This darling Santa Christmas Countdown is the perfect activity for kids! Trim Santa's beard a little bit every day until Christmas Day!
Simple truly is best. If you like the simplicity of this Santa Christmas countdown you will love our paper plate snowman Christmas countdown or footprint reindeer craft, too!
Today I am sharing a fun advent that my children made last week! It was so fun to make and SIMPLE! Christmas countdown and advents can get complicated and expensive. Not this one. Â Our Santa Christmas countdown is perfect for kids! The best part is that is is made out of paper. You can use copy paper or construction paper, it's up to you. If you don't have beige paper, you can color white paper with a flesh colored crayon!
More Simple Christmas Countdown Ideas
Tissue Paper Advent Calendar: A simple DIY advent calendar made from paper cups and tissue paper. Kids can break open the tissue each day to find the surprise inside!
Gingerbread Cookie Countdown: Count down the days to Christmas with a Christmas cookie advent! Cut one cookie off every day until Christmas Eve.
Gum Advent Packs: A fun advent for tweens and teens! Enjoy a piece every day until Christmas.
Paper Plate Snowman Christmas Countdown: This snowman Christmas countdown is made out of a paper plate! Countdown the days by turning the snowman’s nose. Simple for kids to make and so inexpensive. A great school craft idea to make after Thanksgiving break.
Santa Christmas Countdown
Supplies
- card stock or construction paper
- glue stick
- scissors
- pen
- ruler or straight edge
How to assemble your Santa Christmas Countdown
Step 1: Cut out a beard from a piece of 8.5 x 11" cardstock. You can let the kids create their own shapes by drawing on the paper with a pencil if you'd like, but I found it easier (for my age group) to have everything cut ahead of time.
Step 2: Cut out whiskers, a pom pom for the hat, the hat trim and a trapezoid for Santa's head.
Step 3: Cut out a red triangle for the hat and a small circle for the nose.
Step 4: Cut a face out of peach/beige paper.
Step 5: Glue the pieces together using a glue stick.
Step 6: Add eyes using a black marker.
I let the kids assemble them by themselves. I love how different they turned out even though they had the same assembly pieces!
Step 6: Draw lines across Santa's beard and number them, one for each day until Christmas.
Step 7: Hand Santa on the refrigerator and trim a slice from his beard every day!
Here are some fun variation ideas! Use google eyes for the eyes or add a pom pom for the hat. You could also add some cotton ball trim to the brim of Santa's hat.
Note: if your child is too small to use scissors, or even understand the concept, they may have fun glueing a cotton ball to Santa's beard each day instead. My daughter was only 3 when we made these so she colored on Santa's beard instead.
Jill @ KitchenFunWithMy3Sons.com says
Cute! We would love for you to share this on our Kitchen Fun and Crafty link party! http://kitchenfunwithmy3sons.blogspot.com/2012/11/kitchen-fun-and-crafty-friday-link_15.html
Lindsi B says
Aw, that is an adorable Santa Advent! He turned out fantastic! I bet your children had a blast making him with you. Would you please share this with my readers for Fun Stuff Fridays linky party? http://www.toysinthedryer.com/2011/12/fun-stuff-fridays-2.html
Tenille says
I love this idea. So cute and clever. My boys would love this. Thanks for sharing. I would love it if you could link this up to our linky party going on right now.
http://www.junkintheirtrunk.blogspot.com/2011/11/link-it-up-wednesday-5.html
Natasha in Oz says
You have shared some great ideas today-thank you! This project is great because the kids can get involved.
I am hosting two link ups at the moment and I would be so honoured if you could join in with one or even both of them! The first is my weekly Pinterest party @ 5 Minutes Just for Me and the second is an Advent calendar link up as part of my 12 Days of Christmas series at my Christmas blog. I sure do hope you can pop by and visit!
Best Christmas wishes,
Natasha.
Deb @ Paper Turtle says
This is adorable! And I love the one with your sons numbers too. :o)
Eva Scott says
Here from Skip to My Lou
Really cute advent calendar! My kids are a bit young but I'll save this for later. 🙂
Janny says
How fun! And the kids get to do it too! I really like this Advent Calendar.
Tracey @ My House of Giggles says
So, so cute! What a fun idea to do with the kids 🙂 They look like they were pretty into it 😉 Love it!
bgorden says
This is SUPER cute! I wanted to invite you to link up at TGIF Linky Party http://livinglifeintentionally.blogspot.com/search/label/Linkey%20Parties
Beth =-)
CSI girl says
SO cute!!!
I hope you will come link this up to the CSI Project. The challenge this week is Advent Calendars. You could take home the top prize or the great giveaway. Come over all week for tutorials and enter the FB giveaway!
http://www.thecsiproject.com
Shannah @ Just Us Four says
Loving all the advent calendar ideas. Thanks for sharing.