How to Make Santa Doll Faces

Knead the polymer clay until it is soft and pliable.

Roll an egg shape of polymer clay the size that you would like to make the head. The fat part of the egg shape is the head or top, and the thin part is the chin or bottom.

Divide the head into sections. Draw a line through the center of the head from the top to the bottom.This will be line A. Draw a line across the center of line A making a cross shape.This will be line B. Divide line A in half a second time between line B and the bottom. This line will be horizontal with line B. This line will be line C.

Roll a small ball of clay and press it onto the spot on line A where line B crosses it to create the nose. Smooth the nose into the face. Press 2 small holes into the nose where the nostrils should be.

Press a small black bead into the clay above the nose on each side to make the eyes.

Cut a slit into the clay under the nose to make the mouth. Press the clay tool upward to cause the mouth to open slightly.

Roll a small tube to make the neck. Attach it to the bottom of the head behind the chin.

Make a small rectangular piece of clay with rounded corners. Make 4 holes both of the narrow sides.This will be the shoulder plate. Attach the neck to the shoulder plate. Roll a blob of foil, place a layer of parchment paper over the foil, and lay the shoulder plate over the foil. It will look like a taco when it is folded over the foil. Place head and foil on baking sheet.

Place into cool oven. turn on oven. Bake at manufacturer's specified temperature for 30 minutes. Turn off oven, and allow to cool.

Use thin acrylic paint to add cheek and lip color.

Glue on white hair and beard. Use doll hair, hair from white fur cloth or white mohair yarn to make the hair. Glue on with white school glue. Paint on a thin layer of glue, and coat with a thin layer of hair. Repeat until you get the desired hair thickness.

Add eye brows using the same method as step 11.

Attach head by sewing the shoulder plate to the body.