Plate of Cookies for Santa SVG

Somebody at your house has already picked out the best three cookies and is guarding them until bedtime. This design is that plate: an oval of sky blue with a cream center, a trio of chocolate chip cookies heaped in the middle with one sitting forward of the other two, and a little cream note hovering above that spells out exactly who they are for.

The message is short, two words in red capitals on a tidy rectangle, and it leaves no doubt about the intended recipient, even if a sibling claims otherwise.

Color layers

If red on cream feels too quiet for your project, recoloring takes a minute with the color-change steps.

Pieces and weeding

Counted up, the solid adds up to 32 pieces with 19 cut-outs. The plate, its center, the cookies, the chips, the note and each letter are separate shapes, so nothing is holding the words together but you. In vinyl, transfer tape carries it all across in one go; in paper, a backing card keeps it together. It passes our cut checks from about 3.5 inches wide.

Setting up the Christmas Eve spot

A layered paper version makes a good place card for the fireplace or the end of the kitchen counter. Glue the picture to a square of card, add a strut on the back so it stands, and put it next to the real thing. Kids can sign the back before bed.

For a keepsake, apply iron-on vinyl to a small square of fabric and hem it into a mat that comes out each December. Treat it as a backdrop, with the actual snack on a dish of its own.

Build order for paper

1. Pick a width of 5 inches or larger, since the letters turn fiddly below that.
2. Cut the brown backing, then the tan, cream, blue and chocolate parts.
3. Attach the plate and its center, followed by the two rear cookies and the front cookie.
4. Tweezer the chips into place.
5. Glue the note down and set each letter on it, working from the left.

Ideas that suit it

• Christmas Eve cards from the children to the big man himself.
• Large gift tags on a tin of baking left for a neighbor.
• Mantel signs on a painted wooden round.

Size guide

Under 3.5 inches the letters get too small to cut. Printing the color file and trimming only around the outside is the way to go.

Pairs well with

Milk and Cookies supplies the drink, and the Christmas Gift Tag collection covers everything headed under the tree.