The Christmas season and St. Nicholas Day are just around the corner and it's time for crafts with children again. You can make a beautiful Santa Claus out of various materials such as wood, paper or fabric and use it to decorate your home for the popular holiday. We have put together creative ideas and instructions that can inspire and be useful for your crafting.
When you're making crafts for a special occasion, it's always more fun when the kids join in. For our first idea you will need some cardboard, a gingerbread man template from the internet and any scraps of fabric, paint, beads, yarn and other desired materials to decorate Santa Claus. Cut out a piece of cardboard according to the template and use it to cut out a Santa costume from leftover fabric or felt. Then decorate Santa's face appropriately and use him as a Christmas decoration or toy for the children.
Salt dough is perfect for makingvarious small figures, pieces of jewelry or even hand and footprints. If you would like to make a Santa Claus out of salt dough with the children for Christmas, the best way to do this is for the little ones to leave their handprints on the dough. The salt dough figures can be painted and decorated as desired, and the handprint looks like Santa Claus in a hat.
You can also create a cute Santa Claus as a tree decoration. Make a white wool pompom using a beard fork. Then make a simple cone out of red felt and glue the finished beard to it. If you don't want to create eyes and a mouth, you can just glue a wooden bead as a nose and the simple Santa Claus is ready.
Crafting with toilet rolls for Christmas or other occasions has become very popular and is a perfect inexpensive decoration idea. For this idea you will need craft felt, cotton balls, small red plastic cups and glue.
First, the body is designed using red, white and black craft felt. Then place the small cup on the toilet roll as a hat and stick a cotton ball on it. Finally, create white hair and a beard out of the cotton wool, stick two wiggly eyes and a small pompom on the face and you're done.
Here you will find another nice idea. An empty toilet roll is used, as well as a paper cup for muffins, construction paper in matching colors and some cardboard.
If you want to make an unusual Santa Claus, you can also use wood. A large or small tree trunk can easily be transformed into a Santa Claus and is ideal for creative Christmas decorations in the garden. To do this, the lower cut surface of the tree trunk should be as square as possible and the upper cut should be oblique. You can either just paint his face on the tree trunk or stick a picture of it, or even make a costume to go with it.
As a rule, there are numerous options for crafting with wood at Christmas. For example, you can make an unusual Santa Claus out of several wooden slices in different sizes, which would certainly make a big impression.
For this creative Christmas decoration you need a larger wooden disc and several small ones, which you could also saw yourself from small branches. Various screws, spacers and similar materials are used for the eyes, nose and mouth, but you can also use your own ideas. Everything is glued to the large wooden disc with the hot glue gun to create the Santa face.
Recycling crafts are a great way to reuse old and unused items instead of throwing them away. If you paint an old can with red spray paint, you can make a great Santa Claus vase and use it as a Christmas decoration in the home.
When the popular Christmas season comes, you can feel the Christmas spirit everywhere. If you like the idea of decorating the front door with a beautiful door wreath, then you can make the door wreath as a Santa Claus. A simple Santa wreath can be made from a Styrofoam wreath, some white tulle and a Santa hat.
If you are looking for creative craft ideas for your children, you can give them simple objects that they can turn into great Christmas decorations themselves. For example, you can make a creative Santa Claus out of a red paint brush and a few decorative elements.
Assembling different objects into random characters is another great idea that can encourage children's creativity. To do this, you should give the little ones several pieces that can be used to create a Santa Claus. The children's task is to put together Santa Claus themselves from the items given.
You can make a simple Santa Claus out of a paper plate, red construction paper and cotton balls, which is perfect as a window decoration. The paper plates have an advantageous round shape, which can also be used to create a snowman and Rudolf the reindeer.
As already mentioned, handprints are good for making a Santa Claus. However, this Santa Claus is not made from salt dough, but from a simple sheet of paper. The thumb and the lower half of the palm can be designed as a Santa hat using red crayon and a cotton ball. Cotton balls are used as a beard and glued to the fingers.
Again by hand, you can paint a funny Santa Claus on a dark sheet of paper instead of making crafts. Finger paints are best suited for this, especially if you are painting with children. When the picture is already dry, you can cut it out and stick it anywhere.
If you are making a whole Santa Claus or just need his costume as a disguise, then the beard is one of the most important components for this. With a suitable template, white felt, cotton balls, rubber band and a hot glue gun you can make a suitable beard yourself or with children. Instructions and a suitable template can be found below.
* Santa Claus beard template can be foundhere.
