Danish Christmas Hearts – The Residence That Lars Constructed

Whenever you ever go to Denmark all through Christmas you are in for a take care of! Denmark does Christmas so fantastically. One issue you’ll uncover is their use of the center–it’s in every single place and I adore it loads! You’ll see this woven coronary coronary heart on Christmas bushes, as a decorations, and in addition you’ll possibly do some your self at an event. They’re such a primary Danish customized. I noticed I hadn’t completed some myself proper right here on Lars and thought I’d current you in case you’re trying to find a superb Christmas break train.

Christmas hearts, or julehjerter, have an prolonged historic previous all by way of Scandinavia, nonetheless we study them via Hans Christian Andersen, who, alongside together with his writings, was an attractive paper reduce artist. Danish youngsters would comply with them to increase their efficient motor skills and I can say that they nonetheless do them at current!

The hearts are typically completed using pink and whites. We had in order so as to add our contact to it so we used a few fully totally different colors in reds, pinks, and teals. The conventional methodology is to do it using scissors and naturally, you are welcome to do that, nonetheless we put them into our Cricut to get these strains large crisp. Every strategies work! We have 4 fully totally different templates to take a look at ranging in situation ranges. See below!

Learn how to make a woven Danish Christmas coronary coronary heart (julehjerter)

Provides

• paper (you presumably may even uncover kits proper right here)
• scissors or Cricut machine
• glue stick
• templates (yow will uncover them in our retailer)

Instructions

1. 1. Using the Cricut (or your trusty scissors) reduce out the shapes from the template along with the cuts throughout the middle, using two fully totally different colors of paper 
   2. Fold every of the shapes with the two ends meeting
   3. Subsequent you may combine the two sides of the center, weaving each of the strips collectively
   4. Choose a side to start out out with, and take the first strip closest to you in your arms 
   5. Pull the strip via the loop of the closest strip on the other colored paper
   6. The strip that you simply simply pulled via, will now go over the next strip of the other coloration
   7. Pull that exact same strip via the loop of the next strip 
   8. Proceed this pattern with each strip of each side, alternating each one, until your coronary coronary heart takes kind! 
   9. Glue an prolonged strip of paper to the inside of each side to create a loop to carry your coronary coronary heart in your tree!

Scandinavian Christmas hearts video tutorial

Whenever you’re trying to find a visual, proper right here’s a video to level out you methods we did it!

These would make an attractive trip break train. Whenever you make them tag us with #holidaysWithLars so we’re in a position to confirm them out!