7 Christmas Crafts for Kids

The holiday season is often full of joy and excitement; we commonly find ourselves hustling and popping from here to there. But if you want to slow lanugo and enjoy the quickly passing time with your little ones, here are some fun Christmas crafts and activities to entertain you and your kids this holiday season. Rest assured, these activities won’t unravel the bank, which is unconfined considering this time of year is once a strain on our wallets. And here’s a bonus: your kids might plane learn something or build some skills. But don’t let them know that!

7 Christmas Crafts for Kids

1. Sticker Snowflake

This Christmas craft is entirely too easy, but it will alimony their hands rented for a long time. Very little work for you, but big-time payoff. Oh, and did I mention it’s virtually mess-free? You’re welcome. I grabbed a large piece of blue poster workbench at the dollar store and some plain white dot stickers. Yes, that ways this worriedness forfeit only $2. It doesn’t get any largest than that, right?

Directions:

1. Using a woebegone marker, yank a vital snowflake pattern onto your poster board. You can make it as simple or intricate as you would like!

2. Have your child use the dot stickers to imbricate the lines. Encourage them to alimony the stickers only on the lines so you get a well-spoken picture at the end.

Stickers are a unconfined use of our refined fine motor skills, and honestly, what kid doesn’t LOVE stickers? If your little one has difficulty separating the stickers from the sheet, you can peel off the surrounding valuables so all you leave overdue are the dot stickers.

Bonus tip: I like to stick the unshortened poster workbench up on a wall so our kids work versus gravity for the elapsing of the activity. It’s a unconfined way to work on towers the shoulder muscles required for fine motor tasks like writing and cutting. This one is a win!

2. Wafer-thin Village

I don’t know well-nigh you, but our kids love to help us decorate during the holidays. And I love finding ways they can be involved in the process. I can’t necessarily have them help me put out our fragile decorations, but they can certainly help with this Christmas craft.

Directions:

1. Grab a tuft of recycled wafer-thin (I imagine you have some sitting virtually from all those deliveries this time of year) and a white paint pen. You’ll need tiny sequins, jewels, or glitter for the kids. Hopefully, the kids and glitter don’t requite you uneasiness as it does me.

2. Cut out a tuft of house shapes from the wafer-thin and decorate it with white paint or a paint pen. If you have older kids, they could help you with this step. For our younger kids, I had them help me decorate the houses with sequins and jewels, and they loved it!

3. Once the houses are completely dry, you can string them with yarn and hang them somewhere in your home. Or you can nail them in an accordion format and put them on your table display. The possibilities are uncounted with this one. Our kids were so proud of what they created, and it was unconfined to have them finger like they unsalaried to our holiday décor this year.

3. Snowman Bowling

This unconfined gross motor worriedness can hands be washed-up indoors during those unprepossessed winter months.

Directions:

1. Gather 10 Styrofoam cups and yank a snowman squatter on each one. I used a woebegone Sharpie for the vision and mouth and then cut out orange triangles for the noses. You’ll moreover need a lightweight object. I found a pack of snowballs at the dollar store, or you could moreover use a couple of pieces of crumpled-up construction paper.

2. Have your child stack the cups into a pyramid and use your snowball or flipside lightweight object to try and knock the cups down.

Having your child restack the cups is a unconfined visual motor activity, and they will love knocking them lanugo then and again! If you have increasingly than one child playing, you can make it a game to see who can get the most snowmen knocked lanugo with each round.

4. Reindeer Ornament

Who doesn’t love a homemade ornament idea? You’ve probably seen several examples of salt dough ornaments (capturing your little one’s handprints as a tomboy is a must!), but if you’re looking for flipside fun DIY ornament, here’s an idea that can be washed-up in just a couple of minutes. You can make this as easy as a “place and paste” activity, or for older kids, you can moreover involve them in the wearing process. I did this one when our victual was just three years old, so I did all the wearing in advance, so all he needed to do was paste it together with some help.

Directions:

1. Cut out two antlers from glitter brown cardstock and a small red nose out of red glitter cardstock.

2. Add some vision and a mouth, and you have a sweet little Rudolph ornament!

I found the wooden ornaments at our local craft store for just a couple of bucks and once had the cardstock on hand. But plane if you’re ownership all the necessary supplies, this one still comes in at just a few dollars per ornament.

5. Pouch Cap Christmas Tree

This Christmas craft has unchangingly been one of my favorite DIY activities. I made this two years ago, and it’s still holding up, and the kids still love it!

Most parents of young kids or toddlers have a hodgepodge of squeeze pouches in their cabinets. Start saving those tops and putting them to good use with this fun activity. You’ll want to alimony the twist cap and the plastic piece that the cap twists onto. Just cut them right off the pouch, rinse them, and set them whispered until you have unbearable saved. We had two toddlers in the house when I originally made this, so I kept unbearable tops within just a few days!

Directions:

1. Using recycled cardboard, I cut out a tree shape and a star, then painted the tree untried and the star yellow.

2. Once they were dried, I used my hot glue gun to put the tree together. I used the hot glue gun to glue on the plastic twist-top portions. (Tip: leave the caps detached, so they don’t unwittingly get glued onto their twist top.)

3. Once they have had unbearable time to dry completely, it’s playtime. Your child will love to “decorate” the tree with the pouch cap “ornaments.” As they twist the caps on, they work on practical fine motor skills.

I love finding ways to encourage our kids to engage in activities like this considering it’s spanking-new skill-building disguised as play.

6. Marshmallow Painting

There’s just something well-nigh kids and painting. This Christmas craft and art project is easy and cheap, and your kids will love this unique spin on stamping. There are all kinds of unconventional ways to do paint stamping using foods. Apples, potatoes, and plane broccoli can be dipped into paint and used as stamps. But this worriedness uses marshmallows!

I got a bag of jumbo marshmallows at the dollar store and some white craft paint at our local craft store, and I used the when of a piece of the undecorous posterboard I used in the sticker snowflake activity.

Directions:

1. Using a woebegone permanent marker, I drew a snowman shape and unliable our little one to dip his marshmallow into the paint and fill in the snowman shape.

2. After he was washed-up filling in his snowman, I helped cut out the facial features, hat, and buttons from construction paper.

You could have your kids make their own unique snowman, and you’ll have a whole family of snowmen (and women)!

7. Stocking Guessing Game

This game sets up in just minutes and involves skill-building for your kids.

Directions:

1. Grab a stocking and fill it with random objects or toys from virtually the house. Ensure there are no sharp edges since your child will grab the things without using their eyes.

2. Have your child reach into the stocking, grab an object, and then guess what it is without looking. The worthiness to recognize an object using your sense of touch, without visual and auditory information, is tabbed stereognosis and is an important life skill.¹ Imagine how often you reach into your purse or diaper bag looking for your keys, phone, or flipside object and can locate it based purely on your sense of touch!

You can mix this one up as many times as you want. And you can use easy objects your kids are familiar with, or you can increase the difficulty if you use things that are a bit increasingly obscure. If your child can’t verbally communicate, you could have pictures of the objects, and your child can point to the image they finger inside of the stocking. This worriedness is an spanking-new low-key, easy-to-set-up way to occupy your little ones this holiday season. You can do this then and again!

I hope these Christmas crafts and activities will alimony your little ones occupied during their holiday unravel from school. The holidays are often when we’re running from here to there, unchangingly on the go, so I encourage you to slow lanugo and soak up the true magic of the season by seeing it through your children’s eyes. These activities are just one way to make your holiday season fun and festive. Happy holidays to you and yours!

Resources

1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK556003/

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