Making Santa Claus: 4 great ideas

Tinker Santa Claus
4 great ideas

by Claudia Enders
December 10th, 2021, 1:45 p.m.

In order to increase the anticipation for Christmas, we make ourselves really comfortable in the living room and decorate our four walls with fir green, Santa Claus, elves and candles. Here we have picked out simple and creative ideas for you on how you can make a Santa Claus yourself – let us surprise you and have a Merry Christmas!

Make Santa Claus: 4 simple instructions

Make Santa Claus out of construction paper

You just have to smile at such a cute Santa Claus – and as a surprise, Christmas greetings are hidden in your beard if you want to use Santa Claus as a card!
You need: Craft paper in red, white, pink and beige as well as googly eyes, a pompom as a nose, craft glue, scissors, compasses, ruler and pencil.
Cut a circle out of beige paper. You will also need a smaller circle made of white paper for the bobble on the pointed cap. Use a ruler to draw a triangle on red paper and cut it out for the pointed cap. You also need a white bar for the edge of the pointed cap. Glue everything together and put pink cheeks, a pompom nose and googly eyes on Santa Claus. Finally, the beard is missing, which should serve as a folding card: Draw a large circle here too. You can get the wavy edge, for example, by placing coins on the edge as a template and going crazy over and over again. Fold the “beard” in half and copy the template for the other half and cut everything out. Glue the beard in half and finally fold down the pointed cap in the upper area – your Santa Claus is ready!

Make Santa Claus out of a cotton pad

It is very Christmassy and with this sweet card you get a Merry Christmas wish!
You need: White, red and brown paper, a cotton pad, googly eyes, scissors and glue.
Cut out the cotton pad in a crescent shape and stick it on. There is also a small pointed hat with a white border and a pompom, a red nose and eyes.

Santa Claus tinker with handprint

You need: Green craft cardboard, red craft paper, cotton wool, white and red pompom, white craft paint, black felt pen, glue.
A nice handicraft idea with the little ones, because you can mess around with paint here. Use a sponge to dab your child’s hands with white craft paint (or spread some paint on a paper plate for the child to dip into). First fold the box in the middle and then the handprint follows: Make sure that your child places the handprint as high up as possible. Let the paint dry well and turn the card over. Now Santa Claus is equipped with a red hat, bobble, nose and cotton ball and at the end the mouth and eyes are painted on.

Tinker Santa Claus trailer

This year the Christmas tree will be decorated with self-made Santa Claus trailers.
You need: red and white craft paper, glue, scissors, pencil, ruler, felt pen (black, red), thick thread.

You can make four Christmas tags from a circle of red craft paper. Cut a quarter out of the circle. Also cut out a white, isosceles trapezoid from white construction paper, which will be cut in the lower area (this will later become the beard). For this you need a circle (head), mustache and a white ribbon. Roll up the quarter circle into a cone and glue the edges together, leaving an area open at the top so that you can pull through the bracket later. Glue on the beard, circle, mustache and the ribbon first in the order. Now you can paint or stick a red nose on Santa Claus and draw his face and mouth. To hang it up, knot your yarn into a loop and feed it through the tip. Now glue the last section of the cone towards the tip so that the knot disappears in the cone and holds the suspension – and your self-made Santa Claus is ready.

Making Santa Claus: More beautiful inspirations from Pinterest

For these wooden Santa Clauses you need diagonally sawn, wider branches, acrylic paint and brushes … and then you can start: Design your very own Santa Clauses and elves, who greet the Christmas guests at the door!

These pendants are guaranteed to catch the eye at Christmas! The little Christmas elves peek out from under their red hats and are simply tinkered with pompoms and egg box elements painted in red. Here you can find out how you can make pom poms out of wool.

In nature we always find wonderful handicraft materials that are also ideal for small Christmas handicrafts: like these cones, which were simply painted white and turned into a long beard by Santa Claus.

Looking for more inspiration and instructions for crafting? Here you will find beautiful upcycling ideas for Christmas. And here we show you how to make orange decorations and an Advent wreath.

Brigitte