Paint the wooden part of the chip brush red (both front and back). Allow to dry about 30 minutes. Add another coat of paint if needed.
Use a small paintbrush or the flat end of a wooden skewer to add white polka dots to the front of the handle using white paint.
Step 3: Draw and cut out holly leaves
Draw a holly leaf shape on the back of green glitter paper. Our holly leaves were 1-1/4 inch long by about 1/2 inch wide.
Cut out the holly leaf.
Trace the first holly leaf onto the glitter paper and cut it out so you have two leaves.
Step 4: Cut out and attach the faux fur
Use a pencil or gel pen to draw a rectangle on the back of the faux fur, long enough to wrap around the metal band on the paintbrush and tall enough to cover most of it.We cut our fur to 1-1/4 inches high by 4-1/2 inches long.
Cut out the strip of fur.
Add a horizontal line of hot glue down the middle of the fur on the back side. Add vertical lines of glue on the left and right ends.
Place the chip brush in the center of the fur, letting a little bit of the metal part show at the bottom.
Wrap the fur around the paintbrush, pressing down to secure the glued parts. Add more hot glue if needed.
Step 5: Add a face and hat decorations
Add glue tape or hot glue to the back of two googly eyes.
Attach the googly eyes to the front center of the metal strip, right under the fur.
Use glue tape or hot glue to attach the pom pom nose to the paintbrush bristles, below the eyes.
Attach the holly leaves to the top left of the fur with glue tape or hot glue.
Place the red rhinestone stickers at the bottom of the holly leaves in a triangle shaped grouping.
To turn your Santa Claus paintbrush craft into an ornament, cut an 8 - 10 inch piece of twine and tie it through the hole in the handle.Your paint brush Santa is complete!
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If your paintbrush doesn't have a hole for the ornament hanger you can hot glue the twine to the back of the brush handle.