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You are here: Home / Christmas / Upcycled Rain Boots to Santa Boots – Easy Christmas Craft

Upcycled Rain Boots to Santa Boots – Easy Christmas Craft

January 1, 2014 by SmartGirl 6 Comments

On the 8th Day of Christmas… I am wishing you a Happy New Year.  Plus I’m sharing some blinged out Santa boots with you.  Yup, that’s right, it’s time to upcycle your kids’ too small rain boots and make a cute and easy Christmas craft. These Santa boots make a cute decoration or a gift.
Smart Girls DIY - 12 Days of Christmas - Upcycled Santa BootsUpcycled Santa's Boots

Supplies:

  • An old pair of rain boots (your own kid’s or a second hand pair – my pair was actually both)
  • Red paint (mine was a free sample from Lowe’s)
  • Red glitter
  • Mod Podge
  • Small paint brush
  • Soft fluffy white material (mine was Sherpa Craft Fur  from Joann Fabric – I needed only a 6 inch strip cut)
  • Glue (glue gun, glue dots, or whatever adhesive you want)

How to make Santa Boots:

1) Wash the boots.  Give the bottoms a really good scrubbing.  I even put mine in the dishwasher.Clean the boots well

2) Paint the boots red.  The accent color on the boots I used was already red, if not paint that red too.  Or black.Start painting

Let your kids have a turn painting too.Let your kid paint too

3) Paint Mod Podge on with a paint brush and then sprinkle glitter on top.  This was actually pretty painless, and not too messy.  I did mine over a plastic bag inside a cardboard box.  Don’t worry about going all the way up to the top because the fabric is going to cover that area anyway.Ready to add some glitter

Smart Girls DIY - Making glittery santa boots

4) Fold the 6 inch Sherpa material in half lengthwise.   You now have a 3 inch wide piece.  Stick about an inch inside the boot and let about 2 inches hang over the outside of the boot.  Adjust the fit and then cut to length.  Glue down.Attaching sherpa fabric to santa's boots

Yeah, I’m more of a builder than a crafter these days, but the clamps did the trick.Attaching sherpa lining

And this is what you end up with.Smart Girls DIY - 12 Days of Christmas - Upcycled Santa BootsUpcycled Santa's Boots

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Filed Under: Christmas, Crafts Tagged With: gifts, kids, upcycle

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Comments

  1. Colleen says

    November 11, 2015 at 2:47 pm

    Loved the Santa boot idea and the Christmas Nisse…Thanks

    Reply
    • SmartGirl says

      November 11, 2015 at 2:48 pm

      Glad you liked them! Thanks for stopping by. 🙂

      Reply
  2. Reba Siener says

    November 12, 2015 at 1:51 pm

    Love the Santa boots and the Santa logs

    Reply
    • SmartGirl says

      November 21, 2015 at 8:12 pm

      Thanks Reba!

      Reply
  3. Alison says

    December 4, 2016 at 10:35 pm

    Love this idea and made them for my grandchildren, but unfortunately I used one pair that was too tall and flexible so the glitter cracked off.

    Reply
    • SmartGirl says

      December 18, 2016 at 5:14 pm

      Oh no! Mine are still going strong after 4 years.

      Reply

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