Do your kids love counting down the days till Christmas during the month of December?

Read our easy step-by-step tutorial below for how to make your own Santa countdown craft.

see to it to watch our video tutorial inside this post before get started too.

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Directions for making this Paper Plate Santa Craft

1.

Paint your plate

Start by painting the inside circle of your paper plate with your flesh colored paint.

Set the paper plate aside to allow the paint to dry.

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The 4-inch piece will be used for the Santa shirt.

Cut a triangle out of the 7-inch piece for the Santa hat.

Now use your glue stick to glue on the remaining 19 pieces.

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Then use your glue stick to glue the triangle hat at the top of your Santa face.

Place a line of cotton balls along the glue line.

Glue the circle halves in the middle of your Santa face as a mustache.

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Add googly eyes

Finish your Santa Beard Countdown Craft by gluing googly eyes onto Santas face.

When you are finished cutting off the last paper chain strip, its Christmas Day!

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Vertical image showing one Santa beard countdown craft in the front in focus and one in the back out of focus. Words “Santa Beard Christmas Countdown” in the bottom left corner.

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