DIY Santa Claus made of polymer clay. Master classes. DIY clay Santa Claus. Master class with step-by-step photos How to make Santa Claus from clay

Modeling from polymer clay is an interesting and exciting activity that will appeal to both children and adults. I bring to your attention a very simple and detailed master class on sculpting Santa Claus, which can be presented as a souvenir or used for New Year's decor for a small Christmas tree.

To perform Santa Claus you will need:

Polymer clay of various colors;
- A small piece of food foil;
- Plastic board for modeling;
- Special tools for modeling: stacks, boules with balls of different diameters at the end, a knife, a thin rolling pin.

1. Knead the polymer clay and prepare the balls, observing their proportions, as in the photo.
2. Roll the foil into a tight ball. Roll green polymer clay into a thin layer and stick it around a ball of foil - this will be the body of Santa Claus.
3. Stick a red ball-blank for a hat to the body.
4. Form a hat by extending the red ball into a cone, and mold the polymer clay at the junction (cap to body) tightly together.
5. Place the workpiece on a flat surface and gently roll it out with your fingers, giving the workpiece an elongated shape.

6. Roll out a beige ball into a thin round cake and stick it to the blank - this will be the face.
7. Roll out a thin sausage from white polymer clay, roll it into a “C” shape and flatten it a little - this will be a beard.
8-9. Carefully stick the beard to the workpiece, press the relief on it with a thin flat stack and form an uneven edge.
10-11. Roll a thinner sausage for the mustache, shape it and cut it in half with a blade. Stick the mustache to the workpiece and give it relief using the same flat and thin stack.

12. Form a nose from a small beige sausage, stick it to the face, use a small ball to smooth out the joints and make them as invisible as possible. Make small beady eyes from black polymer clay. Roll out the white polymer clay into a thin layer, use a blade to cut a thin long strip, which you stick along the bottom edge of the cap.
13. Use rolls and stacks to give the white edge stripe relief. Make a bubo for a hat from a small white ball.
14. Roll sausages for the handles from green polymer clay, bend them at the elbows and stick small balls for the palms from beige polymer clay. Stick the arms to the body, carefully smooth the joints on the shoulder with a large ball.
15. To make Santa Claus stable, mold legs from brown polymer clay and stick them to the body.

Bake the completed Santa Claus in the oven (follow the temperature and baking time exactly as per the instructions on the packaging of your polymer clay).

Santa Claus made of clay. Master class with step-by-step photos.

Alyabyeva Marina Viktorovna, teacher of additional education, MBUDO Central Children's Education Center of the city of Dimitrovgrad, Ulyanovsk region.
Description: The master class is intended for children of preschool and primary school age, additional education teachers, educators, technology teachers and creative parents.

Purpose: figurine of Santa Claus - can be a decoration of the interior of the room for the New Year holidays.

Target: making a souvenir from clay.

Tasks:
1. Introduce the technique and methods of sculpting a figurine of Santa Claus from clay;
2. Create a desire to make a figurine of Santa Claus from the natural material clay;
3. Develop fine motor skills, imagination, artistic taste;
4. Learn to sculpt and connect parts, applying them well to the base, taking into account the properties of the clay;
5. Develop an eye and sense of proportion;
6. Encourage desire, make exclusive gifts with your own hands and do something nice for others.

Where are you from, Santa Claus?

Perhaps the story of Father Frost, a kind gray old man with a beard and a bag of gifts, and his Western brother Santa Claus originates from the Great Old Man of the North? This is the evil deity of the Celts, the lord of blizzards and cold. Once upon a time he did not give out gifts, but on the contrary, he was angry and demanding. And he carried a bag with him to collect sacrifices from people. In those ancient times, people believed that spirits protected them, they appeased these spirits in every possible way and thanked them for their care. At holidays, they represented the spirits of their ancestors, dressing in the most terrible and unusual outfits. It was called caroling. Young people especially loved caroling, of course. One of the young men dressed more terribly than anyone else. He was forbidden to speak; he had to portray a formidable and omnipotent spirit - Grandfather. There is a version that it was the mighty and terrible Grandfather who was later reborn into the kind Grandfather Frost. And now he does not scare or punish anyone, but, on the contrary, brings joy and gifts.
Or maybe the story of Santa Claus comes from the fairytale Red Nose Frost? This fairy tale hero was invented by the Russian people themselves. It was the master of winter, snow and frost. Once upon a time they called him Grandfather Treskun and claimed that he was a little old man with a beard and a stern disposition. Even the Sun allegedly feared his formidable character, and from November to March, Grandfather Treskun owned all the lands, fields and forests undividedly.
And we were first introduced to that same handsome grandfather, kind and cheerful, whom we are now waiting so impatiently for, in 1840 by Vladimir Odoevsky in the story “Moroz Ivanovich.” It was Odoevsky who managed to retell the folk tale “Morozko” in a completely new way, and turned the evil, like the Celts, Grandfather from the folk tale into a cheerful and friendly old man with gifts. If in the folk tale Grandfather froze the lazy girl, then in Odoevsky's story Frost just gave her a necklace of icicles. But he generously gifted the hardworking girl.
It is interesting that to this day some northern peoples have rituals of “appeasing” Grandfather so that he does not get angry and does not destroy crops, birds and fish. To do this, on New Year's Eve, women put wine and cakes outside the door.
The history of Father Frost remembers many of the old man’s guises, but to us he is more familiar in a long, warm fur coat, painted mittens, and a hat. He must certainly have a long gray beard and a staff in his hands.
The history of the European Father Frost, or Santa Claus, begins in 1823. He was invented by Clement Clarke Moore and presented as a kind elf. According to Moore, Santa came on eight reindeer and entered houses through the chimney. Santa Claus was dressed in a red fur coat in 1885, and in 1930 the Coca-Cola company depicted Grandfather in the company's colors - red and white. This image of a modern Santa is now known all over the world!
But where old man Frost lives is a separate legend. After all, his place of residence is still not known exactly. They say that he certainly lives in the North Pole, and maybe in Lapland. The old man likes to live in the cold, perhaps he likes the Far North. Odoevsky, in the story about Moroz Ivanovich, “sent” the fairy-tale grandfather into the well. In the spring, grandfather hides there, because it is cold there even in the summer.

Required material: clay, containers with water, plastic boards, rags, glass mats, brushes, foam sponges, whitewash, gouache, clear varnish.

Step-by-step work:

We knead a piece of clay in our hands - we get to know the clay, it feels the energy of the master and will definitely be obedient and pliable. Divide the piece in half - lam, lam, lam, divide the clay in half.
Roll one part into a thick carrot - a cone,

With your thumbs we press it inside the thick part, a void is formed, and the wall thickness is no more than 1 centimeter, but not less than 0.5 centimeters.

We smooth out all the cracks and uneven surfaces, level the edges, with wet hands and sliding movements of the fingers. Place the hollow cone on the wide side.
From the second piece, we separate pieces of the required size in portions, observing the proportions of the figure.
Roll up a plump carrot - the head, and apply its sharp part to the sharp part of the cone.

Roll up two carrots and form a mitten on the wide side, flattening the end and separating the finger.

After wetting the connection points with water, we apply the sharp part to the cone - hands.

Clay has a characteristic feature - it is resistant to dry hands and a lot of water, and the joints are moistened with water, which in turn plays the role of glue during sculpting. Therefore, we constantly lightly moisten our hands with 2-3 fingers and the joints too. To roll out thin parts well - flagella (fur for decorating a fur coat), you need to roll out pieces of clay on a damp cloth, with your fingers together, fingers apart.
The flagella will turn out to be plastic and will adhere well to the fur coat, pressing along the bottom of the cone, around the mittens, in front, on the collar, on the hat.

At the end, hair is placed between the fur of the hat and the collar and a beard made of carrots, slightly flattened.

If desired, you can use a stack or a pen rod to emboss the beard - strands, fur texture.

The work is ready!
The figurine is dried in natural conditions for 3 to 5 days, avoiding drafts.
We prime the figure with white.

We paint using gouache, brushes and foam sponges for dipping - imitation fur, on a fur coat.
Cover the work with transparent varnish, you can use spray varnish.

And these are the figures my students came up with!

The figurine of Santa Claus is ready, it can rightfully become a pleasant gift for loved ones or decorate our interior for the New Year holidays!
On the same basis, you can mold and paint a figurine of the Snow Maiden. The guys tried their best and this is what they came up with:

The New Year is already so close... and here is my New Year's gift: a master class on making a cotton Santa Claus!

For work we will need:

nude polymer clay
beads for eyes (or ready-made eyes)
velvet (or any other beautiful fabric)
acrylic paints
contours on fabric
plastic bottle
scotch
glue gun
foil
wire
starch.

Let's start by determining the size of our future grandfather. I needed a grandfather with a height of 50 cm, based on this I calculated the size of the head (you can find the proportions of the human body on the Internet). Let's start with the head!

We roll a dense ball out of foil, slightly smaller in size than our future head, and cover it with flesh-colored polymer clay on top:

If you have ready-made eyes, then great, if not, then take suitable beads, like mine, and press them into place of the eye. If the layer of plastic on the foil ball was thin, then it will take considerable force to press the beads into the foil.

If you, like me, use beads instead of eyes, then perhaps at this stage you can paint them white, which I did not do and which I regretted later.

Let's start sculpting the face! Don’t think that this is so difficult... personally, this was also my first face, the main thing here is that the eyes and nose turn out well, the rest is successfully hidden under the mustache, eyebrows and beard of my grandfather. I'll show you step-by-step photos of how I did it:

This is the kind of face I got. As you can see from the last photo, the shape of the head is not round... more like just a face, but that's not critical! We, in fact, needed the face itself; we’ll later fill in the rest with cotton wool. I'm sending my little face to bake!

After baking, we tint our grandfather’s nose and cheeks to create a blush and draw the eyes:

This is where I realized that the whites of the eyes needed to be painted over in advance... it was quite difficult to paint over them without getting white paint on the eyelids.

We cover the finished face with plastic varnish. I remind you that products made of polymer clay (plastic) can ONLY be coated with a special varnish!!! If there is none, then it is better to leave it uncovered, because... Not all varnishes are suitable for these purposes. An unsuitable varnish may simply not dry on the plastic, or it may begin to stick for a while and the whole work will be ruined!

Now you need to make preparations for the rest of the grandfather, i.e. his body. For this we need a plastic bottle and tape!

My bottle turned out to be quite soft and easily deformed, and it was also a bit small in height, so I strengthened it by wrapping it in several layers of tape, and put crumpled newspaper on top to the desired height, also securing it with tape!

But the head turned out to be quite heavy, and the body structure was very light, so I decided to make the bottom heavier. This could be done by filling the bottle with something, but in my case it was too late to do this, because... I already wrapped everything with tape. So I went the other way... I placed glass pebbles between the layers of tape (I didn’t have anything else, although I could have used something less scarce) and wrapped everything up with tape again:

This is what the blank should look like.

Now we attach the head. We drill a hole in the head (here, by the way! the hole for the fastening stick could also be made in advance, even before baking) and glue the fastening stick, and then glue it all into our workpiece. I have a newspaper on top, so the stick went in quite easily:

The preparation for Santa Claus is ready! Well, now the fun part! We begin to sculpt it from cotton wool.

It is better to take cotton wool in rolls and of good quality, then it unwinds well and is easy to cut and much easier to work with.

Preparing jelly. Dilute a tablespoon of starch in a small amount of cold water and pour a glass of boiling water, stirring vigorously. The paste should be without lumps.

We cut off a layer of cotton wool (cotton wool can be cut like fabric) and spread “jelly” on both sides, and then we wrap our grandfather like a mummy.

Don't try to make a fur coat smooth and beautiful the first time. We will have several layers of cotton, each of which needs to be dried thoroughly. After the starch paste dries, a crust will form on the surface of the cotton wool, as if it were paper or something like that, and the cotton wool inside will remain soft and fluffy! This is the beauty of cotton toys By the way... before you start working with cotton wool and paste, make sure there is water nearby. This could be a sink with a tap, or maybe just a basin with water and a towel, because... You can only work with each new piece of cotton wool with clean hands.

We make a cotton cap for our mummy, and straightening out the shape of the skull, we sculpt the eyebrows (although they can be done later). You can once again coat the workpiece with jelly on top. The cotton wool must be well coated!... and this is what we should get:

Let's try it on...

We set our mummy to dry, hanging our hands separately so that they don’t touch unnecessary objects, otherwise they will dry out.

Once the workpiece has dried, you can cover it with another layer of cotton wool (this also applies to your hands), until you reach the desired volume of the fur coat. Try to make the last layer of cotton wool as even as possible; I did this well by gluing strips of cotton wool vertically, and not wrapping them horizontally, as before. Here is my final result after drying:

If the cotton wool does not stick well, you can secure it with threads; I did this on my hands, for reliability, and thereby edited the shape of my hands.

Well... you can start covering the fur coat with velvet. I do this with a glue gun. We cut out a fur coat and fit our blank:

According to my idea, the fur coat's hems should diverge a little at the bottom, so I made an insert of silver brocade that will peek out from under the fur coat.

We also cover our hands with velvet:

At this stage, I paint the mittens with silver paint. Let's try it on.

Now you need to refine the bottom. Cut out a circle of suitable diameter from cardboard and cover it with fabric.

We glue the bottom, and I also sewed it on for reliability:

Let's move on to finishing the fur coat.

We cut out strips of cotton wool of the required size, coat them with paste as before and glue them to the fur coat:

We make the edge of the sleeves and use a glue gun to secure the arms in place.

We cut out the collar and put it on the fur coat:

Groom your beard in the same way.

To make it more textured, I make separate strands of cotton wool and add to the beard:

All! You can dry your grandfather!

After the grandfather has dried, I correct the flaws and decorate him. In some places the cotton wool could not stick well to the velvet; I glued it with hot glue from a gun. I add a belt and paint the fur coat using acrylic fabric outlines (although I think any outline will do):

I made the staff according to the same principle as my grandfather... I wrapped the stick in cotton wool, dried it and painted it with silver paint, just like the mittens:

I decorated it with a silver outline, crystal paste (like ice) and an openwork metal bead!

And here he is, handsome Morozko, ready to celebrate the New Year with us!

You will never have a better, kinder and more magical Santa Claus under your Christmas tree than the one you make with your own hands. And if you don’t yet know how to make Santa Claus, then that’s even great! A surprisingly interesting discovery awaits you.

From polymer clay

Today this material is the most popular among home craftsmen. Indeed, Santa Claus made from polymer clay looks better than the real thing, and the master class is no more difficult than modeling from plasticine.

We will need:

polymer clay (red, white and brown);
gel, brush;
red pastel (powder);
thick needle;
blade;
toothpick.

Work order

Remember your childhood modeling skills from plasticine and start rolling sausages and balls. You should have two brown balls, flattened at one end, for felt boots. Made of red clay, one large ball (torso), two small ones (mittens), two sausages (hands) and a cone-hat.
Mix a large piece of white clay and a small piece of red clay to create a pale pink color. Roll a large ball (head) and a small one (nose). Make two tiny pea-sized “eyes” from brown material.
Connect all the parts, lubricating with gel. For better rigidity, place the body and head on a toothpick. Make a recess for the eyes by pushing the wrinkles with the stack. Make folds on the cap in the same way.
Make a beard, mustache and eyebrows from white clay, and use a needle to create a “hair” texture on them. Roll thin long sausages, which will later become the fur trim on the hat and fur coat.
Glue eyebrows, mustache and beard onto your face, and a fur coat and hat. Use a sharpened toothpick or needle to give the fur the proper texture.
Glue a pompom to the hat, small white dots on the pupils and send Santa Claus to bake for 20-30 minutes. After the figure has cooled, apply red pastel to the cheeks and nose with a brush. You can also get a Snow Maiden just as quickly and easily.

You can watch the video on how to properly bake polymer clay products.

Delicious craft made from mastic

To decorate the New Year's table, you can sculpt a delicious Santa Claus from mastic. You will need red, white and black raw materials. The technique is the same as when modeling from plasticine. Roll the body into a cone with a diameter of 20-25 mm at the base and two thin sausages (white and black).
Make sleeves and hands out of mastic. Use a toothpick to press the fingers through.
Collect the torso of Santa Claus. Use plain water as glue. To make your arms hold better, pierce the torso with regular raw pasta and place arm parts on it on both sides. Make a buckle from two squares of mastic.
Sculpt the details of the head. Use stencils and molds.
Collect your head. The cheeks can be colored with food coloring or beetroot.
Glue the head to the body.
Delicious handsome Grandfather is ready to decorate any New Year's table. Also, but with a braid instead of a beard and with a small nose, a Snow Maiden is sculpted.

From salt dough

Mothers came up with the idea of sculpting figures from salt dough, instead of plasticine, a long time ago, since any joint work with a child is not complete without him testing the material to his teeth.

The entire process of making Santa Claus from salt dough is shown in the photo. It is not much different from crafts made from clay, mastic or plasticine. The only significant difference is that the salt dough material is not as flexible and thin. You can color the raw materials with food dyes. And if there is no risk of being eaten, you can add regular aniline dye to the dough.

Santa Claus and the Christmas tree are integral attributes of the New Year! Let's see how to make them from mastic using the example of a master class from Bia Cravol. By the way, you can just as successfully use polymer clay, cold porcelain or puff pastry for modeling.

This composition consists of a base (you can take a sheet of plywood and cut out a base from it), a Christmas tree and Santa Claus himself.

The size of the base is approximately 35x35 cm. First, we draw it with a brush so that we get cells:

You can add some extra splashes by simply taking a small amount of paint on your brush. Of course, it is better to do this in some workshop or cover all nearby surfaces with paper so as not to accidentally stain them.

Let's start sculpting Santa Claus. We form a head from mastic, after thoroughly kneading and heating the material. The same applies to polymer clay, which really “loves” the warmth of hands)

The eye sockets are easy to make using your fingers, simply pressing the material slightly:

We make the neck from the same piece of mastic.

Mark the place for the nose)

We sculpt the cheeks separately: we roll up the cake, giving it the shape of a hemisphere:

And then glue the cheeks to the head.

With a finger dipped in water, you can smooth the junction of the cheeks with the head. Everything should be even and smooth!

We also glue the big funny nose separately.

Now it's the turn of the eyes! They can be painted with acrylic paints using a thin brush. You will need 2 colors - black and white (for highlights).

Apply blush to the cheeks with the same paint, but with a different brush (soft) and blend well.

The head is ready, let's start with the body) First we make the arms. You can choose the color of the outfit to your taste, in this case the clothes are red. Here you can use special sculpting tools if you have them. If not, then we do everything with our fingers or improvised materials)

You can form folds on the sleeves with a stick or a knife for cutting plasticine.

Let's make mittens for Santa Claus

And attach it to the sleeves. It’s simple, the main thing is to make the workpieces smooth and even.

Now you can attach Santa Claus to the base for the panel.

Let's continue. It's time for the New Year's hat! We pull out a large piece of mastic in the shape of a cone, making a recess for the head.

We adjust it according to the size of the head and remove the excess.

Decorate the sleeves with cuffs.

Again we will work with a stick or knife to add volume and realism.

We make a ball for the tip of the cap with the following indentations:

So, now a beard and mustache! Where would we be without them!?! They should be lush and curly, like the real Santa Claus!

We do the eyebrows in the same style. What a goodie it turns out!!! 🙂

Santa Claus is ready! Let's make a Christmas tree for him! I don’t know why, but it reminds me more of a palm tree) You can make the Christmas tree more like our Russian one)