Craft Old Saint Nick from Recycled Paper Tubes

      This St. Nicholas figure was made by my husband when he was about seven or eight years old. We've been hanging it on both of our family trees for over 50 years. 

      I recycle old paper tubes for my young students to use when making this Christmas craft; Santa can cost mere pennies to craft. 

      Teachers may have only construction paper on hand and this material may easily be adapted for the project. However, I use colored masking tape, duct tape and sometimes sticky vinyl for this little St. Nick. 

      Just cut and stick simple shapes onto the cardboard tube to create your own designs. Each child will need a small portion of cardboard to cut St. Nick's arms out. 

      You can challenge your students to cut and stick different figures besides St. Nick. They could design reindeer, angels, elves, etc...

"This St. Nicholas figure was made by my
husband when he was about seven
 or eight years old."

      I recommend the project for second and third graders.

  

Supply List:

• Red, White and Black Duct Tape or Masking Tape
• hollow paper rolls cut to the length desired (use also toilet paper tubes)
• scissors
• gold cord for hanger
• light weight cardboard (for arms)

Craft More St. Nicholas Figures:

• St. Nicholas Figures to Make from the St. Nicholas Center
• Toilet Paper Tube Santa
• Recycling paper tubes into Christmas figures
• Juice Can Santa Sidekick
• St. Nicholas Printable Party Hat
• St. Nicholas Pom-pom Craft
• Traktatie Sinterklaas Lolly

How to Play The "Christmas Stockings'' Game

       Distribute pencils and small stocking-shaped cards. These should have printed on one side the title , "What I Found in My Christmas Stocking," and under that, the names of ten gifts that might be found in a stocking. The letters that belong to each gift are scrambled with a line next to each for the child to write the correct gift found in that stocking after they have guessed the word with it's correct spelling. An example would be a ''lold" unscrambled the gift is ''doll.''

       You may time the game to make it more challenging and give a small stocking with candy in it for the first child to unscramble the 10 gifts included with each card on the stocking game.

• Go here to download and print "Who owns these stockings?"