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Paper Santa Lantern

November 22, 2018

Looking for a nice and easy Paper Christmas Craft for Kids?! Look no further. Our guest writer Creating Creatives is BACK! Love this take on the “classic” paper lantern, which is so fun to make and how she turns it into this fabulous Paper Santa Lantern.. add a tea light or string them up as a paper Santa Lantern.. either way, they are just the cutest! And the best bit? They come complete with free template for extra easy making. Over to Creating Creatives!

See all ofย Creating Creativesย guest posts on Red Ted Art here!

On to our Paper Christmas Decoration Santa

Happy Christmas Tedsters! Weโ€™re back and weโ€™ve brought a friend, Jolly Olโ€™ St. Nicolas! My kids and I had such a lovely time making these sweet Santa Paper Lanterns and we hope you will too!

As always if you decide to give it a go weโ€™d love to see how they turn out so feel free to tag me on Instagram @creatingcreatives.

Easy Paper Santa Lantern for Christmas. Love this Paper Christmas Craft for kids. Santa Lantern decorations. Just the cutest! Thank you Creating Creatives! #Christmas #paper #santa

Paper Santa Lantern – Supplies:

Easy Paper Santa Lantern for Christmas. Love this Paper Christmas Craft for kids. Santa Lantern decorations. Just the cutest! Thank you Creating Creatives! #Christmas #paper #santa

  • 1 Piece of Red Paper
  • 1 Piece of White Paper
  • 1 Piece of Skin Colored Paper
  • Black & Red marker
  • Red Pom Pom for nose & White Pom Pom for hat
  • Scissors
  • Stapler
  • Glue

How to make a paper lantern Santa for Christmas

Begin with your classic Paper Lantern

Fold your red paper lengthwise and fully cut a section off from the top, this will be the handle. Draw a line about ยฝโ€ (1-2cms) from the edge of the long side of the folded paper, opposite the folded side. This will be the line where you stop cutting. Cut slits all along the folded side.

Easy Paper Santa Lantern for Christmas. Love this Paper Christmas Craft for kids. Santa Lantern decorations. Just the cutest! Thank you Creating Creatives! #Christmas #paper #santa

Open up your paper, and match up the long edges on the top and bottom to form a lantern shape. Tape or staple them together. Then staple your handle strip to the top

Easy Paper Santa Lantern for Christmas. Love this Paper Christmas Craft for kids. Santa Lantern decorations. Just the cutest! Thank you Creating Creatives! #Christmas #paper #santa

Time for Santa’s Paper Face

Now itโ€™s time to cut out the Santa Face pieces: circle face, mustache, hat brim and hat triangle. You can do this from our printable, or free hand. If youโ€™d like to do it free hand hereโ€™s what we did.

  1. Santa Face โ€“ Trace around a coffee cup on your skin colored paper and cut it out.
  2. On your white paper trace around your coffee cup with a light stroke, then draw in your mustache and hat brim and cut them out. You can see how we drew ours in the picture below.
  3. Cut out a red triangle hat to fit your hat brim.

Easy Paper Santa Lantern for Christmas. Love this Paper Christmas Craft for kids. Santa Lantern decorations. Just the cutest! Thank you Creating Creatives! #Christmas #paper #santa

 

Glue all your pieces together. Once theyโ€™re glued you can glue on your pom pom nose and hat bobble, then add in face details with your black and red markers. My kids also added some hat decoration, which I think adds so much personality!

Easy Paper Santa Lantern for Christmas. Love this Paper Christmas Craft for kids. Santa Lantern decorations. Just the cutest! Thank you Creating Creatives! #Christmas #paper #santa

Itโ€™s time to make the beard. Lay your Santa face on some white paper and draw a long beard shape. Make sure the shape goes all the way up to Santaโ€™s hat, then cut it out.

Then, draw some lines from the bottom of the beard all the way up to just past Santaโ€™s face then cut along the lines.

Take a pencil and curl the paper around the pencil to make his curly beard, then glue the beard to the back of his head.

Easy Paper Santa Lantern for Christmas. Love this Paper Christmas Craft for kids. Santa Lantern decorations. Just the cutest! Thank you Creating Creatives! #Christmas #paper #santa

Once your pom poms have dried glue your Santa head onto your lantern, lining up the top of Santaโ€™s brim with the top of the lantern.

Easy Paper Santa Lantern for Christmas. Love this Paper Christmas Craft for kids. Santa Lantern decorations. Just the cutest! Thank you Creating Creatives! #Christmas #paper #santa

Youโ€™re done! Hang and enjoy!

Easy Paper Santa Lantern for Christmas. Love this Paper Christmas Craft for kids. Santa Lantern decorations. Just the cutest! Thank you Creating Creatives! #Christmas #paper #santa

More fabulous inspiration by Creating Creatives:

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12 Days of Christmas Ornaments

Poinsettia Craft

Scrape Painting Christmas Garland

Looking for more Christmas Paper Crafts for Kids…

Easy Paper Santa Lantern for Christmas. Love this Paper Christmas Craft for kids. Santa Lantern decorations. Just the cutest! Thank you Creating Creatives! #Christmas #paper #santa

Easy Paper Santa Lantern for Christmas. Love this Paper Christmas Craft for kids. Santa Lantern decorations. Just the cutest! Thank you Creating Creatives! #Christmas #paper #santa

 

 

 

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