Soon we need to decorate the Christmas tree and decorate the house. For a long time I thought about what I would like to put under the Christmas tree for Santa Claus. I looked at the toys in the store, but they were very expensive. I decided to make Morozika myself. Yesterday evening I made it with my daughter. I photographed the stages, in case it will be useful to someone. I don’t claim authorship, I’m just showing how I did it.
So, let's take an empty bottle. I have it from Prostokvashino milk.
I poured a little salt inside to stabilize the toy (this is not necessary). I wrap the bottle with padding polyester, and it should stick out from the top of the bottle (we will make a head from the protruding piece). I wrapped the bottle with padding polyester 2 times to make the toy larger.
Sew the edges of the padding polyester
We also sew the edges on top of our padding polyester pipe.
We take a thread and pull the pipe to form the head.
I take a white cloth for the head and face of the toy. We sew it to the head, trying to make a “face” in front without folds of fabric.
We sew a hat. I took 2 pieces of red fleece, cut out triangles and sewed them together.
I sew a pompom onto the hat (I used a ball of white braid with bombs) and a trim around the edge of the hat (I used faux fur).
I wrap the body in red fabric and sew the edges at the front.
I hide the seam under a strip of white padding polyester and sew the same strip along the bottom of the “fur coat”
I sew on the arms (I lightly stuffed them with padding polyester)
I make a collar from padding polyester (the seam for sewing on the arms will be hidden under it) and a trim along the edge of the mittens. I also tried to draw a thumb on my hands, but it didn’t work out very well.
I am sewing a bag with gifts. It's simple - I sew 2 rectangles together on three sides, put a little padding polyester inside and tie the bag with shiny rope.
I'm shaping the face. I glued the eyes with Moment Crystal glue, sewed on a bead on my nose, and rouged my cheeks with my makeup.
I also wanted to glue on a mustache and beard (from yarn or padding polyester), but changed my mind. Let us have a young Santa Claus, like a gnome.
My daughter picked up a toy, and a bottle kept slipping out of it. I decided to sew a circle of fabric along the bottom to prevent the bottle from falling.
Ready!
I made Grandfather’s staff from a stick (or a pencil) wrapped in foil. A piece of silver tinsel sticks out from above. I sewed the staff and bag to the handles. I also sewed an elegant shiny braid down the edge of the fur coat.
I think you can make such a craft for a kindergarten school, for a New Year’s competition. If you have very little time, then you can not sew everything on by hand, but quickly glue it with a glue gun.
You can also come visit with this Santa Claus, just put it on a bottle of champagne like a cover. Place a banknote or candy in the bag.
The desire to surprise guests certainly appears in every housewife who invites her friends and acquaintances to a holiday. It is for this reason that on the eve of the celebration the whole family is racking their brains, choosing unusual and original recipes for dishes and homemade drinks, as well as interesting options for table setting, laying out napkins and other nonsense that is not important for some.
This article was written especially for such inventors. After all, in it we will look in detail at how to make Santa Claus from a bottle with your own hands.
This amazing thing is suitable not only for table decoration, but will also be very unusual as a gift. It is she who will certainly delight both the household and their guests, and will also become the subject of discussion throughout the celebration.
What is Santa Claus from a bottle?
Actually In fact, in order to make a Santa Claus craft from a bottle with your own hands, you only need desire and a creative approach. Because for creativity you only need a bottle, several pieces of fabric of different shades (satin ribbons are also suitable), the main thing is that among them there is red fabric, ordinary cotton wool and glue or sewing threads with a needle for connecting and securing the parts. Well, even a child can make such a funny “toy”!
If you look at the many options for such unusual crafts, you can see some that are downright scary and even ugly. However, this is not at all a reason to abandon the original idea. After all, the result depends on how hard you try and how much soul you put into creativity, and it can turn out different. Therefore, readers of this article who are enthusiastic about The idea of bringing a fairy-tale Santa Claus out of a bottle with your own hands will definitely result in a charming, kind and cheerful magical grandfather.
What materials will be needed
So, we have already said above that in order to embody Santa Claus from a bottle, you will need basic materials that will certainly be found in any home. This:
- bottle (both plastic and glass);
- fabric or satin ribbons;
- cotton wool
You should also think in advance about how the parts are supposed to be connected. For example, you can attach a beard and a bag with gifts using thread and a needle or glue.
What character will it be?
Modern children know that a cheerful grandfather who brings gifts can have two faces. The first of them is the domestic Santa Claus. If some adults forgot or didn’t notice, then he wears a sheepskin coat, with a staff and is certainly paired with the Snow Maiden. The second is that Santa Claus is an “alien” from America. It is he who gives gifts not in the usual way to Russian children, but by throwing them down the chimney. Therefore, he travels on magical deer that gallop not on the ground, but right across the sky.
If you want to make Santa Claus from a bottle with your own hands, you need to think in advance about which character you want to embody. In order not to make mistakes when performing a craft, you need to carefully study what distinguishes one magical old man from another.
Who is Santa Claus?
Father Frost is the original Russian lord of winter, who has been throwing gifts under the Christmas tree for children for hundreds of years. The history of this old man goes deep into antiquity. And if you examine it in more detail, it will become clear that Santa Claus is a Slavic god who rules over winter and cold, lives in the forest and demands young girls as “tribute.”
It is the last moment that explains to us the presence of the eternal companion of Santa Claus. After all, this is not a sister, not a wife, not a mother, after all, but a granddaughter. That is, a very young girl.
Thus, Santa Claus is a character adapted for the perception of children, implying a serious and sometimes very cruel god in whom the ancient Slavs believed.
If readers of the article decide to do exactly the same as in the picture below.
Who is Santa Claus?
Santa Claus, or Saint Nicholas, is a fairy-tale character who comes to children not on New Year’s, but on Christmas, since in the West this particular holiday enjoys special advantage.
Russian citizens would have no idea who Santa Claus is if it were not for the proliferation of all kinds of American films on this topic. Although in fact, the prototype of Santa is Nicholas the Wonderworker, a Christian saint. He was known for giving gifts to children from poor families.
If you want to put just such a winter wizard on the New Year's table, you should take into account that his outfit is red pants with a black belt and a large buckle and a warm jacket. And the companions of the Western grandfather are magical reindeer.
Can I use an unopened bottle?
According to Russian superstition, a person with an empty container is destined for failure. That is why, to complete an interesting craft for the New Year, it is better to use not an empty bottle, but a new one, not yet opened.
An original option, especially for a group of adults, would be Santa Claus on a bottle of champagne (made with your own hands). However, in this case, it is important to design the craft in such a way that it can be easily opened at the right time. To do this, you should separately sew a cover that imitates a magical old man, put it on the prepared bottle and tighten it with a belt (if it is Santa Claus) or a belt (if it is Grandfather Frost).
If the craft is done together with children
Children may also like the idea of making Santa Claus out of a bottle with their own hands, and they will take part in its implementation with great pleasure. However, in this work it is wiser not to use a bottle containing alcohol. Because there is no need to accustom your child to “adult” products from an early age. It is best to use a soda or baby champagne bottle.
It is only important for parents to remember that if the children are still small, there is a risk that they will break the glass Santa Claus and be injured by the fragments. Therefore, it is better to give preference to a plastic bottle, or not to allow children to play with a fragile craft, but to open it without fail in the presence of adults.
Where to start doing Santa Claus
So, we have already mentioned what materials will be required to complete the original craft. You can make Santa Claus with your own hands from a plastic bottle or from a glass bottle, already empty or not yet opened. There are also no specific instructions regarding the size of the fairy-tale character. Therefore, you should independently determine which bottle you should bring from the store.
After the bottle, cotton wool and satin ribbons or pieces of fabric are ready, you need to think carefully and decide what kind of Santa Claus you want to get: domestic or Western. And then move on to fulfilling this fairy-tale character.
Santa Claus from a bottle
So, the DIY “Santa Claus from a bottle” craft is a step-by-step guide:
- First, you need to take a bottle and use fabric, dough, colored paper or any other material to depict a face: eyebrows, eyes, nose, mouth, red (from frost) cheeks.
- Then wrap the bottle in red cloth or ribbons. To give maximum realism, many craftsmen first cover a glass vessel with padding polyester or cotton wool to create volume - this is a fur coat, after all, not a robe.
- Next, you should build a hat for the fairytale grandfather. To do this, you need to wrap the neck (along with the lid) with fabric or ribbons.
- Now you can start working on your hands. They can be easily imitated by taking strips of cardboard and wrapping them with ribbons or fabric. And then glue or sew to the frame - the bottle.
- It is also very important not to forget about the bag. After all, Santa Claus does not come to any holiday without him. It's also very easy to do. You need to cut out a medium-sized circle, carefully gathering it along the edges, tie it with a beautiful ribbon and “hand it over” to the magical grandfather.
- And finally, to complete the image of Santa Claus, you need to use cotton wool and glue or thread and a needle to create hair, a mustache and a beard on the face, and then a “fur” edging along the edges of the hat, the bottom of the sheepskin coat and the cuffs of the sleeves.
That's the whole “glass” Santa Claus. By the way, he definitely needs to make the Snow Maiden as a couple. It just requires a smaller bottle. Otherwise, the execution of this character is practically no different from the instructions described above. True, the Snow Maiden should make a beautiful kokoshnik and a long braid, and for the sheepskin coat use not red fabric or ribbons, but blue. Finally, the craft should be decorated with sequins, bugles and beads.
Santa Claus from a bottle
In fact, master classes on the topic “Fairytale Santa Claus, Father Frost and Snow Maiden from a bottle with your own hands” are not much different from each other. After all, they are based on the same principle, and the materials for their implementation will require exactly the same.
However, as mentioned above, if you want to make a real Western Santa, he needs to buy a couple of toy deer in the store, which should then be assembled into a sleigh and attached to a sleigh decorated with rain and sparkles.
In addition, such a magical character does not have a Snow Maiden, and the clothes are completely different. This should be remembered when performing an original craft.
Thus, this unusual craft, which will certainly delight both adults and children, is very simple to do. The main thing is to give free rein to your imagination and allow yourself, at least for a moment, to become a carefree child.
Svetlana Olegova
What blue bottomless eyes,
What a light, fluffy braid!
What a fur coat: silver and turquoise!
So nimble and mischievous all over.
Master class on the topic: "DIY New Year's characters"
Erygina Natalya Nikolaevna, teacher of additional education of the first qualification category, MBOU DOD SUT Angarsk
Description: The New Year holiday is one of the most beloved. Making Christmas toys with your child with your own hands is a very interesting and useful activity from all points of view. Teachers and parents consider children’s participation in making Christmas tree decorations as one of the forms of labor education, teaching children to do handicrafts and developing their taste. In addition, in the days following the production of the toy they liked, as the students themselves note, relationships improve, work is very good and joyful, studying is successful and enjoyable, teachers are liked, and the New Year’s mood is gaining momentum. This material will be useful for additional education teachers, technology teachers, and kindergarten teachers when preparing for New Year-themed classes; children of primary and secondary school age and creative parents.
Application: The Snow Maiden toy can be used to decorate the New Year's interior, as New Year's gifts.
Target: Introducing students to independently making holiday souvenirs, developing skills in making toys from plastic bottles.
Tasks:
educational:
- teach how to make a New Year's souvenir - the Snow Maiden, using an action algorithm and step-by-step photos;
- expand knowledge about the possibility of using non-traditional materials;
developing:
- promote the development of attention, fine motor skills, aesthetic taste, creative abilities;
- awaken the desire to engage in applied creativity;
educational:
- cultivate accuracy and the ability to successfully achieve a goal.
To make a toy you need:
- blue or transparent plastic bottle, volume 0.5 l;
- knife;
- scissors;
- corrugated yellow and white paper;
- PVA glue or glue stick, “Master” glue;
- threads;
- templates for the face, kokoshnik, sleeves;
- a simple pencil or knitting needle, felt-tip pens;
Execution algorithm:
1. Cut the bottle at a distance of 16 cm from the top of the cork.
2. Cut a strip 10 cm wide from the bottom of the bottle.
3. Cut a strip 10 cm wide from a roll of yellow corrugated paper.
4. Making the Snow Maiden's head.
Glue a piece of cotton wool or corrugated paper onto the cork to create volume.
Then we wrap a cork around the middle of the strip, connect the ends of the strip and tie it with thread under the cork.
5. Straighten the ends of the yellow strip and cut them into 3 parts.
6. Braid the braid.
7. We pull the end of the braid with a thread, cut off the excess, and create a ponytail.
8. I will cut out the templates for the face and kokoshnik.
Glue the face into the circle of the kokoshnik. We decorate the kokoshnik with snowflakes.
Glue the resulting blank to the head.
9. Making fringe.
Cut a 10 cm wide strip from a roll of white corrugated paper.
10. Fold it once in width and 5 times in length. Cut off 1 mm along the contour.
11. Apply glue in the middle of each strip and glue them together.
12. Cut the fringe along the edges of the long sides and glue it around the cork head, thus we design the collar.
13. Cut another 10 cm wide strip from a roll of white corrugated paper.
14. Fold the strip in half lengthwise. Cut it, you get 2 strips 25 cm long.
15. Measure 2 cm on one strip, fold 5 times along the length, unfold, you get 5 strips. Cut along the fold lines.
16. Apply glue in the middle of each strip and glue them together.
17. Cut the fringe on each side.
18. Glue the fringe along the bottom of the dress.
19. With another strip 25 cm long, proceed in the same way (item 15-item 17).
20. Glue the fringe from the collar to the bottom of the dress.
21. We trace the sleeve templates on a strip of plastic with a felt-tip pen and cut them out.
22. Glue the sleeves to the dress.
23. Decorate the dress with snowflakes.
With the approach of the New Year and Christmas, a special pre-holiday atmosphere reigns around - shop windows sparkle with multi-colored lights of garlands and bright Christmas tree decorations, busy passers-by rush with bags and bundles in their hands, and the spirit of magic can be felt in the frosty air. As a rule, the last days of the outgoing year pass in pleasant troubles and worries. Creating a New Year's menu, purchasing food for dishes, cleaning, decorating the Christmas tree - these are the main items on the pre-holiday to-do list. However, both adults and children are happy to devote time to creating fun New Year's crafts for room decor before the holidays. Among the many New Year characters, the most popular is Santa Claus - anyone can make such a fabulous old man with his own hands. On the eve of the New Year holidays, we offer the best master classes with step-by-step photos and videos on making Santa Claus with your own hands from scrap materials: paper, fabric, nylon tights, plastic bottle. In addition, here you will find patterns and detailed instructions for sewing the original Santa Claus costume. And the image of the famous “giver” of gifts will be completed by individual elements - a beard, a hat, a staff, a bag. What is Santa Claus without these traditional “requisites”? So, let's get started bringing our New Year's resolutions to life!
Do-it-yourself toy Santa Claus from scrap materials - master class with step-by-step photos
Decorating the New Year tree is considered one of many favorite pre-holiday “rituals”. Every year we sort out a box with bright balls, shiny garlands and multi-colored tinsel - how beautiful the toys look between the fluffy pine branches! However, such purchased “splendor” can be beautifully complemented with original crafts from scrap materials. Today on the “agenda” is a do-it-yourself toy Santa Claus. On the eve of the upcoming holidays, we have prepared for you a simple master class with step-by-step photos on how to make Santa Claus from paper and cotton wool. Such a cute handicraft made by the author will be an excellent decoration for the Christmas tree or a gift for family and friends for the New Year.
Necessary materials for a master class on creating a toy Santa Claus with your own hands:
- colored paper (red, pink or blue) – 1 sheet
- scissors
- base for a cylindrical craft (you can take an empty container from a deodorant or other cosmetic product)
- ribbon
Master class on making Santa Claus from scrap materials with your own hands - step-by-step instructions:
How to make Santa Claus with your own hands from nylon tights - original master class on video
Nylon tights are a truly universal material from which you can make wonderful crafts and toys for the New Year or any other holiday with your own hands. Our video presents an original master class on making a Santa Claus doll using the stocking technique. The finished toy can be used as an element of festive room decor or Christmas tree decoration.
DIY Santa Claus from a plastic bottle - detailed master class with photos
Every day the New Year is getting closer and in the whirlwind of pre-holiday chores there is not much time left to create various cute crafts. However, making Santa Claus with your own hands from a plastic bottle requires minimal effort and finance, and the result is a touching toy that will take its place under the New Year tree. We invite you to an interesting master class with a photo - “Do-it-yourself Santa Claus from a plastic bottle.” With the help of our interesting lesson, you can make a traditional fairy-tale Santa Claus from the simplest materials at hand that can be found in every home.
To create Santa Claus with our own hands, we stock up on the following materials:
- plastic bottle with a capacity of 0.5 l
- padding polyester
- nylon stockings (white and flesh color)
- decorative braid
- faux fur
- pieces of velvet and satin (red color)
- beads (for eyes)
- cardboard
Making Santa Claus with your own hands from a plastic bottle - step-by-step description of the master class:
- You need to wrap an empty plastic bottle in a prepared piece of padding polyester and sew up the edges. We fill the upper part with padding polyester, forming a round “head” of the future toy, and tighten the “neck” area tightly with thread. We stretch a nylon stocking over the resulting blank of the future Santa Claus, the end of which is sewn.
- We tie the thread around the doll’s “neck” again.
- We pull a white stocking over the nude stocking and pull it with a thread in the “neck” area.
- Now you need to wrap one side of the stocking up, and add padding polyester to the resulting “pocket”. The main task at this stage is to form the nose of Santa Claus, as well as the chin, cheeks and places for the eyes.
- For the arms of our toy we use wire, which should be wrapped in a piece of padding polyester. We sew the resulting “handles” to the body, and “dress” the edges in mittens made of white nylon stocking.
- We wrap the doll's body in padding polyester and sew the edges together.
- We make a “fur coat” from red velvet, and sew fur cuffs onto the sleeves.
- This toy Santa Claus is easy to make with your own hands - just choose a bottle of the appropriate size. If you plan to place the toy under a large Christmas tree, it is better to choose a five-liter container. To create Santa Claus as a decorative element (on a shelf or table), a bottle of smaller “dimensions” is suitable. Don’t forget to trim the bottom of the “fur coat” with strips of fur. Cut a circle out of cardboard and glue it to the bottom of the bottle. Now you need to carefully fold the edges of the fur onto the cardboard and glue the decorative tape.
- All that remains is to disguise the front seam with a fur strip and decorate the “fur coat” with braid. For the beard, mustache and hairstyle of Santa Claus, we use fur with long pile.
- To make a hat you will need a piece of red velvet, padding polyester, fur and braid. The finished hat needs to be sewn onto the head of Santa Claus.
- We also sew a gift bag from scrap materials - satin, braid, and use padding polyester as a filler. For reliability, it is better to sew the bag to the hand of Santa Claus. We add a beautiful staff, which we also fix in the right place.
- Our Santa Claus from a plastic bottle is ready! As you can see, the master class is simple and extremely interesting. With such a handsome fairy-tale Grandfather, the New Year will be remembered for a long time.
Master class on sewing Santa Claus with your own hands, work procedure:
Beautiful DIY Santa Claus costume - video master class
Santa Claus is a long-awaited “guest” at the New Year tree in kindergarten, school and even at home. Every year everyone looks forward to the fabulous Grandfather with a bag of gifts and surprises. And what is Santa Claus without his luxurious attire? After all, a red or blue caftan in a “set” with a white beard and a “magic” staff is a traditional “Grandfather Frost” outfit for the New Year. How to sew a Santa Claus costume with your own hands? We offer you to take a video master class on sewing a beautiful costume for this main New Year's character - with a detailed step-by-step guide (patterns are attached as photos). Our video lessons will be especially useful for those who act as Santa Claus at children's matinees and home “away” congratulations.
The New Year and Christmas holidays are a great opportunity to spend time with family and friends and enjoy the warmth of home. It is known that joint creativity unites children and parents, helping to strengthen family ties. Today, the main “hero” of our master classes with step-by-step photos will be Santa Claus - you can make such a toy character with your own hands from paper, fabric, nylon tights, a plastic bottle and other available materials. For beginning designers, we offer our course of video master classes on sewing a beautiful Santa Claus costume. We wish you creative inspiration and success!
Galina Trofimova
master class
By making a New Year's toy
« Grandfather Frost»
For work we need:
5 liter plastic bottle(they are cylindrical and square - there is no difference);
disposable spoons 50 pcs;
foil (oilcloth) for decorating bouquets of blue or red. (the main thing is not to get wet);
thick white bag;
cover red from bottle 1,5l.
glue and hot gun;
large scissors (I have kitchen ones).
So let's get started. First you need to remove the handle on the lid, if there is one. Wrapping it up bottle in oilcloth and glued with tape (Fig. 1,2.)
Now let's start working with spoons. Carefully cut off the handle of the spoon. Difficulties may arise here - spoons crack. In order to avoid this, I did not cut to the exact "spine", but left 2 cm and slowly cut it to the desired length (Fig. 3) Cut two spoons in half for eyebrows. One will not work - they will crack. If it's not straight, you can sharpen the edges with a nail file.
When all the spoons are cut, we begin assembling our Santa Claus. Glue the spoons to the bottom bottles, form the hem of the fur coat (Fig. 4) A tip is to warm up the gun in advance so that the glue is liquid.
From a white bag and cut a rectangle, (if the package is wrinkled, it needs to be ironed) and glue it on bottle(Fig. 5) glue on eyes, nose, eyebrows (Fig. 6)
Let's start with the beard. We start from the very bottom, slowly rising to the top (Fig. 7) It doesn’t matter if the package peeks out from under the spoons - it can be cut off with nail scissors. (Fig. 8)
Form a hat with spoons. Before you start making the pompom, unscrew the lid and lower a piece of tinsel or strong thread (for loop) and close the lid.
We pass tinsel along the hem, hat and around the pompom. (Fig. 9) Our grandpa is ready. HAVE FUN NEW YEAR!
Publications on the topic:
The New Year is just around the corner. There are so many interesting things we will need to do with our kids for this fun holiday. I suggest.
The magical New Year holiday is coming soon and all the children are looking forward to the good wizard with a bag of gifts. And we decided not to wait, but to make it.
In the New Year's bustle, we often forget that New Year is a family holiday. Spend precious moments with your children while decorating your home.
To work you will need: - a cardboard box (preferably round) - a CD; - colored cardboard; - Christmas tree beads; - 2 invisible ones;.
Our city has announced a "New Year's Toy" competition to decorate the city Christmas tree, which is located in the city square. I suggest it to teachers.
On the eve of the New Year's holiday, a New Year's Toy competition was announced in the kindergarten. Santa Claus is the main character of the New Year.
