Handicrafts for Santa Claus - making a New Year's Eve handicraft

There is no happy New Year's Eve without him. He stands out with a white beard, a red hat, a sleigh and a team of reindeer. That's him with the bag of gifts! Model Santa Claus can be purchased in a store or make your own. The second way is more attractive, because the work can involve children. This will allow you to get closer to your offspring, and have fun with their free time.

But not everyone knows how to make a Santa Claus handicraft out of hand-made tools. Many people think that it is very difficult, tedious or not possible at all.

This is a misconception, as there are many master classes on the Internet explaining the process of making a model is not worse than the one bought in the store.

Finally, in addition you can prepare an appropriate card as an original gift for a loved one. If the arguments are convincing, then we dare not delay, we will move on to the creative process.

Santa Claus handicraft by applique - template

This option is suitable for decorating the Christmas tree, children's bedroom, Christmas table. You can make several models for all home locations. A Santa Claus handicraft for children can be made from a template or from paper by independent efforts.

The first option we will consider later. Now let's go, more, interesting - an independent way. In advance, the necessary blanks are cut out:

• A piece of white paper, having the shape of an egg;
• Two small circles of black color;
• Relatively enlarged red circle;
• White circle slightly larger than the previous one;
• Red triangle with cut corners;
• About 20 strips of small size, one thick blank.

When all is done, you can move on to the main part of the creation of Santa Claus handicrafts:

• The resulting egg is turned with the sharp end downward. This is the image of the face on the Santa Claus handicraft. Glued to the top of a triangle and a hat in red;
• At the triangular hat glued circles to form an imitation bells;
• Below the triangle glued a wide strip of paper. Two black circles to form the eyes blank, glued a little lower. Under them glued red nose;
• To create a beard not a big trick is used. Strips of paper are rolled around the pen paste. Wavy details are formed. They are glued below the egg;
• In fact, that's all - the Santa Claus handicraft is ready. But a loop is added to hang the appliqué on the tree or create a stand.

The pattern is considered the easiest way. You can make it yourself or buy it in a chain store, order it from a local craftsman, buy it at an appropriate point of sale. It is easy to cut out the necessary form of the elements of the craft for subsequent connection thanks to the glue.

Postcard with Santa Claus, the Snow Maiden and fairytale characters

This option of New Year's gift opens up unprecedented scope for imagination. The handmade Santa Claus card looks interesting when you add a collage of fairy tale characters. Consider a simple way accessible to children:

• Figures of Snow Maiden and Santa Claus are created from colored paper;
• Green felt or velvet paper helps to create a triangular shape Christmas tree. To fix and volumize it, the central part and double-sided tape are used;
• The figures of fairy tale characters are glued next to the main characters.

It is not necessary to be perfectly similar, as this is the simplest option. Here, the main thing is to create a shape that allows you to see that this is the Snow Maiden, next to Santa Claus, a sleigh, a sleigh with reindeer.

To decorate the tree, glue toys, tinsel, rhinestones and beads. Santa Claus easy to decorate thanks to the volume of the mustache glued to the double-sided adhesive tape. The snow maiden can add gold sequins planted on the glue.

Fancy Santa Claus crafts

If you need an attractive product of Santa Claus for a corporate party, matinee, then you need to try. What will be needed for the work:

• A ball of foam plastic with a diameter of 6-7 cm;
• A little artificial fur;
• Scarf;
• Slash hemstitching;
• Holofiber;
• Two hemispheres for the formation of the eyes of Santa Claus;
• A lot of the snowflake-shaped stickers;
• Serviceable sewing machine;
• A sleeve-based iron;
• Comfortable scissors;
• A tube of textile glue;
• Crepe satin dyed blue;
• Fleece in white, blue and flesh color;
• A wand to create a staff;
• A little silver braid.

Most of the materials are purchased, but something can be prepared by yourself. Let's move on to the stages of making:

1. Two parts of the body are cut out of shabrack, and crepe satin is glued. The long slices are handled thanks to the scythe sashing.
2. With crepe-satin - parts are folded into each other and sewn on the long slices on the basis of the seam at the edge.
3. It creates a rounded design. For this purpose, an iron that has a sleeve pad is used.
4. Parts of the coat and arms are cut out of fleece in blue.
5. They are sewn together and turned out with the right side. But in the hands there is a hole for adding padding.
6. The ball is wrapped in flesh-colored fleece, a neck is created, and excess fabric is wrapped with thread.
7. Nose is made and attached. Above it, hemispheres are added to form eyes.
8. Shabrack-based blank is dressed in a fur coat. The head is placed in the hole on the torso. It is sewn with it.
9. The hat is cut to the volume of the head. Blue fleece is used. The short side is sewn together, the upper side is rolled with thread.
10. To form a fur coat trim and lapel of the cap is used faux fur.
11. The hat is connected to the head, thanks to the overlapping seam. Fur is added at the joint with a fleece of blue color. The fur is turned up.
12. Arms are stuffed with holofiber. Holes are sewn up. Wrists are decorated with fur. You can sew the hands to the main product.
13. Beard created by cutting a rectangular base of fleece flesh-colored. Cut fringes.
14. Parts of the beard are stitched to the head. The space is gradually filled in toward the nose.
15. The beard is stretched and curled. Attractive curls are formed.
16. The coat is decorated, thanks to panettes in the form of snowflakes.
17. The wand is wrapped with silver colored braid. Now it has become a real staff.

This variant is complicated, because there are a lot of details and it is necessary to spend a lot of money on material. But Santa Claus turns out gorgeous. Such a one can be sold for a large sum of money. But our goal is to create the necessary atmosphere at an event with many guests.

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