On the eve of the New Year, all thoughts are busy preparing: what to cook, what to give, what to wear, and of course, how to decorate the house. Today we will talk about the main symbol of the coming 2017 - Santa Claus.

The main characteristics of Santa Claus include:

• warm earflaps
• long beard
• red coat
• staff
• gift bag

You can make Santa Claus yourself, together with the children, at the same time telling them where such a symbol came from and which children will get gifts.

Santa Claus from a bottle with his own hands

Desktop Santa Claus can even be obtained from a plastic liter bottle, which can be found in every home. You will need:

• liter empty bottle
• colored paper
• scissors
• red paint and white color
• buttons
• threads

1. Mark the face and mustache on the bottle with a marker. Paint all other parts red. Use acrylic paints or gouache, adding PVA glue to it for a better overlay. Paint your face in flesh color, and make your beard white.
2. Wrap the transition to the tapering part of the bottle with a white thread - this is Santa Claus's hat.
3. Make a pom-pom out of yarn and disk and attach it to the lid.
4. From threads and buttons, make a belt for Santa Claus.
5. Eyes and mouth can be drawn or small buttons can be used.
6. To make legs and arms, fold long strips of paper several times to make an accordion and glue them to the bottle.
7. Cut out small palms or mittens and glue instead of handles.
8. As boots, you can use round bobbins, pasting them with red paper.

In the company of Santa Claus in the same technique, you can make a snow maiden and a snowman.

Santa Claus: DIY toy

To make a bright and cheerful Santa Claus toy, use one of the patterns below. Depending on your preferences, you can make Santa Claus in the style of Tilda dolls or a more traditional version.

1. You need to purchase small pieces of fabric or use existing scraps, the toy will not require much.
2. Print and cut out the patterns, lay on the fabric and circle, you will need about 0.5 cm for the allowance.
3. Cut out all the details and sew together by hand or on a typewriter, leaving a small opening. Make cuts at the folds so that the fabric does not wrinkle.
4. Turn the parts inside out and stuff with padding polyester or cotton wool, sew up to the end.
5. Gather all the details.
6. Add decorative elements.

DIY Santa Claus costume: diagrams and patterns

To please the baby, New Year's gifts can be brought to him by the "real" Santa Claus. To make everything look like in a fairy tale, sew a costume for Santa Claus. Such work will not take you much time.

1. The most time-consuming part of the work is sewing a fur coat. You can purchase a long piece of red fabric, it can be fleece, satin, velveteen, velvet. As well as white fabric for decoration.
2. The size of the fur coat depends on who it is sewn on, below is the simplest circuit. You can take measurements from the "Santa Claus" itself.
3. All parts are sewn together, finish in white. The Santa Claus hat is made according to the same principle.
4. Make a beard from a piece of synthetic winterizer, cutting out several layers and putting them on top of each other.
5. As a staff, use a mop handle wrapped in gold packing tape.
6. Sew a gift bag from scraps.

Santa Claus beard made by hand

The beard is a very important element that will add naturalness to the image, we offer you a few more ideas for creating a beard.

• Option 1: cut out the base from white felt, sew along the edges of the tie and stick cotton balls over the entire surface.

• Option 2: cut a piece of felt oval shape- this will be the basis for the future beard. Felt or thick white yarn fluff and sew to the base, imitating a mustache and beard.

• Option 3: A respirator can be used as a base for the beard, in which case the beard will hold securely. Cut holes for the mouth and glue the remaining parts with padding polyester.

Staff of Santa Claus with their own hands

If you approach the issue of making a staff more seriously, then you can try the following methods.

• Option 1: On top of the mop handle, glue a Christmas tree toy, which is usually used to decorate the top of a spruce, cover the docking place with tinsel, wrap the base with tape or wrapping paper.
• Option 2: Use a shovel handle, sand the base and cover with white paint, wrap the staff with thin tinsel, decorate the top christmas toy attached to the glue gun, add glitter.
• Option 3: An express way to create a staff is to use foil for decoration. Wrap the base (mop handle, gymnastic stick, etc.) with foil, then wrap with tinsel on top.

Santa Claus's sleigh do-it-yourself

As a gift for tiny and big lovers of sweets, you can lay out Santa Claus's sleigh from sweets, marmalades and cookies. And immediately an ordinary and familiar gift will look magical and festive in a New Year's way.

Christmas candies are suitable as runners, the rest of the sweets are laid on them and the whole structure is tied with a bow. To prevent the surprise from falling apart along the way, you can fasten all the parts with a glue gun or double-sided tape.

DIY Santa Claus mittens

Since Santa Claus lives in the North, it would be very uncomfortable for him without mittens, after all, the years are not the same, you need to take care of yourself. Mittens can be knitted from red yarn or sewn from the remnants of red fabric from the suit.

Santa Claus's mittens are even more like large mittens, so you can use the following pattern to sew them:

Santa Claus do-it-yourself from improvised materials

To build Santa Claus houses, it is not necessary to go to the store, use the materials that you already have at hand.

In the technique of quilling

For execution you will need:

• colored paper
• cutter
• toothpick

1. Cut the paper into thin strips of 0.5 cm and twist into a bundle with a toothpick
2. Remove from the toothpick, let it straighten out a little to make a circle and secure the end with PVA glue
3. From such elements you can assemble a whole Santa Claus.

From toilet paper rolls or rollers for cleaning clothes:

1. the roller will be the base
2. cover it with red paper or felt
3. draw a face
4. stick on a cotton beard
5. a hat can be made from a napkin

Santa Claus in origami technique

Small gifts-postcards in the form of Santa Claus are easy to fold and an ordinary piece of colored paper 10 * 10 cm in size. There are a lot of experimental schemes, they are easy to perform. Involve young children in the work, such an activity is useful for the development of motor skills.

Santa Claus from colored felt with his own hands

Felt is becoming an increasingly popular material among needlewomen because it is very easy to use, does not require edge processing, does not roll up and attaches well. From felt can be done various option Santa Claus:

• Option 1. Santa Claus is a toy for the Christmas tree: you just need to cut out all the details according to the pattern below and sew them together, add a padding polyester inside for softness.

• Option 2. Santa Claus on a Christmas wreath: more and more often in homes you can see the decoration in the form of a Christmas wreath, more characteristic of Western culture. You can decorate the wreath with Christmas balls, branches or felt Santa Claus.

• Option 3. Santa Claus-basket: you will need a thick felt, about 4-5 mm thick, cut out all the details and sew. Put a gift in a basket and hide it under the Christmas tree.

Santa Claus from cotton wool with his own hands

Toys were made from cotton wool decades ago, probably your grandmothers still own this technique and can teach all its subtleties.

The creation process is painstaking and laborious, and the toy turns out to be very fragile. To create such a masterpiece you will need:

• paints
• threads
• wire

Making Santa Claus:

• From the wire, form the frame of the future Santa Claus, all parts of the body except for the head.
• Wrap cotton wool on the frame and secure with threads.

• The next layers of cotton wool are attached with a paste or PVA, apply cotton wool in thin layers so that it sticks securely.
• Engage in the manufacture of the head, first form a ball, then gradually fashion the nose, brow ridges, lips, evaluate the proportions, the head should not turn out to be too large relative to the body.
• Attach the head to the body with glue and thread.

• From the wire, form a frame for a fur coat that is attached to the waist.
• Wrap the wire with white thread.
• Close the hem of the fur coat with cotton wool and form a hat, mittens, felt boots, and a beard.

• After complete drying, proceed to coloring.

Santa Claus do-it-yourself pantyhose

As a basis for a toy, ordinary nylon tights, they are perfectly stretched and allow you to form the desired shape. For work you will need:

• light-colored tights or stockings
• synthetic winterizer or cotton wool
• paints
• thread with a needle
• red fabric for clothes

1. To get started, form 3 lumps of cotton wool, one large for the head and three smaller ones for the cheeks and nose. Cut off the toe from the tights and place all three lumps there, sew up the hole.
2. Now form the nose and secure it with pins for ease of use and sew with light threads. Use the same principle to form the eyes and lips.
3. For the body, you can use the remaining tights, cut a piece about 20 cm long, sew one edge and stuff it tightly with cotton.
4. Sew the details together, now take care of the clothes. For a fur coat, use the attached pattern. Make a hat from the remnants of the fabric.
5. Do not forget to add a beard and mustache, make them from the remnants of cotton wool.
6. Now the most difficult part remains - paint the face and the toy is ready.

Santa Claus on a glass with his own hands

Decorated glasses will become an interesting decoration of the table. The trick is that the glass is no longer used as a vessel, but as a candlestick. The New Year's atmosphere of your evening is guaranteed!

You will need:

• wineglass
• decoupage napkins with Santa Claus
• tassel
• PVA glue
• scissors

1. Remove the bottom two paper layers from the napkins, you only need bright picture. Cut out the elements that you would like to transfer to the glass.
2. Dilute the glue with water or cook the paste.
3. Using a brush dipped in glue, carefully spread the napkins over the glass, keep in mind that the glass will stand upside down. Smooth out any wrinkles for a flawless finish.
4. After complete drying, you can add a few more decorative elements in the form of stars or snowflakes.
5. Put a candle on the leg and put it on the table.

Big Santa Claus do it yourself

Santa Claus can become a real decoration of the interior, if it is done with high quality and with love. For you, a master class on making a big Santa Claus.

You will need wire, scissors, glue, a needle and thread, thick cardboard, foam rubber, sintepuh, cotton wool, wool, white and red felt.

• At the heart of the entire body and head is a cone. Its size depends on how big toy you want to end up with. Cut out a cone and a circle from paper.

• Draw a diameter on the circle and divide it into three parts, the points equidistant from the center will be the legs.
• Wrap the circle on one side with bright felt or cloth, glue the edges on the inside, thread the wire through the holes and form loops in place of the feet.
• To the middle of the wire, wind the wire thinner, its length should be greater than the height of the cone. So that the figure does not lose balance, the junction of the circle and the wire must be generously glued with a glue gun.

• From the fabric, cut out two rectangles about 4 cm wide and 10 cm longer than the length of Santa Claus's legs. Sew on the long side, turn inside out and put on the legs. Baste to the bottom of the circle.
• Cut a cone out of white felt, sew and turn right side out. Stuff it tightly with synthetic fluff and thread a thin wire through it, sew it to the circle with a blind seam.
• Cut out soles from thick cardboard or plywood, they should be larger than wire loops. Glue the soles with a glue gun. Glue foam boots on top.

• Cover the boots with red felt and pull them down.
• Sketch the eyes and mouth at the top of the cone.
• From red felt or fleece, cut out Santa Claus's fur coat, as well as pens. Handles must be sewn and filled with synteph.
• Sew the fur coat directly to the cone with a hidden seam and decorate on top with the decor of your choice.

• Cut out a white collar from white fleece and sew on.
• Sew handles to the fur coat on both sides.
• Further, from the existing wool, it is necessary to comb the beard and mustache and carefully attach them to the face of Santa Claus.
• Form a hat from the remnants of wool, its decor can repeat the decor on a fur coat.
• Santa Claus is ready to please you and your loved ones!

Santa Claus on champagne with his own hands

A bottle of wine or champagne is good gift for the holiday, there are many free days and guests ahead, this bottle will definitely not become superfluous. To make the gift still thematic, you can decorate it by dressing it up as Santa Claus.

Of course, the easiest option is to sew a tiny hat on a bottle and it will immediately look different, but you can also show even more creativity, for example, sew a cover and decorate it as Santa Claus.

1. From red satin ribbon you can also build an amazing bottle decoration
2. To make it removable, you first need to prepare the base in the shape of a bottle, and then wrap it with ribbons
3. At the end, add decor from white felt or fur

Knit a Santa Claus costume on a bottle with your own hands

A suit for a bottle can not only be sewn, but also knitted. Here are a few ideas for you, symbolic simplified versions in red colors or humorous ones with Santa Claus - Santa Claus hanging on a chimney.

Santa Claus - do-it-yourself pillow

Pillows with Santa Claus will help to change the style of the interior and make it more New Year's, it can be a decor made on a regular cover, or the pillow itself can resemble Santa Claus.

In order to sew a New Year's cover you will need:

• base fabric
• felt or fleece for finishing
• threads
• needle

1. From the fabric, cut out a cover for the existing pillow and sew it by inserting a zipper to open and close
2. Cut out all parts of Santa Claus's face from fleece: beard, eyes, mustache, nose, hat, pompom
3. Sew all parts to the base one by one, you can use buttons as an eyelet
4. Make a pom-pom out of thread and sew it to the hat
5. Santa Claus's mustache can be made voluminous by stuffing it with synthetic winterizer

With a lot of patience, you can try to cross-stitch a pillow with Santa Claus.

Santa Claus from spoons with their own hands

With the help of disposable spoons, you can create unusual things, including lampshades for lamps, vases and coasters. It turns out that, by turning on the fantasy, you can even build Santa Claus.

You will need:

• plastic spoons
• cardboard
• red paint
• felt-tip pen

1. Cut out and glue a cone from cardboard, it will be the basis for Santa Claus
2. Now, with a pencil, mark the places where the mustache, beard and eyes will be, paint over everything else with red paint.
3. For plastic spoons, break off the base and glue them to the beard and along the edge of the cone
4. Cut out handles from paper and glue on each side
5. Draw eyes and your Santa Claus is ready

If you have only one plastic spoon lying around your house, and Santa Claus needs to be done, then you can go the other way:

Santa Claus from plastic cups

Continuing the theme of creativity from disposable tableware, you can try to create Santa Claus from ordinary plastic cups.

You will need:

• red plastic cups white flowers
• threads
• balloon
• fleece for hat
• buttons

1. Glue the cups together so as to get a shape resembling a ball. White cups will symbolize the hem of a fur coat and buttons.
2. Next, the head can be laid out from cups or made from PVA glue, threads and a balloon.
3. Glue the head to the base, add eyes and a beard from cotton pads.
4. Stick cups into each other and glue them as handles.
5. Glue a Santa Claus hat out of fleece or felt.
6. From the remaining cups, glue the gift bag and tie it with a ribbon.

Santa Claus from a plastic plate

The easiest exercise for kids school age- make Santa Claus from an ordinary plastic plate. It is better for you to prepare all the necessary details in advance so that the baby can calmly create.

You will need:

• plate
• red triangle for hat
• white rectangle for cap lapel
• black circles for eyes
• cotton balls for beard
• nose pompon

Show your child how easy it is to glue all the pieces together and put Santa Claus together.

According to the same scheme, you can easily assemble a snowman and a deer!

Do-it-yourself chocolate bar with Santa Claus

V Lately giving just chocolate bars has become unfashionable, everything needs unusual packaging. A chocolate box is a postcard-box, inside of which there is a cherished sweetness, and maybe even a few lines with wishes are written.

1. Cut out the base for the future box from thick red cardboard and iron all the folds, glue the pocket for the chocolate
2. Glue ribbons to make your gift look more presentable.
3. On the front side, glue or paint on the face, beard, mustache, hat, nose and eyes
4. Put your favorite chocolate bar inside and write wishes for the New Year

Santa Claus from paper, do-it-yourself scheme

One of the most simple options creations of Santa Claus, and perhaps the most technologically advanced - just print it on a printer and glue it according to the attached diagram. The most advanced can even print a three-dimensional figurine on a 3D printer, and then just paint it!

Do-it-yourself voluminous Santa Claus

You can fold a three-dimensional figure of Santa Claus using the technique modular origami which has become very popular in the last ten years.

The assembly of the product is carried out from the same modules, which allow you to create any shape.

For example, for Santa Claus, we need 493 identical modules (1 red for the nose, 275 white, 198 blue, 19 flesh). Each module is assembled from a rectangular piece of paper measuring 37 * 53 mm, or 1/32 sheet.

The module creation technique is as follows:

1. Having added the required number of modules of a certain color, you can go directly to the assembly
2. At the base of 25 BM (white modules) placed on the short side in a circle
3. In the second row, put 25 BM in the same way as in 1, but on the long side and put on 1 row.
4. The third row repeats the previous one
5. In the fourth row, put 25 cm (blue pieces) on the long side
6. Fifth row: 22 cm on the long side and 3 BM on the short side, turn the ring inside out
7. In the sixth row 4 BM and 21CM, all with the long side out
8. In the seventh row 5 BM and 20 SM, located as in the previous row
9. In the eighth row 6 BM and 19 SM, located as in the previous row
10. In the ninth row 7 BM and 18 SM, located as in the previous row
11. In the tenth row 8 BM and 17 SM, located as in the previous row
12. In the eleventh row 25 BM, located as in the previous row
13. In the twelfth row 25 BM, located as in the previous row
14. In the thirteenth row 1KM and 24 BM, located as in the previous row
15. In the fourteenth row, 2 BM with the long side outward over the KM 13 rows, on both sides of them, 2 TM (body modules) with the short side, the rest 19 BM
16. In the fifteenth row 7 TM and 18 BM with the long, short and long sides outward, respectively
17. In the sixteenth row, 8 TM and 17 BM with the long, short and long sides outward, respectively
18. In the seventeenth row, reduce the number of row elements by wearing 6 modules on 3 corners, a total of 22 BM outward with the short side
19. In the eighteenth row, 20 cm outward with the short side
20. 19th 18 cm short side out
21. In the twentieth 9 BM short side forward
22. Form handles from the remaining elements, glue the eyes and nose

DIY Santa Claus doll

In order for the child to remember this holiday for a long time, sew a puppet Santa Claus for him. Print all the patterns on the printer and cut out the details.

1. Lay out the fabric and circle all the details, leave a 5 mm allowance. Cut along the contour and sew on a typewriter.
2. Gather all the details together, use a thick thread to decorate the doll's clothes, the yarn will make a great beard.

Santa Claus on the Christmas tree with his own hands

On the New Year tree, among other toys, there must be Santa Claus and the Snow Maiden. They can be made from felt or cut out of colored paper to make an appliqué.

Also interesting idea- to make Santa Claus from beads, you only need a fishing line and glass beads of white and red colors. String the beads according to the pattern, and at the end make a loop out of the remnants of the fishing line.

Santa Claus from balloons

A very convenient and compact option for later storage - Santa Claus from balloons. You will need white and red balls for the coat and hat, pink for the face, and black for the shoes.

1. Inflate 31 red and 11 white balloons of the same size and place them in the shape of a cone, so that in the first row there are 6 white balloons, in the second and third 6 red balloons, in the fourth 4 red 1 white, in the fifth 5 red, in the sixth 5 red, in the seventh 5 red, in the eighth 4 white.
2. Inflate a large beige or Pink colour, this will be the head.
3. Put a Santa Claus hat on top of your head and draw eyes with a marker.
4. Make a beard out of white felt or fleece.

Santa Claus from salt dough

Another great creative resource salty dough. It allows you to create amazing gizmos that will last a lifetime.

1. First, prepare the dough: mix 200 grams of salt and flour, 100 ml of water and half a teaspoon of PVA and knead the dough
2. From ready dough mold the base into a cone shape
3. Fashion the sleeves and handles and glue to the cone
4. From two long strips of dough, form a lapel and a hem of a fur coat
5. Shape hats and noses from small balls of dough.
6. Add a beard and mustache, eyebrows
7. Send to dry in the oven for 40 minutes
8. Then color ready product acrylic paints and varnish

Santa Claus made of wool

The felting technique allows you to create real masterpieces from ordinary wool. To felt Santa Claus, take flesh and white wool, felting needles, red felt for a fur coat, wire, beads and glue.

• From flesh-colored wool, knit a shape in the form of a cone, on which a ball is put on. The cone is the torso, so add a slight roundness on one side, this is the solid belly of Santa Claus.
• Cut out a fur coat for Santa Claus from felt and sew it right on the base.

• From the remnants of the red fabric, sew a small cone-shaped hat.
• Felted flagella from white wool so that they turn out to be fluffy on one side, put them on a sponge and use a needle to drive them into the sponge. Glue the finished flagella to the fur coat with glue along the hem and collar.
• From the remaining white wool we form a beard and mustache and attach them with a needle.
• Glue eyes and nose
• From the wire, measure the required length for the handles, wrap the wire with red felt and glue it on the ends of the mittens. Insert the open end of the wire into the body.

Making toys with your own hands is very interesting activity if you haven't tried it yet, now is the time to start. Don't be discouraged if something doesn't work the first time, you can always try again. Santa Claus will bring Christmas mood and the feeling of an approaching holiday in your home! New creative ideas to you and a merry New Year!

Video: Santa Claus do it yourself step by step

Master class with step by step photo"Birth of Santa Claus" (making Santa Claus under the Christmas tree)

Repeshko Lyudmila Petrovna, primary school teacher, MOU "Olenovskaya school No. 1 of the Volnovakha district", ptg. Olenivka, Donetsk region.
Material Description: master class for teachers and parents.
Purpose: this souvenir as a gift for the New Year.
Target: make a souvenir for the New Year.
Tasks: create a festive mood; interest in participating in the manufacture of a souvenir; develop ingenuity, Creative skills, fine motor skills hands; cultivate aesthetic qualities, love for beauty.
Materials:
- wooden beam 60 cm high,
- wooden stand in the shape of a square 18x18 cm,
- screw, hammer, nails No. 25;
- waste material(rags of knitted, synthetic things)
- braid, laces, threads;
- cotton wool;
- starch, water;
- gouache;
- scissors;
- PVA glue;
- New Year's "rain";
- brushes
- glazing bead;

Master class progress:

preliminary work: conversation "New Year's holiday is coming soon and everyone needs Santa Claus. Santa Claus is with a bag, and there is a surprise in the bag"
After the participants are familiar with the information, they proceed to the manufacture New Year's souvenir Santa Claus. Choose a workplace and prepare the necessary material and tools.
1. We connect the stand and the beam with a screw, placing the beam in the center of the stand. We put the head on the beam, nail it.

2. We wind waste material on the timber and fasten it with braid, cord or knitting threads.

3. We apply cotton tapes in front and behind to get a bathrobe .. We fix it at the head with sewing threads. From the bottom, according to the growth of Santa Claus, we cut off the excess cotton wool. On the front of the dressing gown from the neck to the bottom we attach another wadded strip, but already. And at the bottom of the dressing gown on the hem, glory to the right, we put a cotton strip.

4. We make a belt from cotton wool. We take a cotton tape 4 cm wide and twist the edges in opposite directions.

5. We prepare the head for a hat. Apply a cotton strip from ear to ear (depending on the size of the head). We glue the eyebrows. We prepare a cotton strip for the beard, try it on, fix it with a little glue. Glue on the mustache.

6. We put a small layer of cotton wool on the top of the head and cover it with a cotton strip from the forehead to the neck. From left to right, wrap the head with a cotton strip to get a hat. At the back, we cut off the excess length and fix it a little with PVA glue. (At the end of our work, everything will be fixed with starch)

8. We make hands: 2 hands, 2 fingers from a thin cotton strip and 2 sleeves from cotton strips are wider than on the brush. We wrap a wide strip of cotton wool (i.e., a sleeve) around the finished brush, cut off the excess cotton along the length of the arm and make cuffs on the sleeve.

9. We raise the beard and fix the cotton strip - the collar. We cut off the excess.

10. We insert a stick into the hand of Santa Claus - a staff (a glazing bead of the desired length), we fix it with PVA glue, and at the bottom we nail the staff with a nail to the stand.

11. Liquid starch is ready (like rare jelly). For a glass of cold water - 1 tablespoon of starch without a slide, mix well. Boil 1 more glass of water in a separate bowl. Pour into boiling water gradually, stirring with a spoon, the prepared mixture of starch.
12. We prepare devices (a long brush, a glazing bead) for coating the product with liquid starch. We wind it on a brush (glazing bead), wind the cotton wool, dip it in liquid starch and apply it with twisting movements to all parts of the product. Grind the rain and sprinkle immediately on the product that has just been treated with the mixture.

13. In a warm place, we leave our Santa Claus to dry.
14. Prepare yellow gouache (for staff) and red gouache (for hats, mittens, belts). Add a little PVA glue to the paint, mix and paint.

Santa Claus is born! We pack, tie and the gift is ready!

Good day, dear readers and guests of the Harmony of Life blog! Spring is on the doorstep, you say, and she and Santa Claus are here! I'm sorry, I couldn't before. But this is not the main thing, because this master class on making Santa Claus will be relevant every year.

How to make Santa Claus with your own hands

We will make a grandfather easily and cheaply.

Unfortunately, this time I had to make Santa Claus myself in those short breaks while I was sleeping. little son. I hope that our next craft will be made by all family members.

Well, now let's move on to the main thing, how to make Santa Claus with your own hands. In the course of this master class, there will be several photos that I took with my smartphone, so the quality is not very good, but you can see it). I have only captured the main steps. I was in a hurry...

To make Santa Claus, I used the following materials:

• Sintepon (it took 1m 30cm for the craft.)
• 3 red Santa Claus hats (bought for 15 rubles apiece).
• Nylon sock or flesh-colored stocking.
• Plastic 5 liter water bottle.
• The threads are white and red.
• Two buttons for the eyes.
• Tinsel and "rain" for decoration.
• A piece of brown velor for making a gift bag.
• A small stick for making a staff.

So, first of all, you need to sheathe the bottle with a padding polyester, for this we first wrap it with a padding polyester, measure how much you need to cut off so that the padding polyester tightly fits the bottle, see the photo below. We sew the edges with white threads so that they fit snugly around the bottle. This is the future torso of Santa Claus.

The next step will be sewing a fur coat. if you have sewing machine- great. If not, it doesn’t matter, I don’t have one either and I sewed with my hands. For a Santa Claus fur coat, we need two Santa Claus hats. We cut off the top of the hats, together with the bubo, by 7 cm. We unpick the rest and sew the two parts together, because the fur coat will not fit on the grandfather from one hat. When the parts of the two hats are sewn, we put them on the body and sew them in the middle, see the photo.

Now it's the turn to sew the hands, we have one Santa's hat left, we also cut off the top of the hat along with the tambourine by 7 cm, then we cut the hat into two parts along, measure the approximate length and width of the hands, focusing on the size of Santa Claus and now we sew each part, then we fill our hands with padding polyester and sew it to the body.

We cut a strip about 10 cm wide from the synthetic winterizer and sew it to the fur coat instead of fur, thereby closing the seam and at the same time decorating the fur coat, see photo.

Now we make a collar, what thickness it will be up to you. We cut off the required amount of synthetic winterizer, beautifully wrap it around the upper body and carefully sew it to the vertical strip of synthetic winterizer, which we closed the seam on the fur coat. See photo.

Well, the torso of the grandfather is ready. Now let's start making the head. To do this, we take the prepared stocking and stuff it with a padding polyester so that the head is commensurate with the body. In place of the spout, you can sew a button or make a spout also from a padding polyester, like my Santa Claus, for this we tear off a small piece of padding polyester, roll it up into the ball and gently push it into the place where the nose will be. To highlight the nose a little, you can flash it with threads. Unfortunately, I did not capture this process. But you can watch the process on YouTube, just ask the query "stocking dolls". When the nose is ready, sew on the button eyes.

Above the eye, we sew small pieces of padding polyester, giving them the desired shape of the eyebrows. We tear off a small piece from the padding polyester, pull it out in the form of a mustache, carefully sew the mustache under the nose. Below we glue the mouth, which can be cut from the remnants of the red fabric.

How to make a beard for Santa Claus

Next, we put the head on the neck of the bottle, you can glue or tie it for reliability. What is Santa Claus without a beard? We cut out a beard from a synthetic winterizer and sew it to the head. Now, from the remnants of the red fabric (if you remember, I cut off the tops of Santa's hats with buboes), now we cut off the buboes and sew a hat from the remaining pieces of fabric, and, putting Frost on his head, lightly grab it with threads so that it doesn’t go anywhere. We trim the edging of the cap with a padding polyester.

Now it remains to do the most pleasant thing - to decorate our Santa Claus a little. We sew pieces of tinsel on a fur coat. Cheeks can be distinguished with the help of blush.

Santa Claus do-it-yourself photo

I completely forgot, we sew a bag from the fabric prepared for it, stuff it with something squeaky, I used a squeaky bag. We tie with a rope, you can decorate with pieces of tinsel. We sew the finished bag to the hand of Santa Claus. We also need to decorate the staff. To do this, we take a prepared stick, wrap it with a synthetic winterizer and wrap rain of any color on top. The staff is ready. Now you need to tie it to Frost's hand. This is how easy, simple and inexpensive (about 150 rubles) you can make Santa Claus with your own hands. By the way, you can make a Snow Maiden in the same way. The final photo turned out to be also of low quality, but you can see how our grandfather turned out.

I hope that my master class on making Santa Claus with your own hands will help you create the same, or maybe better, grandfather for yourself. And this is our Santa Claus in the garden under the Christmas tree, photo from the camera, so good quality is not like from the phone.

Sincerely, Elena Kurbatova.

There is no doubt that Santa Claus - main character new year celebrations. It is his miracles and gifts that children are waiting for, they send letters, postcards, and under the Christmas tree for a fairy-tale wizard, a response is often hidden. children's gift – New Year's craft. Santa Claus himself often becomes a character embodied in various types creativity.

DIY origami

A person who is fond of origami will not have questions about how to make small paper figures in the form of Santa Claus. Having chosen the simplest and most understandable option among the proposed schemes, even an inexperienced person in this type of creativity can make a New Year's paper figurine. Santa Claus, made with his own hands from a small sheet of colored paper, will be an excellent addition to the main gift or postcard, and will also be a wonderful sign of attention.

Felt crafts

Felt is a very practical and convenient material for creativity. Felt toys are not only colorful and pleasant to the touch: due to the fact that the details of the pattern can not only be sewn on, but also glued to each other using hot glue or a glue stick, the creation is also suitable for children.

In order to make felt Santa Claus with your own hands, you will need:

• red felt:
• flesh-colored felt;
• white felt;
• floss white;
• needle;
• synthetic winterizer or cotton wool;
• pencil;
• scissors.

Progress (step by step):

• Print or redraw the product pattern on paper, cut out the details.
• Bend the red felt in half, use a pencil to transfer the largest detail of the pattern (in the form of a drop) onto it and cut it out. Sew both parts of the part together, leaving a centimeter segment unsewn. Through the resulting hole, fill the product with padding polyester or cotton wool (for convenience, you can use a pencil), and then sew up the hole.
• From flesh-colored felt, cut 1 piece in the form of an oval. This is the face of the future figurine. After placing the part in the desired place, attach white felt parts on top of it: a beard and a cap frill. The frill should be stitched around the entire perimeter, and the beard should be sewn only in the place of its contact with the face of the figure.
• Cut out the remaining details from white felt: mustache and pompom hats (2 pcs.). Sew the mustache over the beard, sewing the detail along the top edge only.
• Cut out a small circle (nose) from body felt and sew it over the mustache.
• Insert the end of the Santa Claus hat between the two parts of the pompom and sew them together.
• Embroider or draw eyes. Fasten the thread in the form of a loop.

Various decorative elements will decorate and diversify the craft. Santa Claus can be made not only in the traditional red and white colors, but also have a blue or green suit.

bottle decoration

It's no secret that the most versatile New Year's gift for people not in a close circle of communication is champagne (or other alcohol) and chocolate (or sweets). original grandfather Frost, hand-sewn from colorful materials, will make the gift unusual and memorable.

Making crafts from bottles is also suitable for junior groups kindergarten: for this, it is enough to fill transparent bottles with red paper, glue a cotton beard and plastic eyes on top and complete the image of the main New Year's wizard with a red sock or paper cap imitating the character's hat.

Craft from cotton pads

Cotton pads and cotton wool - the most lightweight material to work in kindergarten. Children can stick cotton pads (or balls) on templates prepared in advance by adults or make crafts exclusively with their own hands, first painting it and then decorating it with cotton wool details. These can be snowflakes cut out by a figured hole punch, Father Frost's wadded beard, as well as details of his costume.

The same templates, decorated with details from cotton pads and cotton wool in accordance with the tastes and skills of each child, will be wonderful and unlike gifts that children can take home and give to their loved ones.

For creativity in older groups of kindergarten, more painstaking and complex work is suitable - creating crafts from cotton buds. Sticks fastened with glue will be a good building material for creating fabulous winter landscapes.

Santa Claus from plasticine

For children of older groups of kindergarten, as well as for younger students, modeling from plasticine will become easy. Depending on the ability of the child, you can choose step by step instructions products of varying degrees of complexity: from the simplest to figures with a large number of small details.

Santa Claus from plasticine will become the main character of fabulous winter scenes and New Year's stories.

Figures from threads

Creating a fairy tale character woolen threads- a laborious process that requires not so much special needlework skills as it takes a lot of time and painstaking work. However, the resulting figurines have a very "homey" feel to them, evoking a sense of cosiness and warmth.

Santa Claus from paper

Paper crafts are extremely diverse not only in type, but also in the types of techniques used in the process of their creation. Paper of only two colors (green and red), rolled and fixed in the form of cones and supplemented with small details (a face with a beard, Christmas balls) will be the basis for creating a beautiful

Schools and kindergartens started competitions for the best creative work among pupils and parents. New Year's theme is quite extensive. In some groups, it was decided to make a mitten from improvised materials, in others - a Christmas tree, in others - New Year's toys. My daughter and I have already knitted a mitten with fairy-tale characters (a scratching mouse, a jumping frog, etc.). At home, there were up to a dozen of the most diverse paper Christmas trees. So, today we will make a simple New Year's toy. It will be Santa Claus.
Children of primary school age can cope with a craft made of colored paper without outside help. Toddlers are not yet capable of such work.
So, for preparing:

• scissors
• white and colored paper
• pencils.

Let's start with the design of a fur coat and hats of Santa Claus. This is an integral element. It is necessary to form a cone from red paper. There are different ways to create this geometric figure. Someone cuts out a circle and then glues it into a cone. We got used to twisting a cone from a rectangular sheet. We level the base with scissors.

Next, you need to make a fur edge for a hat and a fur coat. We need two white stripes about 10 mm wide. We bend the strip along in half, and on the opposite edge from the place of the bend we go through with scissors, cut a narrow short fringe.

Glue the fur edge on the bottom of the fur coat. We immediately determine the height of the cap, mark the edge of the headdress with a white edging.

Next, we cut out an elongated trapezoid from the album sheet, carefully rounding all four corners. Immediately cut into the resulting figure thin long strips - a beard. At the end of the work, we will go through each hair with a scissor blade to fluff the snow-white beard.

With gouache, watercolor, felt-tip pens or pencils, we draw the face of Santa Claus. Distinctive feature The appearance of the hero are thick eyebrows and mustaches.

We will also cut out the hair of our craft from paper. No complications.

It remains to glue all the details in place. Santa Claus from colored paper is ready. Of course, if you wish, you can continue the work, in particular, decorate the hero's arms and legs. However, in the presented form, the craft also looks great.

Let's put Santa Claus next to paper tree. The tree is made of multi-colored (white and green) palms. We will lay out tinsel next to children's crafts. It is a pity that there were no silver items at home. Nothing misunderstanding will be corrected next weekend. You still have to prepare for the morning.