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How-To: Duck Tape® Santa Calendar

  • 90 Minutes
  • Advanced

Supplies & Tools

  1. Color Duck Tape®
  2. Duck Tape® Fabric Tutorial
  3. Scissors
  4. Craft Knife
  5. Ruler
  6. Pen
  7. 8 in. Foam Ball
  8. Crafting Board

15 Steps

1

Cut your foam ball in half. Ask help from an adult if needed.

Cut foam ball in half to create a dome shape

2

Cover your foam ball in Duck Tape®.

Cover the dome in White Duck Tape

3

Make the features of Santa’s face. Trace a coin for the eyes and nose and cut Santa's face from a 10 in. piece of tape.

The portion of Santa's face that peaks out from his beard and hat, eyes and a nose cut out of tape

4

Put your Santa's face together.

Santa's face assembled by placing the eyes and nose on the face piece

5

Place Santa's face onto the covered foam ball you made in step 1.

previously assembled Santa face attached to the tape covered dome

6

To make the hat, cover the top half in Duck Tape® but leave a 1.5 in. space in between the hat and the face.

Top portion of the dome covered in red to create the base of his hat

7

For Santa’s hat, draw and cut out a cloud shape on a piece of Duck Tape®. Set this aside.

Cloud shape drawn onto and cut out of a piece of white Duck Tape fabric

8

Make a piece of Duck Tape® fabric that is 9 in. wide and 10 in. tall.

large piece of two ply Duck Tape fabric

9

Draw the triangle on your Duck Tape® fabric and cut it out.

Draw and cut out a large triangle from the fabric from the last step

10

Attach the cloud shape from step 7 to top of your triangle for the hat and tape the hat to the back of Santa's head.

Cloud shape from step 7 attached to the top point of the triangle from the previous step. Triangle is then attached to the top of Santa's head

11

For Santa's beard, cut 4 in. long pieces of Duck Tape® and fold these in half. You will need about 80 pieces.

double sided piece of Duck Tape made by folding a strip of tape over itself

12

Form your strips into loops and tape it to Santa's face. Make sure to fill up his beard and the area between his hat and face.

Strip from previous step formed into a loop, and then taped to the side of Santa's face to form the beard

13

For the chains that hang from Santa’s beard, cut a 7 in. long piece of Duck Tape®, fold it in half lengthwise and make it into a loop.

double sided strip made by folding a strip of Duck Tape lengthwise. Strip then formed into a loop and taped to form a loop

14

Repeat step 12 until you have 5 chains with 5 links on each chain.

previous step repeated, but link the loops together to create a chain of loops

15

Hang the chains from the bottom of Santa’s beard. These are the links you will cut for each day in December.

Chains hung from Santa's beard