While working with children talk about the real St. Nicholas. For suggestions, see Things to Talk About While Making St. Nicholas Projects or tell various St. Nicholas stories.

PDF with instructions and miter patterns **

Chocolate Santa: Thompson Candy Company

Chocolate Santa: Russell Stover Candies, new design

Chocolate Santa: Russell Stover Candies

Materials

• Foil covered chocolate Santa, one for each child
  Thompson Candy Company, 4 1/8 inches tall (1.75 oz), left
  Russell Stover Candies, 4 ½ inches tall (1.75 oz), left below
  Thompson Candy Company, 5 ½ inches tall (3 oz), shown below 
• Miter pattern cut out of card stock (increase or decrease pattern, if necessary, so it fits your chocolate Santas) If you print page 2 on card stock the pattern won't need to be transferred
• Gold metallic chenille stems
  7½-inch piece for smaller Santa, 8½-inch for larger
• Red metallic foil card stock (sometimes called metallic foil board) or metallic foil paper
  Cut a rectangle for each child, 5x3-inches for smaller miter, 6x3-inches for larger
• Metallic cross stickers
  Gold crosses (Dayspring) available from Northwestern Publishing House, 32/package
  Miniature embossed cross stickers from Standard Publishing, 216/package, also available from Northwestern Publishing House

Cross stickers

Equipment

• Pencils
• Scissors
• Mini stapler, fastens the miter more securely than gluing
• Mini glue dots or tacky glue

Directions

1. Draw around miter pattern on wrong side of red card
2. Cut out miter
3. Fold miter at sides 4. Staple back together, matching point and lower edges 4. Bend gold metallic chenille stem piece into a crozier
4. Place miter on head; secure with a bit of glue
5. Use a blob of tacky glue to attach bishop's crozier/staff onto the figure's left hand

Voila! Santa is now the real St. Nicholas!

PDF with instructions and miter patterns

Copyright 2007 © St. Nicholas Center
Patterns may be printed for use with non-profit groups making art and craft projects. For all other uses, please request permission from info@stnicholascenter.org. Thank you.

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Patterns may be printed for use with non-profit groups making art and craft projects. For all other uses, please request permission from info@stnicholascenter.org. Thank you.