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 ON BOX.COM
• Color Printer
• Gray Colored Cardstock Paper
• White Cardstock Paper – two pieces
• Kraft Colored Cardstock Paper
• Christmas Patterned Scrapbook Paper {red and green}
• Pencil or Pen
• Craft Scissors
• Glue Stick or Tape Runner
• optional materials for this craft – 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
• PAIR YOUR FINISHED PIECE WITH OUR —> Handprint Holiday Poems For Christmas – Free Printables Included!

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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