DIY Pasta Puppet Santa Claus
Creating a DIY Pasta Puppet Santa Claus is a fun and festive craft that kids and adults will enjoy making together! To start, gather some pasta noodles like penne, farfalle, and rigatoni to use as the body parts of Santa. Use paint or markers to color the pasta pieces in red and white to resemble Santa's traditional suit. Glue on googly eyes, a cotton ball for the beard, and a small pom-pom for the nose to bring your pasta puppet Santa to life! Get creative and add any extra touches like a tiny Santa hat or a miniature toy sack in his hand. Once your masterpiece is complete, use it as a decoration for the holiday season or have a puppet show with your adorable Pasta Puppet Santa Claus. Enjoy the magical moments of crafting and spreading Christmas cheer with your homemade creation!
What you need:
- Elastic string
- Pipe cleaners
- Apple Barrel Acrylic Paint
- Paintbrush
- White pom poms
- Black marker
- Wooden skewer
- Scissors
- Hot glue gun
- Red paper
- Wooden beads
Instructions:
Step 1
Cut a piece of elastic string and place 1 small and 1 large wooden bead at the top to be Santa’s head. Bend two pipe cleaners in half and place on the string – these will be Santa’s arms and legs. Place pasta noodles along the body between the pipe cleaners (3), on the pipe cleaner arms (2) separated by a small wooden bead, and on the legs (2) again separated by a small wooden bead.
Step 2
Paint the pasta noodles red and let dry completely.
Step 3
Thread the painted noodles and beads onto the pipe cleaners to form arms – bend the end into a little loop to be the hand. Do the same for the legs.
Step 4
Tie a loop at the top of the string and then thread on the two wooden beads. Next tie the string around the center of the arms pipe cleaner, string on the torso pasta noodles, and then tie the string around the legs pipe cleaner.
Step 5
Cut two pear-shaped belly and a Santa hat out of red paper. Hot glue the belly onto the torso, with another on the back. Glue the red hat onto the wooden bead head, hiding the mini bead.
Step 6
Decorate the Santa suit with white pom poms and draw on a face.
Step 7
Put the loop onto a wooden skewer and tie a string onto one arm and then the skewer, and another string from the other arm to the skewer. Voila!