Good afternoon everyone, today we will surprise you with new ideas for New Year’s crafts in the form of Santa Claus. There will be a lot of non-standard New Year's resolutions - Santa Claus will appear before us in a variety of images. We will see that New Year's Santa Claus is not only a paper craft, we will make him from wood, from fabric, from boxes. You'll definitely find a craft here that will inspire your creativity and make you want to make it yourself.
New Year's Santa Claus
WITH CANDY.
Children in all countries know that the main supplier of candy during the New Year holidays is Santa Claus. We always expect a sweet treat from him. And that means doing a craft with Santa Claus only on New Year’s Eve, when it smells like chocolate or tangerines.
Here's an idea for a sweet New Year's craft with Santa Claus. Santa Claus's belly is a sheet folded in half and in the front half of the fold we will cut a hole - an inspection hole where our candy will protrude.
The shape and design of the tummy can be different - triangular (as in the photo above) or round (as in the photo below). The main thing is the general principle - bend the sheet in half and draw an oval for the hole in the front part.
The two edges of the bent part are fixed along the upper edge with a stapler or tape or glue. And then New Year's Santa Claus receives a face, hat, beard, arms and legs.
Your craft with Santa Claus can hide treats in another way. Here is another version of the craft with a pocket for sweets FLAT New Year's Santa Claus, made of cardboard.
Or here are options with a convex box, where you can pour a good handful of sweets into Santa Claus. These Santa Clauses are a great craft for kindergarten - they are very simple. We have a diagram of this craft and a master class on our website - here in this article
You can simply lean it against a flat craft with Santa Claus cut tea or biscuit box- cover it with a colored appliqué that imitates a brick pipe.
New Year's Santa Claus
FROM A CUP.
Here is a beautiful and very simple craft for children at school or in kindergarten. We take a red plastic cup as a basis. We cut out a face, a brood and a hat from paper. Glue this to the top of the glass. You can use a stand behind Santa Claus's head, a prop - which is glued to the bottom of the glass and leans against the back of Grandfather's head.
If you have white disposable cups and foam balls, you can make a beautiful ANGEL craft. But if you don't have foam balls, you can make them a SUBSTITUTE - roll a larger ball out of plasticine. We tear the white napkin into pieces. We coat the plasticine ball with PVA glue and place a napkin on it, layer by layer... until all the plasticine is hidden and the ball turns white. Here you have the angel's head - simply and quickly enough. We wait for the napkin layer to dry and draw eyes on it or glue them from colored paper.
New Year's Santa Claus
in a pyramid box.
A triangular gift box can be designed in the shape of Santa Claus. Such a box opens at its lower part - at the bottom. Or the box can open like a tulip bud - the triangular walls fall apart and we see a gift.
New Year's Santa Claus
FROM A ROLL BUSH.
What remains of used toilet paper is a cardboard roll called a sleeve. You can make beautiful New Year's crafts from such bushings. Santa Clauses grow a cotton beard, they are covered with sparkles, or they are wrapped in felt clothes. You can make friends for them, also from bushings.
The bushings can be painted or covered with colored paper. Decorate with rhinestones, buttons, and wrap with elegant ribbons or ropes.
If the sleeve is shortened by half, cut it in half. Then a short piece of roll can become a New Year's pendant with Santa Claus to decorate the Christmas tree.
Children's crafts
TO GARDEN AND SCHOOL
with New Year's Santa Claus.
If you need a beautiful, bright craft for an exhibition in kindergarten, or a competition entry for school, then you can quickly and easily make New Year's wreath with Santa Claus made of a cardboard ring.
We take a large piece of cardboard - a pizza lid, for example - put a round plate on it, trace it with a pencil. Cut out the resulting circle. We put a small plate on this circle - trace it and cut it out - we get a circle with a hole in the center - that is, a CARDBOARD RING.
We cover it with colored paper (to hide the letters from the pizza) and decorate it with a New Year's applique - Santa Claus and flowers. You will find templates for this craft in the article.
Suitable for kindergarten simple craft from plates — New Year's Santa Claus with treats. The cookies and gingerbread on the plate may not be real, but cut out of cardboard or felt, or better yet, made from salt dough.
Here's another quick craft where New Year's Santa Claus is made from a cone. To make the craft tall and large-scale, we take four sheets of paper and glue them along the edges together (with tape or a glue stick). From such an enlarged sheet we fold a cul-cone - we straighten it and cut off its lower edge. From the front of the cone at the top we glue the silhouette of the face of Santa Claus, a pompom on the hat, and hands with cuffs. We draw buttons and snowflakes on the fur coat.
You can make a FLAT cardboard craft with Santa Claus and have it stand VERTICALLY at the exhibition. Let's make a selection for it, a cardboard pyramid with a slot. The diagram below shows the principle of gluing such a support from a strip of cardboard.
Here in the photo below we see a whole team of New Year's Santa Clauses on just such collection legs, made according to the diagram above.
New Year's Santa Claus
FROM WOOD.
Very beautiful and strong crafts for the New Year are made from wood. New Year's Santa Claus made of wood is a durable and elegant craft that will serve you, your children and your grandchildren. If you have boards and know how to saw and sand, then this is your craft. Let your New Year's Santa Claus be wooden, warm and pleasant to the touch. A tree always retains the living force of nature.
You can also cut out silhouettes of fir trees, the silhouette of a snow-covered house and other elements of a winter landscape from wood.
You can cut out Santa Claus, who is holding a sign with a New Year's wish in his hands.
You decide for yourself what the shape of Santa Claus will be - elongated and tall, or plump and short.
With a wooden Santa Claus, you can make New Year's compositions by adding other wooden characters to it.
You can buy ready-made wooden figures of Santa Claus and decorate them into New Year's compositions. Just create a piece of New Year's decorations - from spruce branches, artificial snow.
For such compositions, you can make Christmas trees from cones cut from a carton of eggs.
You can fold Christmas trees out of paper as in the photo below. For this purpose, in the New Year section we also have a large article about DIY paper Christmas trees.
New Year's Santa Claus.
from bottles.
If you cover wine bottles with red spray paint, you will get an excellent preparation for a New Year's Santa Claus craft. Note: choose a color marked GLOSS because matte will look dull and will require varnishing the craft.
If you are fond of crafts made from thermomosaics, then you can make a craft for a Christmas tree from mosaic bobbles.
Here is a beautiful panel in the form of Santa Claus. This elegant New Year's craft is made from a special decorative ribbon, which is gathered into wavy ruffle ties. But we can make a similar craft without ribbon - simply using the very idea of a round design and fluffy decor. You can make an imitation of beard curls from ordinary office paper, yarn, or cotton wool. If you are making a craft that is not large, but small, about the size of a plate, then it is good to make a beard from round cotton pads.
New Year's Santa Claus
ON PACKAGES for gifts.
You can make your own gift wrappings from thick felt or flexible plastic.
Below, I have drawn a figurative diagram of this New Year’s box with Santa Claus - so you see that everything is simple. There is a bottom (narrow rectangular) - there are rounded walls and sides, with areas for gluing them to the front and back sides of the box bag.
You can use this principle to create your own designs for boxes with Santa Claus. The scheme is the same, but the styles are different. The photo below has the SAME SCHEME... but here the front and back walls already have a ready-made silhouette of Santa Claus. The diagram in the picture below is cropped - you need to continue it down (mirroring from the top) and to the sides (extending the sides).
But first, you will learn how to make simple rectangular boxes with straight walls and simply decorate them with an applique of New Year's Santa Claus.
Here is another beautiful craft where New Year's Santa Claus is made from a lace paper napkin on which cakes are placed. The face of Santa Claus is cut out of white paper tinted beige. This applique can also decorate your New Year's gift box.
But here are examples and diagrams of SQUARE BOXES with Santa Claus - New Year's designs can be very different.
New Year's Santa Claus
from threads and wool.
Crocheted Santa Clauses look beautiful. Here you can fantasize as you please. Make them long, tall or round and thick. You yourself give the shape to a figurine made of red yarn - and then attach a face and beard to it and it becomes a typical Santa Claus.
You can felt New Year's Santa Claus from felt - combed wool. Felting is like modeling from plasticine, only with constant backcombing of your figures. we scratch with a needle until the lump thickens under our hands.
These are the beautiful ideas you can implement with New Year's Santa Claus this New Year. I wish you creative insights, happy coincidences, flexible working material and dexterous hands. May you succeed both with crafts and with life in this new year.
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You will need:
White cardboard
Sequins
Ruler
Latex primer (optional)
Glue stick
Scissors
Stationery knife
Decorations (tinsel, bells, balls).
1. To get started, download the template from THIS link or you can draw a house of similar dimensions yourself.
2. Cut out all the parts from paper and glue them to white cardboard using a glue stick or double-sided tape.
3. Cut out the pieces from cardboard. Use a utility knife to cut out doors, windows and other details.
4. Fold all the elements along the fold lines and glue everything together.
5. If desired, you can apply a primer to the paper house to prevent it from deforming.
6. Paint your house and after the paint has dried, start decorating it.
The house can be hung on the Christmas tree using a thread attached to the roof so that it hangs level, or you can simply place it on a flat surface to decorate the house.
DIY craft "House made of paper tubes"
You will need:
Thin paper (regular printed paper is fine)
Scissors
Pencil
Decorations.
1. Roll each sheet (or identical pieces of sheets) into a tube. It's better to use a pencil - it's easier to twist.
2. Draw windows and a door on paper or cardboard and cut them out.
3. Glue the tubes together as shown in the image (to make a hut).
4. Glue the windows and door to the hut.
5. Decorate the house to your liking.
Another option:
DIY Santa Claus house (master class)
You will need:
Cardboard box or
Scissors
Sandpaper
Stationery knife
Tassels
Polyurethane foam and gun (optional).
1. Prepare a cardboard box and make a house out of it. You will need to cut the pieces and glue them together.
2. Use a utility knife to cut out the windows and door. You can draw them in advance with a simple pencil.
3. Paint the house or you can decorate it polyurethane foam. To do this, you need to apply foam in strips so that each strip is 1.5 cm wide. As it dries, the foam will swell, so it is better to leave 3-4 mm between the strips.
4. After you have covered the house with foam, leave it for 30 minutes to allow the foam to dry.
Making a stand for the house.
Cut out a rectangle from cardboard that should be larger than the base of the house.
Glue the house to the stand and decorate the perimeter of the stand with foam.
*Use of foam is optional. To imitate snow, you can use cotton wool, which should be glued with PVA glue.
* You can also cut out snow slides, snowdrifts, a snowman or a Christmas tree from paper or white cardboard and glue them to the base, bending the bottom part and applying glue to it.
If you used foam, then after it dries, cut off the excess parts with a stationery knife and sand it with sandpaper.
Paint all the desired parts.
DIY cardboard house: gnome's home
You will need:
Cardboard toilet paper cylinders
White paper
Colored paper
Black felt-tip pen
Glue stick
Hot glue or PVA glue
Sequins of different colors (including white).
1. Cut one toilet paper cardboard cylinder in half, and the second and third so that you have two long and two short pieces. This way you will have houses of different sizes.
2. Cut the white paper into strips 15 cm long and 2-3 cm wider than the height of the cylinder that you will wrap with this strip.
3. Cut out windows and doors from colored paper. Use a marker to draw door handles and window details.
4. Using a glue stick, glue the windows and doors to the white stripes.
5. Wrap the strips around the corresponding cylinders and secure them with glue. Fold the excess paper into the cylinder.
6. Make several cones of different colors from colored paper, glue the ends of the cones, and glue the cones themselves with PVA glue to the house cylinders.
*You can add a little glue to each roof of the house and sprinkle glitter on it to imitate fallen snow.
DIY paper house: paper New Year's village
You will need:
Corrugated cardboard (cardboard from regular packaging)
Stationery knife
Scissors
Ruler
Pencil
White acrylic paint and brush
LED garland.
1. Prepare cardboard and use a pencil to draw several houses connected to each other on it. You can use a ruler. You will end up with a small village. Cut out a village from cardboard.
2. Bend the cut out piece like an accordion along the lines that connect the houses. To make even folds, place a ruler on the fold line and bend the cardboard.
3. Draw and cut out a Christmas tree on cardboard. Trace the tree onto another piece of cardboard and cut out a second tree. Make a cut on one tree from the top to halfway, and on the other from the bottom to halfway and connect both parts to get a 3-D tree.
4. Apply white paint to rooftops and Christmas trees to imitate snow.
5. Place the village and Christmas tree on a white cloth or felt and place an LED garland next to it.
DIY house (photo)
Paper or white cardstock that you can print on.
*You can draw a similar drawing yourself and cut it out.
Scissors
Stationery knife
Glue stick
Battery operated candles.
1. Print and cut out the house drawing. Cut out windows and doors with a utility knife.
2. To make the roof, cut a rectangle measuring 15x9 cm. Bend it in the middle.
3. Assemble and glue the house and glue the roof to it.
* You can make several houses to make a small village.
* You can also cut out Christmas trees from green cardboard.
4. Place a candle with batteries inside the house.
*You can decorate the house to your liking. Use felt-tip pens, glitter with glue, cotton wool (snow), etc.
DIY box house
You will need:
Box (of cereal, pasta, for example)
Ruler
Pencil
Scissors
PVA glue
Clothespin or masking tape (if necessary).
1. Open the box completely and place it on the table.
2. Draw a straight line along the unfolded box 2.5 cm below the middle.
3. Make cuts from the original fold lines of the box to the line you drew (see image). The white dots indicate the places where the cuts need to be made.
4. Cut off those parts of the box where the X is written.
5. Turn the box over and apply glue to a small bend (see image).
6. Fold the box with the pattern facing inward and secure with glue.
7. Fold the opposite narrow sides to form a roof. Each part needs to be bent in half (see image).
8. Cut the wide sides so that they can be glued to the part of the roof that was formed in step 7. You need to cut with a margin so that this margin can be bent and glued.
Printable templates will help you make a house out of paper, making the whole process much easier. If you make a New Year's house out of cardboard for a child, and even together with the child, then such a craft will add magic and surprise the child, allowing him to create his own fairy-tale world where to place his favorite New Year's characters. Interestingly, the schemes for creating such a house are simple, this will be confirmed by a master class made from this material. Moreover, such a house made of cardboard with your own hands is made from completely ordinary materials, but it turns out beautiful, magical and mysterious. Everyone can use their maximum imagination to make their home special.
A child can happily cut out, for example, New Year’s vytynankas. This is a beautiful form of creativity, but New Year’s houses are much more interesting and the children themselves confirm this. Because I hung the New Year's decorations on the window and what can I do but admire them. But a cardboard house for children is a new functional toy that does not
It just stands in one place, you can play with it.
Advice! Such a house can be made with lighting, then it will look incredibly impressive and magical. For lighting, you can simply use small old Christmas tree garlands.
To make a house out of paper, you will definitely need printable templates. They can be found in this material. To download the template you like, you just need to right-click and save the photo to your computer. After this, open the photo, enlarge it to the required size of what the house will ultimately be, and then simply print it or carefully transfer it directly from the screen, making it as bright as possible.
Everyone's favorite fairy-tale character, whom we look forward to with the arrival of winter, is called Santa Claus. This grandfather with a white beard and cheerful eyes lives in Veliky Ustyug. And we offer a master class on making a house for Santa Claus from cardboard - it will bring you and your kids a lot of fun. An ordinary cardboard box is used as the main material for the craft (as a rule, one side of the box will be enough). The master class will cover the detailed stages of making a New Year's house for Santa Claus. Use your imagination and add your own ideas as you complete the craft.
Materials for DIY crafts “House for Grandfather Frost”:
- one side of the cardboard box;
- colored gouache;
- scissors and a stationery knife;
- ruler, pencil and brush;
- glue;
- new Year decoration.
Progress
Using a ruler and a pencil, draw four sides for the house on the cardboard. You can choose your own size (according to the height of the toy Santa Claus). Make two sides at once with triangles under the roof. Mark the space for windows and doors. Cut out the pieces.
By the way, you can hang it or place it near such a house - it will look very beautiful.
When the details of the New Year's house for Santa Claus made of cardboard are prepared, start gluing them together. Since we are working with cardboard, ordinary PVA or silicate glue is quite suitable for making the product. Try to glue the parts as carefully as possible so that the appearance of the craft is attractive. 
The sides of the house are ready, you can make a roof for Santa Claus's New Year's house with your own hands. It is also made from cardboard.
We paint the sides of the house blue or light blue. Of course, if you wish, you can choose another shade that you like best.
Remove the top paper layer from a small piece of cardboard to create a corrugated side. We will need it to decorate the corners of the craft. Its length is equal to the height of the house.
We bend the corrugated strip white. This will create a contrast with the main color of the walls of the house.
We decorate the corners of the house with corrugated stripes.
We connect the roof to the sides of the house and paint it orange.
Decorating an almost finished cardboard house for Santa Claus. You can use tinsel, snowflakes, beads. Decorating a craft is not limited by anything except your imagination and the availability of the necessary materials.
The fairytale house for Grandfather Frost is ready!
But our house cannot be empty; according to our master class, they will happily live in it.
We are sure that children will happily take part in making this wonderful craft with their own hands.
You can independently make the same bright and interesting house as we did in the master class. However, at your own request, having understood the exact scheme for creating such a craft, the houses can be different and special. For example, why not decorate the Snow Maiden’s home with lots of sparkles? Why not make an amazing and unique scarf for the snowman’s house? Use your imagination and be sure to involve the kids in the process!
December 16th, 2012 , 02:35 am
It's time to start actively preparing for the upcoming holidays, and therefore today's master class will be devoted to how to make such a house with surprises, or in other words, an advent calendar, although, of course, it is not entirely correct to call it a calendar, because... there are no numbers on it, but that’s not the main thing here ;)
Before we start, I’ll say that this can really be done in 1 day (and if you get help, even faster) and it’s much easier than it seems!
Initially, I wanted to make such a house out of wood, but as always, not having time to do anything, I decided to make do with cardboard. I'm lucky! I found a perfect puzzle box! If you don't have one, just assemble something similar from separate pieces of cardboard
First, let's deal with the bottom of the box. Let's draw it out into the number of squares (future cells) we need, leaving space at the top for the “scene”. Cut the top edge of the box from its bottom and cut the resulting strip in the middle. This is our future roof, which we extend and connect using a strip of cardboard of the same width.
Now we need to make a grid for the cells. To do this, we cut the cardboard into strips of the required length and width, then at the intersections we make cuts to the middle of the strip. Assemble your mesh to ensure the correct placement and depth of cuts.
If you, like me, use cardboard “from under something”, prime it, after which you can decorate it. Personally, I covered everything with decoupage paper, but... I’m far from a great decoupage artist, I didn’t take pictures of the process;))
Now the lid of the box. It needs to be cut off in that place. where will the “scene” be, so that when you close the box again it will be visible;)
Again we draw out the places for the cells and, most importantly, the doors! Then we make cuts taking into account how you see the doors opening. I cut it like this. that would bend like a regular door, but it can open up and down!
We assemble, or rather close, our box, having previously coated the sides of the box with glue, and tightly wrap it with thread for better pressing. Leave to dry.
And while our box is drying, we cut out a triangle from cardboard to cover the hole and glue it. I glued it with masking tape, but you can also glue it with regular paper.
By the way, the photo shows that a window has already been cut out in the box (as well as a door, which is not visible here). It's really better to cut them out during the box assembly process.
We make a floor inside the “stage”; I also secured it with masking tape.
When the glue is dry (check that everything sticks), prime the box thoroughly. There are already 2 layers of soil in the photo! But there are almost no traces of the previous box pattern =)
Now that the preparatory stage is over (yes, yes, it was just a preparatory stage, because anyone can assemble a box into a house, but what to do with it next!?)))) we move on to creating the decor.
I always advocate using the materials that are already in the house, the main thing is to understand how best to use them!)
After rummaging through my child’s construction set, I found great windows, a door and a fence! Now we need to give them the desired look! Because Plattik doesn’t really like being painted, I recommend priming it first and then painting it in as many layers as needed for a beautiful look (I needed 2 layers)
It's all in the little things! That's why we'll make such a nice little thing as a Christmas wreath on the door. To do this, we’ll make a ring out of wire, wrap it with a strip of green corrugation (we’ll secure the tip with glue), make a bow and glue it to the ring.
I will not modestly say this detail, I consider it my find! Using beads and buttons we will make handles for the doors.
We “momentarily” glue the bead to the button and when the glue dries, cover them with gold paint.
In order to make a Christmas tree for the house, I used green corrugation, a light bulb as a base and plasticine into which the light bulb is stuck to obtain stability. By the way, and here I was lucky, I found plasticine from the child, which dries hard, but, of course, such plasticine is not necessary, the main thing is just to fix the light bulb.
The corrugation really doesn’t like water (and anything liquid), so I secured it with tape and only glued the very top with glue.
Sled! What's Santa's house without Santa Claus? And what kind of frost would it be without a sleigh!
We take matches and cut off the sulfur, put the sticks in the parts we need and coat them WELL with PVA. When everything is dry (leave it for an hour, just to be sure), we assemble the parts together and paint them.
Again, I was lucky, I found a deer (broken) in the Kinder Surprise toys, but since there is a sleigh, a deer is also needed. The deer was brown, I painted it gray, then silvered it, painted the antlers gold and sprinkled it with gold glitter (sparkles).
We will need thick cardboard, cut out squares of the required size, glue them, cover the sides with a strip of paper and... draw a fireplace =)
To make it even more beautiful, you can cut out socks from felt =)
We glue something transparent to the back wall to create a glass effect. I glued cellophane, which is usually used to wrap flowers.
We glue corrugated cardboard to the roof. First you need to paint the cardboard to match the paper. We cut snow out of fleece and glue it too =)
We glue a window, a door, if necessary, make “jambs” =)))
It's time to arrange and glue everything we came up with
Having done this work, I will say that if it weren’t for the soil, the result would have been much worse, so I still recommend purchasing it if you don’t have one. Or you can use white gouache... a lot of white gouache. But it must be dried well, otherwise when you apply a layer of already colored paint, it may mix.
Be sure to use a sharp knife so that the cuts are even and not ragged. I didn't have a very sharp knife and the result was ragged edges that I had to sand down to improve the look.
To do everything quickly, don’t lose everything, while the house is drying in glue and soil, make a stuff!
Before you start doing it, rummage through your resources =) to understand what and how you can make from what you have =)
The number of cells can be any, you can do it like I did, you can do it like a calendar, the numbers don’t have to be from the 16th to the 31st
(2 weeks before New Year's Eve), this could be, for example, from 31 to 10, in general, these could be any numbers that you want to make a holiday for your child (or whoever you will celebrate there))))
And... the legend... what should I tell the child?
We said that we made a house for Santa Claus, who will arrive on the night of December 15-16 and will live in our house until the new year. For every day that he lives with us, in gratitude, he gives us a small gift. Once a day you can come up and open the door, taking a gift.
That's all! I hope you find it useful and... Happy New Year;)
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 of 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” appearance, 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