Let's see in what ways you can create unique Christmas crafts to the competition for school or kindergarten in the form of Santa Claus. I will also show you how to beautifully decorate gifts for the New Year with the symbol of Santa Claus. Let's start with gifts ...
Santa Claus on a gift
How to do it yourself.
(simple options).
Here in the photo below we see an excellent new Year's decoration the most common gift packages made of gray wrapping paper.
For your first idea, you will need:
- a round shape made of white cardboard, a piece of red cardboard,
- red pompom (or ordinary cotton wool + PVA glue + red gouache)
- a piece of white foam packing spacer (which is often put in boots in the store, or in boxes with appliances). Or (if you don't have such material) you can take white cardboard and paste over it with cotton pads.)
On a white round cardboard eyeshadow or blush we draw the spots of the cheeks, with a marker black beads-eyes. Stir red gouache and PVA glue in a bowl (a couple of drops of paint per teaspoon of glue) dip a piece of cotton wool into this mixture. We sculpt a ball out of this sticky red cotton with our hands - dry it on a radiator (it will dry out overnight).
Cut out a triangle-cap from red cardboard. We glue it to the edge of the 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 said it is better to cut it out of the foam packing material. Or glue the cardboard with cotton pads and cut out the edging of Santa Claus's hat from such "cotton-woolly paper"
And here two more ideas handicrafts-pendants in the shape of Santa Claus - now from just cardboard ... and cardboard with paper cupcake tins.
Here are large bags with Santa Claus in a large size.
You can even make a bag yourself from a sheet. gift paper... The template is very simple. You can make such a drawing yourself with a pencil, cut out, bend along the fold lines and you are ready. A beautiful box - glue the face and beard of Santa Claus to it and you're done. 
You can do it yourself from cardboard (or from soft felt, or formyama as in the photo below) make PACKAGING POCKETS for gifts decorated with Santa Claus applique on top.
Here is a schematic drawing of such a pocket made of colored paper or cardboard. We bend along the lines, glue the sides and a container for sweets and chocolates is ready.
It remains only to glue the head of Santa Claus on top with a beard and a hat. Simple and fast, no complexity. You will love making such quick DIY pockets with Santa Claus, a snowman, angels and other New Year's characters.
Here is a soft felt or fleece pocket package that is suitable for a smart phone gift, or jewelry... It will be nice to receive such a gift, decorated manual labor and the donor's fantasy.
Santa Claus WITH CANDY
(just do it yourself).
Here's another new craft for this year. Santa Claus hides a candy in a bright wrapper in his tummy. A simple children's craft that you will quickly understand and can do with your own hands in one sitting.
As you can see (in the photo below) there is nothing complicated or tricky here. It's just that the tummy and back of Santa Claus is a MIXED DETAIL - in shape it looks like an EIGHT, which has a hole only in the upper turn of the digit.
This "figure eight" folds in half - and we get a tummy with a hole in the center in the 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 the head with a beard and stand legs.
Santa Claus do it yourself
Craft using the "spider line" technique.
There is an article on our website where I show in great detail how to make such balls from threads of glue and a small air balloon with my own hands. In this article "Balls of thread and a sea of \u200b\u200bcrafts using the cobweb technique", I posted a master class. Therefore, I will not explain in detail here, so as not to waste unnecessary words. Follow the link, everything is painted there.
Just take a look at the photo below and fall in love with these cute Christmas characters made of thread balls. Simple and fast. In one evening we make balloons, in the second evening we glue them with colored paper parts - and a decent craft is ready to go to a New Year's exhibition at a school or kindergarten.
You don't have to glue the balls with paper parts, but immediately put on such a cap on the top ball - where a face with a mustache and a beard is already glued to the cone-cap.
In general, such cardboard caps (from the photo above) can be put on ordinary white balloons. And you get a quick hack for new Year in the form of Santa Claus. Such quick crafts conveniently . (By the way, there are a lot of quick craft ideas for decorating a New Year's office here).
Santa Claus with his own hands.
Balloon craft
in papier-mâché technique.
You can make such a pot-bellied-nosed - cute and charming Santa Claus from the cheapest materials. PVA glue + paper white napkins + balloonir + gouache for coloring.
What is the secret of SIMPLICITY of this craft of Santa Claus.
The papier-mâché technique is very simple. If you mix a paper napkin in PVA glue - mold something from this mass and dry it, we get a dense, almost woody, hard craft.
This principle of creating a durable material from weak 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 you will need to paint it on top with white paint (acrylic or gouache) before painting Santa Claus on it.
What do we do.
Step 1 Let's buy a balloon with an elongated tail (that is, a pear-shaped). We inflate it so that it retains its slightly elongated pear-shaped shape. Turn the ball upside down and insert it inside the vase (to make it easier to work with it). You can even fix it a little bit to this vase with tape so that it does not jump out of it.
Step 2 We tear the white napkins into shreds (or leave them intact, 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 the napkin on this wet place. Thus, we glue the entire ball in several layers - generously pouring glue and generously laying layers of napkin. Leave it all to dry (overnight).
Note - You can glue the balloon with newspaper, dry it and paint it in white paint. Or start the first layers from the newspaper. And the upper last layers should be made from a white napkin, then there will be no need to paint it white.
Step 3. We crumple the napkins into large lumps - these will be identities. We also pour it with glue, also glue it with napkins, forming a wet papier mache crust. We also leave to dry
Step 4. We take out the ball from the vase-pot on which it stood. We turn it over with its tail up (we will cover this empty place that was in the vase with Santa Claus's hat, it will not be visible. Marker on the dry round paper surface of the ball draw the silhouette boundaries of all the elements of Santa Claus - a face with a nose, a beard, a fur coat. We paint this round coloring. Do not forget to glue the legs
Note. Papier mache needs a lot of PVA glue. If you buy it in the stationery department (where there is glue in small tube jars) you will overpay every 5 times the cost... Better and cheaper to buy PVA glue in liter buckets in the building departments of the store. For one liter of glue, you will pay about $ 2. And this bucket will be enough for you a whole bunch of crafts. Any PVA glue with the inscription "universal" or "construction" will suit you. In terms of composition, it is no different from the usual school PVA glue. Any manufacturer can be. 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 a BALLOON, you can make a variety of crafts with Santa Claus. You can decorate the balloon covered with newspaper with stripes of colored fringe. We buy rolls of colored crepe paper in office supplies. we cut it into strips, cut them into a fringe, glue it with fringe strips BALL IN A CIRCLE. It turns out another version of Santa Claus's crafts with his own hands - mischievous and hairy.
Or you can decorate a balloon covered with newspaper with a FLEECE WINDING - from soft material you get a very cozy and warm craft. 
We make Santa Claus ourselves
from stones and natural material.
Ordinary stones - river small or large cobblestones can become the basis on which a New Year's fairy tale will sprout.
You can simply find oval resistant stones (or make them resistant using plasticine). Cover the stones with white gouache (sprinkle with hairspray to fix the color and so that it does not get your hands dirty). Then, on a white background, draw all the lines of the future Santa Claus. Decorate each sector with gouache. And then once again draw clear black borders between the elements of the picture - make the outlines with a black marker. Markers are great for drawing on rocks. It is best to use a CD-labeling marker - it won't rinse off or get your hands dirty.
On suitable flat stones, you can depict any New Year's plot. Article-lesson on creating beautiful new Year's drawings is already on our website "Family Kuchka".
And from several stones (also painted with gouache), you can fold 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). We cut out a round piece from it. We tint with ink in the color of the snow and the color of the sky. And against this background, we lay out Santa Claus, his bag, his deer, his sleigh ... whatever.
Please note that the stones fulfill only one part of the element - the rest are painted with paints, laid out from twigs, ropes and other natural material.
You don't have to choose smooth, rounded stones. The roughest curved stones can work to your advantage. Lay them, try on each other and try to see the outlines of your future craft in this styling. Who knows what kind of masterpiece your little "rock garden" on a piece of paper will give birth to.
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 make up your own New Year's pictures from magic stones. Do not forget to spray the craft with hairspray - so it will become brighter and will not get your hands dirty with gouache, smeared. Also, you can sculpt some details of such a panel craft from plasticine (it can also be covered with hairspray) ... or sculpted out of papier mache ( paper napkin mixed with PVA glue, see the point above in this article).
Crafts Santa Claus
From plasticine.
From ordinary plasticine (or from polymer clay) you can also make a beautiful Santa Claus. The main thing is to work slowly and do not forget to wash your hands when we move from one plasticine color to another. There we will get the pure colors of the parts and the whole craft will look neat.
After making the craft, dry it in a cool place and sprinkle with hairspray. This is necessary so that it ceases to be sticky and does not collect house dust. You can cover the craft with acrylic matte varnish with a soft brush. Acrylic craft varnish is sold at stationery or craft stores.
Such varnished, 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... Cutting off the top and bottom from them and docking them together. Pour nail glitter, sequins or foam balls inside, or cut the fluff from the pillows with scissors - the fluff will slowly settle, creating the illusion of snowfall.
Can be done plane 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. A glass round bottle or can of any deodorant is suitable as a smooth rolling pin.
We put a stencil image (details of Santa Claus, or his clothes) on the rolled plasticine layer. We circle with a sharp object. Remove the stencil and cut with scissors along the scribbled lines. We get plane details from which you can fold plasticine graphic applique. Or make just such a craft to decorate the kitchen in new year style (as in the photo below).
You can get ideas for plasticine crafts in the form of Santa Claus from New Year's cakes decorated with mastic characters. Santa Claus is often molded from sweet pastry mastic from different angles. Browse the Christmas cakes on Google and you will find many ideas for plasticine Christmas 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 BONES.
Pine and spruce cones can also be painted with gouache (like the stones from the paragraph above). And in a dyed form, the bump immediately becomes interesting the basis for New Year's crafts in the form of Santa Claus... Insert beads-buttons. A fluffy duster painted with white gouache becomes a fluffy beard. Cut out a hat from a piece of felt.
Also in the company to Santa Claus with your own hands (also from cones) you can make a deer (with horns made of fluffy wire), a snowman, a penguin in a felt scarf, and a green herringbone cone decorated with beads and flowers cut from 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 Origami module. Then it costs you nothing to create such a pot-bellied Santa Claus. YouTube is full of videos that will teach you how to fold a triangular paper origami module in 2 minutes. For 2 pm make yourself a bunch of modules (the family will help), and on the third evening fold Santa Claus. Assembly takes place without glue. Each module fits into each other - like a groove in a groove.
Green herringbone also consists of modular origami... And a snowman can be made 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 pouches for seeds. We need a semicircle - which we fold into a bag and glue the side seam of the bag with glue (or not with glue, but with a stapler).
Or on the bag, you can provide paper latches - cuts and ears that fit into each other. On the template below, we see that on the left we have an incision (a short dashed line), and on the right a bulging eyelet (along the edge of the hem of the fur coat). We cut out such a template (diagram below), paint and connect it into a bag - inserting an eyelet into the cut (or you can simply fix everything on glue without any ears).
Santa Claus is easy and bistro to make on the basis of an ordinary cone. Below I give great diagrams for large figures. The actual size of the diagram corresponds to the A3 format - it's like two landscape pages. You will not be able to print on the printer - you need to go to the print center. But the craft will be large and pleasant in size.
Here is another large template for Santa Claus's crafts made of paper - it is also in A3 format - print in the center of the printout.
But this template is smaller - if you want, you can also increase it to a large size. Each piece is beautiful - you must agree. So you imagine how Grandfather Frost proudly stands on the windowsill and pleases the eye. An excellent craft - smart and simple.
Children's craft Santa Claus
From toilet paper rolls.
Cardboard sleeve 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.
Items can be made of paper, felt, cotton wool, formiam, fabric or knitted socks.
Santa Claus and utensils
(pots, cups, plates).
And in this section of the article, I want to show how to do it yourself original craft from non-standard material.
You can collect Santa Claus from flower pots. We will make a beard for such a grandfather from plaster plaster. At the hardware store you can buy gypsum plaster (it is cheap in small packaging for half a kilo you can take). We dilute the gypsum mixture with water to a thick porridge. And quickly until it thickens and withers, we sculpt a beard for Santa Claus. The pots can also be coated with gypsum porridge, in those places where we depict fluffy fur or snow. If sprinkled on top sparkles (with nail polish) it will turn out that the snowy places sparkle in the sun.
Or here are New Year's crafts from disposable colored cups... Here the cups are laid in a circle on the floor (glue the round dance with hot glue from a gun). Then, in a round dance, we make the second tier-floor, then the third - they themselves will round out into a spherical shape (because the cups at the bottom are narrower than at the edge). We make one ball for the belly and one ball for the head of Santa Claus. We make mittens, belt, eyes, mustache, hat from paper and fabric.
And we begin to make a green Christmas tree from cups according to the principle of a round dance. But put a paper cone inside it. And we also attach the cups along the upper floors to the walls of this paper cone.
From the remaining red cups and toilet paper rolls, you can make cute Frosts with a cotton beard.
And disposable flat plates can become a source of such children's crafts. At the bottom of the plate we put beige paper (this will be the background of the face). Without a beige or pink background (just on a pale plate) it will be ugly.
Crafts Santa Claus
Made of felt and formam.
Now a new ornamental material has appeared on sale - formam. This brainchild of modern technology is very suitable for the manufacture of bulky puffy crafts that are well attached to each other with hot glue. Here in the photo below you see Santa Claus's craft from formim (porous thick material).
But the felt craft will be more durable. And warmer to the touch. Nearer, closer.
You can make Santa Claus appliques on a round from felt - you get a toy pendant on a Christmas tree.
Pay attention to how in the photo below the fasteners of the applique details are made - with rare stitches, there are parts there (the beard and mustache are kept on 4-5 stitches).
If we make a HOOP from cardboard, wrap it with a cloth and decorate it in front with a figure of Santa Claus - then we will get a headdress for the new year. It can be worn 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 also use SOFT FLEECE. This is the material from which sweatshirts and bikes are made. It is suitable for sewing soft toys in the form of Santa Claus or plump pillows (as in the photo below).
And here is Santa Claus, where FELT (wool for felting) is present - in the left photo below. And also a figurine of Santa Claus made of a ball of red threads 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 several photo samples of such crafts with my own hands.
You can crochet a simple flat figure. Use it as an applique for a craft, or a toy pendant for a Christmas tree.
You can make a beard from cut bunches of thread (fluffy like a real one) Or just knit it with a wedge (like a knitting process).
And here is an example of Santa Claus knitted with his own hands. Choose your favorite knitting method and start making a real surprise for the whole family with your own hands. Such christmas toy will accompany your holiday every year, like a tradition, like a family heirloom made by your mother's beloved hands.
These are the do-it-yourself ideas on the theme of Santa Claus - 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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Santa Claus from balloons can be a wonderful decoration for your home.
To make it you will need: white balloons 9 "- 4 pcs., 5" - 8 pcs., 36 cm balloon Punch ball red - 1 pc., Pink or peach 9 "balloon - 1 pc., Red modeling balloon - 1 pc. ., Santa Claus mask - 1pc., tinsel.
Our grandfather's body is a Punch Ball ball, inflate it and tie the tail into a knot. White balls 9 "serve as a base, inflate them and tie in pairs. Now we twist the pairs together, we get a four. Now we tie the body to the base using an elastic band on the ball. Grandfather's head is a pink ball 9". Inflate it and tie it to the Punch Ball. Now we make a collar for grandfather to hide the junction of the head with the body. Inflate the 5 "balloons and tie them first in pairs, and then in 4. Slip the balloons between the head and body and twist them together to keep the collar tight.
We make our grandfather's hands from a ball for modeling, inflate about 70 centimeters, while the ball should be under-inflated. Mark the middle and twist it there. We pass the ball into the middle of the collar and twist it together. The grandfather's mittens will be white balls 5 ", inflate and tie to the ends of the ball. Cover the joints with tinsel.
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