We made our Christmas stockings using a simple off-white cotton fabric. Put a piece of cardboard inside the stocking before you start painting with your chosen Chalk Paint® colours.

Cut your Woodland Bird templates out of cardboard, place them on the stocking and roller your background colour over the stocking. When you remove the templates, you’ll be left with Woodland Bird shapes on the stockng, ready to paint in your chosen design.

You can use masking tape to help you paint lines. Make sure the background paint is dry before painting on top of it or removing masking tape.

Don’t water the paint down or it will bleed – you are painting on top of the stocking rather than dyeing it.