Would you like to keep children between 3 and 5 years old creative? Crafting at Christmas is fun and promotes fine motor skills. Several suitable DIY projects for the pre-Christmas season!
Christmas crafts with small children: greeting card made from cardboard
Even small children love to create something themselves. As early as three years old, little ones can work with child-friendly tools and decorate greeting cards. The DIY ideas in the article are super easy and can be achieved with a little help from parents.
Beginners can start with a simple DIY greeting card. You need:
- Cardboard in green and brown
- blank double card from the craft shop
- adhesive
- Bumble
- Pompoms (4 mm diameter)
- double-sided tape
- Scissors
Instructions: Cut three equal-sized triangles from the green cardboard and a small square from the brown cardboard. Use the glue to put together the Christmas tree and attach it to the center of the greeting card. Decorate the tree with pompoms and pompoms. These can be attached quickly and easily using the double-sided adhesive tape.
Christmas decorations with egg cartons: DIY idea for children between 3 and 5 years old
You can use egg cartonsnumerous craft ideasrealize. Below we will explain how you can put together cute characters. First, cut the egg carton to size. Then you can start crafting:
- Santa Claus: First cut out the top of the egg carton, then paint it red. Let it dry and attach the beard made of cotton wool with glue.
- Rudolf: Paint the tip of the egg carton brown and draw on the mouth with black fineliner. Glue on antlers made from pipe cleaners, googly eyes, and a nose made from pompoms.
- Snowman: Cut out three bottom hollows from the egg carton, paint them white and stack them on top of each other. Cut out the nose from colored paper and glue it on, paint the mouth and buttons with black fineliner. Attach googly eyes.
- Christmas tree: Paint three tips green and stack them on top of each other. Cut out a star from yellow colored paper, cut pipe cleaners and put together the Christmas tree.
Christmas tree made from toilet rolls
Making a Christmas tree out of toilet rolls is really easy. However, you can first cut the roll into rings and then glue them to the sheet of paper with the children. Cut out a tree trunk from brown cardboard, cut out a star from yellow cardboard and glue it in place. Then the children can paint the inside of the rings.
Crafts for Christmas: Handprint Santa
The next DIY idea is not only super decorative, but also remains a beautiful memory. Simply place the children's hands on white cardboard, draw the outlines and then cut them out. The fingers point downwards. Then paint the upper part of the hand and the thumb red. Draw on the mouth and cheeks with a pink pencil and add wiggly eyes. Apply cotton wool to all other fingers as a beard. Glue white pompoms onto the Santa hat.
DIY with popsicle sticks and finger paints
You can make a colorful and super beautiful window decoration out of popsicle sticks. Simply paint three wooden popsicle sticks green, put them together into a triangle and then stamp or paint circles of different sizes on them with paint. Then cut out a star from red colored paper and attach it.
Make your own Advent calendar for daycare
Do you quickly need an Advent calendar for kindergarten? Then you just need a shoebox and several toilet paper rolls. You can paint the lids by hand and attach them with pins so that you can fill the calendar with delicious surprises again next year.
Variant made from toilet rolls and packaging paper
A variation is the “Advent tree” – paint 24 toilet rolls green, let them dry and then shape them into a tree. Then glue the rolls together. Cut out a back panel from green cardboard and attach it. Fill the toilet rolls with little surprises. Then wrap the whole thing with a green bag or green crepe paper. Cut out circles from cardboard, paint them, decorate them with stickers and write a number on them.
Decorate Christmas tree with stickers
At the age of three, children can already practice using scissors and glue. The best way to do this is with the next craft instructions. Simply cut out a Christmas tree from green glitter paper, then stick it with stars and rhinestones.
Make decorations for the windowsill
At the age of 5 you can already cut a Christmas tree out of toilet roll and then paint it any way you like. You can even cut out different silhouettes and arrange them on the windowsill.
Children between the ages of 3 and 5 are just discovering crafts. Choose a quick and easy DIY project. In this way, the little ones learn how to use scissors and glue in a playful way, without being overwhelmed by many tasks. This is a cool way for parents to spend more time with their children and have fun together.
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