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Easy Paper Plate Santa Craft (Perfect for the Holidays!)

Create a Santa face for a Christmas craft using a paper plate
Prep Time5 minutes
Cook Time15 minutes
Paint Dry Time10 minutes
Total Time30 minutes
Keyword: christmas crafts, paper plate crafts
Servings: 1 Santa
Author: Laura Gummerman
Cost: $1

Ingredients

Instructions

  • Start by painting your paper plate with a skin tone paint. Allow that to dry and cut off the top section of your plate so you can attach your hat.
  • Cut a tall triangle of paper that’s about the width of your plate section and fold down the top of the triangle at an angle to create the hat. Use glue to glue the hat and plate together.
  • Add some google eyes with glue to your paper plate and cut out (or punch out with a circle punch) two pink circles to be his cheeks.
    You can also paint on the eyes and cheeks instead if you would like!
  • Cut or punch out a white circle and cut it in half to be Santa’s beard mustache. Glue on the mustache to attach and add a red pom pom to be his nose.
  • Using school glue and cotton balls, create a beard on the bottom of the plate and add cotton balls to be the trim on his hat. Allow the glue to dry and your Santa is ready to display!

Notes

  • To use less cotton balls, you can also pull them apart to make them bigger/fluffier before adding to Santa's face
  • If you want to do more painting, you can also paint on his cheeks, eyes, and mustache instead of using paper and google eyes.
  • To apply the cotton ball beard, school glue will work better than a glue stick.