Santa Claus Craft - Dancing Santa Handcraft

Celebrate Christmas with Santa Claus. Let kids have fun making a cool Santa Claus craft. This dancing Santa handcraft is perfect for preschoolers.

Contents show

Christmas Handcrafted Santa for Kids

Dancing Santa Claus Craft for Kids Handcraft Worksheets (4-6 Year Olds)

FREE PRINTABLE WORKSHEETS

After doing the Santa Claus craft give kids some fun worksheets too. Click the link below to download and print.

Download the Free Printable Worksheets

Christmas is an important and memorabledate we love to share with our beloved ones. In fact, there is not a better opportunity for children to give a present made by themselves. Making crafts will allow children to give their families a beautiful gift. Still, they will also feel happy and proud of themselves when making those gifts because they realize they can create with their hands.

When children make handcrafts, they receive tons of mental and physical benefits. Although stress can be felt at any age, these kinds of activities are intended to be stress-free. Children also enhance their hand-brain coordination as the brain is structuring and ordering thoughts.

Through crafts, children develop their creativity and ability to solve problems; that is, it helps improve boys’ and girls’ intelligence. That’s why so many manual activities are carried out in the kindergarten, as it is a learning strategy.

When doing manual activities, children can work with different materials. This will help them to perceive and identify textures. Similarly, this allows us to teach children about the importance of recycling and the new use that we can give our materials. How beautiful and essential it is that children can make a work of art with their own hands and at the same time take care of the planet. That’s the ideal opportunity to promote crafts in children.

THEME: SANTA CLAUS CRAFT FOR KIDS

HOW DO WE DO THIS ACTIVITY?

Topic: Handcrafts/Christmas Activity for Kids

Age: 4-6-year-old children

Goal: Through this Santa Claus craft activity, children will strengthen their hand and finger movements while doing the crafts.

Difficulty level: This kids’ activity is designed to be done independently by following instructions.

Skills:

Focus
Memory
Following instructions
Recycling awareness
Hand and finger movements accuracy

MATERIALS

Glue
Colored paper (red & pink)
Scissors
A marker
White cardboard/construction paper

ACTIVITY DEVELOPMENT

Step 1:

Fold the cardboard/construction paper and cut it into a semi-circle, like a half-moon shape.

cut the half-moon shape of the construction paper

Step 2:

Use the pink paper to draw Santa’s face.

Step 3:

Paste the Santa’s face to the semi-circle.

Step 4:

Draw Santa’s eyes and mouth using the marker.

Step 5:

Use the red paper to cut Santa’s hat for this Santa Claus craft. Next, cut a piece of white paper to make the “fur” trim for the hat. Also, cut a small circle (like a ball) to glue to the top of Santa’s hat. Then gluethe hat to Santa’s head.

ACTIVITY RESULT

A Santa Claus Craft. Handcraft for Pre-K.

HOW TO CARRY OUT THIS SANTA CLAUS CRAFT ACTIVITY WITH CHILDREN OF OTHER AGES?

CHANGES FOR CHILDREN UNDER 4 YEARS OLD – Christmas Handcraft Activity for Younger Children

It would help if you lowered the difficulty level of this Santa Claus craft activity to carry it out with younger children. It is possible children don’t know to use the scissors safely, so an adult should help them cut out the figures and shapes, and then children can glue them together.

CHANGES FOR CHILDREN OLDER THAN 6 – Handcraft Christmas Activity for Kids

This Santa Claus craft activity can be done with older children. Indeed,children have already had to strengthen their hand muscles and precision in their movements at this age. After cutting and arranging each figure forming their craft, they can decorate it using glitter or cotton balls. For this process, they need to have the ability to put the glitter and on the glue line.

WATCH THE STEP-BY-STEP INSTRUCTIONS HERE

VIDEO DESCRIPTION – A DANCING SANTA CLAUS CRAFT

In this Santa Claus craft video, you will find the step-by-step of activity “A DANCING SANTA,” designed for 4-6-year-old boys and girls. A craft was made using different materials and using scissors. It will allow children to gain concentration, memory, following instructions, awareness about recycling, and precision in hand and finger movements. The materials needed for elaborating the materials are glue, colored paper, scissors, a marker, and white cardboard/construction paper.

Do you like this Christmas Santa Claus craft? Make sure to check out our other articles

Check out our awesome collection of 101 Free Printable Christmas Coloring Pages for Kids and 101 Pages of Fun Free Printable Christmas Activity Worksheets for Preschoolers
Stimulate kids’ senses with the Where is Santa Claus? Sensory Activities for Preschoolers with Free Printable Worksheets (2-4 Year Olds)
Kids will enjoy doing the Santa Claus Drawing Christmas Art for Kindergarten Worksheets (4-6 Year Olds)
Do fun crafts with kids, check out Snowman Paper Plate Art Craft for Kids with Preschool Worksheets (4-6 Year Olds)

Get super adorable clothes for your little ones, check out this Christmas Santa paws kids tshirt.

I’d like to know what you think of our Christmas Santa Claus craft for kindergarten. Please leave a comment below.

Author
Recent Posts

Liliana

Liliana is a Licensed Montessori teacher known for her passion and dedication to education. She's been a teacher in the United States for many years, and she truly believes that education is the key to making the world a better place because today's students are tomorrow's leaders. Her experience with Toddlers, Beginners, VPK with Montessori methodology approach; Kindergarten, and first grade made her an authority and trusted resource. Liliana's family taught her important qualities like love, a positive attitude, strong motivation, and leadership. These values have guided her on her journey to becoming a professional and expert teacher. Her mission is to help children grow and contribute to a brighter future for the country.