There is no doubt that Santa Claus is the protagonist of the New Year's celebrations. It is his miracles and gif.webpts that children are waiting for, they send letters, postcards, and under the Christmas tree for a fairy-tale wizard, a reciprocal children's gif.webpt is often hidden - a New Year's craft. Santa Claus himself often becomes a character embodied in various types of creativity.
Content:
- Simple origami
- Felt crafts
- Bottle decoration
- Craft from cotton pads
- Santa Claus from plasticine
- DIY thread figurines
- Santa Claus made of paper
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 gif.webpt 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 using hot melt glue or a glue stick, creating felt crafts 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 traditional red and white colors, but also have a suit of blue or green colors.
Bottle decoration
It's no secret that the most versatile New Year's gif.webpts for people who are not close to friends are champagne (or other alcohol) and chocolate (or sweets). The original Santa Claus, sewn with his own hands from colorful materials, will make the gif.webpt uncommon and memorable.
Making handicrafts from bottles is also suitable for younger groups of 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 easiest materials to work with in kindergarten. Children can glue cotton pads (or balls) on templates prepared in advance by adults 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 gif.webpts that children can take home and give to their loved ones.
For creativity in the older groups of the kindergarten, more painstaking and complex work is suitable - creating crafts from cotton pads and sticks. 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 child's skills, you can choose step-by-step instructions for 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
Creating a fairy-tale character from woolen threads is a laborious process that requires not so much special handicraft skills, but rather time-consuming painstaking work. Nevertheless, the resulting figurines have a very “homey” look, evoking a feeling of coziness 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. Paper of only two colors (green and red), twisted 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 wonderful New Year's composition 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 redrawn and cut out of cardboard, templates with the image of the New Year's wizard, as well as his beautiful granddaughter, will give the child the opportunity to prepare small and different gif.webpts for their loved ones.
