This cute paper cup santa puppet is far easier to make than it looks and can provide children with hours of creative and imaginative fun. We just love how ours turned out, my daughter had so much fun making up cute little puppet shows with him and he’s now sitting in place as a tree topper on her tree!
Here’s what we used
- Paper cup
- Card; red black, white, silver, gold, a skin tone
- Pink and red marker
- Googly eyes
- Scissors
- Glue
- Double sided tape
- Elastic
How to make our paper cup Santa puppet
Take your skin tone colour paper and cut out a strip wide enough to wrap around your cup and tall enough to cover just under a third of it. Stick It down around the base of the cup.
Cut out a v shaped beard and a moustache from your white card. Glue down the beard first and then add a small patch of glue (or tape!) to then centre of the moustache and stick it down on top of the beard as can be seen in the image above.
Stick on two Googly eyes above the moustache. Then take your markers and draw on a little round nose and a mouth.
Cut out a red santas hat and a little circular bobble to go on the end. Glue the two pieces together and then use your double sided tape (or glue gun!) to attach the hat to the inside rim of the cups base
Now take your black card and cut out a long thin strip of card to make a belt and a small square for the inner part of the buckle. You can cut a slightly bigger square from your gold card to make the outer buckle. Glue the belt around the body and then add the larger square to the centre of the belt with the smaller square on top of it
Cut out two red rectangles for the arms and two long strips for the legs. Accordion fold the leg strips back and forwards to give them some bounce. Next you’ll need to make two black mittens and two black boots. Glue the mittens onto the arms and the boots onto the legs and attach each one to your Santa’s body.
Add any other optional decor; we added a white strip around the hat and a sack of presents on his back.
Finally pierce a small hole into the base of the cup and thread through your length of elastic. Tie a large knot on the inside of the cup to prevent the elastic coming through. Once dry your paper Santa puppet is finished and ready to play with, Isn’t he just adorable!?
