Upcycled Rain Boots to Santa Boots – Easy Christmas Craft

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.

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.

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

Let your kids have a turn painting 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.

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.

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

And this is what you end up with.