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Santa Photo Craft For Kids

Prep Time: 8 minutes
Active Time: 20 minutes
Total Time: 28 minutes
This Santa photo craft will have your kids laughing when Santa comes to life with your little one's face on this festive project!
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Author: Sam
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[adthrive-in-post-video-player video-id="EjhSvRcL" upload-date="2022-12-01T00:00:00.000Z" name="Photo Santa Paper Craft For Kids" description="This Santa photo craft will have your kids laughing when Santa comes to life with your little one's face on this festive art. Adding their photo is a great way to personalize a craft, which can make for a sweet keepsake for you or a loved one. Kids will ove creating their own Christmas craft, plus it's a great way for them to gain important skills. They'll develop their fine motor skills since they will use their little hands to place each piece of Santa and the snowflakes."]

Materials

  • Colored cardstock or construction paper
  • Scissors
  • Glue
  • Snowflake stickers
  • Photo of child's face
  • Thin marker
  • Santa template

Instructions

  • Download the Santa template, print, and cut out the pieces you need.
  • Take the child's photo, place the template piece on the photo, trace it with a thin marker, and cut it out.
  • Begin to make Santa's face by gluing the child's photo in the middle of the beard piece. Take the mustache and glue it right below the child's nose.
    hands placing beard cutout onto face for Santa photo craft
  • Glue the red nose at the top of the mustache.
  • Next, take Santa's hat and glue it to the top of the white beard piece. Glue the pom to the tip of the hat.
    hands assembling Santa's hat
  • Create Santa's body by gluing the coat fluff to the body piece.
  • Take the mittens and glue them, one on each side, to the end of the arms.
  • Finish up the body by gluing the arm fluff to the part where the arms and the mittens meet.
    hands glueing mittens onto Santa photo craft
  • Next, glue the head to the top of the body.
  • Place the completed Santa on the bottom of a piece of blue paper and glue it in place.
    hands glueing Santa hat onto Santa photo craft
  • Finish by placing snowflake stickers all over the blue background.