3D Rocking Santa Craft

Instructions

Step 1:

It is important to gather everything you need at the start as this Santa Claus puppet craft can take quite a long time.

Select red colored cardstock paper, red, black, white, pink and yellow colored craft papers and white embossed paper for this craft.

Trace the hat, sleeves and half circle (base) on the red cardstock paper,

Trace the moustache, eyebrows and beard on white paper

The head needs to go on pink paper,

Do the belt on black paper

I would trace the buckle on yellow or gold paper

Finally trace the gloves on red paper and the sleeve and hat borders and
pompom on white embossed paper.

Cut out the traced patterns nicely. You might like to encourage your child to help do the cutting. Great for fine motor skills.

Step 2:

Attach the eyebrows, moustache and the beard cutouts to the head cutout.

Step 3:

Attach the hat border along the bottom side of the hat cutout and attach the round embossed cutout on the tip of the hat cutout.

Cut a slit along the yellow marked lines of the buckle cutout and insert the belt through the slit. Bring the buckle to the middle of the belt.

Step 4:

Attach the sleeve borders on the straight sides of the sleeve cutouts and then attach the glove cutouts on those sides.

Step 5:

Attach the hat pattern to the top side of the head pattern. Use a sharpie or gel pen to draw the eyes, nose and mouth of the 3d Santa figure.

Step 6:

Take the half circle red cardstock paper (this is the base of the craft).

Step 7:

Fold the half circle cardstock base into half.

Step 8:

Apply glue along the open side of the folded paper and close that end. This is the base pattern of the 3d rocking Santa craft.

Step 9:

Attach the paper belt along the middle part of the triangular base pattern. You can see how it should look in the picture below.

Step 10:

Attach the head pattern to the top side (pointy) of the base pattern. Attach the arm patterns on both sides of the pattern to complete the craft.

Step 11:

Slightly open the bottom side of the base pattern and then you can make the papercraft Santa figure stand on that end. This means you can rock him.

Step 12: (See this is action in the Video Clip above)

If you hold and push an arm of the Santa puppet downwards and then release it, the Santa puppet will rock for a few seconds. Such a neat interactive Christmas craft for kids of all ages.