On the eve of the New Year, all thoughts are busy preparing: what to cook, what to give, what to wear, and of course, how to decorate the house. Today we will talk about the main symbol of the coming 2017 - Santa Claus.

The main characteristics of Santa Claus include:

• warm earflap
• long beard
• red coat
• staff
• gift bag

You can make Santa Claus yourself, together with the children, at the same time telling them where such a symbol came from and which children will get gifts.

Santa Claus from a bottle with his own hands

Desktop Santa Claus can even be obtained from a plastic liter bottle, which can be found in every home. You will need:

• liter empty bottle
• colored paper
• scissors
• red paint and white color
• buttons
• threads

1. Mark the face and mustache on the bottle with a marker. Paint all other parts red. Use acrylic paints or gouache, adding PVA glue to it for a better overlay. Paint your face in flesh color, and make your beard white.
2. Wrap the transition to the tapering part of the bottle with a white thread - this is Santa Claus's hat.
3. Make a pom-pom out of yarn and disk and attach it to the lid.
4. From threads and buttons, make a belt for Santa Claus.
5. Eyes and mouth can be drawn or small buttons can be used.
6. To make legs and arms, fold long strips of paper several times to make an accordion and glue them to the bottle.
7. Cut out small palms or mittens and glue instead of handles.
8. As boots, you can use round bobbins, pasting them with red paper.

In the company of Santa Claus in the same technique, you can make a snow maiden and a snowman.

Santa Claus: DIY toy

To make a bright and cheerful Santa Claus toy, use one of the patterns below. Depending on your preferences, you can make Santa Claus in the style of Tilda dolls or a more traditional version.

1. You need to purchase small pieces of fabric or use existing scraps, the toy will not require much.
2. Print and cut out the patterns, lay on the fabric and circle, you will need about 0.5 cm for the allowance.
3. Cut out all the details and sew together by hand or on a typewriter, leaving a small opening. Make cuts at the folds so that the fabric does not wrinkle.
4. Turn the parts inside out and stuff with padding polyester or cotton wool, sew up to the end.
5. Gather all the details.
6. Add decorative elements.

DIY Santa Claus costume: diagrams and patterns

To please the baby, New Year's gifts can be brought to him by the "real" Santa Claus. To make everything look like in a fairy tale, sew a costume for Santa Claus. Such work will not take you much time.

1. The most time-consuming part of the work is sewing a fur coat. You can purchase a long piece of red fabric, it can be fleece, satin, velveteen, velvet. As well as white fabric for decoration.
2. The size of the fur coat depends on who it is sewn on, below is the simplest circuit. You can take measurements from the "Santa Claus" itself.
3. All parts are sewn together, finish in white. The Santa Claus hat is made according to the same principle.
4. Make a beard from a piece of synthetic winterizer, cutting out several layers and putting them on top of each other.
5. As a staff, use a mop handle wrapped in gold packing tape.
6. Sew a gift bag from scraps.

Santa Claus beard made by hand

The beard is a very important element that will add naturalness to the image, we offer you a few more ideas for creating a beard.

• Option 1: cut out the base from white felt, sew along the edges of the tie and stick cotton balls over the entire surface.

• Option 2: cut a piece of felt oval shape- this will be the basis for the future beard. Felt or thick white yarn fluff and sew to the base, imitating a mustache and beard.

• Option 3: A respirator can be used as a base for the beard, in which case the beard will hold securely. Cut holes for the mouth and glue the remaining parts with padding polyester.

Staff of Santa Claus with their own hands

If you approach the issue of making a staff more seriously, then you can try the following methods.

• Option 1: Glue a Christmas toy on top of the mop handle, which is usually used to decorate the top of a spruce, cover the docking place with tinsel, wrap the base with tape or wrapping paper.
• Option 2: Use a shovel handle, sand the base and cover with white paint, wrap the staff with thin tinsel, decorate the top christmas toy attached to the glue gun, add glitter.
• Option 3: An express way to create a staff is to use foil for decoration. Wrap the base (mop handle, gymnastic stick, etc.) with foil, then wrap with tinsel on top.

Santa Claus's sleigh do-it-yourself

As a gift for tiny and big lovers of sweets, you can lay out Santa Claus's sleigh from sweets, marmalades and cookies. And immediately an ordinary and familiar gift will look magical and festive in a New Year's way.

Christmas candies are suitable as runners, the rest of the sweets are laid on them and the whole structure is tied with a bow. To prevent the surprise from falling apart along the way, you can fasten all the parts with a glue gun or double-sided tape.

DIY Santa Claus mittens

Since Santa Claus lives in the North, it would be very uncomfortable for him without mittens, after all, the years are not the same, you need to take care of yourself. Mittens can be knitted from red yarn or sewn from the remnants of red fabric from the suit.

Santa Claus's mittens are even more like large mittens, so you can use the following pattern to sew them:

Santa Claus do-it-yourself from improvised materials

To build Santa Claus houses, it is not necessary to go to the store, use the materials that you already have at hand.

In the technique of quilling

For execution you will need:

• colored paper
• cutter
• toothpick

1. Cut the paper into thin strips of 0.5 cm and twist into a bundle with a toothpick
2. Remove from the toothpick, let it straighten out a little to make a circle and secure the end with PVA glue
3. From such elements you can assemble a whole Santa Claus.

From bushings from toilet paper or rollers for cleaning clothes:

1. the roller will be the base
2. cover it with red paper or felt
3. draw a face
4. stick on a cotton beard
5. a hat can be made from a napkin

Santa Claus in origami technique

Small gifts-postcards in the form of Santa Claus are easy to fold and an ordinary piece of colored paper 10 * 10 cm in size. There are a lot of experimental schemes, they are easy to perform. Involve young children in the work, such an activity is useful for the development of motor skills.

Santa Claus from colored felt with his own hands

Felt is becoming an increasingly popular material among needlewomen because it is very easy to use, does not require edge processing, does not roll up and attaches well. From felt can be done various option Santa Claus:

• Option 1. Santa Claus is a toy for the Christmas tree: you just need to cut out all the details according to the pattern below and sew them together, add a padding polyester inside for softness.

• Option 2. Santa Claus on a Christmas wreath: More and more often you can see decoration in the form of a Christmas wreath, more characteristic of Western culture. You can decorate a wreath Christmas balls, branches or felt Santa Claus.

• Option 3. Santa Claus-basket: you will need a thick felt, about 4-5 mm thick, cut out all the details and sew. Put a gift in a basket and hide it under the Christmas tree.

Santa Claus from cotton wool with his own hands

Toys were made from cotton wool decades ago, probably your grandmothers still own this technique and can teach all its subtleties.

The creation process is painstaking and laborious, and the toy turns out to be very fragile. To create such a masterpiece you will need:

• paints
• threads
• wire

Making Santa Claus:

• From the wire, form the frame of the future Santa Claus, all parts of the body except for the head.
• Wrap cotton wool on the frame and secure with threads.

• The next layers of cotton wool are attached with a paste or PVA, apply cotton wool in thin layers so that it sticks securely.
• Engage in the manufacture of the head, first form a ball, then gradually fashion the nose, brow ridges, lips, evaluate the proportions, the head should not turn out to be too large relative to the body.
• Attach the head to the body with glue and thread.

• From the wire, form a frame for a fur coat that is attached to the waist.
• Wrap the wire with white thread.
• Close the hem of the fur coat with cotton wool and form a hat, mittens, felt boots, and a beard.

• After complete drying, proceed to coloring.

Santa Claus do-it-yourself pantyhose

Ordinary nylon tights are perfect as a basis for a toy, they stretch perfectly and allow you to form the desired shape. For work you will need:

• light-colored tights or stockings
• synthetic winterizer or cotton wool
• paints
• thread with a needle
• red fabric for clothes

1. To get started, form 3 lumps of cotton wool, one large for the head and three smaller ones for the cheeks and nose. Cut off the toe from the tights and place all three lumps there, sew up the hole.
2. Now form the nose and secure it with pins for ease of use and sew with light threads. Use the same principle to form the eyes and lips.
3. For the body, you can use the remaining tights, cut a piece about 20 cm long, sew one edge and stuff it tightly with cotton.
4. Sew the details together, now take care of the clothes. For a fur coat, use the attached pattern. Make a hat from the remnants of the fabric.
5. Do not forget to add a beard and mustache, make them from the remnants of cotton wool.
6. Now the most difficult part remains - paint the face and the toy is ready.

Santa Claus on a glass with his own hands

Decorated glasses will become an interesting decoration of the table. The trick is that the glass is no longer used as a vessel, but as a candlestick. The New Year's atmosphere of your evening is guaranteed!

You will need:

• wineglass
• decoupage napkins with Santa Claus
• tassel
• PVA glue
• scissors

1. Remove the bottom two paper layers from the napkins, you only need a bright picture. Cut out the elements that you would like to transfer to the glass.
2. Dilute the glue with water or cook the paste.
3. Using a brush dipped in glue, carefully spread the napkins over the glass, keep in mind that the glass will stand upside down. Smooth out any wrinkles for a flawless finish.
4. Once completely dry, you can add a few more decorative elements in the form of stars or snowflakes.
5. Put a candle on the leg and put it on the table.

Big Santa Claus do it yourself

Santa Claus can become a real decoration of the interior, if it is done with high quality and with love. For you, a master class on making a big Santa Claus.

You will need wire, scissors, glue, a needle and thread, thick cardboard, foam rubber, sintepuh, cotton wool, wool, white and red felt.

• At the heart of the entire body and head is a cone. Its size depends on how big the toy you want to end up with. Cut out a cone and a circle from paper.

• Draw a diameter on the circle and divide it into three parts, the points equidistant from the center will be the legs.
• Wrap the circle on one side with bright felt or cloth, glue the edges on the inside, thread the wire through the holes and form loops in place of the feet.
• To the middle of the wire, wind the wire thinner, its length should be greater than the height of the cone. So that the figure does not lose balance, the junction of the circle and the wire must be generously glued with a glue gun.

• From the fabric, cut out two rectangles about 4 cm wide and 10 cm longer than the length of Santa Claus's legs. Sew on the long side, turn inside out and put on the legs. Baste to the bottom of the circle.
• Cut a cone out of white felt, sew and turn inside out. front side out. Stuff it tightly with synthetic fluff and thread a thin wire through it, sew it to the circle with a blind seam.
• Cut out soles from thick cardboard or plywood, they should be larger than wire loops. Glue the soles with glue gun. Glue foam boots on top.

• Cover the boots with red felt and pull them down.
• Sketch the eyes and mouth at the top of the cone.
• From red felt or fleece, cut out Santa Claus's fur coat, as well as pens. Handles must be sewn and filled with synteph.
• Sew the fur coat directly to the cone with a hidden seam and decorate on top with the decor of your choice.

• Cut out a white collar from white fleece and sew on.
• Sew handles to the fur coat on both sides.
• Further, from the existing wool, it is necessary to comb the beard and mustache and carefully attach them to the face of Santa Claus.
• Form a hat from the remnants of wool, its decor can repeat the decor on a fur coat.
• Santa Claus is ready to please you and your loved ones!

Santa Claus on champagne with his own hands

A bottle of wine or champagne is good gift for the holiday, there are many free days and guests ahead, this bottle will definitely not become superfluous. To make the gift still thematic, you can decorate it by dressing it up as Santa Claus.

Of course, the easiest option is to sew a tiny hat on a bottle and it will immediately look different, but you can also show even more creativity, for example, sew a cover and decorate it as Santa Claus.

1. From red satin ribbon you can also build an amazing bottle decoration
2. To make it removable, you first need to prepare the base in the shape of a bottle, and then wrap it with ribbons
3. At the end, add decor from white felt or fur

Knit a Santa Claus costume on a bottle with your own hands

A suit for a bottle can not only be sewn, but also knitted. Here are a few ideas for you, symbolic simplified versions in red colors or humorous ones with Santa Claus - Santa Claus hanging on the chimney.

Santa Claus - do-it-yourself pillow

Pillows with Santa Claus will help to change the style of the interior and make it more New Year's, it can be a decor made on a regular cover, or the pillow itself can resemble Santa Claus.

In order to sew a New Year's cover you will need:

• base fabric
• felt or fleece for finishing
• threads
• needle

1. From the fabric, cut out a cover for the existing pillow and sew it by inserting a zipper to open and close
2. Cut out all parts of Santa Claus's face from fleece: beard, eyes, mustache, nose, hat, pompom
3. Sew all parts to the base one by one, you can use buttons as an eyelet
4. Make a pom-pom out of thread and sew it to the hat
5. Santa Claus's mustache can be made voluminous by stuffing it with synthetic winterizer

With a lot of patience, you can try to cross-stitch a pillow with Santa Claus.

Santa Claus from spoons with their own hands

With the help of disposable spoons, you can create unusual things, including lampshades for lamps, vases and coasters. It turns out that, by turning on the fantasy, you can even build Santa Claus.

You will need:

• plastic spoons
• cardboard
• red paint
• felt-tip pen

1. Cut out and glue a cone from cardboard, it will be the basis for Santa Claus
2. Now, with a pencil, mark the places where the mustache, beard and eyes will be, paint over everything else with red paint.
3. For plastic spoons, break off the base and glue them to the beard and along the edge of the cone
4. Cut out handles from paper and glue on each side
5. Draw eyes and your Santa Claus is ready

If you have only one plastic spoon lying around your house, and Santa Claus needs to be done, then you can go the other way:

Santa Claus from plastic cups

Continuing the theme of creativity from disposable tableware, you can try to create Santa Claus from ordinary plastic cups.

You will need:

• red plastic cups white flowers
• threads
• balloon
• fleece for hat
• buttons

1. Glue the cups together so as to get a shape resembling a ball. White cups will symbolize the hem of a fur coat and buttons.
2. Next, the head can be laid out from cups or made from PVA glue, threads and a balloon.
3. Glue the head to the base, add eyes and a beard from cotton pads.
4. Stick cups into each other and glue them as handles.
5. Glue a Santa Claus hat out of fleece or felt.
6. From the remaining cups, glue the gift bag and tie it with a ribbon.

Santa Claus from a plastic plate

The easiest exercise for preschool children is to make Santa Claus from an ordinary plastic plate. It is better for you to prepare all the necessary details in advance so that the baby can calmly create.

You will need:

• plate
• red triangle for hat
• white rectangle for cap lapel
• black circles for eyes
• cotton balls for beard
• nose pompon

Show your child how easy it is to glue all the pieces together and put Santa Claus together.

According to the same scheme, you can easily assemble a snowman and a deer!

Do-it-yourself chocolate bar with Santa Claus

Recently, it has become unfashionable to give just chocolate bars, everything needs unusual packaging. A chocolate box is a postcard-box, inside of which there is a cherished sweetness, and maybe even a few lines with wishes are written.

1. Cut out the base for the future box from thick red cardboard and iron all the folds, glue the pocket for the chocolate
2. Glue ribbons to make your gift look more presentable.
3. On the front side, glue or paint on the face, beard, mustache, hat, nose and eyes
4. Put your favorite chocolate bar inside and write wishes for the New Year

Santa Claus from paper, do-it-yourself scheme

One of the easiest options for creating Santa Claus, and perhaps the most technologically advanced, is to simply print it on a printer and glue it according to the attached diagram. The most advanced can even print a three-dimensional figurine on a 3D printer, and then just paint it!

Do-it-yourself voluminous Santa Claus

You can fold a three-dimensional figure of Santa Claus using the technique modular origami which has become very popular in the last ten years.

The assembly of the product is carried out from the same modules, which allow you to create any shape.

For example, for Santa Claus, we need 493 identical modules (1 red for the nose, 275 white, 198 blue, 19 flesh). Each module is assembled from a rectangular piece of paper measuring 37 * 53 mm, or 1/32 sheet.

The module creation technique is as follows:

1. Having added the required number of modules of a certain color, you can go directly to the assembly
2. At the base of 25 BM (white modules) placed on the short side in a circle
3. In the second row, put 25 BM in the same way as in 1, but on the long side and put on 1 row.
4. The third row repeats the previous one
5. In the fourth row, put 25 cm (blue pieces) on the long side
6. Fifth row: 22 cm on the long side and 3 BM on the short side, turn the ring inside out
7. In the sixth row 4 BM and 21CM, all with the long side out
8. In the seventh row 5 BM and 20 SM, located as in the previous row
9. In the eighth row 6 BM and 19 SM, located as in the previous row
10. In the ninth row 7 BM and 18 SM, located as in the previous row
11. In the tenth row 8 BM and 17 SM, located as in the previous row
12. In the eleventh row 25 BM, located as in the previous row
13. In the twelfth row 25 BM, located as in the previous row
14. In the thirteenth row 1KM and 24 BM, located as in the previous row
15. In the fourteenth row, 2 BM with the long side outward over the KM 13 rows, on both sides of them, 2 TM (body modules) with the short side, the rest 19 BM
16. In the fifteenth row 7 TM and 18 BM with the long, short and long sides outward, respectively
17. In the sixteenth row, 8 TM and 17 BM with the long, short and long sides outward, respectively
18. In the seventeenth row, reduce the number of row elements by wearing 6 modules on 3 corners, a total of 22 BM outward with the short side
19. In the eighteenth row, 20 cm outward with the short side
20. 19th 18 cm short side out
21. In the twentieth 9 BM short side forward
22. Form handles from the remaining elements, glue the eyes and nose

DIY Santa Claus doll

In order for the child to remember this holiday for a long time, sew a puppet Santa Claus for him. Print all the patterns on the printer and cut out the details.

1. Lay out the fabric and circle all the details, leave a 5 mm allowance. Cut along the contour and sew on a typewriter.
2. Gather all the details together, use a thick thread to decorate the doll's clothes, the yarn will make a great beard.

Santa Claus on the Christmas tree with his own hands

On the New Year tree, among other toys, there must be Santa Claus and the Snow Maiden. They can be made from felt or cut out of colored paper to make an appliqué.

Also an interesting idea is to make Santa Claus from beads, you only need a fishing line and white and red glass beads. String the beads according to the pattern, and at the end make a loop out of the remnants of the fishing line.

Santa Claus from balloons

A very convenient and compact option for later storage - Santa Claus from balloons. You will need white and red balls for the coat and hat, pink for the face, and black for the shoes.

1. Inflate 31 red and 11 white balloons of the same size and place them in the shape of a cone, so that in the first row there are 6 white balloons, in the second and third 6 red balloons, in the fourth 4 red 1 white, in the fifth 5 red, in the sixth 5 red, in the seventh 5 red, in the eighth 4 white.
2. Inflate a large beige or color pink, this will be the head.
3. Put a Santa Claus hat on top of your head and draw eyes with a marker.
4. Make a beard out of white felt or fleece.

Santa Claus from salt dough

Another great material for creativity is salt dough. It allows you to create amazing gizmos that will last a lifetime.

1. First, prepare the dough: mix 200 grams of salt and flour, 100 ml of water and half a teaspoon of PVA and knead the dough
2. From the finished dough, fashion the base in the shape of a cone.
3. Fashion the sleeves and handles and glue to the cone
4. From two long strips of dough, form a lapel and a hem of a fur coat
5. Shape hats and noses from small balls of dough.
6. Add a beard and mustache, eyebrows
7. Send to dry in the oven for 40 minutes
8. Then paint the finished product with acrylic paints and varnish

Santa Claus made of wool

The felting technique allows you to create real masterpieces from ordinary wool. To felt Santa Claus, take flesh and white wool, felting needles, red felt for a fur coat, wire, beads and glue.

• From flesh-colored wool, knit a shape in the form of a cone, on which a ball is put on. The cone is the torso, so add a slight roundness on one side, this is the solid belly of Santa Claus.
• Cut out a fur coat for Santa Claus from felt and sew it right on the base.

• From the remnants of the red fabric, sew a small cone-shaped hat.
• Felted flagella from white wool so that they turn out to be fluffy on one side, put them on a sponge and use a needle to drive them into the sponge. Glue the finished flagella to the fur coat with glue along the hem and collar.
• From the remaining white wool we form a beard and mustache and attach them with a needle.
• Glue eyes and nose
• Measure from the wire required length for handles, wrap the wire with red felt and glue on the ends of the mittens. Insert the open end of the wire into the body.

Making toys with your own hands is very interesting activity if you haven't tried it yet, now is the time to start. Don't be discouraged if something doesn't work the first time, you can always try again. Santa Claus will bring good New Year spirit and the feeling of an approaching holiday in your home! New creative ideas Happy New Year to you too!

Video: Santa Claus do it yourself step by step

Master class with step by step photo"Birth of Santa Claus" (making Santa Claus under the Christmas tree)

Master class progress:

Always in anticipation of a magical holiday, the whole family takes up manufacturing Christmas decorations for green beauty and dwelling. And the main symbol is considered to be the most beloved craft new year holiday- Father Frost.

We suggest you make Santa Claus out of paper. With the help of such simple material you can create real masterpieces with your own hands. You just need to devote a little time to this lesson and show all your boundless imagination.

Study our master classes on making Santa Claus with your own hands and you will be able to please your loved ones with unique New Year's gifts made with soul and care.

Modular origami Santa Claus - master class

We will need: sheets of A4 paper: of blue color- 14 pieces for 211 modules, white - 13 pieces for 207 modules, pink - 1 sheet for 17 modules.

We divide each sheet into 16 rectangles, from which we will make modules.

Step one. We bend a rectangular sheet along in half. With the help of another fold, we outline the line of the middle.

Step two. We bend the edges of the rectangle folded along to the middle, as shown in the photo. Turn the part over and bend the bottom edges up.

Step three. We fold the corners, bending them over a large triangle, and then bend these corners inward. We bend the resulting figure in half - so we learned how to make a module. Now, in the same way, we make the required number of modules, indicated above, from the rest of the paper.

Step four. Let's start making crafts. We take 5 white modules and arrange them as in the photo (we place the module of the upper row with the smaller side up). Next, we assemble a chain of 3 rows of white modules. Each row consists of 25 pieces.

Step five. We close the chain in a ring and turn it over. Next, we perform 3 rows of blue modules. From the seventh row we make a beard. To do this, insert 2 white modules with the smaller side out. The remaining blue modules of the 7th row are inserted as usual.

Step five. In the 8th row we fix 3 white modules, as usual, with the long side, the rest of the modules are blue. With each next row, we add one white module on each side of the beard.

Step six. In the 11th row, we insert one red module in the middle of the beard - this is the mouth. 12 row consists of white modules. We put them on the blue modules with the smaller side outward, on the white modules (beard) - with the long side, as usual. In the 13th row, opposite the red module, we put on the white one with the long side out, and 2 pink modules each with the smaller side (see photo).

Step seven. In the 14th row we dress 6 pink modules with the smaller side, and we dress the white modules as usual. 15 row - we dress 17 white modules and 8 pink ones. In the 16th and 17th row we put on all the white modules with the smaller side outward - this is a hat.

Step eight. The last 18 row consists of blue modules with the smaller side out. We collect hands from 3 white modules and 5 blue ones. We glue the finished eyes and insert the nose (detail of the children's mosaic). Santa Claus made of paper using the modular origami technique is ready. We hope that after studying the master class, the Snow Maiden, made in the same technique, will appear next to your Santa Claus.

Origami paper Santa Claus - master class

We need colored paper and a little patience. We offer you several schemes according to which you can easily make Santa Claus with your skillful hands. You can hang it on the Christmas tree, decorate it greeting card or give it to friends for the New Year.

Santa Claus do-it-yourself from colored paper - master class

We need: red paper, pink for the face, White paper for a beard, cotton wool, felt-tip pens, scissors and glue.

Operating procedure:

1. Using a compass or a small plate, draw a semicircle on red paper. Cut it out, fold it into a cone and glue it.
2. We cut out an oval from pink paper, draw eyes and a nose on it with a felt-tip pen and glue the face of Santa Claus to the cone.
3. Next, glue the beard and white paper hat. To do this, cut out white stripes, cut a fringe on them and twist it with scissors. We glue the strips with twisted fringe to the cone in the lower part of the face in several rows, giving the beard splendor. We make a hat from the same strip. A beard, hat and fur coat for Santa Claus can be made from cotton wool, which is glued to the cone along its lower edge, on the face and upper part of the cone. Smart Santa Claus made of paper, made by hand, is ready. With the help of a cone, using fantasy, you can also make a Snow Maiden.

Santa Claus from colored paper strips- Master Class

We will need: thick colored paper, white corrugated cardboard, scissors and glue.

Operating procedure:

1. We cut out 6 strips of red paper measuring 1 cm by 15 cm and 6 strips measuring 1 cm by 10 cm. Glue them into rings. We collect a ball from 6 large rings, fastening it with glue in the upper and lower parts. From small rings, we collect a smaller ball in the same way. It turned out the torso and head of Santa Claus.
2. From pink or orange paper, cut out a small circle for the face. We cut out a mustache, beard and hat of arbitrary size from corrugated cardboard and make out their faces. Cut out and glue the eyes and nose. Glue the face to a small ball, which is then glued to the body. We cut out mittens and felt boots from cardboard and glue them to the craft. The symbol of the new year made of paper, created by yourself, is ready.

A few more ideas for creating Santa Claus with your own hands

Applying imagination and using the schemes we have proposed, you can make Santa Claus even from a paper napkin.

A paper cone allows you to make many options for Santa Claus with your own hands.

And this family of Santa Clauses is made of ordinary toilet paper rolls.

Santa Claus and Snow Maiden in the popular technique of modular origami.

We hope that our master classes helped you understand the technique of making Santa Claus from paper and encouraged you to be creative. Apply a little imagination and create your own kind Grandfather or even several. They will decorate your holiday and create a magical mood!

The closer the New Year, the more often we think about decorating the house for this wonderful holiday. Santa Claus do-it-yourself crafts - new ideas with photos will help you create bright and interesting accents in my house.

Santa Claus FROM PAPER

Having made such a wonderful toy, you can hang it on a Christmas tree or decorate a room by making a garland.
What will be needed? Double-sided colored thick cardboard (or paper), wooden red beads (can be replaced with a tube), a bead, a needle and thread, a pompom and a thin ribbon, scissors, glue.
As you can see in the picture, the Santa Claus craft consists of two balls. To make a body with your own hands, you need to cut 6-8 strips 1.5 cm wide and 26 cm long. For the head, you should take 5 narrow strips 1 cm wide and 16 cm long.
To collect the ball, lay the strips in a circle - make sure that they divide it into equal parts. They should lie so that their ends intersect. To achieve this, we recommend using a template. Now we make out the bottom of the ball - we pierce the junction with a needle and thread, we fix the bead.

Next, we make the base, to which we firmly attach the free ends of the strips. AT original version in the photo these are wooden red beads, but they can be replaced cocktail tube. The length of the beads should be half the length of the strip.
Having made two balls, cut out stencils of the face (1) and hands (4) from paper. We attach a pom-pom to the head. The figure shows two options for crafts Santa Claus - with legs (2) and without. Choose the one you like. An interesting addition will be a gift bag made using the same technique. Top stencil under number 3.

FATHER FROST FROM A BOTTLE

New ideas with photos help to take a fresh look at already familiar things. From unnecessary plastic bottle we will have a cute Santa Claus. And not alone - a hare will keep him company.
What is needed for this? bottle, acrylic, paints, knitted scarf and bandage.
To make the figurine stable, fill the bottle. You can either not empty it before work, or fill it with cereals.

After the bottle has been cleaned of the sticker, rinsed and dried, coat it with a white acrylic primer. When it dries, start painting the bottle with colored acrylic.
So that Santa Claus, made by himself, does not freeze, it is worth putting a scarf and a “hat” on the painted bottle. If you make a hare, then the ears for it can also be cut out of an unnecessary plastic bottle.

Crafts Santa Claus FROM WOOL

In order to make crafts from cotton wool, you need a paste - 1 tbsp. mix a spoonful of starch with water until a creamy state, pour boiling water into the resulting mixture, stirring constantly. When the mixture becomes clear, it is ready to use.

Now we dip the cotton pads and cotton wool into the paste and form the details of the future figure - two cones from cotton pads (these are hands), cotton balls - one large and two smaller ones (these are the head, nose and pompom).
Prepare a small bottle - for example, from drinking yogurt. It will become the body of Santa Claus, so you also need to glue cotton wool on it.

The formed parts will dry during the day, then they are painted with gouache. After the paint dries, we attach the finished parts to the body, add the finishing touches - sleeves, collar, mustache, beard and everything else with PVA glue. The eyes are painted with gouache.
Additionally, make Santa Claus a staff and a bag with gifts.

FROM MACARON

This is such a fun decoration. New Year's table is done by hand. Of the materials you will need noodles, vermicelli and olives. And Smooth surface on which the craft will settle down.

The cooking process is simple - boil the noodles and put them on a dish, creating a New Year's look. If you do not find colored noodles, we advise you to color the usual one.

FROM PALM

How do you like this new idea like in the photo? You can literally make crafts with your own hands.
What is the manufacture of such Santa Claus, who will become interesting decoration postcards, you need: red and white fabric, postcard with the image of Santa Claus.

As you understand, everything is simple - you just need to circle your hand and cut out the resulting outline from the fabric. Next, we add the figure of the main New Year's Grandfather from the pieces and attach the head cut from the picture on top.

FROM A BULB

To make such a decoration, you need to paint the light bulb with white paint in two layers.
While the paint dries, start modeling from mastic (salt dough is also suitable) a round flattened ball - this is the nose of the figure. And sew a hat so that Santa Claus is not so cold.
If the paint is dry, then it's time to glue the finished nose into the area of ​​\u200b\u200bthe future face. We advise you to do this with the help of a “hot gun”.

Now let's start drawing with a simple pencil contours of the face, eyes, eyebrows, mustache and beard. Now you can paint over the rest of the body with red paint.
Now let's start painting the face - do not forget to add glitter to the eyes. To make the painted parts look voluminous, we recommend drawing them with a contour.
Now we put on a hat (to keep it securely, fix it with a hot gun). Sew a thread to the hat so that the toy can be hung on the Christmas tree.
Additionally, it is worth using a thin brush with black paint to draw the details of the toy. And don't forget the glitter!

FROM THE SOCK

An amazing craft, real Santa Claus can be made from ordinary socks!
First, let's take a white sock - this is the body of the toy. Cut off the unnecessary, leaving only the length that is convenient for you.
If in the end you get, for example, a cropped top, then carefully sew or tie the bottom - so that you get a "pouch". If you bandage, then turn the sock inside out, so the toy will become stable.

The blank should be filled with cereals or cotton wool. We fix the top with an elastic band. Father Frost's fur coat is made of another red sock. Usually they use the lower part of the sock, in which case the part that used to wrap around the fingers will become a hat, and the rest will become a fur coat. Mittens are made from parts of the bootleg.
With the help of cotton wool, the crafts are decorated - they make a pompom, a beard, the edges of clothes. With our own hands we make a bag and a staff. Don't forget the eyes and nose! They are made with beads or buttons.

We hope the photos from this article gave you new ideas for creating crafts for the New Year, which is just around the corner. We wish you good luck!

A beautiful figurine of Santa Claus, made according to our master classes with photos and videos, is suitable for submitting to the competition and decorating your home for the New Year. For adults and small needlewomen, we have collected a lot of instructions for sewing a toy from fabric and felt, sculpting it from salt dough, assembling it from a plastic bottle, paper or cardboard. Step-by-step master classes will be understandable to children from school and kindergarten and they can easily make Santa Claus with their own hands from various purchased and improvised materials.

Do-it-yourself Santa Claus from improvised materials to kindergarten - a step-by-step master class with a photo

Using various improvised materials and fabric, you can easily make a cute figure of Santa Claus for the New Year. For the smallest needleworkers, we have selected an interesting instruction that tells about the rules for making such crafts. Learn more about how to do it yourself step by step from improvised materials in Kindergarten cute Santa Claus, our next master class with a photo will tell.

Do-it-yourself materials for making Santa Claus for kindergarten

• multi-colored felt;
• silicone glue;
• juice can or toilet paper roll (for base)
• lace;
• red and white pom-poms;
• scissors.

Master class on making Santa Claus with your own hands from improvised materials

1. Prepare materials for work.

1. Cut out a rectangle from red felt according to the size of the cylinder to be glued.

1. Glue the red felt to the base.

1. From light pink felt, cut out a large face for the future figurine and glue it with glue, as shown in the photo.

1. Decorate the edges of the face with lace: glue the lace along the contour of the light pink felt.

1. Cut out a pair of eye circles from black felt. Glue mugs-eyes and a red pompom nose. From pink felt, cut out a couple of circles-cheeks, from red - a smile.

1. Glue cheeks and a smile to the figurine.

1. Cut out a triangle from red felt, as shown in the photo. Glue the edges of the triangle to get a cone-cap. Glue a white pom pom on top. Then glue the hat to the previously prepared figure.

Do-it-yourself voluminous Santa Claus from nylon tights - a master class with video

A funny craft in the form of Santa Claus can be made using ordinary nylon tights. They make interesting volumetric figures that can be submitted to competitions or used to decorate your home on the eve of the New Year. Learn more about how to make your own nylon tights beautiful Santa Claus, our step by step master class.

Master class with a video of making your own hands from Santa Claus nylon tights

The following video details the manufacturing steps. bulk toys from tights. It is important to follow all the instructions of the author, then the resulting craft will be beautiful and neat. You can use the finished figurine to decorate rooms for the New Year or simply plant it under the Christmas tree.

Funny Santa Claus with his own hands from a plastic bottle and spoons - master classes for kindergarten

Pasting, coloring plastic bottles is a fairly simple task that a student of an average and senior group kindergarten. Therefore, for the New Year, we have selected interesting workshops for making crafts from such simple improvised materials for kids and their parents. In the following photo instruction, you will learn how you can easily and quickly make a large figurine of one of the main symbols of the New Year. According to our master class, Santa Claus is made from a plastic bottle and spoons with his own hands without much difficulty.

Materials for making a cool Santa Claus from a plastic bottle and spoons

• a large plastic bottle of 5 liters;
• plastic spoons;
• scissors;
• white and red tape;
• glue gun;
• rain;
• a circle of pink fabric;
• cotton wool;
• white cardboard and black paper.

Master class with a photo of making Santa Claus from a bottle and spoons with your own hands

1. Proceed to pasting a five-liter bottle with red and white tape.

1. Tape the front center part with white tape, as shown in the photo.

1. With red tape, make a neat frame of the previously glued white tape. Also paste over the entire back of the figure to be made with red tape.

1. Cut off the handles of plastic spoons. Start gluing the resulting blanks onto a five-liter bottle with a glue gun. Glue the lid in this way and make a strip of spoons on the neck.

1. Glue blanks from spoons to the bottom of the bottle (under white tape).

1. At the bottom of the bottle, glue blanks of spoons in several tiers, as shown in the photo (so that the bottle itself is not visible).

1. From white cardboard and black paper, make eyes for the figurine.

1. Make a spout filled with cotton from pink fabric.

1. From pieces of handles from plastic spoons, make eyebrows for the figure. Glue the eyes and throws onto the prepared plastic bottle.

1. Decorate the bottle with rain.

Video on making a cool Santa Claus from a plastic bottle with your own hands

You and your children will be able to make a simpler, but no less cool figure according to the next master class. Detailed video will talk about how to make a cool Santa Claus for the New Year from an ordinary plastic bottle. The voluminous craft can be used to decorate a room, and it can also be placed under the Christmas tree. Suitable original figurine and to participate in a competition at school or kindergarten.

The original Santa Claus from cotton wool with his own hands - a master class with a video for the school

A large number of toys were made from ordinary cotton wool in the USSR. At the same time, they turned out not only beautiful, but also very original. Now using this technology, you can also make an unusual decor for the New Year. And with the help of our next master class with a video, you will learn how to make a cool Santa Claus out of cotton wool with your own hands.

Do-it-yourself video on making Santa Claus from cotton wool - for school

Following the instructions of the author in the next video, you can easily make a real toy from ordinary cotton wool for the New Year. The finished figure can be painted with paints or varnished. Such a craft will look original and bright against the background of modern purchased toys. In addition, it can be used not only for decorating rooms, but also for decorating a Christmas tree: put Grandfather Frost and Snow Maiden from cotton wool under the Christmas tree and create a real festive atmosphere New Year.

Simple do-it-yourself Santa Claus made of paper and cardboard - templates for kindergarten and school

From ordinary cardboard and paper, you can easily and simply make many different figures of Santa Claus. The templates we have selected will help you and your children with this. You only need to print them, and then proceed to cutting and gluing the figures. And in just 10 minutes beautiful craft ready for the new year. You can choose a template for cutting out bright Santa Claus from paper or cardboard with your own hands in our collection of pictures.

A selection of templates for paper and cardboard with Santa Claus for elementary school and kindergarten

The templates for cutting offered by us can be used both at home and for kindergarten or elementary school. From simple blanks, children will be able to make cool and cute Santa Clauses on their own. Also such original craft with the baby from junior group Kindergarten, you can apply for an exhibition held in honor of the New Year.

The original Santa Claus with his own hands from fabric and cotton wool is very simple - patterns for beginners

Sewing voluminous figurines and toys require certain skills in working with fabrics and a sewing machine. But in our next master class, you will find the simplest workshop on making a fabric toy. In it, the main task of the needlewoman will be the accurate redrawing of the workpiece on the base and its bright coloring. You can learn more about how you can easily sew Santa Claus out of fabric and cotton wool with your own hands in our next master class with patterns for beginners.

Materials for sewing with your own hands the original Santa Claus from fabric and cotton wool

• linen or cotton fabric;
• paints for drawing on fabric;
• paper (for printing patterns);
• cotton wool or holofiber;
• scissors.

Master class on self-tailoring from fabric and cotton wool of the original Santa Claus

1. Print the proposed patterns, transfer the contours of the figure (or both figures to the fabric). Transfer the drawing itself to make an original pendant toy.

1. Color the front of the figurine with fabric paints.

1. Make the back of the figures: redraw the outline (turning the pattern over) and paint with fabric paints.

1. Make the bottom of the toys and color them as shown in the photo.

1. Cut blanks with an indent of 1-1.5 cm.

1. Fold the blanks with the front parts and sew them with sewing machine or manually. In addition, sew on a ribbon or decorative cord for hanging the figurine.

1. Unscrew the workpiece.

1. Sew on the bottom of the toy (not completely - half).

1. Fill the toy with cotton wool or holofiber.

1. Sew the second half of the bottom of the toy.

Video on sewing original Santa Claus from felt - with patterns for beginners

The following video will help you to sew another Grandfather to decorate the house for the New Year. It tells step by step how novice craftswomen make a simple toy. The patterns proposed in it are quite easy to redraw, so even students of secondary and high school.

Do-it-yourself funny Santa Claus from salt dough - master classes with photo and video

From salt dough, you can make a lot of different cool crafts for the New Year holiday. Such work will surely appeal to both kindergarten kids and primary school students. And with our next instruction, you can make original pendants with painted handprints with your children. A simple master class with a photo will help you easily and simply create your own original Santa Claus from salt dough.

Materials for making your own funny Santa Claus from salt dough

• flour - 2 cups;
• fine salt - 1 cup;
• water - about 1 cup;
• rast. oil - 1 tbsp;
• foil;
• acrylic paints.

Master class with a photo of making Santa Claus from salt dough with your own hands

1. Prepare everything for making salt dough. Mix the ingredients and knead thoroughly until a homogeneous mass is obtained.

1. Roll out the prepared salt dough into a thin layer (not thicker than 2 cm). Cut out small ovals or circles from it (to fit a child's pen and leave a neat side).

1. Make prints on the surface of the salt dough.

1. Carefully cut off the excess dough, leave a side about 1 cm wide near the imprint. Make holes in the upper part of the workpiece with a tube for the subsequent threading of a cord or ribbon.

1. Put the blanks on the foil and place it in the oven. Bake crafts at a temperature of 120 degrees for 2 hours.

1. Paint the blank with white paint and let it dry. Then draw the face of Santa Claus, his beard. Pass a ribbon or cord through the previously prepared hole.

Video on making Santa Claus from salt dough

Your children can also mold a three-dimensional figure in the form of Santa Claus according to the next master class. step by step video help them create a very cool New Year's crafts. It can be used to decorate a house for the New Year or to decorate a classroom at school, kindergarten. Easy and fun to work with salt dough sure to please all the kids.

Bright Santa Claus do-it-yourself for kindergarten - crafts for an exhibition on master classes

When making crafts with a child, it is not at all necessary to use only improvised materials. For example, in the next master class, a wooden blank in the shape of a man is used as a basis. You can easily buy it in modern stores for needlewomen. The figurine itself with such a blank is obtained quite easily and simply, so every child will like the work itself according to the instructions. The next master class will tell you how to make a bright and cool craft in the form of Santa Claus for the New Year with your own hands for an exhibition in kindergarten.

Materials for making bright Santa Clauses for an exhibition in kindergarten

• wooden blanks "little men";
• acrylic paints;
• yarn for felting (can be replaced with padding polyester);
• white and red felt;
• silicone glue;
• scissors.

Master class with a photo of making bright crafts in the form of Santa Claus for an exhibition in kindergarten

1. Paint the body of the wooden blank red.

1. Wait for the workpiece to dry.

1. From yarn for felting or padding polyester, make hair and a beard for a figurine.

1. Finish the dried blank belt and buckle. Glue hair and beard with silicone glue.

1. Draw eyes on the figurine.

1. Cut out a triangle from red felt.

1. Sew (or glue) a hat out of it.

1. Cut a thin strip from white felt. Glue it to the hat as a frame.

1. Put a hat on the finished figure.

Video on making for an exhibition in the garden of bright crafts of Santa Claus

You can make bright crafts in the form of Santa Claus on your own from other materials. For example, very interesting craft for the New Year, children together with their parents can make ordinary light bulbs. At the same time, such blanks can be painted different colors, and you can also do for them various clothes and decor. But this work should be done only with adults.

Do-it-yourself Big Santa Claus from fabric to school for the competition - a step-by-step master class

Our next master class will help you make a big and beautiful Santa Claus for the school competition with your own hands. High school students can easily make a toy-calendar using it. But for the guys studying in high school, such work will be quite difficult and parents must help them in making toys. A craft sewn according to our instructions for the New Year will very easily and simply help your children take prizes.

Materials for making fabric Santa Claus for a competition at school

• a cut of red and black fabric;
• sewing accessories;
• white felt and ready-made white felt numbers;
• linen or cotton fabric of flesh or light gray, light pink color.

Master class with a photo of sewing Santa Claus with your own hands for a competition for school

1. Cut a strip of fabric with a width of 11 cm and a length of about 100 cm. Gently hem on one side to prevent the fabric from sagging: tuck it 1 cm and repeat the fold, leaving the edge inside. Sew the workpiece. Make folds as shown in the bottom photo: step back from the edge 4-5 cm, tuck the fabric under the bottom, making a fold of 2 cm. Repeat until the end of the cut. All fabric bends should be ironed.

1. Fix the folds made on top with stationery clothespins, and at the bottom with pins.

1. Sew the pieces together and turn the piece inside out.

1. Cut out another large triangle, sew ready-made arms and legs to it.

1. Fasten with pins the front and back of the workpiece.

1. Sew connected parts. And then sew a head on them. Glue felt numbers on the pockets themselves (make a calendar).

Using our master classes with photos and videos, you and your children can easily make Santa Claus with their own hands from various improvised materials: paper, cardboard, plastic bottles. We also selected simple instructions sewing toys from fabric and felt with patterns. They will tell you how to make a figure of Santa Claus for a school competition and kindergarten, as well as what kind of decor you can make to decorate your home for the New Year.