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Moving Santa Craft For Kids [Free Template]

Christmas is coming, and that means lots of time for fun holiday crafts!

Create this moving Santa craft with your kids or students to celebrate the upcoming holiday. The kids will love making their own rockin’ Santa out of paper.

Also, check out our Santa activities and discover some more easy Christmas crafts for kids!

Rocking Santa Craft

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It’s fun and easy to do, and it comes with a free printable template! This easy craft also makes an awesome classroom decoration!

You can give kids templates so they can make one themselves, too. Your little ones will have fun crafting while keeping the holiday season festive.

Best of all, kids can make a ho ho ho-whole city’s worth of Santas in no time! Read on below to see exactly how to make this Santa.

Supplies

Directions

Start by downloading the template and printing it out. Once the template is printed, gather the materials for this fun activity. Get those scissors ready, and let’s help the kids bring this Santa to life!

hand holding moving Santa craft templat e

First, guide your child in making the Santa by folding the half-circle body piece symmetrically in half to make a triangular shape. Put a small straight line of glue at the end and glue just the ends of the paper together. Arrange Santa’s body so the pointy tip is the top.

hand folding red paper in half

Place the belt in the middle of Santa’s body and glue it in place. Cut off any excess paper that hangs off the side.

hands gluing belt to moving Santa craft

Glue the outer buckle to the middle of the band.

hand gluing outer buckle to rocking Santa craft

Next, place the inner buckle in the middle of the outer buckle.

hand gluing inner buckle to rocking Santa craft

If you’re using the big-eyed Santa Claus craft, glue the eyes on. 

hand gluing eye to rocking Santa craft

Glue the Santa’s beard to the outside of the head.

hand gluing beard to rocking Santa craft

Place the mustache in the middle of the head, just above the mouth, and glue it in place.

hand gluing mustache to rocking Santa craft

Create Santa’s hat by gluing the hat fluff to the bottom of the hat.

hand gluing hat fluff to rocking Santa craft

Next, help your child to glue the pom to the end of his hat. 

hand gluing hat pom to moving Santa craft

Position Santa’s hat to the top of his head and glue it in place.

hand gluing hat to rocking Santa craft

Glue Santa’s head to the top of his body.

hands gluing head to moving Santa craft

Now, make Santa’s arms by gluing the sleeve puff onto the place of the arms when the hand and arm meet.

hands gluing arm fluff to moving Santa craft

Finally, encourage your child to take the completed arms and glue them angled upward and outward to the top and back of Santa’s body.

hands gluing arm to moving Santa craft

Isn’t this such a cute Christmas craft they’ll love how their Santa rocks back and forth!

hand holding rocking Santa craft

Christmas Unit For Kids

Keep the festive fun and learning going by creating a Christmas unit study for kids. Read on below for some of our favorite ideas.

Two finished example of the The Moving Santa Craft

Christmas Story Books For Kids

We always like to begin with books whenever a new theme is introduced. Reading aloud is a great way to help kids develop a love of reading, improve their vocabulary, and help them with listening skills!

Below are some of the top Christmas books to read to your kids!

Dasher: This wonderfully illustrated Christmas book for kids gives you the back story on one of Santa’s favorite reindeer, Dasher! Girls will especially love to read this since Dasher is a girl.

Construction Site On Christmas Night: Fans of the fun characters of the construction site books have to add this Christmas-themed story to their collection. See how the trucks get ready for Christmas!

How To Catch An Elf: Kids everywhere love the silliness of this Christmas story. The rhymes and the illustrations will draw the kids in as well. This is a Christmas book kids will want to read every year!

2 rocking Santa crafts

Kids’ Christmas Crafts

Add in even more crafts to help young children with fine motor skills, following directions, creativity, and more. We’ve selected a few of our favorite fun Christmas crafts to get them into the festive spirit:

Elf On The Shelf Photo Craft – Your kids will love this mischievous elf paper craft! You can turn any photo into a silly elf with just a few simple supplies, like construction paper, glue, and scissors! This simple craft is a fun way for the whole family to enjoy the holiday fun.

Christmas Tree Paper Bag Puppet Craft – We can’t think of a better way to reuse a paper lunch bag than by turning it into a Christmas tree puppet! This cute craft is so much fun to make and would be perfect for a Christmas party or just a fun afternoon activity at home.

Collage image of the Kids' Christmas Crafts

Gingerbread Man Disguised As Santa Craft – The gingerbread man is on the run, and he’s decided to disguise himself as Santa Claus!

He’s transformed into everyone’s favorite jolly old elf with a quick costume change. His new red suit and white beard are the perfect disguises, and he’s sure he’ll be able to evade capture for a little while longer. But who knows? Maybe this clever gingerbread man will be Santa’s helper after all!

Handprint Manger Craft – This handprint baby Jesus craft is the perfect way for kids of all ages to learn the true meaning of Christmas. This cute craft uses your kid’s handprints as the hay in the manger, making it a special keepsake for years to come.

Even the littlest kids can enjoy the fun with this adorable craft!

Christmas Activities For Kids

This Roll a Reindeer game is perfect for kids! The game aims to fill up your reindeer’s spaces with pom poms. This game will help your kids learn to take turns, identify colors, and improve their fine motor skills.

These Christmas do a dot printables are the perfect activity for kids at Christmas time! These are easy to make and will keep your little ones entertained. Besides being fun for kids, the best part about these activities is that they help them learn, too!

Collage image of the Christmas Activities For Kids

These free printable elf worksheets are a great way to entertain your kids during the holidays. They’re perfect for preschool and kindergarten children, and they help with fine motor skills, scissor skills, and letter recognition! Download them and use them this December!

moving Santa craft

Are you looking for a great activity for your kids during the holidays? These Christmas pattern block mats are perfect! Print, cut, and laminate the mats. Then, use them with pattern blocks as an engaging quiet time activity. Your kids will love it!

Share With Us

Did you make this activity with your kids or students? We’d love to feature them on our social media!

For a chance to have your child’s project featured, simply snap a picture of the completed project and post it to our Facebook page, email it to us directly by clicking here, or use #simpleeverydaymom on your social media!

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Moving Santa Craft For Kids

Prep Time: 10 minutes
Active Time: 15 minutes
Total Time: 25 minutes
Difficulty: Easy

This rocking Santa is a fun Christmas craft that kids will love to create and play with!

Materials

  • Colored cardstock,
  • Scissors
  • Glue stick
  • Santa template

Instructions

  1. Download the Santa template, print, and cut out the pieces you need.
  2. Begin to make the Santa by folding the half-circle body piece symmetrically in half. Put a small line of glue at the end and glue just the ends of the paper together. Arrange Santa's body so the point is the top.
  3. Place the belt in the middle of Santa's body and glue it in place. Cut off any excess paper that hangs off the side.
  4. Glue the outer buckle to the middle of the band.
  5. Next, place the inner buckle in the middle of the outer buckle.
  6. If using the big-eyed Santa, glue the eyes on.
  7. Glue the Santa's beard to the outside of the Santa's head.
  8. Place the mustache in the middle of the head, just above the mouth, and glue it in place.
  9. Create Santa's hat by gluing the hat fluff to the bottom of the hat.
  10. Next, glue the pom to the top of the hat.
  11. Position Santa's hat to the top of his head and glue it in place.
  12. Glue Santa's head to the top of his body.
  13. Now make Santa's arm by gluing the sleeve puff onto the place of the arms when the hand and arm meet.
  14. Finish off by taking the completed arms and glue them angled upward and outward to the top and back of Santa's body.

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Linda

Monday 11th of December 2023

I would like your rocking Santa. My 3 year old granddaughter loves these crafts!

Sam

Monday 11th of December 2023

Oh, great! Since you’re already an email subscriber, all you need to do is enter your email in the form at the end of any post and it’ll automatically redirect you to the download page ◡̈

Marina

Wednesday 9th of November 2022

I like it!!

Sam

Wednesday 9th of November 2022

Oh, good! So glad!

Nadege Belot

Saturday 22nd of October 2022

Je voudrais recevoir le dessin pour effectuer le père noël a basculé merci

Sam

Saturday 22nd of October 2022

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