Santas Crafts
Create a beautiful Santa Claus decoration with this arts & Crafts tutorial.
Material
- Red and pale pink paper for the figures
- Blue, green, yellow, orange, purple paper for the boots
- coarse wool in many different colors (green, blue, white, purple for example) which is 24 cm / 9 inches long.
- Black felt tip pen
- Cotton
- Stapler
- Pattern to print
- Glue
Preparation
- Draw 6 rectangles of 10.5 cm x 17 cm in a red paper. The strip should be at least 63cm x 1cm. It must be folded to resemble an accordion.
- Reproduce the same pattern n° 2 on the fold’s top.
- Cut the edges of the 6 layers. Remove using a cutter the rectangle that is between the 2 feet and unfold thereafter.
Santa
- Draw 6 faces following the pattern (n°. 3) using a pink paper. Each of these faces must be placed on the silhouettes.
- Draw the facial features such as the nose, eyes and mouth using a black felt tip pen.
- Santa’s whiskers should be made of cotton wool that has been pinched with a bit of a twist (n° 4). These whickers will be pasted in the center right above the mouth.
- The barbs should be made of cotton wool too that has been glued in the mouth (n° 5).
- A small strip of cotton must be glued in the cuffs too (n° 5).
- Decorate your Santa using a strand of yarn that has been tied around each of them.