Mask of Santa Claus. We create with children

Soon the New Year, and adults need to think about what to give to your child's holiday and how to diversify the holiday so that it will be remembered for a long time. From this article you will learn how to make a mask of Santa Claus from various materials with your own hands. You will learn how to make it from paper, plasticine and polymer clay.

The most simple mask of Santa Claus from paper

If you want to make the Grandfather Frost mask with your hands together with the child, then stock up on paper, paints, glue and plain cotton. Paper is best to take a color - light pink and red. However, for the hood any color is suitable. Paints can also take any - watercolor, gouache or acrylic.

First, cut a light circle from light pink paper, attach it to the child's face and roughly estimate how the eyes should be placed. Then use scissors to make neat slits for the eyes of an oval or round shape. Draw a red paint with your mouth. Draw a pink paint on your nose and ruddy cheeks. Then cut the hood out of the red paper and glue it to the head with glue.

Then take the cotton wool and make a beard, a mustache, fur on the cap and pompon. If desired, you can pour a sparkle on your beard. Then glue two ropes or an elastic band to the product. The mask of Santa Claus with his own hands is made and ready for use!

A more complex piece of cotton wool and paper

To make such a mask, will have to try. As a white base-beard, you can take a cardboard plate, which you can buy at almost any store. The hood can be made of thick red paper or hard felt. First, take a cardboard plate and cut the bottom completely. Then make a triangle of colored paper or felt. Gently glue or sew a cap to the white circle. If the hood falls, then it can be fixed with a simple cardboard on the back side.

Then take the cotton wool. It is best to take cotton swabs, then you do not have to form balls. Glue with a glue of PVA to the mask. Make thus the beard of Santa Claus, fur and pompon on the hat. As a decoration on the cap, you can paste a small green leaf from colored paper or felt.

Another way to make a mask! Polymer clay

There is another way to make a beautiful mask of Santa Claus. To do this, you will need polymer body clay, red and white, acrylic paints, plastic lacquer, oven, awl or toothpicks. Before you make a Santa Claus mask of polymer clay, carefully prepare your workplace. Wipe the table from dust and wash your hands. White clay should always be kept closed so that it does not get dirty.

First, from the clay of flesh-colored blush the face of Santa Claus. It can be both flat and volumetric. Immediately say that to sculpt a flat face is much easier, but it will not be so alive. Then, blind a small cap from the red clay and stick to the grandfather's face. Draw a red powder on your cheeks. From white clay, form a beard. Draw a texture of hair with a toothpick or an awl. Do not forget to make slits for the eyes. Then send the mask to the oven for about half an hour. Remember that the thickness of the workpiece should not exceed five millimeters. After the mask of Santa Claus is baked, let it cool right in the oven. If you pull it out immediately, then you risk breaking your product. Once the mask has cooled down, you can proceed to further work. You can sink a cap or tint your cheeks. By the way, if you want the Santa Claus mask to turn out to be easy, you can make a mustache, beard, fur and pompon made of cotton. To polymer clay it is better to glue it on quick-drying glue. If you use PVA, the cotton wool may just fall off.

How to make an easy and voluminous mask? Papie-mache - a way out of the situation

If you do not want to spend a lot of money on polymer clay, and then also suffer with baking, then make your mask out of papier-mache. For this you will need plasticine, paper, small emery, PVA glue, paints and varnish with an elastic band. First make a form - the face of Santa Claus from plasticine. Then take the paper and tear it into small pieces, which then fill with PVA glue. Then glue Santa Claus face with paper. The more the number of layers, the thicker and stronger the mask of Santa Claus. After all the layers have dried, you can pull all the clay from it. Align the edges of the mask, and then walk on it with a small nazhdachkoy.

After all these simple manipulations you can color your Santa Claus. After you have painted it, you can strew a beard and fur from cotton wool. Do not forget to make slits for the eyes. In addition, to make them look more natural, you can make small holes right in front of your eyes. Mask of Santa Claus is ready!

other methods

What other ways can you make a mask? It would seem that we told you about all the ways. But no! You can make a mask entirely from cotton wool soaked with PVA glue. Also the mask of Santa Claus can be sewn entirely of felt.