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An extensively illustrated site featuring Victorian holiday entertaining, gift giving and decorating ideas and fun from over 100 years ago. Find a plum pudding recipe, Victorian Christmas crafts, Christmas decorations, Christmas ornaments, Christmas tree, and Christmas cards. This is a great place to show today's children how magical Christmas can be.

 
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Holiday Santa - Victorian Santa
 

 
Holiday Santa
 

Victorian Santa Craft

 
Bring back the magic of an old-fashioned Christmas. Create an authentic holiday Santa with this fabulous Victorian Santa craft. What could be a more unusual holiday santa than a real Victorian Santa created with directions and illustrations from an 1860s Harpers Bazaar magazine. This holiday Santa was first made over a hundred years ago. Make your own Victorian Santa to decorate your house for a traditional Christmas or to sell at a Christmas fair.
 
 
 

 
Holiday Santa - Victorian Santa
 
 
 

 

Directions for Making Holiday Santa

  • Take five large pine cones, two for the holiday Santa's arms, two for legs, and one for the body; glue them together, and wind them round with wire.
     
  • Cut the holiday Santa's boots out of wood, set them on a block, sharpen the upper ends, and insert them in holes bored in the legs.
     
  • Glue the holiday Santa's head and hands of an ordinary jointed doll on the body and arms; make the beard and hair of flax, and fit a fur cap on the holiday Santa's head.
     
  • Put a girdle of dried moss round the holiday Santa's waist, to conceal the wire, and knit tippet on the neck.
     
  • Fasten a paste-board basket, filled with candies and toys, on the holiday Santa's back; throw a netted bag with nuts and lady-apples, over one shoulder; and put a miniature Christmas tree in one hand, and a nut-cracker and switch in the other.
 
 
 
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