A Simple Santa Handprint Craft For Kids

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December is such a fun time of year!

Around our house, we really load up on Christmas crafts and activities.

We always check out Christmas lights, do crafts like these paper gingerbread houses, do some hidden learning activities like with these Christmas tangram printables and read lots of Christmas stories for kids.

This year, we’re planning on doing even more Christmas crafts!

In fact, yesterday we shared our newest idea, this handprint reindeer craft.

Today we’re making Rudolph’s best friend, good ‘ol Santa Claus.

Read on below to see how simple it is to make this adorable Christmas handprint keepsake.

Santa Handprint Craft For Kids

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Download the Santa template, print on white cardstock and cut each piece out.
Trace the cheeks, nose and Santa hat onto red and pink cardstock. Cut them out.
Trace your child’s hand onto white cardstock and cut out.
Glue the Santa hat together by gluing the base of the hat behind the white fluff and then by gluing the pom onto the red hat.
Glue the assembled Santa hat onto the top of Santa’s head.
Glue the eyebrows below the Santa hat and then draw in the eyes with the black marker.
Glue the red cheeks on either side of Santa’s face below the eyes.
Position the handprint beard on Santa’s face with the fingers pointed down. Once you get a position you like, glue them onto the face.
Glue the mustache on top of the beard.
Glue the nose on top of the mustache.

Now sit back and admire your adorable Santa handprint craft!

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