The simplest Santa Claus

What could be more interesting than making Santa Claus for the New Year with your own hands? We collected as many as 8 ideas from paper, felt and other materials. If you want, make soft toys, or if you want, make a beautiful postcard!

What New Year would be complete without its main symbol? Figurines, Christmas tree decorations, drawings on windows – all this is already there. And now it’s time for 10 ideas on how to make Santa Claus out of paper! Each of them will give you pleasant moments, relaxation and wonderful holiday leisure with loved ones.

The most fabulous and cheerful holiday is approaching – New Year. On this holiday, the kind wizard Santa Claus comes to us and makes our deepest wishes come true. How to make Santa Claus with your own hands?

There are so many ways to make Santa Claus that you can list them until the Christmas holidays. Therefore, we bring to your attention only some ideas that can become the basis for creating new images.

DIY Santa Claus

Hello. My son and I wrote a letter to Grandfather Frost and, as a gift, made his portrait in the form of a New Year’s applique made of Santa Claus threads.

To make such a portrait of Santa Claus, you will need the following materials:

• Printed or drawn portrait of Santa Claus.
• Remains of multi-colored yarn, floss threads.
• Glue brush.

Thread applique “Santa Claus” master class.

So, let’s start making an applique from threads

We print out a suitable picture on the printer. You can also draw it yourself. Be sure to color it to make it easier to navigate where and what color threads should be glued.

Prepare multi-colored threads. Thicker yarns are easier to glue. You will have to tinker with the floss a little longer.

Soak the thread in PVA glue and pull it out. Use your fingers to remove excess glue and place it on the drawing. Beforehand, we also lubricate the drawing with PVA glue.

We used cotton wool for Santa Claus’ mustache and beard.

When all the threads are glued, the background can be painted. We covered it with a layer of PVA glue and sprinkled glitter on top. In the light of the light bulbs, the glitter sparkles elegantly, very New Year’s.

New Year’s applique from threads “Santa Claus” is ready. We hope that Grandfather Frost will like our gift.

What’s New Year without Santa Claus? It is he who will bring us a holiday, give the children gifts, and let adults think about the achievements and experiences we gained in the past year, and about the hopes of the coming year. None of us doubts that our Santa Claus is a wise, respectable old man. From childhood we get to know him as a fair and kind character. We will try to display these qualities in our New Year’s crafts.

By the way, have you noticed what a huge difference between our Grandfather and foreign Santa Claus? If our DM is the personification of maturity, good nature and experience. He has a long beard, a rich long fur coat and a boyar’s hat. He talks, observes, expects the person to show some good qualities (hospitality, friendliness, hard work, etc.). Then SK is some kind of cheerful NG character. He is wearing short pants and has a cap on his head, not a hat, as if Santa is playing the role of a jester and has come to amuse everyone, nothing more. He will hold the baby on his lap, and for this alone, he is ready to give the child a gift. Our Grandfather is closer, more understandable, and dearer to us. The article will include Santa Clauses and Santas, for every taste and color!

By the way, if you need interesting riddles about winter and the New Year for children with short answers, follow the link. Let me also remind you that I had posts about New Year’s costumes for girls (there are snow maidens and snowflakes and icicles, many simple options) and for boys (as many as 9 different options, there are also simple and more complex ones). We also made giant stars, garlands, pine cone wreaths and even salads, and also a real snow globe with slowly falling snow, which, by the way, is done in 5 minutes.

If you ask an adult what the most important New Year’s symbol is, you can hear dozens of different answers. About champagne, fireworks and the pretty Snow Maiden, for example. But the children will be unanimous in their answers to this question: the most important symbol of the New Year for every child is Santa Claus. And so that your child doesn’t get bored while waiting for a magical holiday, invite him to make the main New Year’s symbol himself!

DIY Santa Claus can be made in a variety of ways: from paper, cardboard, cotton wool and any other materials. Choose a master class that suits you – simple or more complex – and enjoy creating the New Year’s craft!

From materials that you probably have at home, you can make simple and beautiful crafts for a Christmas tree for kindergarten or school. And these Santa Clauses will perfectly decorate your home Christmas tree – you can easily cope with making them, even if you made your last craft in school!

Craft Santa Claus from paper in three minutes using the origami technique

Целую семью милых Дедушек можно сделать всего за несколько минут, используя самые простые подручные материалы. В результате получатся вот такие симпатичные поделки:
Что понадобится:

• single-sided red colored paper (or you can glue red and white sheets of paper together if you only have double-sided colored paper in the house);
• scissors;
• pencil;
• ruler;
• red and black markers.

How to make Santa Claus with your own hands in three minutes – step-by-step instructions:

• From single-sided red paper, cut out a square with sides 10 centimeters long.
• Fold the red and white square diagonally to create a triangle.
• Unfold the triangle and fold its edges towards the center, as if you were folding an airplane.
• Fold the lower part of the triangle so that it completely covers the upper part – you will get a shape similar to a boat.
• Turn the wide part of the boat down – this will be Grandfather’s white beard.
• Fold the protruding sides of the craft so that they are behind the back of the toy.
• Use a red felt-tip pen to draw Santa’s nose, and use a black felt-tip pen to draw eyes.

Video showing in detail the creation of Santa Claus using the origami technique:

Santa Claus drawn with salt

A drawing of Santa Claus is not necessarily boring and “like everyone else.” Use the salt painting technique and you will have a wonderful, original craft that is easy to make together even with small children!

• sheet of white paper;
• watercolors;
• pencil;
• water;
• coarse salt.

• Using a pencil on paper, draw the figure of Santa Claus.
• Color Santa Claus with paints.
• Sprinkle salt on the design.
• Let the design dry and shake off any excess salt.

Volumetric paper Santa Claus

• two sheets of colored paper: white and red;
• scissors;
• pencil;
• glue stick.

• Roll a sheet of red paper into a cone: to make the future Santa Claus hat sharp enough, try to roll the cone as tightly as possible.
• Fix the cone with glue.
• Trim the bottom of the cone to create a flat base.
• Make a beard for Grandfather from a sheet of white paper, roll it up and make a slit, as shown in the photo.
• Through the resulting slot, place the beard onto the cone base.
• Finish off by making the toy’s eyes, mouth, nose and whiskers using construction paper and a pencil.
• The top of the cap can be decorated with a large bead.

DIY paper Santa Claus – instructions with illustrations:

How to make Santa Claus and Snow Maiden with your own hands from paper?

If you have enough time and desire, make the most traditional New Year’s couple: Father Frost and the Snow Maiden!

• three sheets of cardboard;
• colored paper in blue, yellow and red;
• sheet of thin white paper;
• sheet of thick white paper;
• scissors;
• simple pencil;
• colored pencils;
• glue stick.

• Roll one sheet of cardboard into a cone and glue it together.
• Cut out the sleeves from cardboard and glue them to the sides of the cone.
• Cover the cone base with red paper.
• Make a fringe on strips of white paper using scissors, decorate Santa Claus’ fur coat with the fringe made, as shown in the photo.
• On a sheet of thick white paper, draw the face of Santa Claus and cut out the face.
• Glue the parts of the craft together.
• Make the Snow Maiden in the same way, only instead of red paper, take blue paper, and use yellow paper to make the Snow Maiden’s braids.

Making Santa Claus’ sleigh

You can put Grandfather himself and his granddaughter or American Santa, who is traditionally associated with sleighs, in Santa Claus’s bright, elegant sleigh. A child can also give such a sled as a gift to a loved one by placing a small New Year’s surprise inside the craft!

• foamiran in red or another bright color – foamiran with sparkles will look most impressive, but regular foamiran or even colored paper will do;
• scissors;
• small tinsel of any color;
• glue gun;
• pencil.

• From foamiran, cut out two identical curly side strips for the sled – you can be inspired by the idea from the video for the craft or use the ready-made template in the photo.
• Cover the side strips with tinsel.
• Next, cut out a small square from foamiran, which will serve as a crossbar connecting the side planks.
• Place the crossbar in the middle between the side strips, glue all three parts together.
• Glue the back, front and bottom parts of the sled, also cut from foamiran, to the resulting base.

Sleigh template for Santa Claus:

Santa Claus from scrap materials

From ordinary cardboard and a piece of red fabric you can make a very beautiful Santa Claus – even better than a toy from the store. This toy will be a great decoration for school, kindergarten or your home!

• two sheets of cardboard;
• red fabric for Grandfather’s fur coat – a New Year’s hat will work well;
• pencil;
• scissors;
• glue gun;
• cotton wool;
• tinsel on frame wire (or small tinsel and wire separately);
• colored pencils or markers.

How to make a Santa Claus craft from cardboard – step-by-step instructions:

• Turn the cap inside out or fold the piece of fabric in half with the wrong side facing you.
• Using a pencil, draw the outlines of the fur coat for Santa Claus and cut it out.
• Glue the two parts of the fur coat together without gluing them from the bottom so that you can turn the fur coat right side out.
• Roll a sheet of cardboard into a cone and secure with glue.
• Cut off the excess from the bottom of the cone so that the workpiece is stable.
• Twist tinsel around a small piece of wire or use ready-made tinsel on frame wire.
• Using scissors, make holes in the cone for the hands of the tinsel toy.
• Thread the wire through the holes.
• Make the palms of Santa Claus out of cardboard and glue them to your hands.
• Turn the coat inside out and put it on the workpiece.
• Cut out the toy’s head from cardboard, draw a face, and glue on a beard using cotton wool.
• Glue the head to the base of the craft.
• Make a cap for Grandfather from cardboard or leftover fabric.

Detailed master class in video format:

Santa Claus made of cotton wool

A good option for preschool children – children 5-6 years old can quite cope with creating a Grandfather from cotton wool on their own.

• cotton wool or cotton pads;
• sheet of white or beige cardboard;
• red cardboard or colored paper;
• PVA glue;
• scissors;
• colored pencils or markers.

• First, you will need to make Grandfather’s face – you will need to cut out a circle from white or beige cardboard.
• Make a cap out of red paper and glue crafts to your face.
• Form balls of cotton wool, paste over the craft, depicting a mustache, beard and cap trim.
• Draw Santa Claus eyes, nose, mouth.

Craft from a bottle

• durable plastic bottle, e.g. for cleaning products, shampoo, milk;
• simple pencil;
• acrylic paints;
• tassel;
• clear varnish.

• Cover the bottle with white acrylic paint, let the paint dry, apply another coat and leave to dry again.
• Apply an image of Santa Claus to the bottle with a simple pencil, as in the photo, or come up with your own unique version.
• Paint the bottle with acrylic paints.
• Coat the craft with varnish in 2-3 layers.

From napkins

• 12-16 long rectangular napkins: white and red;
• stapler;
• two sheets of cardboard;
• felt-tip pens;
• sheet of white paper;
• scissors;
• threads;
• newspaper;
• glue gun.

• Fold one napkin like an accordion and fasten it in the middle with a stapler.
• Spread the napkin, giving it the most fluffy shape possible.
• Do the same with the rest of the napkins.
• Roll a cone out of cardboard – this will be the base of the craft.
• Cut a white sheet of paper in half, roll it into two cones – you get the hands of a toy.
• Form a head for Santa Claus from newspaper, tie it with threads to maintain the shape.
• Cut out the face of Santa Claus from cardboard, draw eyes and a nose.
• Glue the face to the head, glue the head to the cone, and on top of the head – parts from napkins.
• Cover the cardboard cone with white and red napkins.
• Glue the figurine’s hands and cover with prepared napkins.

From cotton pads

• cotton pads;
• red yarn;
• scissors;
• glue stick;
• beads or ready-made eyes;
• plastic spoon;
• red felt-tip pen;
• loop for hanging.

• Take one cotton pad, wrap about a third of the pad over yourself, and secure with glue.
• Make cuts on the open part of the disk to imitate the beard of Santa Claus.
• Use a red felt-tip pen to draw a mouth for Grandfather.
• Coat the spoon with glue, leaving the ends unglued on both sides.
• Wrap the glued part of the spoon with yarn.
• Treat the convex part of the spoon with glue, glue Grandfather’s face to the back of the spoon, and glue a clean cotton pad to the front side.
• Roll up a nose from a small piece of cotton wool and glue toys to the face.
• Glue on Santa’s eyes and attach a loop for hanging.

Master class for crafts in video format:

The most unusual ideas

A simple and original version of a New Year’s craft, the creation of which requires a minimum of available materials.

• 10 Popsicle sticks;
• cardboard;
• PVA glue or glue gun;
• felt-tip pens or paints.

• Cut out a rectangle from cardboard as long as popsicle sticks – the rectangle will imitate the face of Santa Claus.
• Glue two sticks along the edges of the cardboard rectangle.
• Glue five more sticks below, forming the toy’s beard.
• Glue one stick between the sticks located along the edges, glue the remaining two sticks above the resulting crossbar so that you get a triangle.
• Color the craft.

Lesson on making creative Santa Claus and other New Year’s crafts from popsicle sticks:

Santa Claus with candies for the Christmas tree from a toilet paper roll

• toilet paper roll;
• foamiran in red, white, black and yellow;
• cardboard;
• scissors;
• glue gun;
• felt-tip pens;
• candy;
• satin ribbon.

• Glue the toilet paper tube to a piece of cardboard, trim off the excess so that the tube is covered with cardboard on one side.
• Cover the sleeve with red foamiran, use white foamiran to make a mustache and beard for Grandfather, and draw eyes.
• Make a belt with a buckle from black and yellow foamiran and glue it to the bottom of the craft.
• Make a hat for Santa Claus from red foamiran, but do not glue it together.
• Place candy inside the toy.
• Tie the top of the craft with a satin ribbon.

Instructions in video format:

Big Santa Claus from a cheap doll

• any cheap doll, for example, from Fix Price;
• scissors;
• foil;
• glue gun;
• acrylic primer;
• acrylic paints;
• brushes or sponge for working with primer and paints;
• long wooden stick for needlework (can be replaced with a brush or pencil);
• wire;
• cotton wool.

• Using scissors, separate the doll’s head, cut the head in half.
• Take the head part with the face and fill it with foil.
• Glue a craft stick to the head.
• Cover the face of the toy with acrylic primer.
• Paint your face with acrylic paints.
• Use wire to make arms and legs for the craft.
• Wrap the toy tightly in cotton wool and form cotton felt boots on your feet.
• Now wrap the figurine with cotton wool in several more layers to make a fluffy fur coat of Santa Claus.
• Form a hat and a belt from cotton wool and glue it to the workpiece.
• Treat the toy with glue and let dry.
• Make small details from cotton wool: a beard, mustache, lapels on a fur coat, treat the details with glue.
• Paint Santa Claus with acrylic paints.

DIY Big Santa Claus – video instructions:

Santa Claus from a gift box

Bright holiday cardboard from a gift box is best for this craft.

• cardboard from a gift box;
• scissors;
• pencil;
• beads or buttons for eyes;
• PVA glue.

• Transfer the template from the photo below onto cardboard and cut out the blank.
• Make a beard, edging for a fur coat and other decor as desired from white cardboard or foamiran, glue it to the workpiece.
• Make eyes for Santa Claus from beads.

Felt craft

• felt in red, white, black and yellow;
• scissors;
• white paper;
• cotton wool or other filler for a toy.

• Draw Santa Claus on paper – you can use the picture below or come up with your own picture.
• Transfer the design onto the felt twice – to form the front and back sides of the craft.
• Form small parts of the toy from white, black and yellow felt (as in the photo).
• Fill the blank with filler, sew the front and back sides of Santa Claus.

• any not very dense fabric of red and white color;
• compass;
• scissors;
• needle and thread in red and white;
• padding polyester or other filler;
• glue gun;
• white yarn;
• two beads or buttons.

• Cut a circle with a diameter of 21 centimeters from red fabric, and a circle with a diameter of 14 centimeters from white fabric.
• Cut a strip from white fabric and sew it onto the red circle from the edge to the center.
• Sew the red circle, gather.
• Fill the bag you made with stuffing, sew it up – you’ll get the body of Santa Claus.

• From a circle of white fabric, make a smaller bag using the same principle – this will be the head of the toy.
• Cut out a triangle for the cap from red fabric, a rectangle from white fabric for the edging, glue the parts together.
• Roll up the cap to make it voluminous and secure with glue.
• Put the cap on Santa Claus’s head.
• Wind white yarn onto a stick or pencil, glue the resulting flagella to the head of the toy to imitate Grandfather’s beard.
• Glue on the beady eyes.

Christmas tree toy Santa Claus

A funny moving Santa Claus for the Christmas tree can be made from ordinary colored paper.

• two sheets of red colored paper;
• sheet of white paper;
• sheet of black construction paper;
• scissors;
• glue stick;
• red threads.

• Fold a sheet of red paper in half and cut it.
• Fold one half of the sheet in half three times, unfold it, and fold it like an accordion.
• Prepare the other half of the red leaf in the same way.
• Glue the halves together, tie them in the middle with a thread.
• Treat the edges of the workpiece with glue, fan out and glue.
• Make another such blank: one half from red paper, the other half from white.
• Glue the blanks together so that at the top there is a blank with a piece of white paper depicting the face of Santa Claus.
• From multi-colored paper, make the remaining fragments of the craft: a cap, eyes, beard, mustache, belt – and glue these fragments to the base.
• Glue a string to the toy to hang it on the Christmas tree.

How to sew Santa Claus

• red and pink fabric;
• sewing machine;
• white threads;
• scissors;
• padding polyester or other filler;
• black marker.

For work, use the finished pattern:

The finished craft will look like this:

Soft toy Santa Claus made from pieces of fabric

• cardboard;
• glue gun;
• pieces of red and white cloth;
• thread and needle;
• scissors;
• two sheets of white paper;
• pencil;
• padding polyester, cotton wool or special filling for soft toys;
• two buttons.

• Roll a sheet of cardboard into a cone and glue it together.
• Wrap the cone with a suitable piece of fabric, sew the edges of the fabric.
• Draw the silhouette of Santa Claus’ hands on paper, transfer it to fabric folded in two layers, and cut it out.
• Stuff your hands with stuffing.
• Make mittens from red and white fabric and sew them to your hands.
• Cut a circle out of white (or beige) fabric, sew it, insert a cotton pad or a circle of other filler, pull the piece together – this will be Grandfather’s face.
• Glue the hands and face to the fabric cone.
• Make a beard for a toy from cotton wool, a nose from red fabric, and eyes from a button (or take ready-made eyes for soft toys).
• Roll a sheet of white paper into a cone, cut it so that you get a blank for the cap of the desired size.
• Cover a paper cone with fabric and glue crafts to the head.
• You can complete the work by decorating the toy: for example, placing New Year’s decor in Grandfather’s hands.

Perhaps not all children will be able to see the real Santa Claus this year. But a handmade Santa Claus will be able to delight both the child and his parents throughout the winter holidays!

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Paper Santa Claus applique

The classic version of the craft is paper Santa Claus. The simplest option for making crafts is applique. We cut out blanks for crafts from colored paper.

Blanks for applique

Glue on the face and red cap.

Face and cap

Glue on the eyes, nose and white strips of paper for the beard.

Eyes. nose and beard

Curl the beard using a pencil.

The beard can be made only from the bottom or the entire lower part of the face can be covered. Paper Santa Claus applique – ready!

Paper applique Santa Claus

Origami Santa Claus for children

Last year we already had a topic about paper crafts on New Year’s Eve. There we have already prepared origami DM. This year I was looking for an easy scheme that the kids could master. And I found it!

We place the colored square with the red side on the table, the white side facing us. Fold in half diagonally. Fold the top corner down.

Fold both sides to the middle line.

We make a “fur coat collar” DM, bending from above the edges of those sides that we just folded towards the middle.

At the top, we unbend the fold on the collar to get a more “lush” top of the fur coat.

We bend the bottom of the workpiece so that a small part (triangle) protrudes from above. It looks like a hat.

We bend the very top of the cap, the corner.

Turn the workpiece over and bend the corners on both sides 2 times, like an accordion.

Like this for the first time.

On the other hand we do the same. And bend the same corners in the opposite direction.

Then the very edges of the folded sides will be visible from the front. We did this by the hands of DM.

Now let’s work with a felt-tip pen and draw a beard, eyes, nose and cheeks.

Author https://youtu.be/DbVpr6vZgt0

Such work can be fixed with glue so that all the edges “sit” in their place and do not move. The figurine can be used as a toy on the Christmas tree or glued to a New Year’s card.

Here is another not very difficult option.

See the video for another option.

And modular origami, which to me seems something fantastic and complex.

Felt Santa Claus with a beard

Another scheme where artificial hair for a beard will not hurt. The principle of creating such a Santa Claus is very simple – you need felt, glue and wire. But you will have to be patient when assembling small parts.

How to make Santa Claus on a postcard

This work can be hung on a Christmas tree or glued to a postcard. This is such a multifaceted job! Poems for the postcard are here.

Cut out the parts. You will have to draw them yourself on paper, repeating everything from the pictures. Don’t worry if this doesn’t work out. You will have your own DM, unlike anyone else!

So, I’ll tell you in detail about some of the nuances. We make a red cap on both sides.

Our beard looks like a large oval, on one side of which the edges are uneven. We will need 2 beard parts. One is larger, the second is smaller.

The edge for the hat is cut out in a semi-arc. The head is a large oval. It is advisable to cut the head out of flesh-colored paper.

Glue a hat on your head. We glue the edge along the bottom of the hat. Apply glue to the top part (not the edges) and glue the 2 beard parts together.

Glue the beard to the head. We draw the eyes of Santa Claus. When we draw the eyes, we leave an uncolored highlight in the middle. Cut out an almond-shaped shape from red paper. glue it over the beard.

We bend the edge and corner of the hat and glue it together. We bend the lace napkin. Cut out a pompom of the required size.

Glue it to the edge of the hat. Let’s fluff up the pompom by lifting the edges.

We bend the edges of the beard and curl them up.

Author https://youtu.be/KGlR4blaORk

That’s it, the postcard is ready! You can take a sheet of paper. Fold it in half. And glue our craft onto it. New Year’s card is ready!

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How to make Santa Claus on a window from paper (pullouts and stencils)

Use the stencils and templates that I have already given. They can also be glued to the window. But in this part of our practical work with you, I would like to offer you something interesting! For example, remember, just recently we made paper Christmas trees! So why not make a composition out of these two works? You will get a real winter picture on the window!

Here are the ladies and vytynankas, remember we cut them out last year. They can be used to decorate windows very beautifully.

Here are suitable head templates for Father Frost and Santa.

Both colored and white pictures on the windows will look beautiful. You can fill the window along the contour. Partially or even completely!

Vytynanka of Santa Claus

DIY Santa Claus made from cork

You can make a three-dimensional figurine from a wine cork. We paint half of it with red paint.

Cut out a circle from felt.

Cut the circle into three sectors.

We make a cap from felt, immediately gluing a loop to it.

Glue the cap to the cork.

Draw the eyes and nose. Glue on Santa Claus’s beard. We make a cotton wool edge on the cap.

Glue the cotton wool and draw a face

Santa Claus from traffic jams – ready!

Santa Clauses from traffic jams

Paper Santa Claus cutting template

Paper Santa Claus cutting template

Santa Claus from hardening mass for modeling

You can make a small figurine of Santa Claus from the hardening modeling mass. We make one large cone and two small ones. We decorate them with the edge – this is the future body and arms.

Body and hands of Santa Claus

We sculpt the cap and face of Santa Claus.

Santa Claus’s cap and face

We fasten the head and body of Santa Claus with a skewer.

Santa Claus from hardening mass for modeling

Master class on how to make a Santa Claus toy using the paper-plastic technique

You can make a three-dimensional figure out of paper by using a technique such as paper plastic. I’ll show you a simple job. It’s easy to repeat. But it will be possible to complicate the process, for example, by making a larger craft.

We will need red stripes: 6 pcs. 1 by 15cm and 6 pcs. 1 by 10cm.

From the strips we make 2 balls, a larger one and a smaller one. How to make balls:

• We lay out the stripes like a snowflake, that is, they are all connected in the middle, but their rays look in different directions. Glue the middle. To be honest, after gluing, I also secured them all with a stapler.
• We collect the rays all together, from above the middle and also fasten them (it’s more convenient to do this with a stapler).

We have the torso (larger ball) and head ready.

Cut out 2 red ovals and glue them under the large ball. These are DM’s legs.

Cut out 2 small ovals from corrugated white paper (cardboard). Glue it on the sides of the ball like hands.

Cut out the orange circle. Glue small white circles above the middle line of this circle. And inside them there are even smaller green circles. These are the eyes.

Cut out a mustache and beard from white corrugated paper.

Glue the mustache and beard onto the lower part of the circle (face).

Glue a small round red ball into the middle of the circle. It can be made by crumpling up paper and rolling it into a ball between your palms.

Glue the face onto the head. Glue the head onto the body. It turned out to be the cutest Santa Claus!

DIY Santa Claus craft – photos and ideas

If these ideas aren’t enough for you, here’s an even larger selection of photos of what you can create with your own hands!

Santa Claus from a cardboard roll

It’s even easier to make a three-dimensional figurine using cardboard toilet paper rolls. Paint the bushing red.

Paint it red

Glue the felt face.

Glue the felt face

We make a cap and hair: we wrap a piece of padding polyester with red chenille wire, give it a spiral shape, and decorate the tip with a white pompom.

Chenille wire cap

Glue on the pompom nose. We make a belt from black lace, and a buckle from a tin can opener.

Santa Claus from a cardboard roll

Santa Claus made of cardboard roll and fabric

For the craft we will need: a cardboard roll, fabric, cotton wool, glue, scissors, a button, red beads and factory eyes. We wrap the sleeve in red cloth and immediately form a cap from it. We make a face out of cotton wool.

Decorate Santa Claus with cotton wool and cloth

Glue the eyes. We make the cheeks and nose from red beads. All that remains is to attach the pompom to the cap and decorate grandpa’s costume with buttons.

Santa Claus – a simple paper figurine

Cut out the blanks according to the diagram: a cone for the main figure and a small circle for the base. By the way, this Santa Claus will make a very simple and funny package for sweets or small gifts.

Santa Claus from a bottle of champagne

Thick red fabric or felt makes this festive decoration for a bottle of champagne. In general, it’s great if you have a piece of fur for a hat and artificial hair for a beard.

DIY Santa Claus from a pine cone

A very cute New Year’s Santa Claus pendant is made from a painted pine cone.

DIY Santa Claus from a pine cone

Santa Claus applique made of paper and cotton balls

You can add volume to your beard, mustache and fur trim on your hat using cotton balls.

Santa Claus applique made of paper and cotton balls

You can make Santa Claus a nose from a fluffy pompom.

Santa Claus applique made of cotton balls with a pompom

Santa Claus in the form of a paper lantern

Fold a rectangular sheet of thick red paper in half and make cuts on the fold, not reaching the edges. Unfold the sheet and roll it into a cylinder, and then glue Santa’s face on top.

DIY felt Santa Claus (option No. 1)

A very cute Santa Claus is made from felt. For the craft, cut out blanks from felt, as in the photo.

Sew or glue light beige felt to the red part – the face of Santa Claus. We secure the two red blanks with pins, then sew them together along the edge. Leave a small hole.

Sew on the face and baste the red blanks

Turn the craft inside out and stuff it with cotton wool or synthetic fluff. Sew up the hole.

Glue the beard, mustache and the edge of the white felt hat to the craft.

Beard, mustache and edge

Sew beads on the eyes and nose. We decorate the craft with decorative elements. If you sew a ribbon to Santa’s hat, you can make a charming Christmas tree decoration out of it.

Felt Santa Claus

Santa Claus made from paper circles

You will need a large white circle for your beard, a smaller circle for your face, and also a nose, a pompom and a hat. These small and funny figures can be used to make keychains or holiday decorations.

Three-dimensional paper Santa Claus craft

Any child can make a magical character out of paper with their own hands. And so that the craft doesn’t turn out boring, let’s add some zest to it. In order to make a three-dimensional Santa Claus out of paper, we will need to fold the red paper into a cone.

Paper cone

Glue the face onto the cone.

We will cut out the arms from paper, and make the legs from ice cream sticks.

Legs and arms

This fun craft can be placed on a chair or table. Santa Claus from a cardboard cone is ready!

Postcard in the form of Santa Claus

Glue a belt and a cap made of colored paper onto a white or beige card. Draw the face, make glasses from thin wire and add a beard from cotton balls.

Drawing of Santa Claus with your own hands

You can draw Santa Claus for the New Year. First, we make a pencil drawing according to the sample.

Wet the surface of the sheet. Apply a blue background with watercolors. Due to the fact that the sheet will be wet, we will get very interesting stains on the sheet. You can sprinkle the background with salt, it will make the background seem to be covered with small dots – snowflakes. After the picture dries, the excess salt will need to be removed.

Using a bright yellow color, draw the outline of a magic star on the staff.

Star on the staff

Color the fur coat and hat.

We paint the face with beige and pink paint.

Outline the facial features with a black marker. You can use a marker to highlight all the other elements of the design – a fur coat, mittens, felt boots, an asterisk, a bag.

Outline facial features and elements of the picture

The painting “Grandfather Frost” with gifts is ready!

DIY painting “Santa Claus”

We found another wonderful drawing of Santa Claus among the works of kindergarten students.

Santa Claus – gouache drawing

Look at the video – how to draw Santa Claus step by step:

Santa Claus and the New Year’s forest

Printable Santa Claus pictures and templates for cutting out

These templates are very convenient to use. They are already part of the finished card or craft. You just need to find a suitable template and print it. All! Cut out, color if necessary and use in your works. Using templates, you can make a postcard, applique, cut out only a part (for example, a head) and glue it to the finished work.

Next are cards in the shape of Santa. All you have to do is trace from the screen or print and color!

Another garland of Santa Claus – cut out the template, apply it to paper and cut it out, color it. We make holes and connect them with rope or tape.

You can make the same garland, but as an applique. To do this, cut out a completely red figure along the contours of the SC.

And then from white paper we cut out a single piece of hair, beard and fur on the coat. And also a separate circle – a balloon and 2 ovals – fur on mittens. A face made of beige paper. And we glue everything together.

If Santa Claus has a long beard on the template, then you can make a NEW YEAR EXPECTATION CALENDAR. The New Year’s calendar is made in the form of the numbers of the month of December pasted onto the beard of Santa Claus. Every day you need to close the number, so the child can see how long it will take to wait for the desired holiday. Remember we made an advent calendar, it’s something similar but without the surprises.

And here is a template for an interesting photo frame that can be made from paper and cardboard, or foamiran, or felt. In all cases, cardboard is needed for density.

And here is a template of a moving Santa. We secure the arms, legs and heads with a thread and a button or stick on the back so that the head and arms are movable.

You can fasten moving parts with forked buttons. If you don’t have them, you can use flat buttons and wire. To do this, pull the wire through the holes of the button, insert it into the pierced holes of the parts and move apart the ends of the wire, which will hold the connection. Sharp ends can be “covered” with pieces of eraser. Or you can use brads, as in the picture.

Next are just various pictures for cutting out. I think you already understand how to distinguish Santa from Father Frost. Grandfather has a long fur coat and a beard, his hat is not a clown’s, but rather a boyar’s, without a bubo.

Just in case, I’ll give you pictures of colored Santas, in case you don’t have colored paper or the desire to color, but need to quickly make a card.

Santa Claus made from popsicle sticks

An interesting Santa Claus is made from disposable wooden spatulas or ice cream sticks.

Materials for crafts

Glue them in a row.

Cover the sticks with white paint.

We decorate the face with cardboard eyes and a nose, and make a beard from cotton balls. We glue the cap from red cardboard and decorate it with a cotton pompom.

Glue the cap and face

Santa Claus made from popsicle sticks – ready!

You can make a craft from one stick.

Popsicle sticks

Paint it red, leaving some free space – this will be the face. We decorate the face with a cotton beard and the edge of a cap, and glue on toy eyes.

Santa Claus from an ice cream stick

We add buttons to the suit. Even kids can cope with this task.

Decorate with cotton wool and buttons

Santa Claus made of polymer clay

Although the figure seems complex, there are very few details and fine workmanship in it. Instead of polymer clay, you can use plasticine, and for larger crafts, even salt dough.

Santa Claus in tilde style. How to sew a Santa Claus doll?

Santa Claus tilde is an ultra fashionable and beautiful craft. Below we have placed patterns that you can print out and use them to cut out parts of Santa Claus’s body. Sew the head and arms together.

We stuff the head and arms and sew them together.

Head, body and arms

Sew the legs. Then we stuff the legs with padding polyester.

We cut out clothes for grandfather and dress him. We decorate Santa Claus with a beard and a cap made of thread.

Santa Claus in tilde style

Santa Claus from a disposable plate

The original craft is made from a disposable plate, which turns into the body of Santa Claus.

Materials for applique

For greater resemblance, glue a felt belt with a large buckle to the plate.

Glue the belt with buckle

Cut out a circle from cardboard – the head.

We decorate it with a cardboard cap and toy eyes.

We make a beard and fur from decorative shavings. We cut out felt boots from felt, and hands from cardboard. We connect the parts – and the craft is ready.

Santa Claus from a disposable plate

It is quite possible to make such a Santa Claus with your own hands for a kindergarten, where he will find a worthy place on the wall of the reception room or playroom.

Look at the video for another version of Santa Claus from a disposable plate:

Paper Santa Claus with hands

Older children will like this complex piece, because you can even dress up like this Santa Claus. Separately, you need to cut out the arms, belt, beard, mustache and nose, hat and other details.

Santa Claus made of felt (option No. 2)

Santa Claus made of accordion paper

This wonderful Santa Claus is made from paper folded like an accordion. Glue two squares of red paper together. We fold the workpiece like an accordion and tie it in the center with thread.

Fold the accordion and tie it

Straighten the accordion and glue it on one side. Then glue it on the other side.

Glue the accordion on both sides

Now we glue the red and white paper together. We also fold it like an accordion, tie it in the center and glue it on both sides.

Red and white paper blank

Glue these two blanks together according to the sample.

Glue two paper circles

Glue a beard with a mouth, a mustache, a nose and eyes onto the white half.

Beard, mustache, nose, eyes

Glue the paper cap (the upper part can also be folded like an accordion). We glue a strap and mittens onto the body.

Cap, strap, mittens

Our handsome Santa Claus is ready!

Santa Claus made of accordion paper

Santa Claus in tilde style (patterns)

Such different Santa Clauses can play the role of one of the main characters of the most magical holiday of the year.

Santa Claus – fabric souvenir

A small round Santa Claus with a bushy beard can be sewn from fabric.

Fabric Santa Claus

Santa Claus using quilling technique

Based on a cardboard cone, you can make Santa Claus using the quilling technique. Glue a cone out of red cardboard.

From paper strips we roll up paper rolls. We fix the tip of each curl with glue.

Red paper strip rolls

Glue white and red rolls onto the cone, forming a collar and buttons.

We make two large rolls from beige paper and press them a little, making them slightly convex.

Two convex rolls

Glue white curls – hair – onto one of the rolls.

We connect two beige rolls together – we get a head. We place red curls on top of the white curls – the hair – for a hat. Glue the mustache and beard onto the bottom beige roll.

We design the head with a hat, mustache and beard

Glue the eyes. Strongly elongated red rolls are used to make hands.

Glue hands and eyes

We make palms from small beige rolls. Decorate the rest of the cone with red swirls. We made a very beautiful Santa Claus using the quilling technique.

Quilling Santa Claus

Craft Santa Claus in the shape of a paper cone for a kindergarten competition

Can kids help us (oops, I got it all mixed up))) Can we help our kids create Santa Claus? Certainly! We hope that we will be able to design a craft together!

We twist a colored sheet of A4 format with the narrow side so that the craft is tall (if you want to make the DM thick, roll the cone with the wide side).

Apply glue along the edge of the sheet and fold the sheet to the end, securing the workpiece.

Cut out a second, long oval blank from a white sheet. The edges of the rest are cut out in a wave-like manner.

Fold in half. We step back a couple of centimeters from the edge and make a small, centimeter-long incision in a semicircle.

We unbend the fold and fold the part that we cut out forward.

We put this beard detail on the cone. Cut out the white mustache. Cut out a circle from red paper. This is the nose. Glue the nose onto the mustache.

And glue both parts onto the beard under the folded part. We make cuts from the edge of the red rectangle, like a fringe. Glue the eyes above the beard.

You can glue a circle to the top, or you can glue a kit, as in the photo below.

To do this, lubricate the fringed strip with glue and roll it into a tube. We glue this fringe onto the top of the hat and fluff it up.

Draw a mouth under the beard. And we make cuts on the mustache and beard of Santa Claus.

The work is very simple! If you want, you can use the same technique to make the Snow Maiden together with your baby.

More options that you can simply print, cut and glue – click on the picture in the gallery.

Santa Claus using plasticine technique

The most classic material for children’s crafts is plasticine. To make a craft using the technique of plasticineography or drawing with plasticine, we apply a plasticine background to a cardboard base.

Attach Santa Claus’ fur coat made of red plasticine.

We sculpt the grandfather’s head from plasticine and fix it in place.

Plasticine head

Attach the sleeves of the fur coat.

Attach felt boots and a bag of gifts. We decorate the fur coat with buttons and trim.

Felt boots, bag, buttons and trim

We make a real winter blizzard from thin plasticine sausages. We decorate the craft with plasticine snowflake dots.

Snowflakes and blizzard made of plasticine

Plasticine Santa Claus can be used as a Christmas tree decoration.

Santa Claus can be hung on the Christmas tree

DIY paper Santa Claus on a Christmas tree (applique)

The Christmas tree toy should be small and light. This is exactly the craft I’m going to show you now. This is an applique that will require some details. When we glue them all into place, we will have a cute Santa Claus.

• main white egg-shaped piece,
• 2 small black circles,
• one middle red circle,
• slightly larger than average white circle,
• red triangle with cut corners,
• and about 20 thin white stripes and one slightly thicker one.

Turn the “egg” over with the sharp end down. Glue a red triangle and a hat to the top of the “face” of the DM.

Glue a white circle-bubo on top of the triangle-hat.

Glue a wider strip to the bottom of the triangle. Glue 2 small black circles under Santa Claus’s hat. These are the eyes.

Glue a red nose underneath the eyes.

Now comes the real magic! We will use the stripes to make a luxurious beard for Frost.

We wind each strip onto the paste from the handle.

Carefully remove the paper. And so on for all 20 strips. We glue each blank by the very edge to the bottom of the “face”.

All that remains is to glue the loop and you can hang our toy.

Author https://youtu.be/7PrgFfUsw28

The second option is more voluminous and interesting. You will need colored paper, preferably double-sided, if you plan to hang it on the Christmas tree. If you do DM, and not Santa, then simply do not attach the balabon and belt.

We fold the A4 sheet into an accordion and tie it with thread in the middle.

Glue the outer strips of the accordion and get a semicircle.

On the other side we also glue the edges and get a circle.

Make another red and white accordion and glue them to each other.

From one edge we shorten the accordion by 1-2 cm and tie it in the middle.

We make a circle from it in exactly the same way as from the first accordion.

We fix the circles to each other with glue and a stapler.

Glue a strip of fur – just round the edges of the rectangle. We also make eyes, beard and mustache. If you are making Santa Claus, then make the beard longer.

Attach the belt and you’re done!

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Well, the third option in this menu item is a multi-tiered application. For it we need a paper plate and a grandfather figurine. Bend the plate in half. On one side of the plate we draw a sleigh.

Cut out and slightly open the plate.

We paint it red and make the rim gold. Draw a figure of SK or DM up to the waist. You can cut the finished one from the pictures a little lower in the post.

We draw and cut out boxes with bows – gifts. We color and glue them to each other like a ladder.

We put the character in the sleigh along with gifts. Ready. And the best part is that the craft itself stands on the table.

No, it wasn’t the last one. Here’s another. Remember how we made paper lanterns as children. And if you glue a hat and a face to the flashlight. Really cool idea!

Origami Santa Claus with a beard

To make a beautiful curly beard, cut white paper into thin strips and roll it around a pencil or stick. Fold the hat according to the pattern, turning the corner down several times in a row.

Easy origami Santa Claus

Here you will also need double-sided colored paper with a white back. Take a rectangular sheet and fold it according to the diagram – Santa Claus will have a beard, a hat and hands.

Santa Claus made from paper in 5 minutes

This is another simple pattern that even a child can easily handle. Cut out the blank for a cone and separately the beard, face and white stripe at the top.

Origami Santa Claus made of paper

Take regular colored paper so that the back side is white and the front side is red. Mark the diagonals of the square and fold it, as in the diagram, and then draw or glue the eyes.

Letter box in the shape of Santa Claus

Such a box can be hung at the entrance to the house for cards, wishes and letters. All you need is an old box, scissors and thick colored paper for the face and cap.

Santa Claus on legs

The hardest part of this pattern is making the legs with a thick cardboard base to keep the figure stable. Otherwise, this is an ordinary felt Santa Claus on a cone, only a little more detailed.

Funny three-dimensional Santa Claus seems to have been created to decorate a Christmas tree. So don’t forget to immediately sew a loop between the halves of the cap, and fill the body with padding polyester or cotton wool.

Santa Claus made from salt dough

See how you can make a beautiful Santa Claus from salt dough.

Santa Claus can be made from salt dough. If you fasten a ribbon at the top, you will get an excellent Christmas tree decoration.

Santa Claus made from dough

DIY paper Santa Claus – photos and ideas

Of course, these are not all ideas and options. But sometimes the fantasy runs out and you need a little push. To do this, look at our selection and get inspired!

Photo: youtube.com

Photo: youtube.com

Volumetric Santa Claus made of paper (diagram)

I’ll show you one of the easiest ways to make a three-dimensional Santa craft. Using the same principle, using the pictures above, you can make a grandfather by changing his hat and lengthening his beard.

DM and the Snow Maiden

Cut out and glue figures of Father Frost or Snow Maiden.

• Cut out the parts according to the diagram.
• Glue the 2 parts of the head together.
• We roll the lower part of the craft, which is in the shape of a semicircle, into a cone.
• Now let’s assemble all the parts: glue the head to the body. And on the sides are hands.

Print out the template and glue the torso and arms first. Then we glue the arms to the body, then the mittens, and the collar.

Cut the beard into strips, twist it and glue the head.

An even simpler option is to glue the cone together and you’re done. By the way, if you glue a loop into the top, you can decorate the Christmas tree with such toys. I think this is a simple task even for kindergarten.

Here are some cute shapes you can make from toilet paper tubes, so don’t throw them away!

DM from sleeve

But the simplest material for making a New Year’s figurine is a cardboard roll from toilet paper or paper towels.

Here is another detailed master class in pictures on how to make a figurine.

Another voluminous craft is made using almost the same pattern.

• Only the blank, after printing and cutting it out, is folded along four contour lines.
• DM’s arms, which were previously bent in half and glued, are glued to the sides.
• And let’s not forget about the fringe of the cap. We also cut it out and glue it in place.

Santa Claus – box

An unusual Santa Claus, made in the form of a box with a surprise, will help diversify the festive interior, as well as pleasantly surprise everyone who looks under the tree in search of gifts and sweets. Even one piece of candy or a small souvenir hidden inside the box will bring joy and a sense of celebration to the child who finds it.

This option is straight from Minecraft!

Complex SC model for adults

Santa Claus (crochet)

Especially for those who love to crochet something on their free evenings – a Santa Claus souvenir.

Crochet Santa Claus souvenir

Applique “Santa Claus” with a beard made of paper rings

From paper, paper plates and cotton wool you can make an excellent applique with your beloved grandfather. Paint the center of the plate beige. Glue strips of paper according to the pattern.

Glue strips of paper

Now we glue the paper rings, hooking them onto the previous ones. We will get a pattern like a chain – this is our grandfather’s beard.

Glue on the red paper cap. We make an edge from pieces of cotton wool.

Cap with edge

Glue on the mustache, nose and eyes. Glue the cotton wool to the place where the rings begin.

Mustache, nose, eyes, beard

This is how we will get Grandfather Frost with a long thick beard made of rings.

Applique “Santa Claus” with a beard made of paper rings

Look at the video on how to make a full-length Santa Claus applique.

Paper Santa Claus for cards

This paper figurine is best suited for voluminous cards and New Year’s packaging. To make your beard even more beautiful and neat, cut out circles with curly scissors. This is where funny eyes for crafts come in handy.

Box in the shape of Santa Claus

This box resembles a French fry package and folds according to the same principle. Use thick cardboard and a toilet paper roll to help Santa Claus keep his shape. Small figures can be hung on the Christmas tree, and sweets can be hidden in large ones.

Santa Claus from a cone in a fur coat with a beard

We will need to cut a semicircle out of paper, make a cut to the center and twist the semicircle into a cone, which we will fix with glue.

Glue on grandfather’s face.

We also fold the grandfather’s hat into a smaller cone.

Paper cone for a hat

Glue a white paper strip.

Glue the white stripe

Santa Claus from a cone in a fur coat with a beard

Santa Claus made from socks

Use a regular beige sock for the base, and red terry socks for the caftan and cap. The beard can be made from padding polyester or even cotton wool, and the face can be embroidered or painted.