Children love creating festive crafts at Christmas time! Here’s a selection of ideas suitable for all ages that feature ornaments, cards and window decorations – something sure to keep their hands busy all winter long!
Make an adorable snowflake ornament using recycled puzzle pieces by following this DIY project for toddlers! This DIY project makes the tree or gifts shine.
Christmas Tree Ornaments
Make ornaments for your Christmas tree using simple tools. Kids can trace cookie cutters onto patterned paper to easily create colorful and super-easy ornaments!
These festive ornaments turn old glass ornaments into Rudolph ornaments with red antlers and fuzzy felt noses for an engaging craft project, perfect for children to use an empty mason jar to complete.
Dress up plain plastic or glass ornaments with textured fringe ribbon by adhering overlapping rings of fringe around them with glue.
Christmas Cards
Kids can create beautiful Christmas cards for friends and family using various designs – like this one! Get creative!
Make your child’s hand or footprint into an adorable reindeer with this easy, kid-friendly craft! Simply add antlers and eyes for an adorable design your family and friends will adore.
Create a wintery scene on a plain card using branches and small twigs from outside, adding a twirled marker line as an extra festive touch.
Salt Dough Ornaments
Craft ornaments together that will be treasured for years. By including your child’s handprint or footprint in an ornament, you’ll have an invaluable memento from their first Christmas.
Bake the dough for 1-2 hours. Beware not to over bake as overdoing it may cause puffing of the salt dough; to prevent this from happening it’s best to let the dough air dry for one or more days after taking out of the oven.
Window Decorations
Installing Christmas decorations on windows is an effective way to brighten any room during this festive season. Display this colourful garland featuring dried oranges and paper leaves for added cheer!
Make an ordinary window an advent calendar with this adorable idea. Get kids counting down until Christmas with this easy DIY Santa windsock made out of cotton balls and a red hat!
Christmas Knot Ornaments
Kids can create festive ornaments using paper bags and some paint. Once decorated, add pipe cleaner antlers, pipe cleaner pipe cleaner pom pom nose and ribbon bow ties for some playful creativity and you have Rudolph, puffin or even narwhal!
Old board games can make for great festive DIY projects, including letter tiles from Scrabble that can be transformed into festive Christmas word ornaments, Noel napkin rings or even an attractive shadow box.
Personalized Christmas Cards Packs
Kids will love making Christmas cards with thumbprint art that reflect them and display it proudly!
No matter the Christmas craft you need for kids to complete this year, from paper crafts, yarn projects and ornament ideas – there’s sure to be plenty to pick from this season! These projects can easily be completed within an afternoon – plus many may require materials you have available already in your house!
Christmas Trees
Young children will delight in creating their very own Christmas tree ornament to display in their home. This project is especially great for toddlers as it encourages open-ended creativity.
Make an adorable tree ornament using Q-tips dipped in paint! Not only is it fun, but this activity also serves as a great way to improve handwriting!
Recycled materials are always popular with kids, such as this festive tree made out of tinfoil and paint.
Mini Yarn Hats
Christmas can be one of the most joyful times of year for both children and grownups alike! Keep little hands busy during this festive season by creating some simple DIYs to keep them busy! Here are three ideas to get them moving.
Tie the yarn ends together BEFORE pushing them through the cardboard ring – this makes assembly much simpler!
This art project explores negative space. Perfect for toddlers to elementary age children.
No Sew Sock Snowman
When the weather outside is uninviting, it can be tempting to stay inside with comfy blankets, delicious treats and festive music – making for an easy way to spend a dreary winter’s day indoors! Inject some creativity into that day at home by exploring these fantastic Christmas craft activities for kids.
Use those old socks that have seen better days to make a sweet snowman out of them by filling them with rice and rubber banding them to form the figure of Santa or Frosty! This DIY project is simple enough for even young children to do themselves with assistance from an adult.
Christmas Laundry
Recycle old board games into something fun for Christmas with this craft idea! Cut circles of thick card and pierce them at regular intervals using string (this may be best done by adults if your kids are young).
Help your children make a festive paper snowman craft complete with mouth, eyes and scarf that would look lovely on either their mantelpiece or as table centerpiece for Christmas dinner. This would look festive on display on both.