Paper figure of Santa Claus. DIY Christmas tree toy Santa Claus made of paper (cone)

You can make many characters from strips of paper, but on the eve of the New Year, I recommend making Santa Claus. The work is not difficult, but also useful for children. I have used a similar technique more than once in creating crafts, for example, this or. But still, as always, I will describe the whole process in detail in this review.

Basic materials:

• Cardboard white, red, yellow. I used some blue cardboard for the mittens, but my daughter criticized this and said that it would have been better with red.
• Glue. Mostly a glue stick was used, and PVA was needed when gluing two balls together.
• A simple pencil, scissors, ruler.
• Moving eyes, pompom. I just didn’t have it, so I cut off a piece of polystyrene foam. You can also use foam rubber for these purposes if it is white.

Santa Claus from strips of paper step by step

Making balls from paper strips

Santa Claus consists of two paper balls: the lower body ball is larger, and the upper head ball is smaller. To make one ball you will need 4 strips of paper, 1-1.2 cm wide.

Line the paper with a pencil and ruler and cut 4 strips long and 4 slightly shorter. The sizes are arbitrary, depending on how you see your character. Twist the strip into a ring and determine the approximate size.

The strips are glued exactly in the center. Therefore, to determine exactly where the middle of the strip is, bend it in half, but do not press it too hard.

Take two strips and glue them together crosswise.

Apply glue to the middle of the intersection of the strips and add another transverse strip.

Glue the last strip and you should have a snowflake like this.

Apply glue to the tip of one of the strips and glue it to the opposite one.

Glue two more to these two. Try to make all sides the same, do not tighten the stripes too much. But they also shouldn’t sag excessively.

Then the next two. Do not forget that in this case it is more convenient to lubricate the tip of the strip with glue, and not the middle.

Glue the last two strips and you will have a ball. I made two balls at once - a large one and a small one.

Glue the balls together, the small one, naturally, on top. Here I needed PVA glue, since the pencil did not stick well. In order for the head and body of Santa Claus to stick together well, you need to insert your fingers between the strips, press and hold for a while. If your head is very small, this may be difficult to do. You can use a pencil or, as a last resort, glue the balls together with instant glue.

The main part of the work is ready, now let's move on to creating the face.

Creating the appearance of Santa Claus

Draw and cut out a beard and mustache from white cardstock. They can be anything. You can draw them straight, just rounded, as your imagination dictates. Also cut out a small circle from red cardboard for the nose and a yellow semi-oval for the face. If you don’t have ready-made eyes, make them from white and black paper or just draw them.

Glue a yellow face, mustache, nose and eyes onto the beard.

Glue the resulting shape to the top ball.

Cut out the hands and mittens.

Attach the hands and pompom to the craft and Santa Claus from paper strips is ready. You can decorate a Christmas tree with it if you tie a thread, or any surface in the house. If Santa Claus is unstable, cut out a circle of paper from red cardboard and glue it to the bottom of the large ball.

Well what New Year without Santa Claus? Paper is the most affordable material for manufacturing New Year's crafts. It is from paper that we will make the main character of the New Year.

To make Santa Claus you need:

Paper for printing templates (it is better if it is thick enough);

Scissors;

Glue, brush

Step-by-step process for making Santa Claus

1. Print the templates on a printer.

2. Cut out all the details of the craft.

3. Bend Santa Claus' fur coat along the fold lines.

Glue the edges of the fur coat and the top part at the allowances.

4. Bend along the lines of the sleeves and glue them together.

5. Glue the sleeves to Santa Claus’s fur coat (gluing points A and B).

7. Bend the collar along the fold lines and glue its edges together using the allowance.

We put the collar on the fur coat.

8. Take the “face of Santa Claus” detail and use a brush to twist the beard so that the beard “curls”.

9. Glue the face of Santa Claus to the fur coat (gluing location B).

10. Santa Claus is ready!

This toy will be a great decoration New Year's interior or a gift.

As you prepare for the New Year, don’t forget to involve your kids in the exciting process. Invite them to create an original New Year's craft with their own hands. The most suitable material for children's creativity is paper. Start creating New Year's souvenirs stands with an easy and understandable technique for the baby. Today we have prepared for you a simple and interesting master class on creating a funny Santa Claus from cardboard sleeve. DIY paper Santa Claus is a great idea for a children's New Year's craft in kindergarten or school.

Necessary tools and materials for children's New Year's crafts:

• cardboard sleeve;
• colored paper;
• a piece of white paper;
• scissors;
• glue stick;
• several brightly colored beads;
• decorative snowflake;
• double sided tape.

How to make Santa Claus out of paper with your own hands:

1) Cut a strip from a sheet of red paper; its width should be equal to the height of the sleeve.

2) To glue the strip to the cardboard base, you do not need to apply glue to its entire surface; it is enough to coat only the tip of the workpiece. We wrap it tightly around the cardboard base and fix the other end with glue.

3) Cut out a lush beard and mustache for Santa Claus from white paper.

4) You can also use wrapping paper with a voluminous texture or fine print to create a mustache and beard. And for the base of the face you will need paper beige shade. Cut out a small square. Now we glue the beige base of the face to the top of the sleeve.

5) We decorate it with a beard, and then a mustache.

6) Attach a pink nose to the center of the mustache using double-sided foam tape.

7) And above we glue the eyes created from white and black circles.

8) We create a hat from red paper. We cut out such a blank and glue it into a cone-shaped blank.

9) We complement the Santa Claus hat with a white pompom and piping. Using glue, fix the hat on the top of the base.

11) We decorate the lower part of the craft with a black belt with a golden buckle in the center.

12) We return to creating the arms, cut out the second part of the sleeve from red paper and glue it to the cuffs.

13) The main work on creating the craft is completed, now you can start decorating it. To do this, cut out three or four holly leaves from green paper.

What is the name of your favorite fairy-tale character in winter children's creativity? This is Santa Claus. He is the main character of crafts that are made in kindergartens and schools, at home and in offices on the eve of the New Year holiday. The basis of such creative works most often it is paper. There are many ways to make Santa Claus out of paper.

​Simple applications for little craftsmen

Young children are looking forward to the New Year the most. For them, the New Year's days are a time of miracles and magic. Actively participate The kids are not yet able to prepare for the holiday. Making a small craft will be a memorable event for little ones.

​Postcard with applique

A small child also wants to give his loved ones a holiday gift, simple option which may become greeting card, made with your own hands. To make it you will need:

• a sheet of white cardboard;
• red and white velvet paper or corrugated cardboard;
• markers;
• cotton wool;
• scissors;
• glue.

Procedure:

1. For making greeting card A sheet of white cardboard is folded in half along the long side. This blank will be the basis of the craft.
2. A fur coat, hat, boots and mittens are cut out of red velvet paper according to a template prepared in advance by an adult assistant.
3. The cotton wool is disassembled into small balls. This activity will help your child develop fine motor skills and perseverance.
4. A face is drawn on a cardboard blank. Then the fur coat and hat are glued on.
5. Cotton balls are placed with glue on the hat and fur coat in the form of an edge. Important! For this work it is better to use PVA glue, which is applied to small areas using a brush. This will make the craft more neat and reduce glue consumption.
6. At the end of making the craft, mittens and boots are glued into place.

If desired, the card can be decorated with glitter and cotton balls, with which depict snow and snowdrifts.

​Figured New Year's card

Option for a simple craft - The gift is a silhouette of the head of the main character of the New Year holidays. To create it you need to prepare:

• white cardboard;
• red, black and white paper;
• markers;
• glue;
• scissors.

Creating a postcard begins by cutting out a base from white cardboard. It is an upside-down ice cream cone. Two small black circles and one larger red circle are cut out of colored paper. These will be the eyes and nose, which are glued to the base on the round side of the workpiece. If it is difficult for a child to cut out circles, then you can draw them using felt-tip pens.

A cap is cut out of red paper according to the size of the triangular part of the template and glued to the base. A circle and an oval made of white paper are glued on top, the edges of which are cut in the form of a fringe. The oval is glued to the base of the cap and placed on the sharp end of the cap.

White paper is cut into strips 1 cm wide and 10 cm long. About 20-30 pieces are needed. Glue the strips onto the base in the form of a beard. After drying, each strip screwed onto a pencil.

In the end it turns out beautiful craft with an element of volume that can be used as a postcard, Christmas tree decoration or interior decoration.

​Volume paper crafts

You can make Santa Claus out of paper with your own hands not only in the form of a flat applique, but also give it volume.

​Paper strip toy

Easy to make volumetric crafts you will need the following parts:

• 11 strips of red paper measuring 1*10 cm;
• 10 strips of paper of the same color 1*15 cm;
• 1 piece of white paper in the shape of an elongated round arch measuring 2*7 cm;
• 2 oval white parts (mustaches);
• 2 small white ovals (edge ​​of sleeves);
• 1 small red circle (nose);
• 1 cotton ball.

You will also need scissors, a glue stick, a special quilling tool or a rod.

Two balls are assembled from strips of red paper glued together in the form of rings. The large ball will become the body, to which a small ball (head) is attached using glue.

The face and beard are made of white paper. The long part of the arched part is cut with a narrow fringe. It is curled using a quilling tool. On the free side draw eyes and nose. A mustache cut from ovals is glued to the face.

A red strip measuring 1*10 cm is cut in half. Having folded the two parts, cut out the mittens using small scissors. A small white oval is glued to each mitten. The resulting hands are glued at the junction of the spherical parts.

At the end of making the craft, glue a cotton ball in the head and fasten a thread on which the craft is secured on the Christmas tree.

Crafts from scrap materials

Species New Year's crafts a lot of paper. Make the main character winter holidays can be made from scrap materials that can be found in every home: a bushing from toilet paper; cotton wool; red, white and black paper; ready-made eyes and nose. You also need to prepare scissors, PVA glue, and a brush.

Cut out a rectangle from white paper. Its length is equal to the diameter of the sleeve plus 1 cm, and the width should be 1-1.5 cm greater than the height of the base. The rectangular figure is coated with glue, not reaching 5-7 mm to the edge, and attached to the base. The free ends of the paper are cut into teeth, covered with glue and folded inside the sleeve.

A red rectangle is glued onto a white base, the length of which is equal to the length of the white figure, and the width is 2/3 of the height of the base. This part is glued to the base. A strip of black paper is glued onto a red background - a belt that is decorated small button.

A semicircle is cut out of red paper, rolled into a cone and glued to the base on the white side. A large cotton ball is attached to the top of it. The junction of the red cap and the white face is covered with small cotton balls.

The eyes and nose are glued to the front of the figure. They are glued around them cotton balls in the form of a beard.

This craft can be used as Christmas tree decoration or a detail for interior decoration.

Quilling is a common technique for making paper crafts. It allows you to create beautiful flat and volumetric crafts. To make a figurine of good winter wizard, you will need a minimum set of materials and tools:

• strips of paper in red, white, black, beige, pink colors 0.7 cm wide;
• glue;
• scissors;
• ruler with round holes;
• quilling tool.

A tight roll is made from a long strip (two strips of standard length are glued together) of red paper using a rolling tool. Then it is pulled out into a cone shape and coated with inside glue.

2 strips of white paper, cut in the form of a fringe. One strip is glued to the bottom of the cone. Another fringe will decorate the cone along its height.

From two standard strips, fold two small cones, cover their bottoms with a fringe of white paper and glue them to the large cone on both sides at an equal distance from the vertical white fringe.

The head of the figurine is assembled from two low cones twisted from beige paper. A 2 mm wide part is cut from one beige strip and rolled into a tight roll. It is glued to the center of the ball head. A long pink strip 2 mm wide is cut in half, two rolls are twisted and glued next to the central one. Small eyes are glued above them.

The hat is a cone made of red paper covered with white fringe. It is coated with glue and glued to the head. The pompom for the hat is twisted from a white ribbon, the edges of which are cut with fine fringe. A drop of glue is used to secure it to the paper structure.

The two parts of the figurine are connected to each other using glue.

The base of the craft is a roll of white paper 3 mm wide. Its length depends on the diameter of the large cone. The base is coated with glue and connected to the main part of the toy.

The craft is completed with paper loops, the width of which is 5 mm. They are glued in place of the beard and hair. Two drop-shaped parts are glued as a mustache. They are formed from white strips twisted into a loose roll.

Such a figurine can become part New Year's composition or a Christmas tree toy.

​Origami crafts

Origami is a technique of folding various paper shapes. There are many origami techniques. The simplest ones allow even kids to do simple work. Crafts made using technology modular origami, suitable for older people. Santa Claus made using the origami technique is an original gift To New Year's holidays.

Origami Santa Claus made of paper

Creating a small figurine is a fairly simple process. To work you will need:

• a sheet of single-sided colored paper, red or blue;
• black and red markers.

The assembly diagram for this craft is very simple. The main condition is to use paper with a white back side.

Take a rectangular sheet of paper and place it on the work surface, white side up. Its short side is connected to the long side so that the colored part forms an isosceles triangle. Excess paper is cut off.

The resulting square, white side up, is placed in front of you. The fold line is located vertically. The right and left corners are bent symmetrically to the center line. The folds are carefully ironed. The result is a two-color figure.

The acute angle is bent upward. Its top point is at a distance of 1/3 from the white right angle. For small children this point can be marked with a simple pencil. To do this, use a ruler to divide the white part of the figure into three equal parts and mark the upper segment with a pencil.

The workpiece is turned over with the colored side up. First, bend the white corner completely towards you. Then it is returned to its original position. Step back 1 cm from the resulting line and repeat the fold. The folded corner should coincide with the center line. A strip 1 cm wide is also folded towards itself.

The figure is turned over again and the free corners are folded along the side line. To secure the craft, the junction of the corners is glued together.

The figure is turned over and the eyes and nose are drawn using felt-tip pens. A beard and mustache can be made from a piece of paper remaining at the beginning of the work: it is divided into strips and cut into fringes. Paper fringe is glued in place of the beard and mustache.

Modular origami technique

​Making crafts from paper triangular modules will require accuracy, patience and attention from the master.

To complete the craft, you will need quite a lot of triangular modules (250 red and white modules and 25 pink triangles). The size of the modules depends on the desired size of the craft. Most often, rectangles measuring 1/16 of an A4 sheet are used.

Detailed diagrams of crafts are widely distributed on the Internet. There you can also find video tutorials on assembling paper modules and figures from them.

The first three rows of the figure are its base. They are assembled from 25 white modules each, closed into a ring and turned inside out.

The fourth row consists of 25 red modules, which are located with the long side forward.

Starting from row 5, which also consists of 25 elements, they begin to make a beard. To do this, assemble a ring of 22 red and 3 three white modules. In the next 4 rows, the number of white modules is increased by one element. However, their total number remains unchanged.

Ring 10 is made of 25 white triangles.

From the 11th to the 14th row the face of the figure is performed. In the 11th ring one red element is added, which is located clearly in the center figures. Scheme of the next row:

• in the center there are two white elements;
• on each side of them there are 2 pink parts, which are inserted with the short side forward;
• the rest of the ring consists of white modules.

Rows 13 and 14 consist of 25 parts, of which 7 and 8 pink parts will be inserted with the short side forward.

Rows 15 to 18 make up the wizard's hat. Rings 15 and 18 are made up of white modules (22 and 9 elements, respectively). Between them are inserted two red rows, assembled from 20 and 18 elements. The technique of reducing the number of modules is described in many master classes on making modular figures.

Hands made from 9 red and one white modules are attached to the resulting figure.

The craft is ready. It can be given as a souvenir by treating it with glue and varnish. You can give your child a figure without gluing, which can be taken apart and made into another interesting craft from its elements.

For the New Year holidays, you can sew Santa Claus and Snow Maiden with your own hands from felt. For such crafts you will need templates and patterns used for making paper appliqués.

Paper is an affordable material from which you can make New Year's crafts of any complexity. This work does not require any special knowledge or skills. When creating paper crafts, you need to show creativity, perseverance, patience and accuracy​.

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You don’t need to look for a special occasion to practice with children, because it helps mental development, the formation of useful skills and abilities in smart kids. But the theme of all kinds of crafts may differ depending on the season, the child’s mood or upcoming events. So, New Year is the most long-awaited holiday of the year. Absolutely all children remember him as soon as the first cold weather arrives. Naturally, interesting New Year's creativity helps brighten up the anticipation of a bright holiday.

In this article we will tell you how to make a paper Santa Claus from a cone with your own hands; the master class is provided for the convenience of creating crafts together with children. They can make such a souvenir junior schoolchildren, and children of kindergarten age will need adult help. Follow the tips to spend time with your children fun and easy.

A funny paper Santa Claus made from a cone is made from the following materials:

- a small sheet of cardboard, preferably one side of it is white;
- scissors;
- scraps of red, white, black and yellow paper;
- glue and stapler;
- white napkin;
- a piece of fabric and thread.

Step by step lesson creating a paper Santa Claus from a cone with your own hands

1. Prepare a thick sheet of cardboard in the desired format. The height of the paper Santa Claus will depend on its width.

2. Roll a piece of paper into a cone. For quicker and more secure fastening, use a stapler.

3. Wrap a small piece of red paper around the top of the cone to make a blank for Santa's hat. Cut a rectangle from a ribbed white napkin.

By the way, if you are interested or would like to try your hand at the modular origami technique, then we suggest you make something like this.

4. Roll the rectangle into a tube and glue it to the bottom edge of the hat to imitate white fur.

5. Cover the bottom of the cone with red paper, but leave a white gap between the fur coat and the hat.

6. Glue black dots – eyes and a red nose – onto the front part of the paper Santa Claus from the cone. Also frame the lower part of the fur coat with a napkin tube.

7. To make hands, use red paper, roll it into a tube and decorate it with fur from a white napkin.

8. From black corrugated paper and a yellow square create a strap, and from black circles - buttons.

9. Use PVA glue to attach the colored paper Santa Claus sleeves.

10. Make a mustache and beard from white pieces of paper and attach to the craft to complete the look of Santa Claus.

11. Now the funny paper Santa Claus from the cone is ready to take pride of place under the small Christmas tree. Be sure to make a small bag out of a piece of fabric secretly from the child and put candy in it.

And from cardboard you can make something like this