Do-it-yourself Santa Claus toy from scrap materials - the best master classes with step-by-step photos. How to sew a Santa Claus costume, video

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! Please forgive me, I couldn’t do it 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 during those short breaks while my little son was sleeping. 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. During this master class there will be several photographs that I took on my smartphone, so the quality is not very good, but you can see it). I captured only the main stages. I was in a hurry...

To make Santa Claus, I used the following materials:

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

So, the first thing you need to do is line the bottle with padding polyester, to do this, first wrap it with padding polyester, measure how much you need to cut so that the padding polyester fits tightly around the bottle, see the photo below. Using white thread we sew the edges together so that they fit tightly around the bottle. This is the future body of Santa Claus.

The next step will be sewing a fur coat. If you have a sewing machine, great. If not, no problem, I don’t have one either and I sewed by hand. For Santa Claus's fur coat we will need two Santa Claus hats. We cut the top of the hats together with the bubo by 7 cm. We rip the rest of the hats and sew the two parts together, because from one hat the fur coat will not fit on the grandfather. When the parts of the two hats are sewn, we put them on the body and sew them in the middle, see photo.

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

We cut out a strip of padding polyester approximately 10 cm wide 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 the collar; it’s up to you to decide how thick it will be. We cut off the required amount of padding polyester, wrap it beautifully around the upper part of the body and carefully sew it to the vertical strip of padding polyester with which we closed the seam on the fur coat. See photo.

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

Above the eyelet 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, and carefully sew the mustache under the nose. Below we glue a mouth, which can be cut out from the remnants of 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 padding polyester 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 material, and, putting it on Frost’s head, lightly grab it with threads so that it doesn’t go anywhere. We trim the edging of the cap with padding polyester.

Now all that remains is to do the most enjoyable part - decorate our Santa Claus a little. We sew pieces of tinsel onto the fur coat. The cheeks can be highlighted with blush.

DIY Santa Claus photo

I completely forgot, we sew a bag from the fabric prepared for it, fill it with something that clicks, I used a clicky bag. We tie it with a string and you can decorate it 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, take the prepared stick, wrap it with padding polyester 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 you can make Santa Claus with your own hands, simply and inexpensively (about 150 rubles). By the way, you can make the Snow Maiden in the same way. The final photo was 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 even better, grandfather for yourself. And this is our Santa Claus in the garden under the Christmas tree, photo from a camera, so it’s not of good quality like from a phone.

Sincerely, Elena Kurbatova.

It’s very easy to make Father Frost and Snow Maiden for the New Year. The most important thing is that it is quite interesting.

What is a holiday without Father Frost, and what is Father Frost without the Snow Maiden?

In the understanding of everyone, this is a magnificent tandem, without which children will not even understand that the New Year has come.

Don't think that you can't do it. We even managed to cope with a 4-year-old child, so the main thing that is required from you is desire.

This unusual DIY Santa Claus and Snow Maiden craft is easy and will give you pleasant emotions.

In addition, the option is absolutely economical, so you can spend the money on expensive gifts!

DIY Santa Claus

All children believe in the existence of Santa Claus or Father Frost, so let's not deprive them of this faith and create this fairy tale for them.

Materials

I used the following materials:

• plastic bottle;
• PVA glue and super glue;
• cotton wool;
• colored paper;
• empty pill packaging;
• a piece of black plasticine.

Remember, nothing is irreplaceable, and if you suddenly don’t have something at home, replace it with the material you have.

For example, instead of colored paper, you can use fabric and make or even draw eyes.

It is better to take a thicker bottle, because Santa Claus with his own hands is usually well-fed.

How to make Santa Claus with your own hands

Everything is simple here. We take red paper, twist it slightly into a tube and put it in the bottle.

The paper will straighten itself along the contours; all you have to do is correct it closer to the neck. This can be done using a pencil or other long object.

Let's get started eyes for Santa Claus with your own hands. We take two recesses from the tablets and take out the contents. It is better to throw away the tablets immediately, because you can turn away for a second, and the children will already eat them.

Even if you don't have children, throw them away anyway, as storing them without packaging is not recommended.

It is better to choose larger packages so that the pupils can dangle. It looks funnier this way.

We take these packages and roll two balls of black plasticine.

Cut out two circles from a white landscape sheet to cover the hole of the tablets. We place the plasticine circles in the place where the tablet previously lay, then cover it with white paper. You can cover it with the remaining film on the package.

We take super glue and glue on the eyes of our future Santa Claus, made with our own hands.

Now let's do it hat for Santa Claus from colored paper.

We fold a piece of red paper into a cone shape and glue it with PVA. After this, we take a strip of cotton wool and paste over the bottom of the hat.

From a wad of cotton wool we make a boomboon at the end of Santa Claus's hat with our own hands.

Let's start with the beard. To do this we need to take cotton wool and make a mustache and then a beard. You can glue the cotton wool with super glue or PVA.

Don't forget about the mouth, which I cut out of colored paper.

Now give free rein to your imagination!

It will be interesting to make a belt for Santa Claus from black paper. Just cut out a strip and glue it onto the bottle.

Our Santa Claus is ready with his own hands. Send him to wait for your Snow Maiden!

DIY Snow Maiden

I decided to make my grandfather’s companion from similar materials, namely:

• plastic bottle;
• colored paper;
• PVA glue;
• cotton wool;
• braids;
• album sheet;
• and a couple of markers.

If you want the Snow Maiden to sparkle with your own hands, you should take a few more sequins.

The bottle should not be large and thin. I took it from Pepsi, which seems to me to be the ideal base.

We need braid to make a braid. For some reason, it is accepted that the Snow Maiden is blonde, so I didn’t deviate from the established stereotypes and took light ribbons.

Using three ribbons, make a regular braid and tie with a ribbon of a different color.

How to make the Snow Maiden with your own hands

Take light blue or dark blue paper for the coat. Roll it into a cone and glue it together.

Cut off the top of the cone and put the coat on the bottle.

We take cotton wool and decorate the bottom of the coat. You can glue it with regular PVA glue.

Then we glue the cotton wool along the middle of the coat.

In the same way, we make a fluffy collar.

Making the Snow Maiden's head with our own hands

We cut out an oval from paper and draw a face on it with felt-tip pens, pencils or paints. Don't forget about red cheeks.

I cut out a triangle from blue colored paper - this will be the headdress.

We will decorate it with sequins in the shape of snowflakes. If you don’t have sequins at home, then just make snowflakes out of paper.

We attach the braid to the head and mask the remaining part of the head with braid so that the Snow Maiden does not turn out bald with her own hands.

You can also decorate your coat with sequins or snowflakes. They adhere well to PVA, so you won’t have any problems with this.

You can decorate in completely different ways. Of course, it all depends on your imagination.

You can also use the blue cap as a headdress if you decorate it beautifully.

I didn’t use the lid, so I removed it and stuffed cotton wool into the neck of the bottle (by the way, you can make other original ones).

I attached the head to the bottle and disguised it from behind with cotton wool.

It seems to me that the Snow Maiden came out a little evil with her own hands, but apparently I have problems with artistic skills, so don’t judge strictly.

I hope my idea will bring joy to you and your children, and the New Year will be fun and bring good luck and happiness to your home!

Let's see what ways you can create unique New Year's crafts for a 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 of the most ordinary gift packages made of gray wrapping paper.

For the first idea you will need:

• a round shape made of white cardboard, a piece of red cardboard,
• red pompom (or regular cotton wool + PVA glue + red gouache)
• a piece of white foam packaging interlayer (which is often placed in boots in the store, or in boxes with equipment). Or (if you don’t have such material) you can take white cardboard and cover it with cotton pads.)

On a white round cardboard eye shadow or blush Draw spots on the cheeks and black beady eyes with a marker. In a bowl, stir red gouache and PVA glue (a couple of drops of paint per teaspoon of glue); dip a piece of cotton wool into this mixture. We form a ball from this sticky red cotton wool with our hands and dry it on a radiator (it will dry overnight).

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

But two more ideas craft pendants in the form of Santa Claus - already from just cardboard... and cardboard with paper cupcake tins.

Here are the large bags with large size Santa Claus.

You can even make a package yourself from a sheet of gift paper. The template here is very simple. You can make such a drawing yourself with a pencil, cut it out, bend it along the fold lines and you’re done. A beautiful box - glue the face and beard of Santa Claus to it and you're done.

With your own hands, you can make PACKAGING POCKETS for gifts decorated with Santa Claus applique on top from cardboard (or from soft felt, or formiam as in the photo below).

Here is a diagram of such a pocket made of colored paper or cardboard. We bend along the lines, glue the sides and the container for sweets and chocolates is ready.

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

Here is a pocket package made of soft felt or fleece, which is suitable for gifting a smartphone or jewelry. It will be a pleasure to receive such a gift, decorated with manual labor and the imagination of the giver.

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 are a FULL DETAIL - in shape it looks like a FIG. which has a hole only in the upper turn of the number.

This “figure eight” is bent in half - and we get a tummy with a hole in the center in the front and a closed back at the back. At the top we fix our halves with a drop of glue, or a stapler or tape. And all that remains is for our Santa Claus to glue on the head with a beard and the legs-stand.

Santa Claus do it yourself

Craft using the spider web technique.

There is an article on our website where I show in great detail how to make these balls with your own hands from glue threads and a small balloon. In this article “Balls of thread and a sea of ​​crafts using the spider web technique,” ​​I posted a master class. Therefore, I will not explain in detail here, so as not to waste unnecessary words. Follow the link, everything is explained there.

Just look at the photo below and fall in love with these cute New Year characters made from yarn balls. Simple and fast. In one evening we make balls, in the second evening we cover them with pieces of colored paper - and the craft is ready and worthy of going to a New Year's exhibition at school or kindergarten.

You don’t have to cover the balls with paper parts, but just put a cap like this on the top ball - where a face with a mustache and beard is already glued to the cone-hat.

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

DIY Santa Claus.

Balloon craft

using papier-mâché technique.

You can make such a pot-bellied, big-nosed, sweet and charming Santa Claus from the cheapest materials. PVA glue + white paper napkins + balloon + gouache for coloring.

What is the secret of the SIMPLICITY of this Santa Claus craft.

The papier-mâché technique is very simple. If you mix a paper napkin with PVA glue and mold something out of this mixture and dry it, we will get a dense, almost wooden, hard craft.

This principle of creating a durable material from fragile paper and liquid glue became the basis of the Papier-mâché technique.

Instead of white paper napkins, you can use 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 are we going to do?

Step 1 Let's buy a balloon with an elongated tail (that is, pear-shaped). Let's 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). You can even tape it a little to this vase so that it doesn’t jump out of it.

Step 2 Tear the white napkins into shreds (or leave them whole, whichever is more convenient for you). We coat part of the ball with PVA glue and place a white napkin on this puddle. On top of the napkin, again apply PVA glue with a wide brush and again place the napkin on this wet place. Thus, we glue the entire ball in several layers - generously pouring glue and generously laying down layers of napkin. Let it all dry (overnight).

Note – you can cover the ball with newspaper, dry it and paint it white. Or start the first layers from newspaper. And the last upper 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 tozhki. We also pour glue over it, and we also cover it with napkins, forming a wet crust of papier mache. We also leave it to dry.

Step 4. We take the ball out of the vase-pot on which it stood. We turn it with its tail up (we will cover this empty space that was in the vase with Santa Claus’s hat, it will not be visible. Using a marker on a dry round paper surface of the ball, we draw the silhouette borders of all the elements of Santa Claus - a face with a nose, a beard, a fur coat. We decorate this with gouache round decoration. Don't forget to glue the legs.

Note. For papier mache you need a lot of PVA glue. If you buy it in the stationery department (where the glue is in small tube jars) you will overpay 5 times the price. Better and It’s cheaper to buy PVA glue in liter buckets in the construction departments of the store. For one liter of glue you will pay about 2 dollars. And such a bucket will be enough for you for a whole bunch of crafts. Any PVA glue labeled “universal” or “construction” will suit you. In composition, it is no different from ordinary school stationery PVA glue. The manufacturer can be any company. With this bucket you will not only make Santa Claus from papier-mâché, but also a snowman and a penguin (also based on a balloon). Details in other articles on this site.

By the way, based on the BALLOON, you can make a variety of crafts with Santa Claus. You can decorate a ball covered with newspaper with strips of colored fringe. We buy rolls of crepe colored paper from the stationery store. cut it into strips, cut them into fringe, paste the BALL IN A CIRCLE with fringed stripes. It turns out another version of the Santa Claus craft with your own hands - mischievous and shaggy.

Or you can decorate a balloon covered with newspaper with a FLEECE WRAP - the soft material will make a very cozy and warm craft.

Making our own Santa Claus

from stones and natural materials.

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

You can simply find oval stable stones (or make them stable using play dough). Cover the stones with white gouache (spray with hairspray to fix the color and prevent it from staining your hands). Then draw all the lines of the future Santa Claus on a white background. Decorate each drawn sector with gouache. And then once again draw clear black boundaries between the elements of the drawing - make outlines with a black marker. Markers work great on rocks. It is best to use a marker for signing CDs - it does not wash off and does not stain your hands.

You can depict any New Year's theme on suitable flat stones. An article-lesson on creating beautiful New Year's drawings is already on our website “Family Heap”.

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

We buy a small sheet of plywood at a hardware store (or find a suitable one in a pile of trash near the entrance). We cut a round piece out of it. We tint with ink the color of snow and the color of sky. And against this background we lay out Santa Claus, his sack, his reindeer, his sleigh... whatever.

Please note that the stones perform only one part of the element - the rest are painted, laid out from twigs, ropes and other natural materials.

It is not necessary to choose smooth round stones. The most uneven curved stones can work to your advantage. Lay them out, try them on next to each other and try to see the outlines of your future craft in this arrangement. Who knows what masterpiece your little “rock garden” will give birth to on a piece of paper.

You can also use shells as a natural material for crafts in the form of Santa Claus. It will turn out interesting and beautiful.

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

Craft Santa Claus

Made from plasticine.

You can also make a beautiful Santa Claus from ordinary plasticine (or polymer clay). The main thing is to work slowly and remember to wash your hands when moving from one color of plasticine to another. There we will get pure colors of the parts and the whole craft will look neat.

After making the craft, you need to dry it in a cool place and spray it with hairspray. This is necessary so that it stops being sticky and does not collect room dust. You can cover the craft with acrylic matte varnish with a soft brush. Acrylic varnish for crafts is sold at office supply or craft stores.

Such varnished, non-sticky plasticine figures are also good because they can be used inside small Snow capsules. Where the foam snowball will fall. You can make capsules for plasticine Santa Claus with your own hands - from transparent plastic bottles. Cutting off the top and bottom of them and joining them together. Sprinkle nail glitter, sequins or foam balls inside, or cut the fluff from pillows with scissors - the fluff will slowly settle, creating the illusion of snowfall.

Can be done flat crafts made 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 round glass bottle or a can of any deodorant can be used as a smooth rolling pin.

Place a stencil image (details of Santa Claus, or his clothes) on the rolled out layer of plasticine. We trace with a sharp object. Remove the stencil and cut with scissors along the scratched lines. We get planar parts from which you can put together a plasticine graphic applique. Or make something like this to decorate your kitchen in New Year’s 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 sculpted from sweet confectionery mastic from different angles. Look through New Year's cakes on Google 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

DIY Santa Claus

FROM CONES.

Pine and fir cones can also be painted with gouache (like the stones from the paragraph above). And when painted, the cone immediately becomes interesting basis for a New Year's craft in the form of Santa Claus. We insert beads and buttons, a fluffy dusting brush painted with white gouache becomes a fluffy beard. Cut out a hat from a piece of felt.

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

Other bright crafts and toys made from pine and fir cones are collected in a large article with photographs

Volumetric Santa Claus

From modular origami.

If you know how to fold an Origami module. It doesn’t cost you anything to create such a pot-bellied Santa Claus. YouTube is full of videos that will teach you how to fold a triangular 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 into a groove.

Green Christmas tree also made from modular origami. And you can make a snowman and a deer, if you think with your head...

DIY Santa Claus

FROM PAPER CONES.

We all know how to make paper cones - like bags for seeds. We need a semicircle - which we roll into a bag and glue the side seam of the bag with glue (or not with glue, but with a stapler).

Or you can provide paper latches on the bag - slits and ears that fit into each other. On the template below we see that on the left we have an incision (short dotted line), and on the right there is a protruding eye (along the edge of the hem of the fur coat). We cut out such a template (diagram below), paint it and connect it into a bag - inserting the eyelet into the cut (or you can simply fix everything with glue without any ears).

Santa Claus is easy and quick to make based on a regular cone. Below I give large diagrams for large figures. The actual size of the diagram corresponds to A3 format - it’s like two landscape pages. You won't be able to print it on a printer - you need to go to the printing center. But the craft will be large and nice in size.

Here is another large template for making Santa Claus out 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 craft is beautiful - you must agree. You can just imagine how Grandfather Frost stands proudly on the windowsill and pleases the eye. Great craft - elegant and simple.

Children's craft Santa Claus

From toilet paper rolls.

Cardboard rolls are great for children's crafts. In the photo below we see how you can play up the image of Santa Claus based on this “toilet roll” form.

The elements can be made from paper, felt, cotton wool, formiam, fabric or knitted socks.

Santa Claus and dishes

(pots, cups, plates).

And in this section of the article I want to show how to make an original craft from non-standard material with your own hands.

You can make Santa Claus from flower pots. We will make a beard for this grandfather from gypsum plaster. You can buy it at a hardware store gypsum plaster(it’s cheap in small packaging, you can buy half a kilo). We dilute the gypsum mixture with water to a thick porridge. And quickly, before it thickens and dries, we sculpt a beard for Santa Claus. Pots can also be coated with plaster porridge, in those places where we depict fluffy fur or snow. If sprinkled on top glitter(nail polish) it will turn out that 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 together using hot glue from a gun). Then on a round dance we make a second tier-floor, then a third - they themselves will be rounded into a spherical shape (because the cups at the bottom are narrower than at the edge). We make one ball for the belly and one ball for the head of Santa Claus. We make mittens, a belt, eyes, a mustache, and a 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 Frosties with a cotton wool beard.

And disposable flat plates can become a source of such children's crafts. Place 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 not be beautiful.

Craft Santa Claus

Made from felt and formiam.

Now a new ornamental material has appeared on sale - formiam. This brainchild of modern technology is very suitable for making voluminous, plump crafts that are well attached to each other using hot glue. In the photo below you see a Santa Claus craft made from formim (a porous thick material).

But crafts made from felt will still be more durable. And warmer to the touch. More dear, closer.

You can make Santa Claus appliqués from felt on a round piece of paper - you will get a toy pendant for the Christmas tree.

Please note how in the photo below the fastening of the applique parts is done - with sparse stitches, parts are tacked here and there (the beard and mustache are held on by 4-5 stitches).

If you make a HOOP from cardboard, wrap it in fabric 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 children's holiday dinners, or worn directly over a hat on the street - delighting passers-by with its New Year's look.

In addition to hard felt, you can use SOFT FLEECE. This is the material from which sweatshirts and bikers are made. It is suitable for sewing soft toys in the form of Santa Claus or plump pillows (as in the photo below).

But Santa Claus, where FELT (wool for felting) is present, is in the left photo below. And also a figurine of Santa Claus made from a ball of red thread and a piece of white centipon and a felt cap. The face can be made from a tennis ball, tinted beige.

Knitted Santa Claus.

You can also knit a New Year's Santa Claus from threads with crochet or knitting needles. Below, for inspiration, I have posted several photo samples of such DIY crafts.

You can simply crochet a flat figure. Use it as an applique for a craft, or as a toy pendant for the Christmas tree.

You can make a beard from chopped bundles of thread (fluffy like a real one) or simply tie it with a wedge (like a knitting sprout).

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 a New Year's toy will accompany your holiday every year, like a tradition, like a family heirloom, made by your mother's beloved hands.

Here are some ideas on the theme of Santa Claus with your own hands - from everything - from paper to knitting. Now you will definitely make yourself a magical Santa Claus who will fulfill your wishes this year. Because you deserve it. Because you are good.

Continuation of PAPER crafts in the form of Santa Claus - in our SECOND article

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A toy Santa Claus with his own hands will bring a holiday to any home. Whether you believe or not in a magical old man with a bunch of gifts in a bag, every interior is full of his images. But children believe in him unconditionally, therefore, when making a craft in the form of Santa Claus, they are probably expecting a real one, bringing them a whole mountain of long-awaited gifts. Give your children a real fairy tale and make with them a doll, paper, plasticine - any Santa Claus that your imagination can draw. And if our photographs with interesting ideas add inspiration for your creation, then even better.

DIY Santa Claus

We will devote our entire article to how to make Santa Claus with your own hands. After all, in fact, crafts can be very diverse: sewing, felting, knitting, appliqué, painting and modeling. Well, we'll start with decoupage.

This plate with the image of Santa Claus is made using the decoupage technique. A beautiful napkin with a pattern needs to be divided into layers; you will only need the top one, the one on which the pattern is applied.

If you are decorating a plate or any object whose surface you will not use, you can use PVA glue for the work. But in this work, we used the reverse decoupage technique, that is, take a transparent glass plate and stick the napkin on the back side, and on the front side it will be visible.

So, put a napkin on the back surface, degreased with alcohol, and moisten it with water. Make sure that the napkin is well soaked, but does not come apart. Be sure to remove excess water with a cotton swab. While the paper is still damp, coat the surface of the napkin with acrylic varnish in a thin layer. It should be applied with a narrow brush, moving from the center. The varnish should dry for quite a long time, about twelve hours. If desired, you can apply another layer, also allowing sufficient drying time. Patterns and ornaments are applied to the clean surface of the plate using acrylic paint; you can also paint over the entire surface of the plate. Another layer of acrylic varnish will complete the craft.

DIY felt Santa Claus

And such a Grandfather Frost can decorate your New Year tree with his own hands. It is made from felt, and you and I already know that it is completely simple to make.

To sew a toy you will need small pieces of felt in white, beige and red. Of course, it’s a pity to buy large pieces to make such crumbs out of them, but you can make a lot of these Santa Clauses and give them to all your friends and acquaintances.

• On paper, draw a pattern for your craft; you will need five elements - head and beard, face, edge, hat, mustache.
• From beige felt we cut out one element - the face, from red felt - two elements of the hat.
• From white we cut out two elements of the head with a beard, the edges and a mustache.
• Now we create a mustache and a hat, sew the elements together not completely, and fill them with filler.
• We glue a beige face onto one part of the head using Moment glue, sew the two parts of the head together, and fill them with silicone filler.
• We put the hat on the top of the head, secure the bottom with a pin, put the edge along the bottom and sew it on with hand stitches. At the same time fixing the hat.
• You need to sew the edge on both the front side and the back side; we cut out two elements for you.
• A voluminous mustache, beaded eyes and a nose made of rolled felt with silicone are sewn onto beige felt.
• The end of the hat is crowned with an elegant bell with braid for hanging the toy.

You can also make a simple felt card with Santa Claus. You don't even need a pattern - just use your imagination and creativity. For beginners, we recommend that you first make a paper sketch of the craft, and only then transfer it to felt fabric. Use glue to connect pieces of fabric together.

DIY Santa Claus made from plywood

DIY Santa Claus made from paper

New Year is a wonderful occasion to make an application on a greeting card. And who can decorate our applique better than Santa Claus with his own hands made of paper? You can glue either simple pieces of colored paper or strips folded using the quilling technique. In the second case it will be more effective. If everything is more or less clear with the figure of Santa Claus, then we will tell you in more detail how to make a Christmas tree. You will need sheets of double-sided colored paper. Cut out strips from it, but not even, but with small sides of two centimeters and a centimeter. Using scissors, cut the fringe strips on one side and use a wooden skewer to roll them into a roll, starting from the narrow edge. When you have rolled up the entire strip, secure the straight edge with glue and carefully straighten the fringe so that the element becomes as flat as possible. You will need a lot of such patterns; you will need to lay them out and glue them onto paper in the shape of a Christmas tree. Decorate the centers of the elements with folded multi-colored stripes.

Using thick paper or cardboard, you can make other important attributes, for example, make Santa Claus's sleigh with your own hands. This could be, or you can use rolled up newspaper tubes for the base, but we suggest you make a sled based on an old car from which the body has already been removed. You need to cut out four elements from cardboard - the sides of the sleigh, the back and the front. You can color the sleigh with pencils and paints, and rhinestones or shiny stickers will add a snowy winter texture. You can put not only Father Frost and the Snow Maiden in your sleigh, but also put a bag or box with a gift in them.

Sew Santa Claus with your own hands

Using fabric you can make toys that you would never buy in a store. You can sew Santa Claus with your own hands and your child will simply be delighted with this toy. Santa Claus tilde has gained enormous popularity.

A distinctive feature of these wonderful dolls is a sweet facial expression, but at the same time very small facial features, as if simply outlined, rosy cheeks, plump tummy shapes, long legs and arms. Natural, soft fabrics, which are always used for sewing tildas, are welcomed by all mothers, since it will be both pleasant and safe for the child to play with such toys.

You can not only sew a figure or Santa Claus costume with your own hands, but also knit it. A knitted figurine will be a favorite toy, and if it is not stuffed with stuffing, then such dolls can be used for a homemade puppet theater.

How to sew Santa Claus with your own hands

But Santa Claus can be not only a toy, but also a decoration for a bag of gifts. We'll tell you how to sew Santa Claus with your own hands and place him on packaging for New Year's souvenirs, which we can then give to our relatives or friends. You can embroider the face of Santa Claus using satin stitch or cross stitch, you can make a fabric one using glue, or you can make a crocheted element, which you will then sew on a bag. It is done quite simply - the first row of loops is closed into a ring and tied with single crochets. When the circle is already of sufficient size, tie it with several circles of snow-white threads, then change the thread to red and knit a hat. Thread long white threads into loops into the bottom row, and then trim the resulting beard with scissors. Also make a red nose, like the real Santa Claus, from threads knitted in a circle. The resulting element is sewn to the finished bag quite tightly. It is better to tie the top of the bag with an elegant ribbon.

For the simplest Santa Claus, do-it-yourself patterns will also be the simplest. These are two large balls - one for the body, one for the head. Having cut out the circles, fold each of them in half, baste the bottom with thread not all the way, and when we have already filled the fabric with padding polyester, tighten the thread so that we get a ball. Santa Claus will also need an elegant hat with a pompom, made from fabric swatches. We connect all the elements together, sew the eyes onto the face, outline the mouth with red threads, and make a nose from a small ball. We create a beard and mustache from padding polyester, and we also use it to make the edges of a hat and a fur coat. You have Santa Claus ready for your New Year's composition.

Making a real Santa Claus doll with your own hands will be more difficult, because this is an entire art. ? For such crafts, a combination of modeling and sewing is most often used. With the help of skillful stitches, you can “sculpt” a face for a toy, and a fur coat, hat, and boots are simply sewn from fabric. This combination is called sculptural textiles.

For Santa Morse, you need to create a frame using the technique of sculptural textiles. For these purposes, we will use a small plastic bottle into which a wire is inserted in a loop into the place where the head will be attached. The same loops will serve as hands; they will not be visible at all under the mittens. We paint a face made of fabric, glue on eyes, and attach a beard made of artificial fiber. A fur coat, felt boots, an elegant sash - we make everything, even Santa Claus’ staff, with our own hands.

If you are familiar with the technique of felting wool, otherwise called felting, then you can make this variation of the fairy tale wizard. This technique is very difficult, but at the same time, dolls created using the felting technique always look original and complex. The base material is wool, which is repeatedly pierced with a special needle until the material becomes dense and the fibers tangle together, forming a dense structure. Since such a craft is hollow inside, it will not require a lot of material from you, but if you put such a Santa Claus under your New Year tree, then the delight of everyone you know is simply guaranteed.

We hope that we have provided you with enough options on how to make Santa Claus with your own hands. Don't forget to please the New Year's old man by making his granddaughter - the Snow Maiden!

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Master class with step-by-step photos "The Birth of Santa Claus" (making Santa Claus for the Christmas tree)

Repeshko Lyudmila Petrovna, primary school teacher, Municipal Educational Institution "Olenovskaya School No. 1 of the Volnovakha District", ptg. Olenovka, Donetsk region.
Description of material: master class for teachers and parents.
Purpose: This souvenir is a New Year's gift.
Target: make a souvenir for the New Year.
Tasks: create a festive mood; interest in participating in the making of a souvenir; develop ingenuity, creativity, fine motor skills; cultivate aesthetic qualities, love of beauty.
Materials:
- wooden beam 60 cm high,
- wooden stand shaped like a square 18x18 cm,
- screw, hammer, nails No. 25;
- waste material (rags of knitted, synthetic items)
- braid, laces, threads;
- cotton wool;
- starch, water;
- gouache;
- scissors;
- PVA glue;
- New Year's "rain";
- brushes
- glazing bead;

Progress of the master class:

Preliminary work: conversation “The New Year holiday is coming and everyone needs Santa Claus. Santa Claus with a bag, and there’s a surprise in the bag”
After the participants are familiar with the information, they proceed to making a New Year's souvenir for 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 and nail it.

2. We wrap waste material onto the timber and secure it with braid, lace or knitting threads.

3. We apply cotton strips on the front and back to create a robe. We secure it at the head with sewing threads. From below, according to the height of Santa Claus, we cut off the excess cotton wool. On the front of the robe, from the neck to the bottom, we attach another cotton strip, but narrower. And at the bottom of the robe, on the hem of the robe, to the right, we put a cotton strip.

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

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

6. Apply a small layer of cotton wool to the top of the head and cover it from the forehead to the neck with a cotton strip. From left to right, we wrap the head with a cotton strip to get a hat. We cut off the excess length at the back and secure 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 thin cotton strips and 2 sleeves from cotton strips wider than on the hand. We wrap a wide strip of cotton wool (i.e. the sleeve) around the finished hand, cut off the excess cotton along the length of the arm and make a cuff for the sleeve.

9. Raise the beard and secure the cotton strip - collar. We cut off the excess.

10. Insert a stick-staff (a bead of the required length) into Santa Claus’s hand, secure it with PVA glue, and nail the staff to the stand at the bottom.

11. Liquid starch is ready (like rare jelly). For a glass of cold water – 1 level tablespoon of starch, stir well. In a separate bowl, boil 1 more glass of water. Gradually pour the prepared starch mixture into the boiling water, stirring with a spoon.
12. Prepare the equipment (long brush, glazing bead) for coating the product with liquid starch. We wrap it around a brush (glazing bead), wind it with cotton wool, dip it in liquid starch and apply it with twisting movements to all parts of the product. Grind the rain and sprinkle it immediately onto the product you have just treated with the mixture.

13. Let our Santa Claus dry in a warm place.
14. Prepare yellow gouache (for the staff) and red (for the hat, mittens, belt). Add a little PVA glue to the paint, mix and paint.

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