Obunusual Advent calendars, Christmas wreath or window decorations – you can make and craft some great things during the Christmas season. Both adults and children can get really creative, have fun and get into the wonderful Christmas spirit at the same time. We would like to show you some Christmas craft ideas that are perfect for the little ones and can be easily recreated. No matter whether you are looking for ideas for primary school, want to make Christmas presents or just want to spend a nice afternoon crafting at home - you will find what you are looking for with us. If you want to make something nice for Christmas with children for Advent, you don't necessarily need particularly unusual materials - but take a look for yourself!
A great example of a simple Christmas craft are theseChristmas garlands, which are not only suitable as simple decorations, but can also be used as a kind of Advent calendar for the countdown to Christmas Eve. All you need is simple construction paper and a few other supplies. Then you can do Christmas crafts with children for Advent as follows:
- Craft paper that you cut into strips or toilet roll
- Moosgummi
- Craft glue
- Googly eyes
- Scissors
- Pencil
- Lineal
- Stapler or clear tape
- Decorations: ribbons, pompoms or others
And this is how you can make garlands for Christmaschildren for Advent: Depending on how big you would like the rings to be, place the ruler on either the short or long side and measure equal distances and mark them. Then draw lines across the entire sheet and cut out the strips. How many strips you need depends on how long you want the garland to be. If you want to get a kind of Advent calendar, you need 24 pieces. Then take the first strip and shape it into a ring. Staple or glue the ends together with adhesive tape. Then take the next strip, put it through the first one and also glue its ends together to make a ring again. Keep doing this until you get the length you want.
Next, cut out the necessary elements for the selected figures: a black hatfor the snowmanand/or antlers for a reindeer and a carrot nose made of foam rubber or paper. You can easily create the reindeer's nose by gluing on a red pompom. Glue the googly eyes onto the top ring of the garland and then also the prepared elements. If you make an Advent calendar, you can then label the rings and hang up the garlands. A ring can then be cut off every day until Christmas Eve.
Advent crafts with children – Advent wreath made from toilet paper rolls
Have you started collecting toilet paper rolls yet? If not, then you should start slowly, because you can make really great and, above all, simple things with them and for every occasion. One of them is an Advent wreath for children. You'll be amazed at how easy it is to make. It's also a nice idea if you want to make grandma happy, for example. Here's what you'll need if you use thisAdvent wreath for Christmascrafting with children for Advent:
- 4 toilet paper rolls
- 1 kitchen roll
- Tissue paper in yellow and orange
- Scissors
- Acrylic paints
- green paper
- a piece of cardboard
- Brush, hot glue or craft glue, scissors
- optional: decorations to decorate the candles
And this is how you can make the Advent wreath for Christmas with children for Advent: Paint itthe toilet paper rollswith the selected colors and let them dry. Meanwhile, cut a circle out of the cardboard and paint it with green paint similar to the paper. Let this paint dry too.
Trace the outline of your children's hands onto the green paper and cut them out. If the first layer of paint on the rolls and cardboard does not cover well, you can now paint on a second one. With theDesign hand outlinesThen the piece of cardboard. First glue a few hands in a ring around the outside of the cardboard and then create another circle further inside. This one should overlap the first one. Continue like this until all of the cardboard is covered with hands.
Decorate the dried rolls with any decorations you like and then arrange them on the base with your hands. Stick them in place with glue. Then cut the tissue paper into smaller pieces and combine yellow and orange pieces in each candle to create flames. To do this, simply insert them into the openings.
Crafting for Advent in primary school and kindergarten
A similar idea are these beautiful candles that are perfect for decorating the windows during the Christmas season. You can't just make them at home. Also for Christmas craft projects at school orin kindergartenThe Christmas crafts are perfect and can then be given to mom. So how about making candles like these for Christmas with your children for Advent? Get started now!
- Craft paper
- Tissue, parchment or crepe paper
- Glue
- Scissors
- double-sided adhesive craft foil
Cut the tissue paper into shreds. These can have any shape. Then cut out a narrow rectangle from black paper as a frame for the candle. Glue the frame to the foil and design the area in the frame with the snippets. Cut out the candle. Then you need the flame. To do this, cut out a teardrop shape from yellow paper and then another, smaller one from orange paper, which you glue onto the yellow one.
Imitate the pine green with cut-out hands as in the instructions above. To do this, trace the outline of the children's hands on green paper and cut out the resulting hands. If you want, you can combine two different shades of green. Glue the flame to the candle and then add the fir greens from hands to the other end. You can already do thatWindow picture on the windowstick.
Make Christmas crafts with children for Advent – make Advent wreaths for Christmas time
This Advent wreath is even quicker and easier to make. All you need is play dough or colored salt dough, four candles and any decorations you like. From the dough orthe salt doughFirst form a thick roll, then make a ring out of it. Then you can insert the candles and decorate the wreath as you wish. Beads, pine cones, balls, berries and much more can be used for design. You are welcome to come up with other figures and shapes when you do Christmas crafts with children during Advent.
Make beautiful Christmas balls for Christmas and Advent
You don't have to wait for the Christmas tree to come up with beautiful onesDecorate Christmas ballscan. Many people choose a real tree and therefore wait until a few days before Christmas to buy it. But the balls can also decorate any other area of the house: the window, the mantel, a free wall or even the decorative bowl on the dining table. That's why these pretty Christmas tree baubles are a suitable craft idea during Advent. This is how you can make them for Christmas with children during Advent.
Fillable balls are available to buy ready-made, either made of glass or plastic. AndThese can be filledpractical decorations with just about everything. For the examples, objects in green were chosen and combined with decorations in red - typical Christmas colors. Green beads, feathers and pompoms are just three of the many options. The outsides can be painted as desired or decorated with stickers, ribbons, string and other things.
Christmas trees made from clothespins to make during Advent with children
Would you like small Christmas trees? You can make these yourself for Advent and Christmas with children using simple onesWooden clothespinsuse. Below you will find out what else you need when you make these Christmas trees with children for Advent:
- Wooden clothespins
- Acrylic paints and brushes
- Glue
- for decorating: pipe cleaners, pompoms, glitter stars or other decorations
- Yarn or ribbon
For this creative Christmas craft idea, you first have to take the clothespins apart to remove the metal elements. Then glue two of the elements together on the straight side. Then make the trees from two such pairs and two individual elements as follows: Glue the two pairs together on the pointed side and along the straight side. Then attach a single element to each of the two outer sides in the same places. In the picture above you can clearly see what is meant.
Then paint the clothespin trees green. Once the paint has dried, you can add a second layer if necessary, which must also dry well. Then you can start decorating the trees.From the pipe cleanersFor example, you can make garlands, small pom-poms can be used as Christmas tree baubles and you can use stars to decorate the top of the Christmas tree. You are also welcome to come up with your own decorations. Finally, glue a piece of yarn, string or ribbon to the back of the Christmas trees in the form of a loop so that you can hang them. Complete! The perfect idea if you would like to make a small Christmas present.
Make pretty Christmas decorations with children in the embroidery frame
Or how about these really beautiful onesDecorations in the embroidery frameCrafting with children for Advent? They are the perfect gift with or without an occasion or of course for your own use. You can use embroidery frames of any size and decorate the Christmas tree with small ones, for example, or walls, doors and windows with larger ones. Are you interested in this idea? This is how you can make Christmas pictures with children for Advent:
- Embroidery frame
- Fabric for covering and painting
- Textile color
- Paint brush
- The stick part
- Stencil with a Christmas motif
- Band
Find yourselfMotif from the internetand print it out (or draw one yourself). Then cut it out to make a template that you place on the fabric. To prevent it from slipping when painting the fabric, you can fix it to the fabric with pins. Then paint the motif within the stencil with any colors you like and let it dry. Finally, remove the template again and stretch the fabric into the embroidery frame. You can then cut off the excess fabric that sticks out on the sides. Tie a loop of ribbon to the frame and you're ready to display the Christmas decorations!
