Santa Claus Topper Template

Print out your topper template sheet and gather the pictured materials and tools. You'll need a scissors, something to trace with and the felt you've chosen to complete the design with. A little later, you'll also need a hot glue gun.

Use your scissors to carefully cut out each of the five template pieces. TIP: To start the cut for the mouth portions of the beard, fold the overall shape in half the long way and make a small snip in the middle of the mouth area (away from the cut lines). Cut the rest from that entry point.

TIP: To start the cut for the mouth portion of the beard, fold the overall shape in half the long way and make a small snip in the middle of the mouth area (away from the cut lines). Cut the rest from that entry point.

Save the assembly graphic portion of the printed page for secondary reference as you work. Also save the QR code portion which links to our wearables project page and further instructions for what to do with the felt design once it's completed.

Trace each of the five template pieces onto your chosen felt.

Use your scissors to carefully cut out each of the pieces.

Tip: Use the same strategy for cutting the mouth from the beard that you used to prepare the tracing template.

Using a hot glue gun and photo one for reference, squeeze a bead of hot glue onto the beard.

Flip and press the beard into place atop the face as shown.

Using a hot glue gun and photo one for reference, squeeze a bead of hot glue across the upper edge of the head.

Press the hat into place atop the hot glue as shown.

Using a hot glue gun and photo one for reference, squeeze a bead of hot glue across the lowest edge of the hat.

Press the long fur detail piece into place atop the hot glue.

Using a hot glue gun and photo one for reference, squeeze a small dot of hot glue atop the tip of the hat that hangs down.

Press the furry pom pom detail piece into place atop the hot glue.

Your Santa Claus is nearly complete!

Each LED eye will have two wire "legs" that are difficult to push through the felt by themselves. To make this easier, make two dots for each LED where you want the eyes to be; oriented vertically as shown in photo one.

Use a pushpin to make a hole where each marked dot is located. There will be four holes in total.

Notice that the LED legs are not the same length. For ease of use with our other instruction sets, thread each LED through a give pair of vertically oriented holes from the front to the back. Take care to orient the LEDs so that the LONG (+) legs are in the UPPER holes and the SHORT (-) legs are in the LOWER holes.

On the back, fold the top two legs flat toward the top of the shape and the two lower legs flat toward the bottom of the shape.

Your felt design is now done and ready to be added to a wearable project of your choice! Use the QR code cutaway to link to guides on how to integrate this beast into a bracelet or badge circuit!