How to Make a Santa Face

By recycling a coat hanger, some panty hose, paper and cotton balls you can entertain kids on a rainy day and help them create a cute holiday decoration.

Things You'll Need

• Old Hosiery
• Clothes Hangers
• Glitter
• Nontoxic Glues
• Cotton Swabs
• Scissors
• Rubber Bands
• Rubber bands
• red, black construction paper

Instructions

1. Grasp the hanger with one hand at the middle of the bottom portion and with the other hand on the hook.

2. Pull hanger apart into a diamond shape.

3. Pull one leg of panty hose all the way up over the diamond shape, starting from the bottom up. Secure panty hose with a rubber band at base of hook.

4. Trim remaining hose, leaving about 2 inches of excess hose above rubber band. Save other leg of panty hose for use in another Santa face.

5. Cut a big triangle for a hat and round circle for nose from a sheet of red construction paper.

6. Cut two circles for eyes from a sheet of black construction paper or use store-bought plastic wiggly eyes.

7. Glue hat over the hanger's hook to hide the rubber band.

8. Glue nose and eyes in place.

9. Glue cotton balls onto the face to create the beard and mustache, the trim on the hat and the eyebrows.

Tips & Warnings

• For just a hint of twinkle, add glitter to Santa's eyes and in his beard.

• With construction-paper ears, pipe-cleaner whiskers and a bag of cotton balls, you can also make an Easter bunny using this same technique.

• This project will not work with a plastic hanger or a wire hanger with a cardboard piece across the bottom.