If you often work with children, you will certainly want to make a house of Santa Claus with your own hands. This craft looks very beautiful. The child will be happy to show imagination when creating a miniature model of this fabulous architectural structure. Using the advice from the article, the student will be able to independently make the craft. Younger children will need adult help. Organize an interesting, fascinating creative process together with the guys.
Original Christmas crafts
The photo above shows how festive and elegant things made by children happen. Of course, there are a lot of ideas for souvenirs for the winter holiday. They make snowmen, Christmas decorations, snowflakes, bells, gift socks, Christmas trees, decorate champagne bottles and glasses. To make a house of Santa Claus with your own hands is an original and unusual idea. Any version of this craft looks very beautiful, because it is a composition of several objects. Usually the hut is complemented by a fence, snowdrifts around and, of course, the figure of the owner of the home.
Materials and Tools
So, you 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 a nearby store. To work, you will need the following:
- Cardboard or finished box, corresponding in size to the figure of Santa Claus.
- Ruler.
- Pencil.
- Scissors or clerical knife.
- Glue.
- Paints and a container of water.
- Brush or sponge (sponge).
- Decorative paper (silver, mother-of-pearl, holographic, velvet).
- Imitation of snow (cotton, cotton pads, artificial snow).
- Decorative elements (tinsel, sparkles, sequins, white or silver beads).
- Figured hole punch in the form of snowflakes, stars (optional).
- Sticks for the fence.
- Sculptures of Santa Claus and the Snow Maiden.
- Fir-trees, snowmen and other winter holiday attributes.
Modern materials from sets for children's creativity allow you to create very interesting and spectacular crafts. Working with beautiful cardboard, such as corrugated with a metallized print, curly scissors or hole punchers, is very impressive for children. Such an activity develops imagination, perseverance and stimulates the manifestation of interest in art and design work.
DIY Santa Claus house: how to make a foundation
To make a strong blank for a model of an architectural structure, you can act in three ways:
- Take a box of a suitable size, cut on the side surfaces of windows and doors, build a roof from the upper plane.
- To make all parts (walls, roof slopes) from a sheet of cardboard and glue them together.
- Draw on the cardboard a blank in the form of a scanning pattern, which will later be folded into a three-dimensional house.
When working with the first method, it will be more convenient to first disassemble (glue) the bottom of the box and fold the structure itself so that you did not have to weigh the windows, doors and cut them out. The main thing here is to find a workpiece of a suitable size. If it is, it will greatly simplify the process of creating crafts. You can start decorating almost immediately.
The second method, the simplest and most understandable for the child: painted one wall, the second, etc., cut out everything and glued it together. In this option, it is important to neatly and firmly connect the parts so that the house does not fall apart later and does not look like a folded 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, imagining how to assemble a voluminous thing from a flat sheet using folds. As a sample, you can take a box of any size disassembled to a flat blank and draw a template of a scale suitable for you on it. 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 scheme.
Decorate the blank
New Year crafts (photos presented above) should look festive and elegant. To do this, it makes sense to work in the following sequence:
- When you have made blanks of cardboard, paint them in suitable colors.
- Cut platbands, doors from decorative paper and glue them in their places.
- From the corrugated cardboard, make strips and stick on the corners of the structure. This will be an imitation of logs.
- You can cover the roof with cotton pads.
- Fill the space around the house with cotton wool, white napkins soaked in PVA or other material that simulates snow.
- Make snowflakes and stars with a curly hole punch. Stick them on the house.
- Gather the picket fence.
- Arrange figures of New Year characters, Christmas trees.
- Decorate the craft with sparkles, glue the poured beads or sequins.
In a word, decorating a house is a fascinating creative process. Imagine!
How to make a collage artwork
If you do not have time or enough cardboard to build a voluminous house, the same can be done in the form of a relief using the application technique.
Let the child first draw on a solid basis the drawing "House of Santa Claus", 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 drawing and application are combined, you can decorate a New Year's card.
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 a kindergarten or school, and will also be an excellent gift from a child, for example, for grandparents on New Year's.