Santa decorations

Newspaper; brown paper; red and pink crepe paper; cotton wool; ping-pong ball; black sticky-back plastic, buttons or paint; pink paint; belts and buckles or black paper; brown material or paper bags; crackers; pencil; string; a drawing pin; sticky tape; glue.

Paste four double sheets of newspaper in layers and finish off with a sheet of brown paper.

For the big Santa, make another piece this size and sticky tape the two together.

Leave the paper until it dries hard. The body is a cone shape so you need to mark a curve.

To make a compass, tie string to a pencil and drawing pin the other end to a corner of the paper. Move the pencil gently and cut along the mark.

Fold the paper into a cone and fix with sticky tape or glue. This is easier with two people. Snip the top off the cone, to slot the head and neck in.

Cover the body with red crepe paper. Tuck it neatly down the neck and round the bottom edge and glue on the inside for a neat finish.

The join will be hidden by cotton wool trimming. Stick some around the neck and bottom of the red cloak, too.

The arms are made from a tube of newspaper. Roll a double sheet up with a layer of red crepe paper. One tube will be enough for both arms.

Twist some newspaper into a ball to make the hands, cover them with pink crepe paper and slip them into the arms with a dab of glue. Glue the arms into place by the collar.

Get a big ball of newspaper for the head and wind sticky tape around the neck.

Cover the head with pink crepe paper. Paint a ping-pong ball pink and stick on as a nose and, for eyes, use black stickyback plastic, buttons or paint.

Stick on some cotton wool hair. His beard is a triangle of cotton wool right under his nose, so no need for a mouth.

His hat is made from a cone of red crepe paper trimmed with cotton wool. We put paper buckles and belts on the big Santa, real ones on the others.

Make sacks from material or use strong paper bags. Small Santa instead had crackers tied to his arm with tinsel.