Hi all! The coming New Year always brings with it a lot of troubles associated with preparing for the holiday. This includes purchasing a Christmas tree, decorating the forest beauty and the entire living space. Holiday menu, gifts and much more.
In order not to be faced with the problem of resolving all these issues on the eve of the New Year, many are already beginning to prepare for the joyful event in advance. And if Christmas trees have not yet appeared on sale, then most have already started decorating windows and rooms in advance.
You can now find a lot of Christmas tree decorations in stores. However, creative people took the path of making these crafts themselves. One of the central places in the winter holidays is Father Frost.
You can make a figurine of this main character from any material. But the simplest crafts will probably be made from paper.
Today we will look at the most successful options for Grandfathers with diagrams and templates for their production.
How to make Santa Claus from paper or cardboard
Fans of the origami technique can make Santa Claus using one of the diagrams.
For the craft, they will need one-sided colored paper. If you choose a more complex painting scheme, then you will have to prepare a brush and paints for a sheet of white paper. In this case, coloring the craft is done according to the scheme.
Manufacturing instructions
We place our square with the colored side up. We bend it diagonally, and then in half on one side and the other. We unfold the workpiece with the white side up.
We bend the perpendicular sides to the middle and unbend them. Turn the workpiece over, you should get lines like this:
We wrap the bottom corner towards the middle, unfold it, bend the tip of the corner to the resulting line and bend an even smaller corner in the same way. Toward the tip, once again fold the bottom edge into a narrow strip twice.
Turn the workpiece over again with the white side up. Along the fold lines we fold the two sides in such a way that it looks like in the photo:
Now fold the bottom corner with the top corner, diagonally. We bend the corner approximately to the middle and back, not all the way, and again in the other direction.
Turn the workpiece over to create a triangle. Bend both bottom corners towards the top. Then we bend both sides of the resulting rhombus, as shown in the photo:
We also bend the bottom corner slightly to stabilize our Santa. Turn it over. Our Santa is ready. We hope you enjoyed it!
Watch the video where you can see step by step the process of making Santa using the origami technique:
Santa Claus made from cones
This craft can be done with children; it is easy to make. You can make it using templates or using your own blanks.
For the craft, prepare:
- a sheet of white and red paper;
- paper glue;
- scissors;
- stapler;
- pompom or bead for a cap.
Stages of work:
- On a sheet of red paper, draw a circle using a compass, plate or other object. The radius of the circle will be equal to the height of the craft.
- Fold the cut circle in half (you can cut it, then you get 2 crafts or leave it like that), twist the cone and secure the edges with a stapler or glue.
- On a sheet of white paper, draw a beard with wavy edges, make a slit in the upper part, draw eyes and a mustache.
- We pass the workpiece through the hole onto the cone.
- Attach a pompom or bead to the top of the cone.
Snowman made of paper: vytynanki
One of the most recognizable characters in New Year's fairy tales is the Snowman. Of course, it is ideal as a vytynanka for decorating a home for the New Year holidays. Yes, and you can make a stencil yourself, using a ruler, compass and pencil. It is more convenient to cut circles with ordinary scissors, but if you want to add small patterns, then you should use a stationery knife.
You can use a ready-made stencil downloaded from the Internet if you are not confident in your abilities, or if you are unable to draw an unusual snowman yourself, for example, like Olaf from the movie “Frozen.”
Snowman Snowman Snowman
Today you can find a variety of technologies for decorating windows, as well as a wide variety of pictures and stencils that can be transferred to the window. Therefore, decorating your home yourself is quite easy and simple today.
Santa Claus - box
It's always nice to receive a gift in an unusual gift box. On New Year's Day, it will be symbolic to see gifts under the tree in boxes in the shape of Santa Claus. A large gift, of course, will not fit in it, but a small souvenir or sweets can be given in this way.
New Year's gingerbread
Christmas gingerbread cookies, loved by many, can also come in handy for the New Year. We decorate the Christmas tree with them, make an edible garland, put them in beautiful packaging and give them as gifts.
Crafts using ready-made templates and stencils
Templates and stencils can be chosen for both Santa Claus and other fairy-tale characters. Print them out on thick paper, and then cut them out and glue them together with your child. This activity will not only allow you to spend time usefully, but will develop creativity and bring a lot of joy.
New Year's pillows
An original themed gift – a pillow with a picture of Santa Claus. You can make it yourself, or you can order it from a craftswoman or print it with a personal inscription, as they do on custom-made T-shirts.
Santa Claus from a napkin
Prepare:
- red napkins;
- the required number of templates with the face of Santa Claus;
- scissors;
- marker;
- glue;
- hole puncher;
- narrow ribbon or twine.
Stages:
- Pre-print the required number of Santa Claus face templates;
- cut them out;
- fold the napkin into a cone with the base shaped like an angle;
- fix the napkin with a cut out template;
- paint parts of the face at your discretion;
- Use a hole punch to make a hole in the top of the napkin and thread through the ribbon or twine.
Origami Santa Claus, option No. 1
To make Santa Claus we will prepare:
- 2 squares of red single-sided paper;
- glue.
Initially, the squares should be the same size, we took 10 x 10 cm. From one we will make a head with a cap, and the other square will be needed to make the body. Let's start with the head. To do this, we make small folds on both sides.
We bend a small corner from the opposite edge. This will be the top of the cap.
Now we turn the square to the other side. Here you need to bend a third first.
Then we make a symmetrical fold on the right side.
This is how we formed the Santa Claus hat.
The bottom corner needs to be folded up.
Then we make a slight bend in the opposite direction.
We bend the top part of the cap to the side and, if necessary, glue it a little.
To make the body, take another square. We make small folds on it on opposite sides.
Fold in half.
After this, we unfold it, so we have outlined the middle line. First we bend the left edge to it.
Then we make a symmetrical fold on the right side.
We turn the top part in the form of corners.
We bend the top side down. After this, you can glue a little on the wrong side.
We connect the two parts together. To do this, we will use glue again.
Our Santa Claus made from paper using the origami technique is ready.
If you wish, you can draw his eyes and mouth. This craft can become part of a New Year's greeting card.
Santa Claus using quilling technique
An unusual Santa Claus will be created using the quilling technique.
For this:
- glue a cone out of red cardboard;
- prepare small red and white paper rolls, fix the tip with glue;
- We make a collar from red rolls, and from white buttons on a cone;
- We make larger rolls from beige paper, pushing through the middle, we get convex blanks;
- We make curls from thin strips of white paper and glue them to one beige cone;
- connect the beige cones together;
- make a hat from red rolls;
- on the bottom beige roll of white paper we make a mustache and beard;
- make eyes from black paper;
- We make sleeves from very elongated red rolls;
- small beige rolls can be used to make palms or white mittens;
- You can stick red rolls along the cone.
Printable Santa Claus pictures and templates for cutting out
These templates are very convenient to use. They are already part of the finished card or craft. You just need to find a suitable template and print it. All! Cut out, color if necessary and use in your works. Using templates, you can make a postcard, applique, cut out only a part (for example, a head) and glue it to the finished work.
I'll start with the applique of the real Grandfather Frost - I really liked it. Download the template, print it out and cut it out from paper of the appropriate color.
Next are cards in the shape of Santa. All you have to do is trace from the screen or print and color!
Another garland of Santa Claus - cut out the template, apply it to paper and cut it out, color it. We make holes and connect them with rope or tape.
You can make the same garland, but as an applique. To do this, cut out a completely red figure along the contours of the SC.
And then from white paper we cut out a single piece of hair, beard and fur on the coat. And also a separate circle - a balloon and 2 ovals - fur on mittens. A face made of beige paper. And we glue everything together.
If Santa Claus has a long beard on the template , then you can make a NEW YEAR EXPECTATION CALENDAR. The New Year's calendar is made in the form of the numbers of the month of December pasted onto the beard of Santa Claus. Every day you need to close the number, so the child can see how long it will take to wait for the desired holiday. Remember we made an advent calendar, it’s something similar but without the surprises.
And here is a template for an interesting photo frame that can be made from paper and cardboard, or foamiran, or felt. In all cases, cardboard is needed for density.
And here is a template of a moving Santa. We secure the arms, legs and heads with a thread and a button or stick on the back so that the head and arms are movable.
You can fasten moving parts with forked buttons. If you don't have them, you can use flat buttons and wire. To do this, pull the wire through the holes of the button, insert it into the pierced holes of the parts and move apart the ends of the wire, which will hold the connection. Sharp ends can be “covered” with pieces of eraser. Or you can use brads, as in the picture.
Then just different pictures to cut out. I think you already understand how to distinguish Santa from Father Frost. Grandfather has a long fur coat and beard, his hat is not a clown’s, but rather a boyar’s, without a bubo.
Just in case, I’ll give you pictures of colored Santas, in case you don’t have colored paper or the desire to color, but need to quickly make a card.
Paper Santa Claus applique
This is the simplest craft option. First you need to cut out blanks from colored paper:
- from red - cap and nose;
- from black or brown - eyes;
- from white - a beard, edge and pompom of a cap;
- from soft pink, peach or light beige - face.
Stages:
- We glue the cap, nose and eyes to the face blank.
- We twist the beard blanks at one end with a pencil or scissors and make curls.
- Glue the straight end of the beard blank to the oval of the face.
- Glue the edge and pompom of the cap.
Manufacturing instructions
On our square we make folds along two diagonals, red side up.
Once the markings appear, we work on the white side. Fold the top corner towards the center of the fold.
We wrap the tip of the corner back, up, to the edge.
We unfold this corner back and bend the tip of the corner to the resulting line.
We completely fold the lapel with a corner, as shown in the photo:
We wrap the lower part to the top point, then we turn the corner back to the bottom point. We unfold the workpiece with the red side up.
We wrap the sides with narrow strips. We wrap both sides with a corner towards the middle line.
Then we fold the resulting white parts towards the red line. We get even angles on both sides. We turn the bottom back, just as smoothly.
We unfold our figure and it turns out to be Santa Claus. We correct Santa Claus's hands, if necessary.
Cut out a nose from red paper and glue it on. You can also draw a nose with a red marker. Using a black marker, draw Santa Claus's eyes and smile. If desired, you can glue a loop on the back with tape and hang our Santa Claus on the tree. Our Santa Claus is ready to delight you and those around you. We hope you enjoyed it!
The size of our Santa Claus depends on the size of the paper square we take initially, respectively, the larger the square, the larger Santa Claus in the end. OK it's all over Now. We hope you enjoyed it!
Watch the video where you can see step by step the process of making Santa Claus using the origami technique:
Paper tricks
Fans of the popular origami technique can use various schemes for making paper crafts. It should be noted that the first version of the toy can be made from simple one-sided red colored paper, while the original craft from the second diagram will require independent coloring of a white sheet, taking into account the details indicated on the diagram.
Good Santa Claus can now appear before you in the form of a small craft made without glue using the origami technique. He will have a red cap, a long fur coat, and a face with a gorgeous white beard. Let's get started making using this tutorial.
Necessary materials:
- a square sheet of red and white paper;
- black and white markers.
Stages of folding Santa Claus
1. Your favorite New Year's character will be made from just one red and white sheet. Take it and fold it diagonally.
2. Reveal. There is now a fold line on the red side.
3. Bend in half.
4. Open and fold the square sheet of paper in half again.
5. Expand.
6. We begin to form folds for the further creation of Santa Claus. To do this, take the lower part of the square with your fingers. Next, we bend it up to the existing horizontal fold line.
7. Open it and see the resulting horizontal fold.
8. Now you need to make a vertical fold on the square. Therefore, we take the right side of the sheet with our fingers and pull it towards the fold line.
9. Unfold again.
10. Turn the sheet over with the red side up and place it on the work area in the form of a diamond.
11. Bend the lower tip upward to the point of intersection of the two lines.
12. Then we return to the original position and take the corner to bend it to the other fold line.
13. To the resulting line, which is located horizontally, our lower corner should be bent.
14. Bend upwards.
15. Once again bend the lower part of the workpiece upward.
16. Turn the sheet over so that the white part is on top.
17. Along the fold lines, bend the sides and carefully draw along their folds. This is how we get a New Year's cap on the top of Santa Claus's head.
18. Turn the workpiece over so that the cap is located at the top.
19. Pull the bottom corner up to the tip of the cap. We run our fingers along the horizontal fold line.
20. Bend the top corner down to get a white grandfather beard.
21. Bend it up again and bend part of the beard down to get a fold.
22. Bend the sides towards the center to begin making the outline of the body.
23. Bend the sides in half to form the body of Santa Claus, who is wearing a red fur coat. Bend the bottom part slightly upward.
24. And we get such a beautiful figurine of Santa Claus using the origami technique, which will delight the kids on the eve of the New Year. And then you can take your favorite felt-tip pens or markers to add eyes, nose, mouth and buttons to the grandfather’s red fur coat.
