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How to Make a Craft Stick Santa Claus

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By Kathleen Bunn
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Craft stick Santa Claus decorations make wonderful Christmas tree ornaments or simple crafts to hang all around your home during the winter holiday season. These cute projects are made from a wooden craft sticks and a few other basic craft materials. With a few minutes of your time, you can have several craft stick Santas ready to hang around your home.

Difficulty: Easy
Instructions

Things You'll Need:

  • Wooden craft sticks
  • Hot glue sticks
  • Hot glue gun
  • Cotton balls
  • Scissors
  • Small white craft pom pom
  • Red craft felt
  • Red craft paint
  • Black craft paint
  • A paintbrush
  • A small red bead
  1. Step 1

    Cut a Santa hat shape out of red craft felt, and glue a white pom pom to the tip of it to make a hat for your craft stick Santa Claus.

  2. Step 2

    Glue the Santa hat to the tip of your wooden craft stick to form the head of your Santa Claus.

  3. Step 3

    Paint two black dot eyes onto the front of your craft stick underneath the brim of the Santa hat.

  4. Step 4

    Glue a small red bead to the front of the craft stick Santa Claus, underneath the two black dot eyes.

  5. Step 5

    Use paint or a black marker to make a smiley face mouth on your Santa's face underneath the red bead nose.

  6. Step 6

    Shred some cotton balls into wispy threads, and glue them around the mouth of your craft stick Santa to form a mustache and long flowing beard.

  7. Step 7

    Paint the bottom part of your craft stick red, starting underneath the beard and working your way all down the front and back of your craft stick.

  8. Step 8

    Dot some black buttons down the front of your craft stick, and make a thick black line for a belt across the middle of Santa's red craft stick suit.

  9. Step 9

    Tie or glue a piece of string or ribbon to the top of your craft stick Santa Claus, and hang him up on your Christmas tree or around your home. Visit the resource below for more information on other Christmas crafts.

Tips & Warnings
  • Add some gold glitter to the front of your Santa's belt to make a glittering belt buckle.
  • Be careful when working with a hot glue gun.
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