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DIY Christmas topiary
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Santa Hat Centerpiece

Learn how to make a DIY Christmas topiary display with a Santa theme for your holiday table or mantel.
Course Christmas Crafts
Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 3 hours
Dry 1 hour
Total Time 4 hours 30 minutes
Servings 1 topiary
Cost $25

Equipment

Ingredients

  • Acrylic glass paint Wicker White, Lipstick Red
  • Acrylic paint Wicker White, Lipstick Red
  • Circle stencil 8 x 10
  • Plaid Peel and Stick Painting Blank Stencil
  • Adhesive holiday stencil with "HO"
  • 3 Glass vase(s)
  • 3 Santa hats
  • 3 Foam cones
  • 3 Dowel rod(s) 1/2" x 12"
  • Quilt batting
  • Polyfil
  • Candy canes small
  • Scrap pieces of Styrofoam
  • 1/4″ stencil tape

Instructions

  • Using the circle stencil, cut out a circle from the adhesive stencil sheet. Use the craft knife to cut the stencil out.
    Cutting a circle stencil out of an adhesive stencil sheet
  • One at a time, place the circle stencil in the center of the glass vase and smooth. Using the 5/8″ dauber, paint the circle with the red. Remove the stencil immediately while the paint is wet, wash, and let dry. Repeat.
    Place the circle stencil down and paint with lipstick red paint
  • When the red is dry, stencil “HO” on each of the vases in the center of the circle, using the white enamel paint. Peel the stencil up immediately.
    Painting "HO" in white over the center of the red circle
  • Fill in the letters where the line is broken with a liner brush.
    Adding a white line with a detail brush
  • Basecoat the three dowel rods with Wicker White. Let them dry.
    Basecoating a dowel rod with white acrylic paint
  • Wrap the 1/4″ masking tape around the dowels as shown in photo, making a spiral like on a candy cane. Using the dauber, paint the dowels with Acrylic Lipstick Red. Remove the tape immediately and let the rods dry.
    Painting a dowel rod wrapped with masking tape using a dauber
  • Cut the trim off the bottom of all three Santa hats.
    Trimming off the bottom of a Santa hat using scissors
  • Measure the foam cones and the sew the sides of the hat so that it will fit snugly on the cone. If you don't have a sewing machine, you can also hot glue it, but this will look better. After you've sew down the hat to make it smaller, trim the excess fabric.
    Sewing a Santa hat to make it smaller using a sewing machine
  • Pick up the trim that you cut off; cut it and open up flat.
    Cut the Santa hat trim and open flat
  • Cut a piece of quilt batting to wrap around the cones. Hot glue in place.
    Wrapping a piece of quilt batting around a foam cone
  • Place your sewn hat down over the cone and the quilt batting. Hot glue the white trim back around the base of the hat and cut as needed.
    Placing a Santa hat down over the cone and the quilt batting
  • Then use your adhesive stencil to make circles on the hat using your Acrylic Lipstick Red paint. Repeat with the other two hats and let dry.
  • Cut a piece of styrofoam from scraps and glue to the bottom of a vase with hot glue.
    Adding a piece of foam to the center of a glass vase
  • Stick dowels into the bottoms of cones - then stick the dowel rod into the foam piece in the vase.
    Sticking a dowel rod into the bottom of a foam cone with a Santa hat
  • Use the candy canes and polyfil to fill the vases.

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