How to make a beautiful house of Santa Claus with your own hands

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If you often do creative work with children, you will certainly want to make Santa Claus's house with your own hands. This piece looks very nice. The child will be happy to show imagination when creating a miniature model of this fabulous architectural structure. Using the tips from the article, the student will be able to independently make crafts. Younger children will need adult help. Organize an interesting, exciting creative process together with the guys.

Original Christmas crafts

The photo above clearly demonstrates how festive and elegant things made by children can be. There are, of course, a lot of ideas for souvenirs for the winter holiday. They make snowmen, Christmas decorations, snowflakes, bells, socks for gifts, Christmas trees, decorate champagne bottles and glasses. Making a house of Santa Claus with your own hands is an original and unusual idea. Any version of such crafts looks very beautiful, because it is a composition of several items. Usually the hut is complemented by a fence, snowdrifts around and, of course, a figurine of the owner of the dwelling.

Materials andtools

So, you have decided to create a house of Santa Claus. The craft is made from simple and affordable things that every home definitely has. If something is missing, everything can be easily bought at the nearest store. To work, you will need the following:

• Cardboard or ready-made box, corresponding in size to the figure of Santa Claus.
• Ruler.
• Pencil.
• Scissors or utility knife.
• Glue.
• Paints and a container of water.
• Brush or sponge (sponge).
• Decorative paper (silver, mother-of-pearl, holographic, velvet).
• Imitation of snow (cotton wool, cotton pads, artificial snow).
• Decorative elements (tinsel, sequins, sequins, white or silver beads).
• Figured hole punchers in the form of snowflakes, stars (optional).
• Fence sticks.
• Sculptures of Father Frost and Snow Maiden.
• Christmas trees, snowmen and other winter holiday attributes.

Modern materials from kits for children's creativity allow you to create very interesting and spectacular crafts. Working with beautiful cardboard, such as corrugated with a metallic print, curly scissors or hole punches, is very impressive for children. Such activity develops imagination, perseverance and stimulates the manifestation of interest in artistic and design work.

Santa Claus's house with your own hands: how to make a base

To make a solid blank for a model of an architectural structure, you can act in three waysways:

1. Take a box of a suitable size, cut out windows and doors on the side surfaces, build a roof from the top plane.
2. Make all the details (walls, roof slopes) from a sheet of cardboard and glue them together.
3. Draw a blank on cardboard in the form of a sweep diagram, which will later be folded into a three-dimensional house.

When working with the first method, it will be more convenient to first disassemble (stick) the bottom of the box and fold the structure itself so that you do not have to draw windows, doors and cut them out. The main thing here is to find a blank of the right size. If it is, it will greatly simplify the process of creating crafts. You can start decorating almost immediately.

The second method, the easiest and most understandable for a child: I drew one wall, the second, etc., cut everything out and glued it together. In this option, it is important to carefully and firmly connect the parts so that the house does not fall apart later and does not look like a lopsided hut.

The third method is the most reliable, but here, without the help of an adult, a child is unlikely to cope. Here you need to show design skills by imagining how to assemble a three-dimensional thing from a flat sheet using folds. As a sample, you can take a box of any size that has been disassembled to a flat blank and draw a template of the scale that suits you. If there is no extra box that can be glued, find on the Internet a drawing of any square or rectangular packaging and use this diagram.

Decorate the workpiece

Christmascrafts (photo above) should look festive and elegant. To do this, it makes sense to work in the following sequence:

1. When you have completed the cardboard blanks, paint them in suitable colors.
2. Cut out architraves, doors from decorative paper and glue them in place.
3. Make strips from corrugated cardboard and stick on the corners of the structure. This will be an imitation of logs.
4. You can cover the roof with cotton pads.
5. Fill the space around the house with cotton wool, white napkins soaked in PVA or other material that imitates snow.
6. Make snowflakes and stars with a curly hole punch. Stick them on the house.
7. Create a fence out of sticks.
8. Arrange the figures of New Year's characters, Christmas trees.
9. Decorate the craft with sparkles, glue on sprinkled beads or sequins.

In a word, decorating a house is an exciting creative process. Fantasize!

How to make a collage craft

If you don't have the time or enough cardboard to build a three-dimensional house, you can do the same in relief using the appliqué technique.

Let the child first make a drawing of "Santa Claus's House" on a dense base, and then cut and paste together the same decor that was described in the instructions for decorating the three-dimensional structure. This option is much faster and easier to do. By the way, with such a collage, in which a drawing and an application are combined, you can decorate the New Year'spostcard.

As you can see, you can make a beautiful house of Santa Claus with your own hands in both volumetric and embossed versions. Both methods allow you to create spectacular things that are suitable as a task for children in kindergarten or school, and will also be a great gift from a child, for example, for grandparents for the New Year.