Preparing for the New Year, do not forget to involve the kids in the fun 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. Start creating New Year's souvenirs stands with an easy and understandable technique for the kid. 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 made of paper is a great idea for a children's New Year's craft for a 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) 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, you do not need to apply glue to its entire surface, it is enough to smear only the tip of the workpiece. We tightly wrap the cardboard base with it and fix the second end with glue.

3) Cut out the lush beard and mustache of Santa Claus from white paper.

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

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

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

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

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

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

11) Lower part We decorate the crafts with a black belt with a golden buckle in the center.

12) Go back to creating the arms, cut out the second part of the sleeve from red paper and glue it to the cuffs.

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

Most main holiday in a year - this, of course, New Year... Only his children are waiting with special impatience, because in addition to gifts from their parents, the children are expecting a surprise from Santa Claus. And so that this hero of the holiday would come to your home with pleasure, you can make Santa Claus's craft out of paper or other materials with your children.

Can be made from colored paper and cardboard. We cut out a figure of Santa Claus out of paper, glue on small details and get a beautiful applique.

With the use of felt, Santa Claus's crafts for the New Year can be used as a decoration on the Christmas tree.

Paper disposable plate can also serve as material for creating Santa Claus applique.

Santa's craft for the garden should look a little more presentable than just a piece of paper.

What is required to make a cute DIY Santa Claus craft:

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

How to make Santa Claus's craft, we will consider in stages

Stage 1. Prepare materials

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

Stage 3. Glue a red piece of felt

Stage 4. We take light felt pink shade and cut a muzzle out of it. Let's glue it on the body of our crafts for the new year of Santa Claus

Stage 5. We glue the lace along the contour of the muzzle

Stage 6. Let's make eyes out of black felt and glue them on the face. Also make a spout. And pink felt is needed to make pink cheeks. Use red felt to make a smile.

7 stage. We glue all the details

Cut a triangle out of red felt. We glue its edges to get a conical cap. We glue the cap 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 carry Santa Claus's craft to the garden. After all, all children with their parents will make crafts of Santa Claus, and yours should be original. You can also see how to sew Santa Claus out of felt.

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

DIY origami

A person who is fond of origami will have no 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 figurine out of paper. Santa Claus, made with his own hands from a small piece of colored paper, will be an excellent addition to the main gift or postcard, and will also be an excellent 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 with hot glue or an adhesive pencil, the creation is also suitable for children.

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

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

Work progress (step by step):

• Print or redraw on paper the pattern of the product, cut out the details.
• Bend the red felt in half, use a pencil to transfer the largest part 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 section unstitched. 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.
• Cut 1 piece out of flesh-colored felt 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 over it: a beard and a frill of a hat. The frill should be stitched along the entire perimeter, and the beard should only be stitched in the place of its contact with the figure's face.
• Cut out the remaining parts from white felt: mustache and pompom hats (2 pcs.). Sew a mustache over the beard, stitching only along the top edge.
• Cut a small circle (nose) out of body felt and sew over the mustache.
• Insert the end of Santa Claus's hat between the two parts of the pompom and sew them together.
• Embroider or paint eyes. Fasten the thread in 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 suit in blue or green colors.

Bottle decoration

It's no secret that the most versatile new year gift for people not close social circle is champagne (or other alcohol) and chocolate (or sweets). The original grandfather Do-it-yourself frost made of colorful materials will make the gift uncommon 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 wool beard and plastic eyes on top and complete the image of the main New Year's wizard with a red sock or a paper cap imitating the character's hat.

Craft from cotton pads

Cotton pads and cotton wool are the most light material for work in kindergarten. Children can glue cotton pads (or balls) on templates prepared by adults in advance, or make a craft exclusively with their own hands, first painting it, and then decorating it with cotton wool details. These can be snowflakes cut out with a curly hole punch, Santa Claus's cotton beard, as well as details of his costume.

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

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

Santa Claus from plasticine

For children of the older groups of kindergarten, as well as for younger schoolchildren, modeling from plasticine will become simple. Depending on the skills 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 made of plasticine will become the protagonist of fabulous winter scenes and New Year's plots.

Figurines from threads

Creation of a fairy-tale character from woolen thread- a laborious process that requires not so much special handicraft skills, but rather time-consuming painstaking work. Nevertheless, the resulting figurines have a very "home" look, causing a feeling of comfort and warmth.

Santa Claus made of paper

Paper crafts are extremely diverse not only in type, but also in the types of techniques used in the process of their creation. The paper is only two colors (green and red), curled and fixed in the form of cones and supplemented with small details (face with a beard, Christmas balls) will become the basis for creating a beautiful one in the form of Christmas trees and Santa Claus. This idea is perfect for co-creation with a large number of children.

Printed on plain paper or templates redrawn and cut out of cardboard with the image of the New Year's wizard, as well as his beautiful granddaughter, will give the child the opportunity to cook small and different gifts to your loved ones.

The main fairy-tale character, without whom the new year is impossible. How to make a figurine of Santa Claus for a Christmas tree, decorate windows with it and make a panel on the wall - teachers share ideas and talk about their experiences. Master classes on creating sculptures of Santa Claus in different techniques- papier-mache, modular origami, knitting, the use of natural and waste materials... Ideas for children's creativity - New Year's crafts, cards, applications, Christmas decorations with Grandfather Frost. Everything to create a classic image of Santa Claus with your own hands.

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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 bundles 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 do not have such material) you can take white cardboard and glue it over with cotton pads.)

On a white round cardboard eyeshadow or blush 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. From this sticky red cotton we sculpt a ball with our hands - we dry it on a radiator (it will dry out overnight).

Cut out a triangle-hat from red cardboard. We glue it on 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"

But two more ideas handicrafts-pendants in the shape of Santa Claus - already made of 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 formama 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 pocket crafts 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 imagination of the donor.

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 "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 "cobweb" technique.

There is an article on our website where I show in great detail how to make such balls with your own hands from threads of glue and air small ball... In this article "Balls of thread and a sea of ​​crafts 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 written 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 balls, 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 craft for the new year in the form of Santa Claus. Such quick crafts are convenient. (By the way, there are a lot of quick craft ideas for decorating a New Year's office according to the link).

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 + Balloon ir + 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 drawing 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, we also glue it with napkins, forming a wet crust of papier mâché. 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 borders of all the elements of Santa Claus - a face with a nose, a beard, a fur coat. 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 for a whole bunch of crafts. Any PVA glue with the inscription "universal" or "construction" will suit you. In composition, it is no different from the usual school PVA 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 balloon). Details in other articles on this site.

By the way, on the basis of a BALLOON, you can make the most different crafts with Santa Claus. You can decorate the balloon 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 fringed 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 WRAP - a very cozy and warm craft will turn out from a soft material.

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 with gouache each sector drawn. 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. An article-lesson on creating beautiful New Year's drawings is already on our site "Family Heap".

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 at a hardware store (or find a suitable one near 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 perform only one part of the element - the rest are painted with paints, laid out from twigs, ropes and other natural material.

It is not necessary 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 create your own new year pictures from magic stones. Do not forget to spray the craft with hairspray - this will make it brighter and will not get your hands dirty with gouache or smear. Also, you can sculpt some details of such a craft-panel 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).

Craft Santa Claus

From plasticine.

From ordinary plasticine (or from polymer clay) can also be done beautiful grandfather Frost. 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 matte acrylic varnish with a soft brush. Acrylic lacquer for crafts sold in 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 does not work - 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 on the rolled plasticine layer (details of Santa Claus, or his clothes). We circle with a sharp object. Remove the stencil and cut with scissors along the scribbled lines. We get planar parts, from which you can fold a 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 confectionery mastic from different angles. Browse on Google new year 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.

Do-it-yourself Santa Claus

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 broom for wiping off dust, painted with white gouache, becomes a lush 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 fir cones 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 in 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 ...

Do-it-yourself Santa Claus

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. In the template below, we see that on the left we have an incision (short dotted 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 the eyelet into the cut (or you can simply fix everything with glue without any ears).

Santa Claus is easy and bistro to make on the basis of an ordinary cone. Here below I give large circuits 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 craft 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 enlarge 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 on the basis of this "toilet roll" form.

Elements can be made from 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 gypsum plaster. At the hardware store you can buy gypsum plaster(it is cheap in small packaged 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 placed 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 we 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. 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

Made of felt and formiam.

Now a new ornamental material has appeared on sale - formam. This brainchild of modern technologies is very suitable for making bulky puffy crafts that are well attached to each other with hot glue. Here in the photo below you can see the craft of Santa Claus from formim (porous thick material).

But the felt craft will be more durable. And warmer to the touch. Dearer, closer.

You can make Santa Claus appliques on a round from felt - you get a 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 the 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 beige tinted tennis ball.

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 bundles 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 on the 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 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 ideas on the theme of Santa Claus with your own hands - from everything - from paper to knitting. Now you will definitely do to yourself magic grandfather Frost who will make your wishes come true 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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