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How to draw Santa, step by step
Six small pictures take your child from a simple hat shape to a jolly cartoon Santa with a big beard. It is a good test of whether your child will enjoy the full book.
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How to use it
- Print the sheet and put blank paper next to it.
- Draw step 1 lightly: just the hat.
- Look at what is new in each step and add only that.
- After step 6, go over the lines you want to keep and color him in.
Tip: Santa looks friendlier with a slightly lopsided smile, so wobbly lines are a feature, not a mistake. Once the head is done, try adding shoulders and a sack of presents.
This is day 14 of the 24-day Christmas drawing countdown.
Drawn by Kevin CoulstonCartoonist, member of the National Cartoonists Society, and author and illustrator of more than 100 books for kids. About Kevin
From the book
This page comes from How to Draw: Christmas
Fifty festive activities, from Santa to the gingerbread man, each broken into six small steps a 5-year-old can follow, with a page to try it straight after.
