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Creative Santa Claus with his own hands. Craft Santa Claus with your own hands from different materials, step-by-step master classes. Santa Claus made of wool

Would you like to invite your favorite character of children's fairy tales to your home? Then see how to make Santa Claus with your own hands. Let this tiny old man in a red coat and with a white beard bring joy throughout the winter holidays and, of course, promise good luck in the new year.

And if it seems very difficult for you to make a fleece Santa Claus, involve your mother, friend or classmates in an interesting activity. Separating the processes of creating a toy will make the work fast and entertaining, and maybe a little magician will also live in your class under the Christmas tree very soon.

To make Santa Claus you will need:

  • cotton fabric (beige - for the base of the body, multi-colored - for clothing items),
  • fleece (white and red),
  • felt - for application on a fur coat.
  • holofiber and a piece of synthetic winterizer,
  • shoe foam,
  • wool and felting needle,
  • floss threads, buttons, beads and beads,
  • thick tin and thin copper wire,
  • thick cardboard,
  • acrylic paints, brushes,
  • glue gun, Moment-Crystal glue,
  • pliers,
  • stationery knife.

1. First, make a pattern of Santa Claus on paper. Choose the sizes at your discretion, but remember that they must match each other. The desired cone pattern is easy to find on the Internet.

2. Cut out a circle from thick cardboard. Divide the diameter of the circle into three equal parts. Cut holes for the wire (legs of Santa Claus) at their joints.

Put a synthetic winterizer circle on a cardboard one and wrap them in fabric, a little more. Pull the fabric around the cardboard circle with a thread and a needle.

3. Pierce the circle with a U-shaped thick wire, make stops. Screw a thin copper wire to a thick tin wire, as shown in the photo. Let it be 10 centimeters longer than the height of the cone.

4. Carefully glue the junction of the wires and cardboard with hot glue. The figure must be stable and even. The cardboard must not fall down.

5. From some interesting and bright fabric (preferably red), cut out two rectangles, one and a half times longer than the legs of Santa Claus, and about 4 cm wide. Fold the stitches twice from the wrong side. Turn it inside out, put it on the legs, sew to the fabric circle.

6. Cut out a cone sweep from cotton fabric, fold in half and sew, leaving a few millimeters at the top unsewn. Bend the edges around the circumference, sweep. Turn out the cone.

7. Sew the cone to the circle with a hidden seam, passing the copper wire through the top and stuffing it with holofiber. During stuffing, make sure that the wire remains approximately in the middle of the toy.

8. Cut out soles from cardboard. Glue with hot glue. Let the soles be somewhat longer than the wire loops. In this case, they will be more stable.

9. From foam rubber, cut out Santa Claus boots with a recess at the bottom for the wire and a slot at the back. Focus on the photo.

10. With the help of fleece ovals, fit the boots. From below, pull the fabric with a thread.

11. Sew the felt soles on the boots by gluing the felt on the bottom of the boots. Trim off excess fabric.

12. Mark on the cone the boundaries of the face, cap and fur coat of Santa Claus. Sew a spout from a tightened circle of fabric and a piece of padding polyester to the face.

13. Well done! And now you need to lightly cover the face of the toy with white paint and draw the eyes, cheeks and mouth.

14. From red fleece, make a fur coat pattern (truncated cone). Fold in half, sew along the edge and turn inside out. Using a paper template, sew the handles with red fleece and colored fabric mittens, leaving an opening for stuffing. Turn inside out, fill with holofiber, sew the hole with a blind seam.

15. Put on the wizard's fur coat, sew around the neck and bottom with a blind seam. Cut out houses, Christmas trees, mushrooms from multi-colored felt and attach them with pins to the jacket. Try on Santa Claus handles and see if the application is distributed correctly.

16. Glue the appliqué elements with drops of Moment glue and only then sew with bright threads. Decorate the fur coat with buttons, beads, beads and sew snowdrifts of white fleece with a blind seam.

17. It's time to make the cuffs and lapels of the boots. Cut them out of white fleece, sew them, fold them in half and put them on the arms and legs. Sew on.

18. Cut out a wavy collar from white fleece, sew with a blind seam.

19. Passing a strong thread through the base of the handle and a button, sew the fur coat sleeves tightly to the body. Tie a knot, fasten it with glue.

20. Separate part of the wool (about 10 cm) for the beard and use a felting needle to attach to the "chin". Then take the bundle a little thinner, 20 centimeters long, and start to roll the mustache.

21. Take two more thick tufts of wool and roll on both sides of the face. Like this:

22. Gently comb and style your beard. In a similar way, attach Santa Claus's hair, comb it and trim it with scissors.

23. We proceed to the manufacture of the cap. From colored fabric, on the basis of half of the cone template, cut out a narrow long cap. Its length should be 2 cm longer than the free end of the copper wire you inserted into the toy before.

24. Turn the cap inside out and sew to Santa Claus's head. Twist the wire in the middle of the cap into a spiral and make a loop at the end (the pompom will be located on it). Now make a white fleece lapel, a pompom stuffed with holofiber, and sew them to the hat.

25. Complete the look with a small green Christmas tree with buttons on the cap and, if desired, small green pompoms on the boots.

Hooray! Santa Claus is ready to enchant the eyes of your loved ones and give an unforgettable holiday feeling.

You can find even more crafts for the New Year here:

The most important holiday of the year is, of course, the New Year. Only his children are waiting with special impatience, because in addition to gifts from their parents, the guys are waiting for a surprise from Grandfather Frost. And so that this holiday hero comes to your house with pleasure, you can make Santa Claus crafts from paper or other materials with your children.

Can be made from colored paper and cardboard. We cut out the figure of Santa Claus from paper, paste small details and get a beautiful appliqué.

Using felt, Santa Claus crafts for the new year can be used as decorations on the Christmas tree.

A disposable paper plate can also serve as a material for creating a Santa Claus applique.

Craft Santa Claus in the garden should look a little more presentable than just a piece of paper.

What you need to make a cute Santa Claus craft with your own hands:

  • colored felt,
  • glue,
  • toilet paper can/sleeve,
  • lace,
  • scissors,
  • pom-poms (white, red)

How to make Santa Claus crafts, consider in stages

Stage 1. Prepare materials

Stage 2. Cut out a piece of red felt that fits your cylinder

Stage 3. Glue the red piece of felt

Stage 4. We take a light pink felt and cut out a muzzle from it. Glue it on the body of our crafts for the new year of Santa Claus

Stage 5 Glue the lace along the contour of the muzzle

Stage 6 Make eyes out of black felt and glue on the face. Also make a nose. And pink felt is needed to make pink cheeks. Make a smile out of red felt.

Stage 7. Glue all the details

Cut out a triangle from red felt. Glue its edges to get a cone cap. Glue the hat to the figure.

It is not difficult to make New Year's crafts of Santa Claus with your own hands. But on the other hand, the child will have a lot of joy from the result. Especially if you need to take the crafts of Santa Claus to the garden. After all, all children with their parents will make Santa Claus crafts, and yours should be original. You can also see how to sew Santa Claus from felt.

When preparing for the New Year, do not forget to involve the kids in the exciting process. Invite them to create an original New Year's craft with their own hands. The most suitable material for children's creativity is paper. It is worth starting the creation of New Year's souvenirs with an easy and understandable technique for the baby. Today we have prepared for you a simple and interesting master class on creating a funny Santa Claus from a cardboard sleeve. Do-it-yourself Santa Claus from paper is a great idea for children's New Year's crafts in kindergarten or school.

Necessary tools and materials for children's New Year's crafts:

  • cardboard sleeve;
  • colored paper;
  • a piece of white paper;
  • scissors;
  • glue stick;
  • several beads of bright color;
  • decorative snowflake;
  • Double-sided tape.

How to make Santa Claus out of paper with your own hands:

1) We cut off a strip from a sheet of red paper, its width should be equal to the height of the sleeve.

2) To glue the strip to the cardboard base, it is not necessary to apply glue to its entire surface, it is enough to coat only the tip of the workpiece. We tightly wrap the cardboard base with it and fix the second end with glue.

3) From white paper we cut out a magnificent beard and mustache of Santa Claus.

4) Also, to create a mustache and beard, you can use wrapping paper with a three-dimensional texture or a small print. And for the base of the face you need beige paper. Cut out a small square. Now we glue the beige base of the muzzle to the top of the sleeve.

5) We decorate it with a beard, and then with a mustache.

6) We attach a pink nose to the center of the mustache on a foamed double-sided tape.

7) And above we glue the eyes, created from white and black circles.

8) We create a hat from red paper. We cut out such a blank and glue it into a cone-shaped blank.

9) We complement the hat of Santa Claus with a white pompom and piping. Using glue, fix the hat on the top of the base.

11) We decorate the lower part of the craft with a black belt with a golden buckle in the center.

12) We return to the creation of hands, cut out the second part of the sleeve from red paper and glue it to the cuffs.

13) The main work on creating crafts is completed, now you can start decorating it. To do this, cut out three or four holly leaves from green paper.

Let's see how you can create unique Christmas crafts. for a competition in school or kindergarten in the form of Santa Claus. I will also show you how to 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).

Here in the photo below we see an excellent New Year's decoration for the most common gift wrappings 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 plain wadding + PVA glue + red gouache)
  • a piece of white foam packaging (which is often put in boots in the store, or in boxes with appliances). Or (if you do not have such material) you can take white cardboard and glue it with cotton pads.)

On a white cardboard round eye shadow or blush draw spots on the cheeks, black beads-eyes with a marker. In a bowl, stir red gouache and PVA glue (a couple of drops of paint on a teaspoon of glue), dip a piece of cotton wool into this mixture. From this sticky red cotton we mold a ball with our hands - we dry it on a battery (it will dry overnight).

Cut out a triangle from red cardboard. We glue it on the edge of a white round (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 cap and the head), we lay the “fur edging”, as I already said, it is better to cut it out of the foamed packaging material. Or glue the cardboard with cotton pads and cut out the edging of Santa Claus's hat from such “cotton-hairy paper”

But two more ideas crafts-pendants in the form of Santa Claus - already from just cardboard ... and cardboard with paper molds for cupcakes.

Here are large packages with Santa Claus in large sizes.

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 along the fold lines and it's ready. Beautiful box - glue the face and beard of Santa Claus to it and you're done.

You can do your own hands from cardboard (or from soft felt, or formiam as in the photo below) to make PACKAGING-POCKETS for gifts, decorated with Santa Claus appliqué on top.

Here is a diagram-drawing 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.

It remains only to glue the head of Santa Claus with a beard and a hat on top. Simple and fast, no complexity. You will enjoy making such quick pocket crafts with Santa Claus, a snowman, angels and other New Year's characters with your own hands.

Here is a soft felt or fleece pouch that is suitable for gifting a smart phone or a piece of jewelry. It will be nice to receive such a gift, decorated with manual labor and the donor's imagination.

Santa Claus WITH CANDY
(just do it yourself).

Here's another new one 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 Santa Claus’s tummy and back is a ONE PIECE - in shape it looks like a GAME EIGHT, 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 front and a closed back in the back. At the top we fix our halves with a drop of glue, or with a stapler or tape. And it remains for our Santa Claus to glue his head with a beard and legs-stand.

Santa Claus do it yourself

Craft in the technique of "spider line".

There is an article on our website where I show in great detail how to make such balls of glue threads and a small air balloon with my own hands. In this article, “Thread Balls 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, it's all there.

And just look at the photo below and fall in love with these cute Christmas characters made from thread balls. Simple and fast. In one evening we make balls, in the second evening we glue them with colored paper parts - and a worthy craft is ready to go to the New Year's exhibition at a school or kindergarten.

You can not glue the balls with paper parts, but immediately put on such a cap on the top ball - where a face with a mustache and beard is already glued to the cone-cap.

In general, such caps made of cardboard (from the photo above) can be put on ordinary white balloons. And you get a quick craft for the new year in the form of Santa Claus. Such quick crafts are convenient. (By the way, the link has a lot of quick craft ideas for decorating the New Year's office).

Santa Claus with his own hands.

balloon craft

in papier-mâché technique.

Here you can make such a pot-bellied nosy - sweet and charming Santa Claus from the cheapest materials. PVA glue + paper white 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 - mold something from this mass 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 a regular NEWSPAPER. But then it will be necessary 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). We inflate it so that it retains its slightly elongated pear shape. Turn the ball upside down and insert it inside the vase (to make it more convenient to work with). You can even fix it with tape a little to this vase - so that it does not jump out of it.

Step 2 We tear white napkins into shreds (or leave them whole, as you prefer). We smear part of the ball with PVA glue - put a white napkin on this puddle. On top of the napkin, we again smear PVA glue with a wide brush and again put a napkin on this wet place. Thus, we glue the entire ball in several layers - generously pouring glue and generously laying layers of napkins. Leave it all to dry (overnight).

Note - you can glue the ball with newspaper, dry it and paint it white. Or start the first layers from the newspaper. And the upper last layers should be made from a white napkin, then it will not be necessary to paint white.

Step 3 We crumple the napkins into large lumps - these will be the same. We also pour glue over it, also glue it with napkins, forming a wet papier-mâché crust. Let it dry too

Step 4 We take out the ball from the vase-pot on which it stood. We turn it upside down (we will cover this empty place that was in the vase with Santa Claus's hat, it will not be visible. With a marker on the dry round paper surface of the ball, draw the silhouette borders of all the elements of Santa Claus - a face with a nose, a beard, a fur coat. We decorate this gouache round coloring Do not 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 jars-tubes) you will overpay 5 times the cost. Better and 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 with the inscription "universal" or "construction" is suitable for you. In composition, it is no different from the usual clerical PVA school glue. The manufacturer can be any. With this bucket, you will not only make Santa Claus out of papier-mâché, but also a snowman and a penguin (also based on a balloon). Details in other articles on this site.

By the way, on the basis of the BALLOON, you can make a variety of crafts with Santa Claus. You can decorate a ball pasted with newspaper with stripes of colored fringe. We buy rolls of colored crepe paper in stationery. we cut it into strips, cut them into a fringe, glue the BALL IN A CIRCLE with fringe strips. It turns out another version of Santa Claus crafts with his own hands - mischievous and furry.

Or you can decorate a balloon covered with a newspaper with a FLEECE WINDING - a very cozy and warm craft will turn out from a soft material.

We make our own Santa Claus

from stones and natural materials.

Ordinary stones - river small or large cobblestones can become the basis on which the New Year's fairy tale will sprout.

You can just find oval stable stones (or make them stable with plasticine). Cover the stones with white gouache (sprinkle with hairspray to fix the color and so that it does not stain your hands). Then, on a white background, draw all the lines of the future Santa Claus. Decorate with gouache each drawn sector. And then once again draw clear black boundaries between the elements of the picture - make the outlines with a black marker. Markers are great for drawing on stones. It is best to use a CD signing marker - it does not wash off and does not get your hands dirty.

On suitable flat pebbles, you can depict any New Year story. An article-lesson on creating beautiful New Year's drawings is already on our website "Family Bunch".

And from several stones (also painted with gouache) you can put together a whole plot application on a single background, cut out of plywood.

We buy a small sheet of plywood in a hardware store (or find a suitable one next to the entrance in a pile of garbage). Cut out a round piece. We tint with ink in the color of snow and the color of the sky. And against this background we lay out Santa Claus, his bag, his deer, his sleigh ... anything.

Please note that the stones perform only one part of the element - the rest are painted with paints, lined with twigs, ropes and other natural materials.

It is not necessary to choose smooth rounded pebbles. The most uneven curved stones can work to your advantage. Stack them, try them on to each other and try to see the outlines of your future crafts in this styling. Who knows what masterpiece your little "rock garden" will give birth to on a piece of paper.

Also, shells can be used as a natural material for crafts in the form of Santa Claus. It will turn out interesting and beautiful.

You can invent your own New Year's pictures from magic pebbles. Do not forget to spray the craft with hairspray - this way it will become brighter and will not stain your hands with gouache, smear. Also, you can sculpt some details of such a panel craft from plasticine (it can also be covered with hairspray) ... or sculpt from papier mache (a paper napkin mixed with PVA glue, see the paragraph above in this article).

Craft Santa Claus

From plasticine.

From ordinary plasticine (or polymer clay) you can also make a beautiful Santa Claus. 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 the pure colors of the details and the whole craft will look neat.

After making the craft, you need to dry it in a cool place and sprinkle with hairspray. This is necessary so that it ceases to be sticky and does not collect room dust. You can cover the craft with acrylic matte varnish with a soft brush. Acrylic craft varnish is available at stationery or craft stores.

Such lacquered, non-sticky plasticine figures are also good because they can be used inside small Snow capsules. Where will the foam snowball go. Capsules for plasticine Santa Claus can be made with your own hands - from transparent plastic bottles. Cut off the top and bottom from them and docked them together. Pour glitter for nails, sequins or foam balls inside or cut fluff from pillows with scissors - the fluff will slowly settle creating the illusion of snowfall.

Can do flat crafts 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. As a smooth rolling pin, a glass round bottle or can of any deodorant is suitable.

We put a stencil image on the rolled out layer of plasticine (details of Santa Claus, or his clothes). Circle with a sharp object. Remove the stencil and cut with scissors along the scratched lines. We get planar details from which it is possible to fold a plasticine graphic application. Or make just such a craft to decorate the kitchen in the New Year's style (as in the photo below).

You can learn ideas for plasticine crafts in the form of Santa Claus from New Year's cakes decorated with mastic characters. Santa Claus is often molded from sweet confectionery mastic from different angles. Google New Year's cakes 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.

Santa Claus do it yourself

FROM CONES.

Pine and spruce cones can also be painted with gouache (like the stones from the paragraph above). And in a painted form, the bump immediately becomes interesting basis for New Year's crafts in the form of Santa Claus. We insert button beads, a fluffy dusting duster dyed with white gouache becomes a lush beard. Cut out a hat from a piece of felt.

Also in the company of Santa Claus with your own hands (also from cones) you can make a deer (with fluffy wire horns), a snowman, a penguin in a felt scarf, and a green Christmas tree cone decorated with beads and flowers cut out of lace.

Other bright crafts-toys from pine and spruce cones are collected in a large article with photos.

Volumetric Santa Claus

From modular origami.

If you know how to fold the Origami module. Then 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 origami paper module in 2 minutes. For 2 pm make yourself a bunch of modules (family will help), and on the third night fold Santa Claus. Assembly takes place without glue. Each module is nested into each other - like a groove in a groove.

green fir tree also consists of a modular origami. And you can make a snowman and a deer, if you think with your head ...

Santa Claus do it yourself

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 paper latches can be provided on the bag - cuts and ears that fit into each other. On the template below, we see that we have an incision on the left (a short dotted line), and a protruding eyelet on the right (along the edge of the hem of the fur coat). We cut out such a template (diagram below), color 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 natural size of the scheme corresponds to the A3 format - it's like two landscape pages. Printing on the printer will not work - you need to go to the print center. But the craft will be large, pleasant in size.

Here is another large template for Santa Claus paper crafts - it is also A3 - print in the center of the printout.

But this template is smaller - if you want, you can also increase it to a large size. Each craft is beautiful - agree. So you can imagine how Grandfather Frost proudly stands 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 kids crafts. Here in the photo below we see how you can beat 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 material with my own hands.

From flower pots you can collect Santa Claus. We will make a beard for such a grandfather from gypsum plaster. You can buy at a hardware store gypsum plaster(it is cheap in small packaging for a pound you can take). We dilute the gypsum mixture with water to a thick porridge. And quickly, until it thickens and dries, we sculpt a beard to Santa Claus. Pots can also be coated with gypsum porridge, in those places where we depict fluffy fur or snow. If sprinkled on top sequins(with nail powder) it turns out that snowy places sparkle in the sun.

Or here are New Year's crafts from disposable colored cups. Here the cups are stacked in a circle on the floor (glue the round dance with hot glue from a gun). Then, on a round dance, we make the second tier-floor, then the 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. From paper and fabric we make mittens, a belt, eyes, a mustache, a hat.

And we begin to make a green Christmas tree from cups according to the principle of a round dance. But inside it we put a cone of paper. And we still attach the cups along the upper floors to the walls of this paper cone.

From the remaining red cups and toilet paper sleeves, you can make cute Frosts with a cotton beard.

And disposable flat plates can be a source of such children's crafts. We put 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 be ugly.

Craft Santa Claus

From felt and formiam.

Now with the sale a new ornamental material has appeared - formiam. This brainchild of modern technology is very suitable for making voluminous puffy crafts that are well fastened together with hot glue. Here in the photo below you see Santa Claus crafts made from formim (porous thick material).

But crafts made of felt will still be more durable. And warmer to the touch. Kinder, closer.

You can make applications of Santa Claus on a round ball out of felt - you get a pendant toy for a Christmas tree.

Pay attention to how the appliqué details are fastened in the photo below - with rare stitches, details are stuck here (the beard and mustache are held on 4-5 stitches).

If you make a HOOP out of cardboard, wrap it with a cloth and decorate the front with a figure of Santa Claus, then we will get a headdress for the new year. It can be put on for a festive dinner for children, or worn right 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 hoodies and hoodies are sewn. 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 there are FELT (wool for felting) - in the left photo below. As well as a figure of Santa Claus made of a ball of red thread and a piece of white sentipon and a felt hat. The face can be made from a tennis ball tinted in beige.

Knitted Santa Claus.

And New Year's Santa Claus can be crocheted or knitted from threads. Below, for inspiration, I posted a few photo samples of such crafts with my own hands.

You can crochet just a flat figurine. Use it as an applique for a craft, or a toy pendant for a Christmas tree.

You can make a beard from cut bundles of threads (fluffy like a real one) Or simply tie it with a wedge (like a knitting process).

And here is an example of Santa Claus knitted on knitting needles 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 mom's favorite hands.

These are 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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Engage your children in making New Year's crafts in advance, so that later you can celebrate the holiday in a special way. You can cut out snowflakes and shiny stars from foil, prepare greeting cards, glue multi-colored garlands. But you can't do without the figure of Santa Claus.

There are many different ways to make the main symbol of the New Year. One of the simplest and most affordable is Santa Claus made of cotton wool.

Decades ago, voluminous toys, including Santa Claus, made of cotton papier-mâché were very popular. Try to make a bright, original craft from cotton pads.




Master class: Santa Claus on the Christmas tree

In order for the toy to be hung on the Christmas tree, it must be light. Therefore, in addition to cotton pads, take:

  • a plastic empty bottle, for example, a bottle of vitamins;
  • felt-tip pens, paints;
  • scissors;
  • glue.

If you plan to put the craft, and not hang it, then you need to weight the bubble or take a glass one.


The bubble will be the body of the craft, it must be carefully pasted over with cotton pads. To make hands, divide the cotton pad into two parts. Twist each thin part with a bag and glue the wide part of the resulting bag on the sides of the body.

The head can be made in two ways:

  1. Blind from plasticine, preferably from light, and then paste over with cotton pads. Such a head can be easily attached to the lid - the “neck” of the figure. Also make a hat for Santa Claus from plasticine.
  2. The head is made of cotton wool using the felting method. Roll a ball out of pieces of cotton wool, gradually forming a craft of the desired size with soapy hands. After the head of the figurine is dry, coat it with a 1:1 solution of glue and water. Apply the solution with a brush. Glue the dried ball to the bubble cap. A hat can be made from a piece of material or knitted. To keep it better, put it on glue.


The craft is ready, but there is still not enough beard and fur coat for the figure to take on the appearance of Santa Claus.

Prepare paints or gouache. Decorate the fur coat red, leaving a white edge on the clothes. If you want to add expressiveness to the craft, glue a white edging of cotton pads on the sleeves and along the bottom of the fur coat on the dried paint. You can cut a large collar. Do not forget to paint the part of the hands where Santa Claus has "mittens".

Start painting your face. Add blush, carefully highlight the eyes, nose. From cotton pads, cut and glue a mustache and beard. It is enough to use 2-3 layers of cotton pads for a beard so that it is “fluffier”. Start gluing the beard from the bottom layer. Draw a mouth between the mustache and beard.


The real Santa Claus does not come without gifts, so make a bag for a toy - take any colored paper napkin, put a dense ball of cotton wool in it and tie it with a bright thin ribbon. The gift bag is ready.

A craft that will surely become a holiday decoration can be made not only using plastic bottles or glass vials. There are many options: paper, thread, clay, textiles. Be sure to involve children in the process of creating a Santa Claus figurine. Make a craft using cotton wool, colored paper or cardboard - this is one of the easiest ways, even kids will take part in it with pleasure.

Before making an application, draw the outlines of Santa Claus on paper. Here you can show all your imagination. Choose material for the cap, decorate the background of the application. Underline the contour of the figure with paints, a felt-tip pen or braid. Yes, and Santa Claus himself can be depicted standing, walking.


Master class: the original figure of Santa Claus

The unusual craft is that the face is not painted, but sculpted. If an artist takes up the work, then the New Year's character will be similar to a real grandfather.

For this craft you will need various materials:

  • foil;
  • salty dough;
  • wire;
  • beads, buttons;
  • brush, paints;
  • plastic bottle;
  • sintepon.

The frame of the head can be made of foil. In a ball of this shiny material, “pack” a piece of wire. Prepare salt dough for crafts and wrap it around the ball. Insert beads or small buttons in place of the eyes. And start sculpting the grandfather's face. Form cheeks and lips from pliable dough.

Using water, attach pieces of dough - nose, ears. Make small wrinkles on your face. Make sure that the facial expression is good-natured: Santa Claus is a kind character.

Then send the head to the oven to dry.

Now it's time to paint and varnish it.

The head must be attached to the body. To do this, select the appropriate size plastic bottle. Remove the cover from it and make a few holes in it. Insert the wire into the holes and twist.

Screw the cap together with the head to the bottle; you can use pebbles and pebbles for weighting.