This Christmas plate is a great kids craft activity and a lovely gift idea too. The tutorial is easy to follow and uses Sharpie pens to create a design. The plate above was made by Carol.W and it is adorable! Use her photo as a guide to creating your own DIY Christmas Santa plate. You can also fancy up your designs by using different pen thicknesses, colors and textures, like metallic golds for Christmas plates.
On a budget, you can easily make personalized gifts for your favorite people out of Sharpies and a plain plate. They are so inexpensive to make you don’t need to worry about the kids dropping them either. Try adding a gold border around the edge of your plate, or color around stickers. You can also trace a design on to the plate first using a crayon or wax based coloring pencil.
Use a plain white plate from a discount or dollar store and Sharpie ceramic pens
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When you’re finished, just pop the mugs into the oven (while the oven is still cold) and bring it up to 350°F (~175°C) for a half-hour to set the design.
Allow to cool. Do not be tempted to touch it.
Only hand-wash to ensure the longevity of your design.
Here is a fun little story to tell the kids when making your Santa plate together.
It was the night before Christmas and the whole house was bustling with anticipation. All the children had gone to bed, excitedly dreaming of the presents that Santa had promised them.
In the kitchen, the parents had put out a plate of cookies for Santa. The cookies were arranged in a perfect circle, with a glass of cold milk beside them. The plate looked inviting and the aroma of the freshly-baked cookies wafted through the house.
Suddenly, one of the cookies jumped off the plate and onto the counter. It was so exciting to get to see Santa that it wanted to be the first one to greet him. But then the other cookies noticed and soon they were all jumping off the plate, one by one.
The parents, who had been watching the whole scene in amazement, quickly rushed over to the counter and tried to put the cookies back onto the plate. But the cookies had other plans and they just kept jumping off the plate.
The parents managed to put the cookies back onto the plate, but they were far from being arranged in a perfect circle. They were now all over the place and it looked like a mess.
When Santa finally arrived, he couldn’t help but laugh. He was touched that the family had put out a plate of cookies for him, even though they were all over the place. He thanked the family for their thoughtfulness and enjoyed the cookies as he made his way back home.
The family was relieved that Santa had enjoyed the cookies and that their attempts to put them back on the plate hadn’t been in vain. From then on, they made sure to always put out a perfectly arranged plate of cookies on Christmas Eve, just in case the cookies decided to jump off the plate again.