Quick and Easy DIY Santa Claus Door Hanger

You're going to love this quick and easy DIY Santa Claus Door Hanger!  The kids can easily make it and will have a blast painting, glittering, and gluing all while creating a disaster! What I love about this craft is most of the items you can find in your craft bin or at the dollar store, making this an inexpensive way to craft with the kids!

Quick and Easy DIY Santa Claus Door Hanger

With a few supplies you'll be able to create numerous door hangers, maybe even one for each room in the house!  These also make cute add-ons for the kids to slip inside gifts to family and friends.

Supplies Needed

Prepare all materials needed in this tutorial, you can find most of these items at your local dollar store:

• a piece of cereal box
• a piece of black crafting felt
• black and white acrylic paint
• red glitter
• paint brushes
• cutter
• newspaper
• a pair of scissors
• a pencil
• white glue
• hot glue
• any round object that is near the size of the door knob

Step 1:  

Cut a rectangle that is about 22 centimeters in length and 10 centimeters in width from the empty cereal box.  This will be the mainframe of the door hanger.  Trace the masking tape on the upper part of the box.  The orientation of this should be in portrait.  The masking tape is used as a reference to the doorknob size, but any perfect round object would do.

Step 2: 

Cut the traced circle on the box using a cutter. This is a great job for the big kids to help with.

Step 3:

Curve the outer edges on the topmost part of the door hanger body.  Do this on both edges.

Step 4:

Generously apply white glue on one side of the door hanger. Don't worry about covering it all we'll do that in the next step.

Step 5:

Evenly brush the white glue on the body of the door hanger. We find an inexpensive paint brush does the trick!

Step 6: 

Sprinkle the red glitters on the body of the glued door hanger body. This step can be messy so if you have littles you may want to give them a helping hand.

Step 7:

Let the glue dry and the glitter settle on the body of the door hanger. This will take at least an hour.

Step 8:

Cut a small strip of black felt.  The width should be at least 2 to 3 centimeters and the length would depend on the width of the door hanger’s body.  This is the belt of Santa.

Step 9: 

Cut a small square that is quite bigger than the belt.  Cut a smaller square in the middle to create a hole.  This will be the belt’s buckle.

Step 10: 

Mix white and a little bit of black to create gray acrylic paint.  Paint the buckle with this and let it dry for an hour.

Step 11:

Hot glue the buckle on the belt.  The buckle should be somewhat one-sided to create an effect later on.

Step 12:

Cut two pieces of a black circle from the crafting felt.  These will be the buttons of Santa.

Step 13:

Hot glue the belt with the buckle on the lower thirds of the door hanger’s body.

Step 14:

Cut the excess of the belt. This might be a little tricky for little so make sure they have scissors made for small hands.

Step 15:

Hot glue the buttons on top of the belt.  This should be aligned with the buckle of the belt.

Step 16:

Try the door hanger on and make the necessary adjustments.

Step 17:

Done and ready to use!  You can now hang your cool and simple Santa Claus door hanger to celebrate the season!

This quick and easy DIY Santa Claus door hanger is the perfect craft to make with the kids!  They love making a couple extra and sticking them in gifts we're giving to friends and family during the holidays.  It is a simple way to decorate the door and spread a little Christmas cheer.

What's your favorite Santa craft?