DLTK's Holiday Crafts for Kids
Sleepy Santa Paper Craft

This is a cute craft of Santa in his pj's wearing his fluffy reindeer slippers. The kids will get a kick seeing what Santa looks like when he gets ready for bed. It's a good craft to hang up in their bedrooms.

My girls liked the fact that the Santa Claus paper craft looks the same as the Sleepy Santa Craft -- we have Sleepy Santa hanging in the bedroom and Santa Claus hanging by the fireplace.  They liked the candy-cane suspenders too *grin*.

Materials:

• a printer,
• a piece of paper,
• some crayons, paint, markers or pencil crayons,
• scissors, and
• glue.

Instructions:

• Print out the template of choice. 
  • There is a choice between a large Santa (3 templates) or a small Santa (1 template).  I prefer the large version, but it takes more paper and ink.
  • You also have a choice between making Santa hold a cookie or making him hold a "Twas the Night Before Christmas" book.
• Colour (where appropriate) and cut out the template pieces.
• To glue together:
  • Glue reindeer slippers onto the bottom of the large body piece.
  • Glue the cookie or "Twas the Night Before Christmas" book (depending on which you choose) onto the tummy.
  • Glue the arms so the shoulders line up with the top of the body piece and the hands overlap the cookie or book.
  • Glue the head onto the top of the body. 
    • On the large templates, the head is in a few different pieces.  Glue the round face on first.
    • Add the beard and mustache.
    • Glue the hat/hair on last.

Printable Craft Templates:

• After printing, close the template window to return to the main page.
• If the template doesn’t fit on one page, adjust your printer margins:
  • In most browsers: Print → More settings → Margins → Minimum
  • Or use Page Setup / Printer Setup in your printer dialog

Small Template  (choose one of the following):

• (with cookie)   (color)   or   (B&W)
• (with book)      (color)   or   (B&W)

OR

Large Template (takes three pages):   

• Body    (color)   or   (B&W)
• Head    (color)   or   (B&W)
• COOKIE   (color)  (B&W)    OR   BOOK   (color)  (B&W)

Printable version of these instructions