DLTK's Holiday Crafts for Kids
Santa Claus Paper Craft

My girls liked the fact that the Santa paper craft looks the same as the Sleepy Santa Paper Craft -- we have Sleepy Santa hanging in the bedroom and Santa Claus hanging by the fireplace in the living room. 

They liked the candy-cane suspenders too *grin*.

Materials:

• a printer,
• a piece of paper,
• some crayons, paint, markers or pencil crayons,
• scissors, and
• glue.

Craft Instructions:

• Print out the template of choice. 
  • There is a choice between a large Santa (3 templates) or a small Santa (1 template).  I prefer the large version, but it takes more paper and ink.
• Colour (where appropriate) and cut out the template pieces.
• To glue together:
  • Glue the boots onto the bottom of the large body piece.
  • Glue the jacket onto the body piece.
  • Glue the arms so the shoulders line up with the top of the body piece.
  • Glue the head onto the top of the body.
    • on the large templates, the head is in a few different pieces.  Glue the round face on first.
    • Glue the hat/hair
    • add the beard
    • Glue the mustache on last

Printable Craft Templates:

• After printing, close the template window to return to the main page.
• If the template doesn’t fit on one page, adjust your printer margins:
  • In most browsers: Print → More settings → Margins → Minimum
  • Or use Page Setup / Printer Setup in your printer dialog

Small Template:    (color)   or   (B&W)

OR

Large Template (takes three pages):  

Body     (color)   or   (B&W)

Jacket   (color)   or   (B&W)

Head      (color)   or   (B&W)

Printable version of these instructions