Things You'll Need:
- Empty 2-liter soda bottle
- Child-sized Santa hat
- 6-by-14 inch sheet of flesh-colored paper or felt
- 2 googly eyes
- Small red pom-pom
- Fiber fill
- Hot glue gun
- 2-inch length of red yarn or pipe cleaner
- Sand, salt or pebbles
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Step 1
Fill the soda bottle with some sand, salt or small pebbles in order to weigh it down and prevent it from easily falling over. Wrap the piece of paper or felt around the empty soda bottle and secure it around the back with some hot glue. The top of the paper should be right about where the bottleneck curve begins.
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Step 2
Decorate your Santa’s face with eyes placed about a third of the way down the strip. You can use googly eyes found in a craft store, or just use buttons, glass pebbles or felt cut-outs. A red pom-pom makes a cute nose, or alternately use a button or red bottle cap. Glue the yarn or pipe cleaner about two-thirds of the way down the paper strip as a mouth. Be sure to turn it up a little at the edges for a smiling Santa.
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Step 3
Cut two strips of fiber fill that are approximately 1 inch in width, and another that is approximately 2 to 3 inches wide. Use the 1-inch strips as eyebrows for Santa and glue them over the eyes. Use the longer strip for a mustache. Attach it below his nose. Make sure the lip is visible.
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Step 4
Take more of the fiber fill and begin gluing it on as a beard, and as hair on the sides and the back of Santa’s head. Make sure it is long enough to cover the bottom of the soda bottle all the way around so that it rests on the table.
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Step 5
Top Santa off with his hat. For added security, it can be glued on. Make sure all of Santa’s hair around the back of his head reaches up and under his hat. Also make sure that the hat does not cover Santa’s eyebrows or partially obscure his face. Use safety pins, if necessary, to help fit the hat on Santa’s head better before gluing. Then set Santa out on your table to greet your guests.
