DIY Santa Claus from a stocking

It’s easy to make a toy Santa Claus with your own hands from such a simple thing as a nylon stocking. The craft will take its rightful place under the Christmas tree or will be an unusual gift for relatives and friends. Next, let's look at the main points of making a toy.

Features and recommendations for creating Santa Claus from a stocking

Nylon stockings are an affordable and versatile material for New Year's crafts. It is recommended to use white or flesh-colored material. Before you start making a toy, in addition to nylon stockings, you need to prepare the following materials:

• plastic cup or bottle;
• red velvet and satin;
• padding polyester or other filler;
• artificial fur;
• hot glue;
• colored paper;
• sewing supplies;
• wire;
• acrylic paints, pencils and other tools.

Attention! You should choose the right bottle according to the required parameters. If you plan to place the toy under the Christmas tree, then it is better to take a five-liter bottle.

How to make Santa Claus from a nylon stocking with your own hands: step-by-step instructions

The head of Grandfather Frost, made of nylon, turns out to be voluminous and realistic. A plastic bottle or cup is also used as a base in this example. The step-by-step process looks like this:

1. A plastic bottle should be wrapped in a piece of padding polyester and the edges should be sewn up with hot glue. This will prevent the material from shifting. At the same time, we fill the upper part with filler, forming the head of the product. Next, we tie the neck with a thread, put a nylon stocking on the head and tighten the neck again.
2. Then we pull the white one over the flesh-colored stocking and tighten it again with thread.
3. One side of the stocking should be pulled up and filler should be added to the resulting compartment. The main task here is to form the parts of Santa Claus's face (nose, chin, cheeks and place for the eyes).
4. • Hands are easy to make using wire. To do this, it is wrapped in a piece of padding polyester and the resulting element is fixed to the body of the craft. Mittens made of white fabric should be worn on the edges of your hands.
5. The resulting base of the body should be wrapped in padding polyester and the edges sewn together.
6. The fur coat must be sewn from a piece of red velvet. The arms can be made separately and sewed directly to the fur coat.
7. Decorative cuffs should be sewn onto the bottom of the fur coat and sleeves.
8. Then you need to cut a circle out of cardboard and connect it to the bottom of the bottle. We carefully wrap the fur edges onto cardboard and glue them.
9. To create a beard and hair, you can use long-haired fur. The hat is made from the same fabric as the main suit. It can be cut in the shape of a triangle. A piece of fur frill is sewn onto the edge of the cap. The finished product is put on the head of a fairy-tale old man and sewn on.

The main advantage of using a nylon stocking is the ability to sculpt realistic parts of a character's face. So, after it is twisted up, all its layers should be secured with a pin. The nose is stitched using thread and needle. Then the stocking is unrolled and padding is added to form the chin and cheeks. At each stage, the stocking is fixed with pins and the necessary details are “fashioned”. You can use bright beads as eyes or paint them with acrylic paints. Cheeks can be cut out of colored paper.

Important! Makeup for Santa Claus can be done by applying blush to the cheeks and nose or using a scarlet lip pencil. To fix the design, it can be treated with hairspray.

Options for additional decor for Santa Claus

The image of a fairy-tale character will be completed with traditional props - a staff and a bag for gifts. The bag can be sewn from satin or other red material. Using braid, you can write New Year's greetings on it. The internal contents can be filled with cotton wool or real candies, depending on the size of the bag. For reliability, it is better to sew it to the hand of Santa Claus.

Also, the New Year's character's costume can be decorated with bright garlands or rain. You can use acrylic paints of golden or silver color. They can be used to paint interesting snow patterns on the costume.

Reference! You can use a pencil as a staff. It should be wrapped with padding polyester and decorated with decorative braid or garland. It is better to glue the staff to the hand of a fairy-tale character.

Among the large number of New Year's heroes, of course, the most important is Santa Claus. You can make a fairy-tale old man with your own hands and using improvised means.We hope that this article will be useful and will help you make an unusual decoration for the New Year's celebration.