I love Christmas and crafting so much, but recovering from hip surgery really puts a damper on things. Riley's toddler friends are having they're Christmas party Saturday and the Mommies discussed bringing a food item and a craft for each of the kiddos in attendance. We're talking less than 10 toddlers here. I knew exactly what I had the resources and physical capability for.
I saw this idea on Pinterest and loved it, a Christmas countdown where you glue a cotton ball onto Santa's bare chin. When the last one is on (beard full) Santa comes that night.
Materials- Santa face/template
- Construction Paper
- Cotton Balls
- Glue
- Scissors
- Crayons/Markers/Colored Pencils
- Glitter
Frist here is the first tmplate I found: Template from Pinterest. I love this one, but I didn't want to waste all the blue ink for the background. I debated cutting out individual Santa facial features for each one, but decide to Google first. I found and used this one: Template I used. I think it would be just fine to print Santa coloring pages and hand draw or stamp numbers on too.
Next I used glitter on the holly on Santa's hat. Don't you love glittery Christmas decorations? I also colored his cherry nose and hat red. I cut out Santa and glued him to some green construction paper. Then I used a gold marker write the poem: Santa's beard is very bare On his chin there is no hair! So each day add a puff of white When they're all on, he'll come that night!
After that I just counted out cotton balls. I only had jumbo ones so I had to cut them in half, grumble. Smaller fits better for sure. Twenty-four cotton balls in a baggie and they were done. I didn't attach the baggie to Santa just in case mom and dads had other plans, but it would be cute to do a sack out of Christmas fabric for your cotton balls.
Very cute and clever and Inexpensive which tops the list these days, Katie, thanks,
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