When Santa Claus, Rudolf the Reindeer and the Snowman sit together on the windowsill, then it's Christmas time. By the beginning of December at the latest, it is high time to start decorating for the popular festival. You can make beautiful crafts with the children that would add a personal touch to the Christmas decorations. In this article we have collected the most popular ideas and inspiration for Christmas crafts with children that you can do at home with the little ones. Get inspired and prepare your home for the coming holidays.
Winter and Christmas are the best time to get creative at home. There are many great motifs and ideas available that encourage creativity and are fun at the same time. You can choose between decorated Christmas trees, colorful tree decorations, Santa Claus or his friends, or you can try everything. Great craft projects with instructions to follow.
Making Christmas trees with children
The Christmas tree is a symbol of Christmas known worldwide and is therefore a wonderful craft idea for the occasion. You can even use recycled material to make the Christmas tree and use old items. A great idea made from old tin cans in different sizes can be found in the picture above. You should first paint the cans with green spray paint and then decorate them together with the child. Colorful pompoms, threads and bows are ideal for this. Don't forget that eitherStar for the top.
The crafted Christmas trees are an original decoration for the home and can beautify the window sills or the side table at Christmas. Styrofoam cones and some yarn can be used to make pretty Christmas trees in any color that will give the house a festive atmosphere. This project is for bothCrafts with elementary school children, as well as suitable for adults.
Glue the end of the yarn ball to the bottom of the cone using hot glue. Then start wrapping the entire cone with the yarn until you reach the top. At the very top, glue the other end of the wool again with the hot glue gun. Now it's time to decorate! In the example, pom-poms are used as Christmas tree toppers and colorful buttons are used as tree baubles, but you can also use any decoration you like.
Even smaller children can make and decorate these Christmas trees. To do this you will need popsicle sticks, acrylic paints, glue (hot glue is best) and decorations such as mini pom poms, pipe cleaners and paper stars. If you want to hang the crafts on the large Christmas tree, you will need some string to make hangers.
For each Christmas tree you need two whole popsicle sticks and one shortened popsicle stick. The children should first paint these and then glue them into the appropriate triangular shape. Then comes the decoration. There are no limits to creativity. Mini pom-poms look wonderful as Christmas baubles and you can make sparkling garlands with pipe cleaners.
The little ones' hand and footprints are also suitable for Christmas crafts with children. Snowmen, reindeer and Christmas trees can be easily and creatively designed from this. To make a Christmas tree, cut out the child's handprint from green felt and decorate it with sequins, craft beads and a felt star on top. Finally, attach a clothespin to the bottom part to make the tree trunk.
Santa crafts with children
The children can use many different materials for St. Nicholas Day as well as for Christmas decorationsMaking Santa Claus. We have a few great ideas ready for you. In the first craft project, Santa Claus is made from a walnut in a shell, red paper and some cotton wool. This is how it works:
First make the Santa hat out of red paper by cutting out a semicircle, bending it into a cone shape and gluing it together. If you are making a Santa tree decoration, use a small piece of wire to make a hanger and glue it to the top of the hat. Then attach the Santa hat to the walnut and decorate it with cotton wool. Finally, design the beard and face and Santa Claus is ready.
You can also use salt dough for Christmas crafts with children. You can use this to make original tree decorations that decorate the Christmas tree in a special way. TheSalt dough recipeis very simple and everyone can try it at home. You can then cut out any shapes from the finished dough or create beautiful crafts using the children's handprints. Santa Claus is easy to create with a handprint. The thumb forms the hat and the remaining four fingers form the beard.
DIY ideas for reindeer
Kindergarten and primary school children love Rudolf, so the little reindeer is a great idea for Christmas crafts with children. To do this, you can press the child's hand onto salt dough and, after the dough is baked, paint the handprint as a reindeer. In this case, the fingers recreate the reindeer's antlers and the palm recreates the face.
This idea for making Rudolf is child's play, but still looks really nice. To do this you will need a brown paper bag, colorful construction paper to cut out the individual features of the face, a stapler and glue. The children can also paint the face with felt-tip pens or acrylic paints if there is no colored paper available.
Children have a lot of fun making crafts with materials from the household, so we have found two great ideas using clothespins. For example, you can make these cute reindeer with the children using wooden clothespins, red pompoms, googly eyes and brown pipe cleaners and integrate them into your Christmas decorations.
Make your own snowman
SnowmenChildren also associate them with Christmas and winter and therefore go wonderfully with Christmas craft projects. You can also make a cute snowman out of a clothespin. To do this, the small tool is first painted white and then decorated like a snowman. Try it!
Even though you don't spend as much time in the garden in winter, that doesn't mean that the outdoor area doesn't need some decorations for Christmas. For example, if there is no snow for Christmas, you can make a snowman with the children from any materials and decorate the garden with it. You can even turn a wooden pallet into a snowman if you paint it to match.
Creative ideas
When doing Christmas crafts with your child, you don't necessarily have to follow exact instructions and use special materials. With a little creativity and imagination, you can create great creations from simple everyday things, such as jam jars or wooden spoons. We hope you have fun making crafts for the most popular winter festival.
