The GENIUS way he lights up his windows for Christmas!

With the holiday season around it's time to head to Dollar Tree and grab some inexpensive foam boards.

The first thing I gotta do is put all of the foam that I have up against the window. I'm going to lay it on its side or straight up. This is going to give me an idea of what I want to do. This one is a snowman. I made a silhouette with a projector and just put it across the first foam board, outlining it right around the edges. It can be something other than perfect but we want to get a good outline so it's easier to cut out.

Place some cardboard under the foam board. You can use an X-Acto Knife or any kind of razor knife to cut through. Go slowly and be careful because these knives are sharp. Cut all the way around, the edges don't have to be exact but just go ahead and cut. Make sure you get through all the way. There's nothing more frustrating than not being able to get it out so once you cut it through take little sections out at a time. This makes it a lot easier, especially around these bigger projects.

This next one is a bunny rabbit that we have that's standing up on its hind legs. I'm using a different knife on this one just to demonstrate that you don't have to stick with just the X-Acto Knife.

We cut out the whole thing right around the edges and we'll just pop that rabbit out if any edges stick just use your knife to cut it around and then just give it a pop these foam boards come across and come apart nice and easy. The next thing we've got to do is put these silhouettes right up against the window. It doesn't take much but I'm going to use some white tape, that way it doesn't show against the white background. Take the tape, and circle it up on each other. It doesn't take much for this one, I just needed two of them and I'm gonna place it in the window.

Now, something I noticed was when I put lights behind my Silhouette, the lights show through, so take some black or royal blue and paint the back side of your Silhouettes now this might look like a mess but it actually has a rhyme and a reason for it take those lights. These are 20-foot strands and place it all up in the back of the Silhouettes not too close to the edges but as you can see this is a test and it's going to look really good.

The next thing we got to do is put another layer on. I took four pieces of the foam board and put them together with white tape. Then did a cut-out of a large Christmas tree and then put it on there. Now this one doesn't stick exactly against the window but holds up a little bit because we're going to put a little bit of a shadow in there. Once we do this, we're gonna head outside and we're gonna see what it looks like with it lit up and you can see we added a little bit of blue behind the Christmas tree, and look at this, so amazing! It just lights up for everybody out on the street to see.

I hope this inspired you to build your own holiday window silhouette.

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