HO HO HO! We are going to help YOU and your child make an adorable Handprint Santa & His Elves Gnome Keepsake Idea within minutes! All you need is paper and our free provided printable to complete it!
It’s going to be the CUTEST Santa & his elf gnomes paper craft you make this holiday season! Keep scrolling for ALL the details and free file!
Christmas Gnome Keepsake Craft Supplies:
- FREE HO HO HO GNOME KEEPSAKE PRINTABLE
- Color Printer
- Gray Colored Cardstock
- White Cardstock – two pieces
- Kraft Colored Cardstock
- Christmas Patterned Scrapbook Paper {red and green}
- Pencil or Pen
- Craft Scissors
- Glue Stick or Tape Runner
- optional – sticker embellishments, glitter, sequins etc.
Directions:
- First things first, if you haven’t already, download and print our free “ho, ho, ho” file {listed above in the supply list} on a single sheet of gray cardstock.
- Next up – trace your child’s hand THREE times on your white cardstock.
- When done tracing, trim out each piece with your paper scissors. Each one will be a beard for your gnomes.
- Set those aside.
- Now grab your patterned scrapbook paper.
- Cut out THREE large triangle hats. Two green ones for Santa’s elves and a red hat for Santa.
- Finally – cut out a small oval nose shape, for EACH gnome, from the kraft colored cardstock.
- Now you are ready to assemble it all together.
- Start off my gluing down the THREE white handprint cutouts, in a row, on the gray colored cardstock paper. You want the fingertips facing downward but make sure you DON’T cover up the printed words.
- Follow up that step by gluing down the hats {Santa in the middle} on the palms of the handprint cutouts.
- Then glue down the oval noses to complete each gnome.
- To finish off your Paper Christmas Santa & His Elves Keepsake, write your name in the provided space and add any other embellishments you see fit, to give it that holiday spin!
- Then display your Christmas gnome masterpiece proudly for ALL to see!!
- Don’t forget to snap a few pictures of your finished paper gnome keepsake on your phone and tag us on your social media sites! #gluedtomycrafts
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Don’t you just love this unique Christmas gnome keepsake idea?! It’s a first seen here and a MUST DO this season!
It’s so easy but sure to be loved BEYOND this year. Just imagine when you open up that scrapbook or Christmas storage box next year & come across it again. All those memories are going to flood you! :-)
On that note – be sure to also check out our Paper Plate Santa w/Handprint Beard post for another holiday themed craft idea to recreate today! You can’t go wrong with handprint beard cutouts this time of year! Am I right?
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