Even the smallest children can do this craft; it is easy and interesting to do. Santa Claus made from paper turns out wonderful, you can put it under the Christmas tree, use it as a homemade decoration for a forest beauty, or just play with it. Let's make this bright and irreplaceable New Year's character together.
That's all, but if desired, Santa Claus can be decorated with various stickers, drawings, and snowflakes. I have a composter for this purpose, from which many, many graceful snowflakes have been produced.
Take red paper and roll it into a not very wide bag and secure it with glue. This is the easiest option for creating a cone, since you can also cut a circle out of paper, cut off a small section of it and glue it together.
Cut off the resulting tail of the bag with scissors.
You will get this long and thin cone. This is a rather tall Santa Claus made of paper - about 24 cm, if desired, it can be made smaller. For example, if it will be used as a Christmas tree decoration, the red paper needs to be cut in half.
Press the cone with your hand, just above the middle. This is necessary so that subsequently the head with a beard does not bristle, and also, when compressed, the tip of the resulting cap tilts slightly forward.
The body is ready, now let's move on to white paper. Draw a wavy long figure on it, do not forget to take into account the width of Santa Claus’s torso.
Cut out and in the upper part of the figure, which will play the role of the head and beard, draw and cut out a semi-oval. Here you also need to take into account the width of the part of the cone on which the head is attached. The trimmed area does not need to be completely cut off; it will subsequently play the role of a kind of visor.
Place the head-beard on the cone-body.
Cut out a red round nose and a white mustache and glue them together.
Glue on the eyes, nose and mustache and draw a smile.
That's it, the paper Santa Claus is ready, you can decorate him with snowflakes and stars. Glue the same snowflake, fluffy or paper pompom to the tip of the cap.
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New Year's mood can be lifted in many ways. For example, make a three-dimensional Santa Claus out of paper with your own hands for the New Year from scrap material. We also have a lesson
Just 15 minutes and you will be in the mood, and you will also have a finished craft in your hands, made with your own hands from colored paper.
We will make the body of Santa Claus in the form of a cone. To make such a geometric figure, draw a circle on red double-sided paper. You can use a compass or circle a plate. Cut it out. Bend in half. Open and cut along the fold with scissors. We get two halves. For one Santa Claus figurine you will only need one part.
We twist half of the circle and get a cone-shaped figure. Secure the edges with glue. The lower parts can be adjusted with scissors to give an even base.
Then we draw a beard on white paper.
Cut out the beard along the contour. Cut through the middle to create a horizontal slit. We “dress” the beard through the slit. Bend a small part forward to create hair.
Glue the red pompom to the highest point of the cone. This will be the bubo of Santa Claus's hat.
Glue the plastic eyes. Cut out a mustache from white paper, and a small circle from red paper. Glue the cut out parts just below the eyes. Use a marker to add brightness and clarity.
On the eve of the New Year, all thoughts are busy with preparation: what to cook, what to give, what to wear, and of course, how to decorate the house. Today we will talk about the main symbol of the coming 2017 - Grandfather Frost.
Key characteristics of Santa Claus include:
You can make Santa Claus yourself, together with your children, at the same time telling them where such a symbol came from and which children will receive gifts.
A tabletop Santa Claus can even be made from a plastic liter bottle, which is found in every home. You will need:
Using the same technique, you can make a Snow Maiden and a snowman to accompany Santa Claus.
To make a bright and cheerful Santa Claus toy, use one of the patterns given below. Depending on your preferences, you can make Santa Claus in the style of Tilda dolls or a more traditional version.
To please the baby, the “real” Santa Claus can bring him New Year’s gifts. To make everything look like something out of a fairy tale, sew a suit for Santa Claus. This kind of work will not take you much time.
The beard is a very important element that will add naturalness to the image, we offer you a few more ideas for creating a beard.
If you approach the issue of making a staff more seriously, you can try the following methods.
As a gift for little and big sweet lovers, you can make Santa Claus's sleigh out of sweets, gummies and cookies. And immediately an ordinary and familiar gift will look magical and festive in a New Year’s way.
Christmas candy canes are suitable as runners; the rest of the sweets are placed on them and the whole structure is tied with a bow. To prevent the surprise from falling apart along the way, you can fasten all the parts with a glue gun or double-sided tape.
Since Santa Claus lives in the North, he would be very uncomfortable without mittens, after all, he’s not the same age anymore, he needs to take care of himself. Mittens can be knitted from red yarn or sewn from the remnants of red fabric from a suit.
Santa Claus's mittens are even more like large mittens, so to sew them you can use the following pattern:
To build Santa Claus houses, you don’t have to go to the store; use materials that you already have on hand.
Using quilling technique
To perform you will need:
From toilet paper rolls or clothes cleaning rollers:
Small gift cards in the shape of Santa Claus can be easily folded using an ordinary piece of colored paper measuring 10*10 cm. There are a lot of experimental schemes, they are easy to implement. Involve young children in the work, this activity is useful for the development of motor skills.
Felt is becoming an increasingly popular material among needlewomen because it is very easy to use, does not require edge processing, does not roll up, and attaches perfectly. You can make various versions of Santa Claus from felt:
Toys were made from cotton wool decades ago; probably your grandmothers still know this technique and can teach you all its intricacies.
The creation process is painstaking and time-consuming and the toy turns out to be very fragile. To create such a masterpiece you will need:
Making Santa Claus:
Ordinary nylon tights are perfect as a base for a toy; they stretch perfectly and allow you to form the desired shape. To work you will need:
Decorated glasses will become an interesting table decoration. The trick is that the glass is no longer used as a vessel, but as a candlestick. The New Year's atmosphere of your evening is guaranteed!
You will need:
Santa Claus can become a real interior decoration if done with quality and love. Here is a master class on how to make a big Santa Claus.
You will need wire, scissors, glue, needle and thread, thick cardboard, foam rubber, synthetic fluff, cotton wool, wool, white and red felt.
A bottle of wine or champagne is a good gift for a holiday, there are many free days and guests ahead, this bottle will definitely not be superfluous. To make the gift still thematic, you can decorate it by dressing it up as Santa Claus.
Of course, the easiest option is to sew a tiny cap on a bottle and it will immediately look different, but you can also be even more creative, for example, sew a cover and decorate it as Santa Claus.
A bottle costume can not only be sewn, but also knitted. Here you have several ideas, symbolic simplified versions in red colors or humorous ones with Santa Claus hanging on the chimney.
Pillows with Santa Claus will help change the style of the interior and make it more New Year's; this can be decor made on a regular cover, or the pillow itself can resemble Santa Claus.
In order to sew a New Year's cover you will need:
If you have a lot of patience, you can try to cross-stitch a pillow with Santa Claus.
Using disposable spoons, you can create unusual things, including lamp shades, vases and coasters. It turns out that by using your imagination, you can even build Santa Claus.
You will need:
If you only have one plastic spoon lying around the house, and you need to make Santa Claus, then you can go the other way:
Continuing the theme of creativity from disposable tableware, you can try to create Santa Claus from ordinary plastic cups.
You will need:
The simplest exercise for preschool children is to make Santa Claus from an ordinary plastic plate. It’s better for you to prepare all the necessary details in advance so that your baby can create in peace.
You will need:
Show your child how easy it is to glue all the pieces together and assemble Santa Claus.
Using the same pattern, you can easily assemble a snowman and a deer!
Recently, giving just chocolate bars has become unfashionable; everything needs unusual packaging. The chocolate box is a postcard-box, inside of which there is a treasured sweet, and maybe a few lines with wishes are also written.
One of the simplest options for creating Santa Claus, and perhaps the most technologically advanced, is to simply print it out on a printer and glue it together according to the attached diagram. The most advanced ones can even print a three-dimensional figurine on a 3D printer, and then simply paint it!
You can fold a three-dimensional figure of Santa Claus using the modular origami technique, which has become very popular in the last ten years.
The product is assembled from identical modules, which allow you to create any shape.
For example, for Santa Claus we will need 493 identical modules (1 red for the nose, 275 white, 198 blue, 19 flesh). Each module is assembled from a rectangular piece of paper measuring 37*53 mm, or 1/32 of a sheet.
The technique for creating a module is as follows:
To make your child remember this holiday for a long time, sew a doll Santa Claus for him. Print out all the patterns and cut out the pieces.
On the New Year's tree, among other toys, there must be Father Frost and the Snow Maiden. They can be made from felt or cut out of colored paper to create an applique.
Another interesting idea is to make Santa Claus from beads; you only need fishing line and glass beads in white and red colors. String the beads according to the diagram, and at the end make a loop from the remnants of the fishing line.
A very convenient and compact option for later storage is Santa Claus made from balloons. You will need white and red balls for the fur coat and hat, pink for the face and black for the shoes.
Another wonderful material for creativity is salt dough. It allows you to create amazing things that will last a long time.
The felting technique allows you to create real masterpieces from ordinary wool. To felt Santa Claus, take flesh-colored and white wool, felting needles, red felt for a fur coat, wire, beads and glue.
Making toys with your own hands is a very interesting activity, if you haven’t tried it yet, now is the time to start. Don't be discouraged if something doesn't work out the first time, you can always try again. Santa Claus will bring New Year's mood and a feeling of the approaching holiday to your home! New creative ideas to you and a happy New Year!
Let's see what ways you can create unique New Year's crafts for a competition for school or kindergarten in the form of Santa Claus. I will also show you how to beautifully decorate gifts for the New Year with the symbol of Santa Claus. Let's start with gifts...
Here in the photo below we see an excellent New Year's decoration of the most ordinary gift packages made of gray wrapping paper.
For the first idea you will need:
On a white round cardboard eye shadow or blush Draw spots on the cheeks and black beady eyes with a marker. In a bowl, stir red gouache and PVA glue (a couple of drops of paint per teaspoon of glue); dip a piece of cotton wool into this mixture. We form a ball from this sticky red cotton wool with our hands and dry it on a radiator (it will dry overnight).
Cut out a triangle-cap from red cardboard. We glue it to the edge of the white round piece (Santa Claus's forehead) - it is better to glue it dry, that is, use a glue stick or double-sided tape, since wet PVA glue will wet the cardboard and make it bend.
On top of the connecting line (between the hat and the head) we lay a “fur edging”, as I already said, it is better to cut it out of foam packaging material. Or cover the cardboard with cotton pads and cut out the edging of Santa Claus’s hat from such “cotton-shaggy paper”
And here two more ideas craft pendants in the form of Santa Claus - already from just cardboard... and cardboard with paper cupcake tins.
Here are the large bags with large size Santa Claus.
You can even make a package yourself from a sheet of gift paper. The template here is very simple. You can make such a drawing yourself with a pencil, cut it out, bend it along the fold lines and you’re done. A beautiful box - glue the face and beard of Santa Claus to it and you're done.
With your own hands, you can make PACKAGING POCKETS for gifts from cardboard (or from soft felt, or formative as in the photo below), decorated with Santa Claus applique on top.
Here is a diagram of such a pocket made of colored paper or cardboard. We bend along the lines, glue the sides and the container for sweets and chocolates is ready.
All that remains is to glue on top the head of Santa Claus with a beard and a hat. Simple and fast, no complexity. You will love making these quick pocket crafts with your own hands with Santa Claus, a snowman, angels and other New Year's characters.
Here is a pocket package made of soft felt or fleece, which is suitable for gifting a smartphone or jewelry. It will be a pleasure to receive such a gift, decorated with manual labor and the imagination of the giver.
Here's another new craft for this year. Santa Claus hides a candy in a bright wrapper in his tummy. A simple children's craft that you will quickly understand and can do with your own hands in one sitting.
As you can see (in the photo below) there is nothing complicated or tricky here. It’s just that the tummy and back of Santa Claus are a FULL DETAIL - in shape it looks like a FIG. which has a hole only in the upper turn of the number.
This “figure eight” is bent in half - and we get a tummy with a hole in the center in the front and a closed back at the back. At the top we fix our halves with a drop of glue, or a stapler or tape. And all that remains is for our Santa Claus to glue on the head with a beard and the legs-stand.
There is an article on our website where I show in great detail how to make these balls with your own hands from glue threads and a small balloon. In this article “Balls of thread and a sea of crafts using the spider web technique,” I posted a master class. Therefore, I will not explain in detail here, so as not to waste unnecessary words. Follow the link, everything is explained there.
Just look at the photo below and fall in love with these cute New Year characters made from yarn balls. Simple and fast. In one evening we make balls, in the second evening we cover them with pieces of colored paper - and the craft is ready and worthy of going to a New Year's exhibition at school or kindergarten.
You don’t have to cover the balls with paper parts, but just put a cap like this on the top ball - where a face with a mustache and beard is already glued to the cone-hat.
In general, such cardboard caps (from the photo above) can be put on ordinary white inflatable balloons. And you’ll get a quick craft for the New Year in the form of Santa Claus. Such quick crafts are convenient. (By the way, the link contains a lot of quick ideas for crafts for decorating a New Year’s office).
You can make such a pot-bellied, big-nosed, sweet and charming Santa Claus from the cheapest materials. PVA glue + white paper napkins + balloon + gouache for coloring.
What is the secret of the SIMPLICITY of this Santa Claus craft.
The papier-mâché technique is very simple. If you mix a paper napkin with PVA glue and mold something out of this mixture and dry it, we will get a dense, almost wooden, hard craft.
This principle of creating a durable material from fragile paper and liquid glue became the basis of the Papier-mâché technique.
Instead of white paper napkins, you can use regular NEWSPAPER. But then you will need to paint it on top with white paint (acrylic or gouache) before drawing Santa Claus on it.
What do we do.
Step 1 Let's buy a balloon with an elongated tail (that is, pear-shaped). Let's inflate it so that it retains its slightly elongated pear-shaped shape. Turn the ball upside down and insert it inside the vase (to make it easier to work with). You can even tape it a little to this vase so that it doesn’t jump out of it.
Step 2 Tear the white napkins into shreds (or leave them whole, whichever is more convenient for you). We coat part of the ball with PVA glue and place a white napkin on this puddle. On top of the napkin, again apply PVA glue with a wide brush and again place the napkin on this wet place. Thus, we glue the entire ball in several layers - generously pouring glue and generously laying down layers of napkin. Let it all dry (overnight).
Note – you can cover the ball with newspaper, dry it and paint it white. Or start the first layers from newspaper. And the last upper layers should be made from a white napkin, then there will be no need to paint it white.
Step 3. We crumple the napkins into large lumps - these will be tozhki. We also pour glue over it, and we also cover it with napkins, forming a wet crust of papier mache. We also leave it to dry.
Step 4. We take the ball out of the vase-pot on which it stood. We turn it with its tail up (we will cover this empty space that was in the vase with Santa Claus’s hat, it will not be visible. Using a marker on a dry round paper surface of the ball, we draw the silhouette borders of all the elements of Santa Claus - a face with a nose, a beard, a fur coat. We decorate this with gouache round decoration. Don't forget to glue the legs
Note. For papier mache you need a lot of PVA glue. If you buy it in the stationery department (where the glue is in small tube jars) you will overpay 5 times the price. Better and It’s cheaper to buy PVA glue in liter buckets in the construction departments of the store. For one liter of glue you will pay about 2 dollars. And such a bucket will be enough for you for a whole bunch of crafts. Any PVA glue labeled “universal” or “construction” will suit you. In composition, it is no different from ordinary school stationery PVA glue. The manufacturer can be any company. With this bucket you will not only make Santa Claus from papier-mâché, but also a snowman and a penguin (also based on a balloon). Details in other articles on this site.
By the way, based on the BALLOON, you can make a variety of crafts with Santa Claus. You can decorate a ball covered with newspaper with strips of colored fringe. We buy rolls of crepe colored paper from the stationery store. cut it into strips, cut them into fringe, paste the BALL IN A CIRCLE with fringed stripes. It turns out another version of the Santa Claus craft with your own hands - mischievous and shaggy.
Or you can decorate a balloon covered with newspaper with a FLEECE WRAP - the soft material will make a very cozy and warm craft.
Ordinary stones - small or large river cobblestones can become the basis on which a New Year's fairy tale will grow.
You can simply find oval stable stones (or make them stable using play dough). Cover the stones with white gouache (spray with hairspray to fix the color and prevent it from staining your hands). Then draw all the lines of the future Santa Claus on a white background. Decorate each drawn sector with gouache. And then once again draw clear black boundaries between the elements of the drawing - make outlines with a black marker. Markers work great on rocks. It is best to use a marker for signing CDs - it does not wash off and does not stain your hands.
You can depict any New Year's theme on suitable flat stones. An article-lesson on creating beautiful New Year's drawings is already on our website “Family Heap”.
And from several stones (also painted with gouache) you can put together a whole plot applique on a single background cut out of plywood.
We buy a small sheet of plywood at a hardware store (or find a suitable one in a pile of trash near the entrance). We cut a round piece out of it. We tint with ink the color of snow and the color of sky. And against this background we lay out Santa Claus, his sack, his reindeer, his sleigh... whatever.
Please note that the stones perform only one part of the element - the rest are painted, laid out from twigs, ropes and other natural materials.
It is not necessary to choose smooth round stones. The most uneven curved stones can work to your advantage. Lay them out, try them on next to each other and try to see the outlines of your future craft in this arrangement. Who knows what masterpiece your little “rock garden” will give birth to on a piece of paper.
You can also use shells as a natural material for crafts in the form of Santa Claus. It will turn out interesting and beautiful.
You can come up with your own New Year's pictures from magic pebbles. Do not forget to spray the craft with hairspray - this will make it brighter and will not stain your hands with gouache or smudge. You can also sculpt some details of such a panel craft from plasticine (it can also be coated with hairspray)... or sculpt it from papier mache (paper napkin mixed with PVA glue, see point above in this article).
You can also make a beautiful Santa Claus from ordinary plasticine (or polymer clay). The main thing is to work slowly and remember to wash your hands when moving from one color of plasticine to another. There we will get pure colors of the parts and the whole craft will look neat.
After making the craft, you need to dry it in a cool place and spray it with hairspray. This is necessary so that it stops being sticky and does not collect room dust. You can cover the craft with acrylic matte varnish with a soft brush. Acrylic varnish for crafts is sold at office supply or craft stores.
Such varnished, non-sticky plasticine figures are also good because they can be used inside small Snow capsules. Where the foam snowball will fall. You can make capsules for plasticine Santa Claus with your own hands - from transparent plastic bottles. Cutting off the top and bottom of them and joining them together. Sprinkle nail glitter, sequins or foam balls inside, or cut the fluff from pillows with scissors - the fluff will slowly settle, creating the illusion of snowfall.
Can be done flat crafts made from plasticine. Roll out colored plasticine with a rolling pin on the table. A wooden rolling pin is not suitable - it leaves rough marks on the plasticine. A round glass bottle or a can of any deodorant can be used as a smooth rolling pin.
Place a stencil image (details of Santa Claus, or his clothes) on the rolled out layer of plasticine. We trace with a sharp object. Remove the stencil and cut with scissors along the scratched lines. We get planar parts from which you can put together a plasticine graphic applique. Or make something like this to decorate your kitchen in New Year’s style (as in the photo below).
You can get ideas for plasticine crafts in the form of Santa Claus from New Year's cakes decorated with mastic characters. Santa Claus is often sculpted from sweet confectionery mastic from different angles. Look through New Year's cakes on Google and you will find many ideas for plasticine New Year's heroes.
You can find even more New Year's plasticine ideas for children's crafts in the classroom and at home in a special article on our website
Pine and fir cones can also be painted with gouache (like the stones from the paragraph above). And when painted, the cone immediately becomes interesting basis for a New Year's craft in the form of Santa Claus. We insert beads and buttons, a fluffy dusting brush painted with white gouache becomes a fluffy beard. Cut out a hat from a piece of felt.
Also in the company of Santa Claus With your own hands (also from pine cones) you can make a deer (with antlers made of fluffy wire), a snowman, a penguin in a felt scarf, and a green Christmas tree pine cone, decorated with beads and flowers cut from lace.
Other bright crafts and toys made from pine and fir cones are collected in a large article with photographs
If you know how to fold an Origami module. It doesn’t cost you anything to create such a pot-bellied Santa Claus. YouTube is full of videos that will teach you how to fold a triangular paper origami module in 2 minutes. For 2 pm make yourself a bunch of modules (the family will help), and on the third evening fold Santa Claus. Assembly takes place without glue. Each module fits into each other - like a groove into a groove.
Green Christmas tree also made from modular origami. And you can make a snowman and a deer, if you think with your head...
We all know how to make paper cones - like bags for seeds. We need a semicircle - which we roll into a bag and glue the side seam of the bag with glue (or not with glue, but with a stapler).
Or you can provide paper latches on the bag - slits and ears that fit into each other. On the template below we see that on the left we have an incision (short dotted line), and on the right there is a protruding eye (along the edge of the hem of the fur coat). We cut out such a template (diagram below), paint it and connect it into a bag - inserting the eyelet into the cut (or you can simply fix everything with glue without any ears).
Santa Claus is easy and quick to make based on a regular cone. Below I give large diagrams for large figures. The actual size of the diagram corresponds to A3 format - it’s like two landscape pages. You won't be able to print it on a printer - you need to go to the printing center. But the craft will be large and nice in size.
Here is another large template for making Santa Claus out of paper - it is also in A3 format - print in the center of the printout.
But this template is smaller - if you want, you can also enlarge it to a large size. Each craft is beautiful - you must agree. You can just imagine how Grandfather Frost stands proudly on the windowsill and pleases the eye. Great craft - elegant and simple.
Cardboard rolls are great for children's crafts. In the photo below we see how you can play up the image of Santa Claus based on this “toilet roll” form.
The elements can be made from paper, felt, cotton wool, formiam, fabric or knitted socks.
And in this section of the article I want to show how to make an original craft from non-standard materials with your own hands.
You can make Santa Claus from flower pots. We will make a beard for this grandfather from gypsum plaster. You can buy it at a hardware store gypsum plaster(it’s cheap in small packaging, you can buy half a kilo). We dilute the gypsum mixture with water to a thick porridge. And quickly, before it thickens and dries, we sculpt a beard for Santa Claus. Pots can also be coated with plaster porridge, in those places where we depict fluffy fur or snow. If sprinkled on top glitter(nail polish) it will turn out that snowy places sparkle in the sun.
Or here are New Year's crafts from disposable colored cups. Here the cups are placed in a circle on the floor (glue the round dance together using hot glue from a gun). Then, on a round dance, we make a second tier-floor, then a third - they themselves will be rounded into a spherical shape (because the cups at the bottom are narrower than at the edge). We make one ball for the belly and one ball for the head of Santa Claus. We make mittens, a belt, eyes, a mustache, and a hat from paper and fabric.
And we begin to make a green Christmas tree from cups according to the principle of a round dance. But we put a paper cone inside it. And we also attach the cups along the upper floors to the walls of this paper cone.
From the remaining red cups and toilet paper rolls you can make cute Frosties with a cotton wool beard.
And disposable flat plates can become a source of such children's crafts. Place beige paper on the bottom of the plate (this will be the background of the face). Without a beige or pink background (just on a pale plate) it will not be beautiful.
Now a new ornamental material has appeared on sale - formiam. This brainchild of modern technology is very suitable for making voluminous, plump crafts that are well attached to each other using hot glue. In the photo below you see a Santa Claus craft made from formim (a porous thick material).
But crafts made from felt will still be more durable. And warmer to the touch. More dear, closer.
You can make Santa Claus appliques from felt on a round piece of paper - you will get a toy pendant for the Christmas tree.
Please note how in the photo below the fastening of the applique parts is done - with sparse stitches, parts are tacked here and there (the beard and mustache are held on by 4-5 stitches).
If you make a HOOP from cardboard, wrap it in fabric and decorate the front with a figure of Santa Claus, then we will get a headdress for the New Year. It can be worn for children's holiday dinners, or worn directly over a hat on the street - delighting passers-by with its New Year's look.
In addition to hard felt, you can use SOFT FLEECE. This is the material from which sweatshirts and bikers are made. It is suitable for sewing soft toys in the form of Santa Claus or plump pillows (as in the photo below).
But Santa Claus, where FELT (wool for felting) is present, is in the left photo below. And also a figurine of Santa Claus made from a ball of red thread and a piece of white centipon and a felt cap. The face can be made from a tennis ball, tinted beige.
You can also knit a New Year's Santa Claus from threads with crochet or knitting needles. Below, for inspiration, I have posted several photo samples of such DIY crafts.
You can simply crochet a flat figure. Use it as an applique for a craft, or as a toy pendant for the Christmas tree.
You can make a beard from chopped bundles of thread (fluffy like a real one) or simply tie it with a wedge (like a knitting sprout).
And here is an example of Santa Claus knitted with his own hands. Choose your favorite knitting method and start making a real surprise for the whole family with your own hands. Such a New Year's toy will accompany your holiday every year, like a tradition, like a family heirloom, made by your mother's beloved hands.
Here are some ideas on the theme of Santa Claus with your own hands - from everything - from paper to knitting. Now you will definitely make yourself a magical Santa Claus who will fulfill your wishes this year. Because you deserve it. Because you are good.
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You can make many characters from strips of paper, but on the eve of the New Year, I recommend making Santa Claus. The work is not difficult, but also useful for children. I have used a similar technique more than once in creating crafts, for example, this or. But still, as always, I will describe the whole process in detail in this review.
Santa Claus consists of two paper balls: the lower body-ball is larger, and the upper head-ball is smaller. To make one ball you will need 4 strips of paper, 1-1.2 cm wide.
Line the paper with a pencil and ruler and cut 4 strips long and 4 slightly shorter. The sizes are arbitrary, depending on how you see your character. Twist the strip into a ring and determine the approximate size.
The strips are glued exactly in the center. Therefore, to determine exactly where the middle of the strip is, bend it in half, but do not press it too hard.
Take two strips and glue them together crosswise.
Apply glue to the middle of the intersection of the strips and add another transverse strip.
Glue the last strip and you should have a snowflake like this.
Apply glue to the tip of one of the strips and glue it to the opposite one.
Glue two more to these two. Try to make all sides the same, do not tighten the stripes too much. But they also shouldn’t sag excessively.
Then the next two. Do not forget that in this case it is more convenient to lubricate the tip of the strip with glue, and not the middle.
Glue the last two strips and you will have a ball. I made two balls at once - a large one and a small one.
Glue the balls together, the small one, naturally, on top. Here I needed PVA glue, since the pencil did not stick well. In order for the head and body of Santa Claus to stick together well, you need to insert your fingers between the strips, press and hold for a while. If your head is very small, this may be difficult to do. You can use a pencil or, as a last resort, glue the balls together with instant glue.
The main part of the work is ready, now let's move on to creating the face.
Draw and cut out a beard and mustache from white cardstock. They can be anything. You can draw them straight, just rounded, as your imagination dictates. Also cut out a small circle from red cardboard for the nose and a yellow semi-oval for the face. If you don’t have ready-made eyes, make them from white and black paper or just draw them.
Glue a yellow face, mustache, nose and eyes onto the beard.
Glue the resulting shape to the top ball.
Cut out the hands and mittens.
Attach the hands and pompom to the craft and Santa Claus from paper strips is ready. You can decorate a Christmas tree with it if you tie a thread, or any surface in the house. If Santa Claus is unstable, cut out a circle of paper from red cardboard and glue it to the bottom of the large ball.