[1995]
[Santa's OFFICIAL News Source]
Saturday Jul 05, 2025
Saturday Jul 05, 2025
[Mikee Elf]
Crafts for Kids!

Create your very own North Pole Times Elf Puppets with this fun and easy DIY craft! Perfect for kids and families, this festive project brings the beloved North Pole Times characters to life. Using simple materials, kids can make their own adorable elf puppets and put on a holiday puppet show. A wonderful holiday activity for classrooms, family gatherings, or as a special keepsake from the North Pole!


Create heartfelt holiday memories with this easy DIY Christmas Heart Ornament Craft! Perfect for kids and families, this festive craft lets you design beautiful heart-shaped ornaments to decorate your Christmas tree. Using simple materials, these handmade ornaments add a personal touch to your holiday décor. Ideal for classrooms, family crafting sessions, or as thoughtful gifts, this craft is a wonderful way to spread Christmas cheer!


Bring the magic of the North Pole into your home with DIY Christmas Paper Ornaments featuring North Pole Times characters! This fun and easy craft lets kids and families create colorful, handmade ornaments inspired by your favorite North Pole elves. Perfect for hanging on the Christmas tree or giving as gifts, these paper ornaments add a festive, personal touch to your holiday décor. Great for classrooms, family crafting sessions, or holiday parties, this craft is a wonderful way to spread Christmas cheer!


Create festive cheer with DIY Christmas Pop-Up Cards featuring North Pole Times characters! This fun and easy craft allows you to design unique, handmade pop-up cards that bring the magic of the holiday season to life. Perfect for sending holiday greetings or giving as personalized gifts, these pop-up cards add a special touch to your Christmas celebrations. Whether crafting with kids, in the classroom, or at a holiday party, this simple craft is sure to delight family and friends alike!


Wrapping it All Up

Personalizing your Presents

[Wrapping it All Up ]

Welcome to another week of class at Santa’s School of Wonders! I am Professor Ellie Elf, a teacher at our elf school for elves. I admit, I must look funny today with paint all over my clothes! Getting messy is just part of the fun in our art class.

I hope you will join us elves today as we make a little mess creating our own wrapping paper. I get all goose-bumpy just thinking about seeing presents wrapped up and under a tree. When a present is decorated, it just seems nicer (and, it’s pretty exciting to take the wrapping off, too!).

Painting your own paper shows someone that you care and makes that person happy at the same time. After all, no present anywhere will have paper like yours. We elves loving making paper – it lets us turn our presents into our own works of art. For this project, you will probably need a little help from an adult. This can be such a messy project! Ask your adult helper to go over these instructions so that you can have all the supplies you need.

Here’s what to do to make your own paper:

  1. To get started, pick out paper for wrapping the present, like newspaper, paper from a paper bag, or even pieces of construction paper taped together. Any type of paper you want to use should be fine.
  2. Ask an adult to help you make some homemade stamps. You can make a potato stamp by taking a half of a potato, pressing in a cookie cutter, and then having your adult helper cut around the cookie cutter shape. Slide the cookie cutter off the potato and you’ll have a stamp to use! You can also use other vegetables for stamps. A half an apple makes a pretty apple shape and a half a carrot is great for making polka dots. (Can you think of other fun items to use as stamps? You can try those too!)
  3. Dip your stamps in nontoxic paint, tap them a little to get off the extra paint, and then press them against the paper to create a design.
  4. If you would like to add stripes, you can put a toy car in the paint, and then drive it around the paper. Vroom!
  5. Let the paper dry well before you use it to wrap the present. Once it is dried, you can use a marker or crayons to add even more designs.

[by Professor Ellie Elf]

There are many ways you can decorate your paper. If you do not have enough time to paint, you can decorate it just by drawing pictures, putting on your favorite stickers or by gluing decorations on after you’ve wrapped a present (I once glued buttons all over a gift – it was so pretty). I hope you enjoy making your own wrapping paper. I know that whoever gets your gift will probably want to save your paper – it’s like getting a present on a present!

Check in with our school next week to help us solve the mystery of the empty classroom!


Spread Christmas Cheer with Magical Elf Texts from the North Pole!

Let your imagination run wild this holiday season with Elf Texts from North Pole Times! Become one of Santa's mischievous helpers and send fun, personalized text messages to family and friends, straight from the North Pole.

[The North Pole Times News Team]