Painting a plate for Santa
Painting a plate for Santa is made easy with our gorgeous and super simple to use templates! Each template sheet includes pictures of reindeer food, a milk bottle, hot cocoa, cookies and other shapes that you can customise to fit your families Christmas Eve traditions. Perhaps like in my childhood home Santa gets left a bottle of beer, no problem! Just make the neck of the milk bottle a bit longer and Santa still gets his beer, just how he likes it.
You absolutely don’t have to use the template, there’s nothing we love more than kids drawings, but sometimes it’s nice to have some inspiration!
To get your hands on a template, tick the ‘Santa plate’ when ordering a painting kit and you’ll get an A4 template included. Keep scrolling to read the instructions ⤵️
How to use our templates:
Simply choose the item(s) you’d like to transfer onto the plate, you can cut them out roughly to check they will all fit, or leave the sheet whole, whichever is easier for you.
Once you’ve chosen them, flip the tracing paper onto the reverse and pencil heaving along the lines you’d like to transfer (you can check if you’re on the back by the way the writing reads).
After you’ve gone over all of the lines you need to on the reverse of the image, flip the tracing paper back over, place it the right way up on the plate where you’d like to to transfer it onto, and then go over the lines on the front of the paper, pressing firmly. This will transfer the pencil from the back of your design on to the plate, ready for your little one to paint in.
Remember pencil will disappear when it goes through the kiln, so you’ll need to add an outline in the end.
Extra notes:
* if you’d like to use the ‘olive branches’ on both sides of your plate, just trace on the reverse side, and it will fit the opposite side of the plate perfectly!
* older children may be able to trace on their own, but with younger ones you’ll probably either want to do the tracing, or help them go over the lines to make sure it transfers enough.
* If your tracing doesn’t quite go to plan, or you realise it’s not quite in the right place, simply rub it out with a rubber and try again. Any smudges left behind will disappear in the kiln.
* you might like to add the outlines at the end for your little one using the nib pen, as they are quite tricky for little hands to use and can be frustrating.