Get ready for a holiday crafting session that’s as joyful as it is simple! This Easy Paper Santa Craft is perfect for kids to make and they will love the Santa’s curly beard.
Using just a few basic supplies like colorful paper, scissors, and markers, you can create an adorable Santa Claus to brighten up your Christmas decorations.
Follow this step-by-step tutorial to turn everyday materials into a delightful holiday keepsake.
How to Make the Easy Paper Santa Craft
What you need:
- pencil
- scissors
- ruler
- color paper (red, pale yellow, pink)
- white paper
- black marker
- white chalk marker
Step by Step Tutorial
The Base
Have kids cut out a longer rectangle from white paper and use a ruler to draw a few lines to the bottom with a pencil. We drew seven lines.
The Hat
Have them cut a triangle out of red paper – one side should be as broad as the white paper (the beard) is.
The Face
Have kids cut out a rounded edge off a pale yellow rectangle and glue it to the top part of the white paper.
Have them glue the hat to the top.
The Eyes
Our Santa needs eyes – have children cut out two smaller white circles and glue them to the face.
Using a black marker, have them draw two dots to the eyes.
To make the eyes more realistic, have kids use a white chalk marker and draw two dots to each eye.
The Nose
Have them cut an oval shape from pink paper and glue it to Santa’s face as the nose.
Hat Decoration
To make the hat extra pretty, have them cut circles from white paper and glue them along the edge of the hat and Santa’s face.
They’ll look even more remarkable if the circles overlap.
Spare one circle for the tip of the hat.
The Beard
Have kids cut along the lines of the beard.
Now, have them use a pencil to swirl each strip onto the pencil gently.
Continue to the face.
Have them create these swirls on each second section of the beard.
Now, let’s add an extra layer of charm!
Have children repeat the swirl-making process with the alternating strips, gently swirling them beneath the others for a beautiful effect.
To give the beard a fuller appearance, add another beard by repeating the previous steps.
This time, have kids make the swirls slightly lower than on the first beard.
Then, have them glue the second beard part to the back of the Santa.
What do you think?
We’ll make more of these for sure!
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