Our jolly Santa Yarn Bug makes a terrific bundle topper or a pleasant little present for somebody particular. You may as well make them as place playing cards that individuals can take dwelling as a memento from their Christmas feast.
Trivia:
Santa’s story dates again to 280 A.D. in what right now could be Turkey. Saint Nicholas was a monk who traveled the countryside to help the poor and sick. Supply: The Each day Mail – Jolly Info You Didn’t Know About Santa Claus
Provides
- White Yarn
- Black Craft Foam
- Crimson Craft Foam
- Crimson Felt
- Wiggle Eyes — 20mm
- 2-1/2″ Styrofoam Ball
- Crimson Pipe Cleaner
- 5″ Sq. of Cardboard
- Cheesy Glue and Clothespins.
- Scissors
- White cotton Batting
- 3/8″ White Pompom
- 5/8″ White Pompom
- Blush
Directions
- Make a pompom by wrapping yarn round a 5″ piece of cardboard at the least 100 occasions. Minimize a 6″ piece of yarn and slide it below wrapped yarn. Tie tightly right into a double knot. Flip cardboard over and minimize utterly by way of yarn on this facet. Flip yarn blob sideways and easy down strands.
- Press Styrofoam ball onto a tough floor to flatten backside. (You may as well use an egg carton part.) Cowl the highest and sides of the ball with cheesy glue. Separate the strands of the pompom to suit the Styrofoam ball up inside. Press pompon into place. Organize yarn.
- Print any patterns your bug would possibly want. Staple throughout patterns onto craft foam or felt as listed within the provide record. Minimize out items.
- Glue the underside of the Styrofoam ball on to the froth ft.
- For non-compulsory arms, minimize the pipe cleaner in half. Glue on fingers. Poke the pipe cleaners into the bug for arms. Bend on the elbows.
- Glue on the wiggle eyes.
- Roll the hat right into a cone. Glue. Use clothespins to carry it till dry. Minimize a 3/4″ strip of cotton batting and glue across the base of the hat. Glue a pompom onto the purpose. Fold hat level down and glue. Glue it to the highest of the yarn bug.
- Glue on pompom nostril.
- Apply just a little blush to the nostril.
