DIY Santa Bookmarks for Kids

Instructions

Step 1:

Select the following colors of craft papers for different parts of Santa:-

1) Light pink for the head pattern

2) Red paper for the jacket, trousers and hat cloth patterns

3) Black paper for the shoe pattern

4) White or off-white paper for the beard and moustache patterns; and white embossed paper for the sleeve borders, hat border and tip (pompom).

Trace and cut out the traced patterns using scissors.

Step 2:

Attach the shoe cutouts on either side of the leg cutouts (strips); attach the round embossed paper cutout on the tip of the hat cutout and the embossed paper strip along the bottom side of the hat cutout. Attach the small embossed paper strips along the open ends of the sleeve cutouts.

Step 3:

Attach the beard and the moustache patterns on the pink round cutout (head pattern).

Step 4:

Attach the hat pattern on the top side of the head pattern.

Step 5:
Attach the hand (glove) cutouts to the sleeve patterns and attach the leg patterns to the bottom side of the body base cutout.

Step 6:

Attach the head pattern to the body pattern.

Step 7:

Apply glue on the open side of the arm pattern and attach it to the body base pattern on either side (left or right); keep the rest of the arm pattern free from glue.

Step 8:

Similarly, attach the other arm pattern to the opposite side of the previous one.

Use a black gel pen to draw the eyes, nose and mouth of the papercraft Santa Claus figure.

Step 9:
To use the Santa Claus papercraft as a bookmark, slide a page between the body and the arms.