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DIY Santa Sleigh: Looking to build your own Santa Sleigh? Here’s everything you need to know to build your own DIY Santa’s Sleigh for your kids this year! Our kids absolutely love this DIY wooden sleigh and have had a blast pretending to be elves! See all the materials and directions below to make your own! DIY SANTA SLEIGH I already have lots of Christmas nature craft ideas on the blog. They use the free stuff in the natural world, such as pinecones, acorns and twigs. This time I have turned my attention to what I can make for Christmas out of cardboard boxes. What Cardboard Boxes To Use Shoe boxes are a good source of non-corrugated cardboard that is stiffer than cereal boxes. You can also make fun shoebox suitcases to store your Christmas decorations for the following year. The Christmas sleigh or also known as the Santa's sleigh is the sleigh used by Santa to travel around the world carrying gifts for children. In the stories and movies, we often see that Santa rides a red sleigh. This is understandable because red is a color that is often associated with Christmas. Santa also loves the color red so he wears a red suit. It makes sense if he chooses to ride a red sleigh. Red also complements the speed of the sleigh. Because fast vehicles are often painted red. You can see this phenomenon on sport-cars and fast superhero characters such as The Flash. But it doesn't mean it is the only right way to color it. If you are painting or making your own Christmas sleigh, you can color them however you want using yellow, green, or even pink and holographic. How do You Make a Paper Christmas Sleigh?

Once we had the templates cut out, we laid them (the five reindeer, the sides of the sleigh, and the decorative scrolls) on top of the first sheet of plywood and tried to nest them together fitting as many figures on one sheet of plywood as possible. We used a permanent marker to trace the templates onto the plywood which left a nice dark mark that was easy to see when cutting the pieces out. We ended up being able to fit one sleigh side, one reindeer, and two scroll pieces on one 4×8 sheet of plywood. We marked and cut two sheets of plywood like this since we wanted our sleigh to have two sides. The third piece of plywood could only fit three more reindeer – so that’s how we ended up with five reindeer! From the realistic side, it is almost possible for Santa to travel around the world and share the gift by himself by only riding the sleigh. To cover a wide distance in 24 hours, it’s only possible for Santa to use relativity clouds. Finally, we cut out one circle about 4” diameter to paint bright red for Rudolph’s nose–using a yogurt container top out of the recycling bin right there in the garage. Feel free to use whatever circular template you want for the desired diameter circle for Rudolph’s nose! Making the reindeer fly:Meanwhile, the reason of horse does not meet the criteria is due to size. Horses can reach a half-ton of weight. This animal is also tall and has a wide shoulder of around 60 inches. The horse is also great only staying in warm conditions. You might already know that Santa is always accompanied by reindeer which pull the sleigh. If you figure out his reason for choosing the reindeer instead of the horse, it’s because the natural habitat of this animal is in a freeze and cold environment. For Christmas crafts that need thin and flexible cardboard, cereal and other food boxes are great for this.

The figure of the Christmas celebration gives kids excitement due to his mission of delivering the gift for every kid in the world. Let’s see from the scientific side which mighty sounds make sense for everyone. Crafting for Christmas doesn’t have to mean expensive trips to the craft store. It’s amazing what you can make from what you already have. Here is a collection of cardboard Christmas crafts and decorations made from cardboard boxes.The holiday season is the right time for sharing. Construct your gift creation and make it looks like Santa riding his sleigh. Upcycling and repurposing are my favourite ways of crafting, as they are both affordable and green. And basically, I just hate waste! We didn’t really have a plan for how to put the sleigh together when we started but it still turned out great. Depending on the sleigh shape you chose, you might need to assemble the sleigh a bit differently; but, the same principles apply. First, we knew we wanted a floor, so we put one of the sleigh sides up on the sawhorses, and cut a 2×4 to support the floor along the bottom edge of the sleigh above the runner. By using two light coats on everything, we were able to spray paint the entire sleigh and all the components in less than 20 minutes. Spray paint really is the fastest way to get the color that you want–it’s why we love it! All the sleigh components were dry to the touch within 10 minutes and hard enough to handle in one hour. Finishing Touches on Santa’s Sleigh: To do the second side to the sleigh, we cut the second set of 2×4 braces the same sizes as the first. We laid them right on top of the first pieces and then placed the second side on top of that making sure to line up the sleigh sides and support pieces. Then we could just screw right into the second set of supports from the top – and voila – two mirror-image sleigh sides!

We really wanted to make the reindeer look like they were taking off into the night sky. To do this we came up with the idea to attach them to one long 16 foot piece of 2×4 (you can usually find a 16’ long 2×4 at the home center;) but, if you can’t (or you don’t want to drive home with a 2×4 as long as your car) you can also just splice (2) 8-ft. long 2x4s together with a couple scraps of plywood like we did. If you’re feeling festive and looking for some little extras for your home, office, party or even...

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TIP: To scale-up the reindeer we used the “grid method” where you draw a grid over the image you want to scale-up, then draw a large grid on the cardboard then copy each square from the small grid to the large grid. It’s the easiest method to make an image larger if you don’t have use of a projector! We used Krylon ® ColorMaster™ Paint + Primer – 25% More Gloss Cherry Red for the sleigh, so we were able to skip priming the plywood, which saved a lot of time. While we thought it would take five or more cans to cover the sleigh red, we were blown away by the fact that we only used two cans! Krylon spray paint really covers well!