How to Make a Clay Pot Elf

Paint your larger clay pot green and allow time to dry between coats.

Paint your wooden doll head the skin color of your choice. Allow time for paint to dry.

Paint small clay pot red and allow time to dry between coats.

Take two sparkly green pipe cleaners and wrap each around a pencil so that you create two arms. Glue them to the top of the larger green clay pot with a hot glue gun.

Next take the wooden doll head and glue it to the green pot to create. Allow time for the glue to dry.

Add 3 sequences in the center of the clay pot to make jacket buttons.

Take the tied rafia and glue it to the top of the wooden doll head after drawing on your elf's smiling face.

Take a red sparkle pipecleaner and place it around the top of the red pot and secure with glue. Next take one more pipe cleaner and wrap it around the top of the red pot. Place it tightly beside the first and secure with glue.

Take a third red sparkle pipecleaner and shape in to a heart. Make sure you leave room at the bottom of the pipecleaner to feed it through the bottom of the red clay pot and hot glue the pipecleaner on the inside.

Finallly, place the rim of the red pot on top of the wooden head and rafia to form the elf's hat.

Take a piece of foam close to your desired skin color and cut out two small tear drops to make ears. Glue one ear on each side of the head between pieces of orange rafia.

Glue a small red bow to Vanessa's neck in order to make a cute bow tie.

Run a bead of glue around the rim of the green pot and attach a piece of green felt circle to the bottom of the elf in order to hide the inside of the bell.