Turn Chocolate Santas into the Real St. Nicholas!

We've updated this page with new Santas! Madelaine Chocolate has a nice ornament Santa (3/4 oz) that makes a special St. Nicholas ornament. Russell Stover's new design needs a different size pattern. So, we've added new pattern sizes—surely there is one to fit whatever Santa you choose.

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 7 miter patterns (printing tips)

Materials

• Foil covered chocolate Santa, one for each child
  There are many available chocolate Santas; we offer patterns to fit many of them; sometimes you need to adjust just a bit
• Thompson Candy Company, 4 1/8 inches tall (1.75 oz)
• Russell Stover Candies, 4 3/8 inches tall (1.75 oz)
• Madelaine Chocolate Company, flat ornament, 4 inches (3/4 oz)
• Madelaine Chocolate Company, solid, 4 1/8 inches (1 oz)
• Thompson Candy Company, 5 ½ inches tall (3 oz)
• Choose miter pattern to fit your chocolate Santa
• Pattern #1: for larger figures, Russell Stover, new in 2019, and Pez dispensers
• Pattern #2: Madelaine flat ornament Santas
• Pattern #3: New Russell Stover Santa
• Pattern #4: smaller Santas
• Pattern #5: solid flat Santas
• Pattern #6: ALDI Choceur, Madelaine solid
Pattern #7: for large figures, Lindt Santas
• Cut miter pattern out of card stock
  Increase or decrease pattern, if necessary, so it fits your chocolate Santa
  Print page 2 on card stock to make easy-to-use templates.
  If working with a group, make a template for each person
• 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, 6x3½-inches for larger
• Metallic cross stickers
  (for online sources, see sidebar)

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
5. Bend gold metallic chenille stem piece into a crozier
6. Place miter on head; secure with a bit of glue
7. Use a mini-glue dot or 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 in 7 sizes

Copyright 2007, 2011 © 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.

To print patterns

• Click on file link above, then click the Adobe print icon: 
  
• If you're having trouble downloading the file, right-click on the image below and choose "Save target as..." to save it. Then open the PDF with Adobe Reader (free from Adobe's website) and print it following the above tips.

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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Tips for accurate PDF printing

For Adobe Reader 7.0
In the Adobe Print dialog box, check these boxes:

For older versions
In the Adobe Print dialog box, make sure the boxes for Shrink oversized pages to paper size and Expand small pages to paper size are NOT checked. (In some versions the option is Page Scaling: NONE, click to find Fit to pages and Shrink large pages.)

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