Craft on the theme of the kingdom of Santa Claus. DIY Santa Claus and Snow Maiden. Crafts, templates, master classes. Decorating a snow lawn

Anastasia Samitina

Sometimes we, adults, just want to stay at least a little children: believe in miracles, Grandfather Frost and feel joy when everything you ordered Santa Claus turned old, this feeling is irreplaceable. Childhood is a time for everything extraordinary, educational and magical. It is in winter that we can immerse our children in a richer world of magic. After all, winter is the time when children expect miracles at every step and when you look into those cute, sparkling eyes, you understand that everything you're doing the right thing. It is these eyes that push us to create a miracle, a tiny one, but a childish MIRACLE. in their group, to create this little miracle, namely the appearance of Grandfather soon Frost, which the children are looking forward to, I came up with the following points. Well, firstly, this is, of course, "Mail Santa Claus"- the children came up with great pleasure and quietly talked about their most cherished dream, which I wrote down on a piece of paper, then sealed the envelope and threw it in the box. Afterwards we began to sing songs, teach and recite poems for Grandfather Frost. We looked at the morning sky to see how close Grandfather is to us Freezing, the kids said that the brightest star in the sky is the Approaching Grandfather Freezing, now every morning we look out the window and the children determine that Grandfather has become closer to us Freezing in your sleigh or not. Moreover, the children were asked give a gift to Santa Claus to please him too. "After all, he is something for us lucky gifts, and we should thank him for that. " - said the children. That's it present We would like to present to you what we have achieved?

This is a big carpet. It can be hung on the wall, or placed on the table for decoration, instead of a tablecloth. When will Grandfather come to see us for the New Year? Freezing, we are this carpet let's give it to him, we think that Santa Claus will like our gift, what do you think?

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Summary of educational activities for speech development using ICT in the middle group “Gift to Grandfather Frost” Summary of direct educational activities on speech development using ICT in the middle group “Gift for Grandfather Frost.”

Lesson summary “Gift to Santa Claus” Summary script of a preschool educational institution Teacher (full name): Ivanova Elena Vladimirovna Educational institution: MBDOU "Dobryansky kindergarten No. 10" Age of pupils: average.

1. Take a regular orange dishwashing sponge. 2. Separate the rough part from one side of the sponge. 3. Tie two threads.

Let's write a letter to Grandfather Frost We will need: a sheet of paper, an envelope, a pen, colored pencils, New Year's cards or pictures and, of course, a good mood. Before.

Today in Russia they celebrate the birthday of Father Frost. The boys and I are very excited about this event and are looking forward to the mild winter weather.

Project “Gift to Santa Claus” Project “Gift to Santa Claus” Author: Orujova Irina Nikolaevna Problem: 1. Currently, a large percentage of parents are reluctant to participate.

Psychocorrectional lesson in the preparatory group “Gift to Santa Claus” MBDOU No. 162 “Kindergarten of a general developmental type” Psychocorrectional lesson in the preparatory group TOPIC: “GIFT TO SANTA CLAUS”.

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:

• warm earflaps
• long beard
• red fur coat
• staff
• gift bag

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.

DIY Santa Claus from a bottle

A desktop Santa Claus can even be made from a plastic liter bottle, which is found in every home. You will need:

• liter empty bottle
• colored paper
• scissors
• red and white paint
• buttons
• threads

1. Draw a face and mustache on the bottle with a marker. Paint all other parts red. Use acrylic paints or gouache, adding PVA glue to it for better application. Paint your face flesh color and make your beard white.
2. Wrap white thread around the transition to the tapering part of the bottle - this is Santa Claus's hat.
3. Make a pompom from threads and a disk and attach it to the lid.
4. Make a belt for Santa Claus from threads and buttons.
5. Eyes and mouth can be drawn on or small buttons can be used.
6. To make the legs and arms, fold long strips of paper several times to form an accordion and glue them to the bottle.
7. Cut out small palms or mittens and glue them instead of handles.
8. You can use round bobbins as boots, covering them with red paper.

Using the same technique, you can make a Snow Maiden and a snowman to accompany Santa Claus.

Santa Claus: DIY toy

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.

1. You need to purchase small pieces of fabric or use existing scraps; you don't need much for the toy.
2. Print and cut out the patterns, place them on the fabric and trace, you will need about 0.5 cm for an allowance.
3. Cut out all the parts and sew them together by hand or on a machine, leaving a small hole. Make cuts at the folds to prevent the fabric from wrinkling.
4. Turn the parts out and stuff them with padding polyester or cotton wool and sew them up until the end.
5. Collect all the parts.
6. Add decorative elements.

DIY Santa Claus costume: diagrams and patterns

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.

1. The most time-consuming part of the work is sewing the fur coat. You can purchase a long piece of red fabric, it can be fleece, satin, corduroy, or velvet. As well as white fabric for decoration.
2. The size of the fur coat depends on who it is being sewn for; below is a simple diagram. You can take measurements from “Santa Claus” himself.
3. All parts are sewn together, finish in white. The Santa Claus hat is made using the same principle.
4. Make a beard from a piece of padding polyester by cutting out several layers and placing them on top of each other.
5. For a staff, use a mop handle wrapped in gold packing tape.
6. Sew scraps into a gift bag.

DIY Santa Claus beard

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.

• Option 1: cut out the base from white felt, sew ties along the edges and stick cotton balls over the entire surface.

• Option 2: Cut out an oval-shaped piece of felt - this will be the basis for your future beard. Fluff felt or thick white yarn and sew it to the base, imitating a mustache and beard.

• Option 3: You can use a respirator as a base for your beard, in which case the beard will hold securely. Cut out holes for the mouth and cover the remaining parts with padding polyester.

DIY Santa Claus staff

If you approach the issue of making a staff more seriously, you can try the following methods.

• Option 1: Glue a Christmas tree decoration, which is usually used to decorate the top of a spruce, onto the top of the mop handle, cover the joint with tinsel, and wrap the base with ribbon or wrapping paper.
• Option 2: Use a shovel handle, sand the base and cover it with white paint, wrap the staff with thin tinsel, decorate the top with a Christmas tree decoration attached to a glue gun, add glitter.
• Option 3: An express way to create a staff is to use foil for decoration. Wrap the base (mop handle, gymnastics stick, etc.) in foil, then wrap it on top with tinsel.

DIY Santa Claus sleigh

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.

DIY Santa Claus mittens

Since Santa Claus lives in the North, he would be very uncomfortable without mittens, after all, he’s not even that old 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:

DIY Santa Claus from scrap materials

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:

• colored paper
• cutter
• toothpick

1. Cut the paper into thin strips of 0.5 cm each and use a toothpick to twist it into a rope.
2. Remove from the toothpick, let it straighten a little to make a circle and secure the end with PVA glue
3. From such elements you can assemble a whole Santa Claus.

From toilet paper rolls or clothes cleaning rollers:

1. the roller will be the base
2. cover it with red paper or felt
3. draw a face
4. glue a beard from cotton wool
5. you can make a hat from a napkin

Santa Claus using origami technique

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.

DIY Santa Claus made of colored felt

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:

• Option 1. Santa Claus toy for the Christmas tree: you just need to cut out all the parts according to the pattern below and sew them together, add padding polyester inside for softness.

• Option 2. Santa Claus on a Christmas wreath: more and more often in homes you can see decoration in the form of a Christmas wreath, more typical of Western culture. You can decorate the wreath with Christmas balls, branches or felt Santa Claus.

• Option 3. Santa Claus basket: you will need thick felt, about 4-5 mm thick, cut out all the parts and sew. Place a gift in the basket and hide it under the Christmas tree.

DIY Santa Claus made from cotton wool

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:

• paints
• threads
• wire

Making Santa Claus:

• Use wire to form the frame of the future Santa Claus, all parts of the body except the head.
• Wrap cotton wool around the frame and secure with threads.

• The next layers of cotton wool are attached using paste or PVA; apply the cotton wool in thin layers so that it sticks securely.
• Start making the head, first form a ball, then gradually sculpt the nose, brow ridges, lips, evaluate the proportions, the head should not be too large relative to the body.
• Attach the head to the body using glue and thread.

• Use wire to form a frame for a fur coat, which is attached to the waist.
• Wrap the wire with white thread.
• Cover the hem of the fur coat with cotton wool and form a hat, mittens, felt boots, and beard.

• After complete drying, start painting.

DIY Santa Claus made from tights

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:

• light tights or stockings
• padding polyester or cotton wool
• paints
• thread with needle
• red fabric for clothes

1. To get started, form 3 balls of cotton wool, one large for the head and three smaller ones for the cheeks and nose. Cut off the sock part of the tights and place all three lumps there, sew up the hole.
2. Now shape the nose and secure it with pins for ease of work and sew with light threads. Using the same principle, form the eyes and lips.
3. For the body, you can use the remaining tights, cut a piece about 20 cm long, sew up one edge and stuff it tightly with cotton wool.
4. Sew the parts together, now move on to the clothes. For the fur coat, use the attached pattern. Make the hat from leftover fabric.
5. Don't forget to add a beard and mustache, make them from leftover cotton wool.
6. Now the hardest part remains - paint the face and the toy is ready.

DIY Santa Claus on a glass

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:

• wineglass
• decoupage napkins with Santa Claus
• tassel
• PVA glue
• scissors

1. Remove the bottom two paper layers from the napkins; you only need a bright picture. Cut out the elements that you would like to transfer to the glass.
2. Dilute the glue with water or cook the paste.
3. Using a brush dipped in glue, carefully spread the napkins over the glass, keeping in mind that the glass will stand upside down. Smooth out all the wrinkles to ensure a flawless decor.
4. After complete drying, you can add a few more decorative elements in the form of stars or snowflakes.
5. Place a candle on the foot and place it on the table.

DIY Big Santa Claus

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.

• The entire body and head is based on a cone. Its size depends on how big the toy you want to end up with. Cut out a cone and a circle from paper.

• Draw a diameter on the circle and divide it into three parts, the points equidistant from the center will be the legs.
• Wrap the circle on one side with bright felt or fabric, glue the edges on the inside, thread the wire through the holes and form loops in place of the feet.
• Wind a thinner wire to the middle of the wire; its length should be greater than the height of the cone. To prevent the figure from losing its balance, the junction of the circle and the wire must be generously glued with a glue gun.

• Cut out two rectangles from fabric about 4 cm wide and 10 cm longer than the length of Santa Claus's legs. Sew from the long side, turn it inside out and put it on the legs. Baste to the bottom of the circle.
• Cut a cone out of white felt, sew and turn right side out. Fill it tightly with synthetic down and thread a thin wire through it, sew it to the circle with a hidden seam.
• Cut out the soles from thick cardboard or plywood; they should be larger than the wire loops. Glue the soles using a glue gun. Glue foam shoes on top.

• Cover the boots with red felt and pull them down at the bottom.
• Draw eyes and mouth at the top of the cone
• Cut out Santa Claus' fur coat and handles from red felt or fleece. The handles must be sewn and filled with synthetic synthetic material.
• Sew the fur coat directly to the cone with a hidden seam and decorate it with decor as you wish.

• Cut a white collar from white fleece and sew on it.
• Sew handles to the fur coat on both sides.
• Next, you need to comb the beard and mustache from the existing wool and carefully attach them to the face of Santa Claus.
• Form a hat from the remnants of wool; its decor can repeat the decor on the fur coat.
• Santa Claus is ready to delight you and your loved ones!

DIY champagne Santa Claus

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.

1. You can also make an amazing decoration for a bottle from a red satin ribbon.
2. To make it removable, you first need to prepare the base in the shape of a bottle, and then wrap it with ribbons
3. At the end, add white felt or fur decor

Knit a Santa Claus costume onto a bottle with your own hands

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.

Santa Claus - DIY pillow

Pillows with Santa Claus will help change the style of the interior and make it more New Year's. This can be a 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:

• base fabric
• felt or fleece for finishing
• threads
• needle

1. Cut a cover from fabric for an existing pillow and sew it together, inserting a zipper for opening and closing
2. Cut out all parts of Santa Claus's face from fleece: beard, eyes, mustache, nose, hat, pompom
3. Sew all the parts to the base one by one, you can use buttons as eyes
4. Make a pompom from threads and sew it to the hat
5. Santa Claus' mustache can be made voluminous by stuffing it with padding polyester.

If you have a lot of patience, you can try to cross-stitch a pillow with Santa Claus.

DIY Santa Claus made from spoons

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:

• plastic spoons
• cardboard
• red paint
• felt-tip pen

1. Cut and glue a cone out of cardboard, it will be the basis for Santa Claus
2. Now use a pencil to mark the places where the mustache, beard and eyes will be located, paint over everything else with red paint
3. Break off the base of the plastic spoons and glue them to the beard and along the edge of the cone
4. Cut out handles from paper and glue on each side
5. Draw the eyes and your Santa Claus is ready

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:

Santa Claus made from plastic cups

Continuing the theme of creativity from disposable tableware, you can try to create Santa Claus from ordinary plastic cups.

You will need:

• plastic cups red and white
• threads
• balloon
• fleece for hat
• buttons

1. Glue the cups together to form a ball-like shape. White cups will symbolize the hem of the fur coat and buttons.
2. Next, the head can be made from cups or made from PVA glue, thread and a balloon.
3. Glue the head to the base, add eyes and a beard using cotton pads.
4. Stick the cups into each other and glue them as handles.
5. Glue together a Santa Claus hat from fleece or felt.
6. From the remaining cups, glue a bag with gifts and tie it with a ribbon.

Santa Claus from a plastic plate

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:

• plate
• red triangle for hat
• white rectangle for hat lapel
• black circles for eyes
• cotton balls for beard
• nose pompom

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!

DIY chocolate maker with Santa Claus

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.

1. From thick red cardboard, cut out the base for the future box and iron all the folds, glue a pocket for chocolate
2. Glue ribbons to make your gift look more presentable
3. On the front side, glue or draw a face, beard, mustache, hat, nose and eyes
4. Place your favorite chocolate inside and write wishes for the New Year

Santa Claus made of paper, DIY diagram

One of the simplest options for creating Santa Claus, and perhaps the most technologically advanced, is to simply print it out and glue it 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!

Do-it-yourself volumetric Santa Claus

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:

1. Having folded the required number of modules of a certain color, you can proceed directly to assembly
2. At the base there are 25 BM (white modules), placed on the short side in a circle
3. In the second row, place 25 BM in the same way as in 1, but on the long side and put it on the 1st row.
4. The third row repeats the previous one
5. In the fourth row, place 25 CM (blue modules) on the long side
6. Fifth row: 22cm on the long side and 3cm on the short side, turn the ring out
7. In the sixth row there are 4 BM and 21SM, all with the long side out
8. In the seventh row there are 5 BM and 20 SM, located as in the previous row
9. In the eighth row there are 6 BM and 19 SM, located as in the previous row
10. In the ninth row there are 7 BM and 18 CM, located as in the previous row
11. In the tenth row there are 8 BM and 17 SM, located as in the previous row
12. In the eleventh row there are 25 BMs, located as in the previous row
13. In the twelfth row there are 25 BM, located as in the previous row
14. In the thirteenth row there are 1KM and 24 BM, located as in the previous row
15. In the fourteenth row there are 2 BMs with the long side outward above the CM of the 13th row, on both sides of them there are 2 TMs (body modules) with the short side, the remaining 19 BMs
16. In the fifteenth row there are 7 TM and 18 BM with the long, short and long sides facing outwards, respectively.
17. In the sixteenth row there are 8 TM and 17 BM with the long, short and long sides facing outwards, respectively.
18. In the seventeenth row, reduce the number of elements of the row by putting 6 modules on 3 corners, a total of 22 BM with the short side outward
19. In the eighteenth row, 20 cm outward with the short side
20. In the nineteenth 18 CM short side out
21. In the twentieth 9 BM short side forward
22. Form handles from the remaining elements, glue on the eyes and nose

DIY Santa Claus doll

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.

1. Lay out the fabric and trace all the details, leave 5 mm for an allowance. Cut along the outline and sew on a machine.
2. Gather all the parts together, use a thick thread to decorate the doll’s clothes, the yarn will make an excellent beard.

Santa Claus on the Christmas tree with his own hands

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.

Santa Claus made of balloons

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.

1. Inflate 31 red and 11 white balloons of the same size and arrange them in the shape of a cone, so that in the first row there are 6 white balloons, in the second and third 6 red, in the fourth 4 red 1 white, in the fifth 5 red, in the sixth 5 red, the seventh has 5 red, the eighth has 4 white.
2. Blow up a large beige or pink balloon, this will be your head.
3. Place a Santa Claus hat on top of your head and draw eyes with a marker.
4. Make a beard from white felt or fleece.

Santa Claus made from salt dough

Another wonderful material for creativity is salt dough. It allows you to create amazing things that will last a long time.

1. First, prepare the dough: mix 200 grams of salt and flour, 100 ml of water and half a teaspoon of PVA and knead the dough
2. Form a cone-shaped base from the finished dough.
3. Fashion sleeves and handles and glue to the cone
4. Use two long strips of dough to form the lapel and hem of the fur coat.
5. Make hats and noses from small balls of dough
6. Add a beard and mustache, eyebrows
7. Place in the oven to dry for 40 minutes.
8. Then paint the finished product with acrylic paints and varnish

Santa Claus felted from wool

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.

• Felt flesh-colored wool into a cone-shaped shape with a ball on top. The cone is the body, so add a small roundness on one side, this is the solid belly of Santa Claus.
• Cut out a fur coat for Santa Claus from felt and sew it directly onto the base.

• Sew a small cone-shaped hat from the remaining red fabric.
• Felt flagella from white wool so that they are fluffy on one side, place them on a sponge and use a needle to drive them into the sponge. Glue the finished flagella to the fur coat using glue along the hem and collar.
• From the remaining white wool we form a beard and mustache and pin them with a needle.
• Glue on the eyes and nose
• From the wire, measure the required length for the handles, wrap the wire with red felt and glue it to the ends of the mittens. Stick the open end of the wire into the body.

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!

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The main fairy-tale character, without whom the New Year is impossible. How to make a figure of Santa Claus under the Christmas tree, decorate windows with it and make a panel on the wall - teachers share ideas and talk about their experience. Master classes on creating sculptures of Santa Claus in various techniques - papier-mâché, modular origami, knitting, the use of natural and waste materials. Ideas for children's creativity - New Year's crafts, cards, applications, Christmas tree toys with Grandfather Frost. Everything you need to create a classic image of Santa Claus with your own hands.

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There is no doubt that Santa Claus is the main character of New Year's celebrations. It is his miracles and gifts that children wait for, they send letters, postcards, and under the tree for the fairy-tale wizard, a return gift for children is often hidden - a New Year's craft. Santa Claus himself often becomes a character, embodied in various types of creativity.

DIY origami

A person who is interested in origami will have no questions about how to make small paper figurines in the form of Santa Claus. By choosing the simplest and most understandable option among the proposed schemes, even a person inexperienced in this type of creativity can make a New Year’s figurine out of paper. Santa Claus, created with your own hands from a small piece of colored paper, will be an excellent addition to the main gift or card, and will also be a wonderful sign of attention.

Felt crafts

Felt is a very practical and convenient material for creativity. Felt toys are not only colorful and pleasant to the touch: due to the fact that the pattern pieces can not only be sewn, but also glued to each other using hot glue or an adhesive stick, the creation is also suitable for children.

In order to make a felt Santa Claus with your own hands, you will need:

• red felt:
• flesh-colored felt;
• white felt;
• white floss;
• needle;
• padding polyester or cotton wool;
• pencil;
• scissors.

Work progress (step by step):

• Print or redraw the product pattern on paper, cut out the details.
• Bend the red felt in half, use a pencil to transfer the largest part of the pattern (in the form of a drop) onto it and cut it out. Sew both parts of the part together, leaving a centimeter section unstitched. Through the resulting hole, fill the product with padding polyester or cotton wool (for convenience, you can use a pencil), and then sew up the hole.
• From flesh-colored felt, cut out 1 piece in the form of an oval. This is the face of the future figure. Having placed the part in the desired place, place white felt parts on top of it: the beard and the frill of the hat. The frill should be sewn around the entire perimeter, and the beard should be sewn only at the point of contact with the figure’s face.
• Cut out the remaining parts from white felt: mustache and pompom of the hat (2 pcs.). Sew the mustache over the beard, stitching the piece only along the top edge.
• Cut a small circle (nose) from flesh felt and sew it on top of the mustache.
• Place the end of the Santa Claus hat between two pompom pieces and sew them together.
• Embroider or draw eyes. Fasten the thread in the form of a loop.

Various decorative elements will decorate and diversify the craft. Santa Claus can be made not only in the traditional red and white color scheme, but also have a blue or green suit.

Bottle decoration

It's no secret that the most universal New Year's gift for people in close social circles is champagne (or other alcohol) and chocolate (or candy). The original Santa Claus, hand-sewn from colorful materials, will make the gift unique and memorable.

Making crafts from bottles is also suitable for younger groups of kindergarten: to do this, simply fill transparent bottles with red paper, glue a cotton wool beard and plastic eyes on top, and complete the image of the main New Year's wizard with a red sock or paper cap that imitates the character's hat.

Crafts made from cotton pads

Cotton pads and cotton wool are the easiest materials to use in kindergarten. Children can glue cotton pads (or balls) onto templates prepared in advance by adults or make a craft entirely with their own hands, first painting it and then decorating it with cotton wool parts. These can be snowflakes cut out with a figured hole punch, the cotton beard of Santa Claus, as well as details of his costume.

Identical templates, decorated with details from cotton pads and cotton wool in accordance with the tastes and skills of each child, will become wonderful and different gifts that children can take home and give to their loved ones.

For creativity in older groups of kindergarten, more painstaking and complex work is suitable - creating crafts from cotton swabs. Sticks attached with glue will be a good building material for creating fabulous winter landscapes.

Santa Claus made of plasticine

For children in older groups of kindergarten, as well as for younger schoolchildren, modeling from plasticine will be easy. Depending on the child’s skills, you can choose step-by-step instructions for products of varying degrees of complexity: from the simplest to figures with a large number of small parts.

Santa Claus made of plasticine will become the main character of fabulous winter scenes and New Year's stories.

Figures made from threads

Creating a fairy-tale character from woolen threads is a labor-intensive process that requires not so much special handicraft skills as it takes a lot of time and painstaking work. However, the resulting figurines have a very “homey” look, evoking a feeling of coziness and warmth.

Santa Claus made of paper

Paper crafts are extremely diverse not only in type, but also in the types of techniques used in the process of their creation. Paper of only two colors (green and red), rolled and fixed in the form of cones and complemented with small details (a face with a beard, Christmas balls) will become the basis for creating a beautiful

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...

Santa Claus on a gift

How to do it yourself.

(simple options).

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:

• a round shape made of white cardboard, a piece of red cardboard,
• red pompom (or regular cotton wool + PVA glue + red gouache)
• a piece of white foam packaging interlayer (which is often placed in boots in the store, or in boxes with equipment). Or (if you don’t have such material) you can take white cardboard and cover it with cotton pads.)

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 soft felt, or formiam as in the photo below), decorated with Santa Claus appliqué 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.

Santa Claus WITH CANDY
(just do it yourself).

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.

Santa Claus do it yourself

Craft using the spider web technique.

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).

DIY Santa Claus.

Balloon craft

using papier-mâché technique.

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. In this way, 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 the 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 cost. 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.

Making our own Santa Claus

from stones and natural materials.

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).

Craft Santa Claus

Made from plasticine.

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

DIY Santa Claus

FROM CONES.

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

Volumetric Santa Claus

From modular origami.

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...

DIY Santa Claus

FROM PAPER CONES.

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.

Children's craft Santa Claus

From toilet paper rolls.

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.

Elements can be made from paper, felt, cotton wool, formiam, fabric or knitted socks.

Santa Claus and dishes

(pots, cups, plates).

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.

Craft Santa Claus

Made from felt and formiam.

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.

Knitted Santa Claus.

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.

Continuation of PAPER crafts in the form of Santa Claus - in our SECOND article

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