Easy Christmas Craft, Santa Claus Crafts, Soup Can Santa
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Enjoy these sweet looking Soup Can Santa. These are Easy Christmas Crafts. Kids crafts have always been very popular, so whether you're just looking for some free craft ideas to keep the children entertained on a rainy day or you're looking for children's birthday party ideas, you are at the right place. Thinking of gift giving? How about some easy and fun Christmas crafts, Easter crafts, Thanksgiving crafts, Valentines day and other holiday crafts. You will find complete instructions to easy printable kids crafts.
This delightful Santa Project was discovered at:
That Artist Woman Blog
Materials Required:
red, 2 shades of pink, and black felt or fleece
tacky glue
red pom pom
white pom pom or Styrofoam ball
white trim
juice can, soup can, toilet roll, pringles can....basically any cylindrical container
scissors
Take your red felt and cut a rectangle that has the same height as the container as well as long enough to go around the container plus 1/2 an inch.
Apply some glue to the container and start sticking the felt on as you go. With very young kids I'll have the felt already cut and ready to go.
For the last 1/2 an inch you want to overlap onto the felt at the start.
Now you need to cut the face...you want to use the light pink for this. I can't give you an exact size as your container will be different. It should have this shape though. You can also precut this for very young kids.
Glue into place( hint) its easier to put the glue on the back of the face and then stick on.
Take your white trim and cut enough for a beard.
I have used all sorts of trim for this...usually whatever is on sale or on hand....once we used a pompom trim and the kids absolutely loved it.
Glue into place along the edge of the face.
Cut 2 black circles for the eyes, glue into place.
Glue on the red pompom nose.
Cut 2 circles of the darker pink for the cheeks and glue those on as well.
Cut out a mouth from your scraps of red.
When all glued into place it will look like this.
Now the hat. You need to cut a piece of red into this shape...the hat needs to be as long as the container and should fit over the top when put together.
Now you can use tacky glue or if you are making quite a few you can sew them or use the glue gun.
For kids I usually make the hat and they need to glue on the pompom or Styrofoam ball.
That's it....these look amazing as a grouping with a variety of containers...you can even use the tubes from your Christmas wrapping paper that you have cut to size.
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