your glue pen or glue start putting glue on all of the white stars. Once they all have glue on them, sprinkle your glitter on all of the stars. Use a lot of glitter as you want these stars to really sparkle.

If you have a silver glitter pen, use it like a color pencil, and fill in all of the stars. When the stars are filled you’ll see a pretty red Christmas ball clipart card with lots of silver sparkling stars.

Now be careful as you need to put the card in a safe place to dry. When your Christmas card is dry, you can write a nice message inside,  and then give it to someone special.

To download this Christmas ball clipart for the Christmas greeting card you can simply click on the image and then right click again and click the “Save As” button. If you enjoy making Christmas greeting cards you might like to try this one too.

Red Christmas Ball Clipart

O Christmas Tree

When you search the internet there are many versions of the Christmas Carol, “O Christmas Tree“, but not many of us know where this song first originated from. Well let me take you back in time, to where it first began and you can see how this Christmas Carol came to be.

In the beginning, O Christmas Tree was not sung as a Christmas Carol, but it was based on a traditional German folk song from the 16th Century, by Melchior Franck, “Ach Tannenbaum”.

The original lyrics of this song was not in reference to Christmas, but how a Fir Tree stood green all year round, evergreen. Melchior Franck, felt that these qualities of a tree was a symbol of constancy and faithfulness.

Later another writer Joachim August Zarnack, was inspired by the same folk song in 1819, and wrote a tragic love song, however replacing the lyrics “faithful” fir tree with a faithless lover.

In 1824 a talented organist, teacher and composer, Ernst Anschütz based on what we know today as “O Christmas Tree” on this 16th Century folk song. O Christmas Tree, only became associated with Christmas when, Ernst Anschütz wrote two verses and added them to the first verse of the original folk song.

By the early 19th century the Christmas tree started to become somewhat if a tradition, and soon after that this song, “O Christmas Tree” became a household Christmas Carol.

You may have even heard, or even sung part of “O Christmas Tree“, but in the German version, “O Tannenbaum” (“O Fir Tree”).
The word Tannenbaum means “Fir Tree” a type of Pine tree or a type of Conifer for us plant lovers.

Below you’ll find a lovely piece of O Christmas Tree clipart, and the lyrics to the English “O Christmas Tree” and German”O Tannenbaum” version.

O Christmas Tree Clip art

O Christmas Tree

1. O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree,
O tree of green, unchanging.
O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree,
O tree of green, unchanging.
Your boughs, so green in summertime,
Do brave the snow of wintertime.
O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree,
O tree of green, unchanging.

2. O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree,
You set my heart a-singing.
O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree,
You set my heart a-singing.
Like little stars, your candles bright,
Send to the world a wondrous light,
O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree,
You set my heart a-singing.

3. O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree,
You come from God, eternal.
O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree,
You come from God, eternal.
A symbol of the Lord of Love
Whom God to man sent from above.
O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree,
You come from God, eternal.

4. O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree,
You speak of God, unchanging.
O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree,
You speak of God, unchanging.
You tell us all to faithful be,
And trust in God eternally.
O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree,
You speak of God, unchanging.

O Tannenbaum

O Tannenbaum, o Tannenbaum,
wie treu sind deine Blätter!
Du grünst nicht nur zur Sommerzeit,
Nein auch im Winter, wenn es schneit.
O Tannenbaum, o Tannenbaum,
wie treu sind deine Blätter!

O Tannenbaum, o Tannenbaum!
Du kannst mir sehr gefallen!
Wie oft hat nicht zur Weihnachtszeit
Ein Baum von dir mich hoch erfreut!
O Tannenbaum, o Tannenbaum!
Du kannst mir sehr gefallen!

O Tannenbaum, o Tannenbaum!
Dein Kleid will mich was lehren:
Die Hoffnung und Beständigkeit
Gibt Trost und Kraft zu jeder Zeit.
O Tannenbaum, o Tannenbaum!
Das soll dein Kleid mich lehren.

O Tannenbaum. First verse attributed to August Zarnack, 1820; second and third verses by Ernst Anschutz, 1824.