Design Crafters

Every year on Christmas Eve, I used to leave out a letter to Santa, along with some cookies and milk for him, and some carrots for his reindeer.  I used to work for hours on the letter - it had to be perfect.  Now, I help my nieces and nephews write homemade letters to Santa, using this holiday craft.

To make your homemade letter to Santa, you will need:

• Colored cardstock (recommended: 4 different colors)
• Velvet fabric
• 1″ Ribbon
• 1/4″ Ribbon
• 1/8″ Ribbon
• 2 pompoms
• Tissue
• 1 metallic colored hair elastic
• White paper
• Pencil
• Ruler
• Thin colored markers
• Fabric scissors
• Paper scissors
• Glue stick
• Hot glue gun
• Sculpting scissors

How to make the cards:

1. First,  fold several pieces of paper into “cards” and have write your messages to Santa and his reindeer inside.
2. Then, cover card with glue stick, and cover the front and back of card with velvet fabric.
3. Trim excess fabric.
4. Cut a 10″ wide x 12″ long piece of velvet fabric and lay it face down.
5. Fold the 10″ side edge at 2″ and hot glue in place.
6. Fold the 12″ sides of the fabric so they meet in the center, with the right side of the fabric on the inside.
7. Gather the bottom of fabric together and tie with an elastic, and then hot glue center seam together.
8. Turn bag outside in so right side of fabric is facing out, and glue the bag to front of card.
9. Cut a long piece of 1″ ribbon. Tie it loosely around the hair elastic, making a bow. Hot glue bow into place.
10. Next, fold a piece of 1/4″ ribbon in half and glue to the center of large bow.
11. Hot glue a pom-pom on 1/4″ ribbon ends.
12. Tie a double bow with 1/8″ ribbon and glue on top of 1/4″ ribbon.
13. Tie a small bow with 1/8′ ribbon and glue on top of double bow.
14. Then, draw envelope seam lines on back of small, various sized envelopes.
15. Glue small stamps shapes on right side of each envelope.
16. Create stamp images using different colored markers.
17. To finish, hot glue envelopes to inside the opening of the bag.

Hope you and your family have a great time making these letters to Santa!