Holiday Crafts For Kids Of All Ages: Dazzling Decor, Crafts, And Gifts Kids Can Make
Holiday crafts are a fantastic way for adults to keep kids engaged and focused throughout the holiday season. In addition to creating fun crafts and holiday decor, children can use their crafting skills to make gifts for friends, teachers, and family members.
You can use craft activities to enjoy quality time with your kids, and you can also use holiday crafts to occupy youngsters before or during seasonal activities or when you’re working from home.
Between decorating, gift shopping, holiday events with colleagues and friends, and holiday traditions, you spend a lot of time preparing to host or attend holiday events. Offering activities kids enjoy can help them embrace the holiday spirit and look forward to the holiday festivities. Plus, creating holiday crafts at home gives home-visiting program participants something to share with parent educators during their visits.
Fun Holiday Craft Ideas for Kids
Kids can make many things during the holiday season, including crafts, decorative items, and gifts.
Keeping Busing During the Holiday Season: Easy Holiday Crafts for Kids To Make
Easy holiday crafts for kids are ideal for kids of all ages. Younger children can feel a sense of accomplishment when they complete their crafts, and older children can often complete these crafts independently or help younger siblings or friends with their craft projects.
Easy Christmas crafts for kids usually involve a small number of craft supplies, including household supplies you’re likely to have on hand. This saves you time and money when setting up crafts for the holiday season.
Christmas Trees Are Easy Holiday Crafts for Kids
Christmas trees are common features during the holiday season, and it’s easy for kids to make Christmas trees they can display. You will need the following to make simple paper Christmas trees:
- Essential items
- Glue
- Green and brown construction paper
- Pencil
- Ruler
- Scissors
- Optional items:
- Buttons
- Crayons or markers
- Glitter glue
- Press-on jewels
- Stickers
Using the ruler and pencil, draw isosceles triangles on the construction paper. For the tree stumps, draw short squares on the brown construction paper.
Set the items kids can use to decorate the Christmas trees in the craft station.
Children can use glitter glue to make sparkly dots on the Christmas trees representing tree bulbs. You can also give children the option of gluing beads to the tree, drawing decorations with markers, adding press-on jewels, or applying stickers to decorate their tree.
The stump can be glued to the tree before or after the tree is decorated. These paper Christmas trees can be hung on bedroom doors, walls, fridges, or windows.
One benefit of this activity is that it can be adapted for children of different ages. Younger children can use stickers, while other children can use more sophisticated decorative items.
Children can also make Christmas trees using paper plates.
Christmas Sleds
Kids can make Christmas sleds with popsicle sticks. Kids start by coloring or painting the popsicle sticks into their chosen colors. If you plan to use the sleds as decor, you may suggest a seasonal color, such as red. Older kids can make more sophisticated sleds with proper runners, but younger kids can make cute sleds featuring simple designs.
Other Holiday Crafts
Other things kids can make include the following:
- Angels
- Elf hats
- Gingerbread man ornaments
- Popsicle stick snowflakes
- Popsicle stick stars
- Reindeer headbands
- Snowmen
Holiday Decor Kids Can Make
Kids can make holiday decor that you can save and display year after year. Making decor is a fantastic way for kids to feel like they contribute to the holiday season and recognize their achievements.
Paper Chains
Paper chains are simple holiday decor children can make. All you need are the following:
- Construction paper
- Glue or stapler
- Pencil
- Ruler
- Scissors
Use the ruler and pencil to make straight lines across the sheets of construction paper. The kids can cut the strips of paper. Once they have enough strips, they can glue or staple the ends of the first strip together to make a loop. The next strip is threaded through the first look and then glued or stapled together. Children repeat this process until they have a paper chain.
Paper chains typically feature popular Christmas colors like red, green, white, and yellow.
Popcorn Strings
Popcorn strings involve sewing thread through pieces of popcorn. You will need the following items:
- Popcorn
- Sewing needle
- Thread
Since this craft involves using a sewing needle, it may be best suited for older children. Once the needle is threaded and has a knot at the end, it is pushed through a piece of popcorn. Repeat the process until a popcorn string is complete.
Popcorn strings can be added to Christmas trees, wreaths, or garlands.
Wreaths
Traditional wreaths feature a circle of branches. They’re hung on doors or windows or above fireplaces, adding a festive touch to homes, classrooms, and businesses.
Kids can add ornaments to wreaths to create a unique wreath to display. Popular Christmas tree ornaments are a fantastic option; kids can wrap ribbon, popcorn strings, and Christmas tree bead strings around the wreaths. With your help, they can use a glue gun to attach wooden or plastic ornaments to the wreaths.
Younger children can create the wreath from handprints. This involves tracing their hands on construction paper, cutting their hands out, and then gluing them together to form a circle. You can also use mittens instead of hands, particularly if your child finds cutting out the fingers difficult.
Other Holiday Decorations Kids Can Make
Other decorations kids can make include the following:
- Paper towel roll reindeer
- Pinecone gnomes
- Snowy pinecones
Holiday Gifts Kids Can Make
Fantastic craft ideas include gifts. Kids are excited about what they’ll receive during the holidays, but it’s never too soon to start teaching them about giving. Children can discover the joy of giving handmade gifts to best friends, family members, and teachers.
Scrapbook Calendars
You can purchase a blank calendar that provides scrapbooking space for each month of the year, or you can print small monthly calendars and glue them to scrapbooking paper as part of the creation process.
Children can glue photos, postcards, and stickers to the sheets for each month of the year. Stamps are also an option when decorating the pages. If you’re adding small monthly calendar printouts to scrapbooking pages, you’ll want to punch a hole at the top of each page in the center and put a loop of string through the hole before tying it together so the recipient can use the string to hang up the calendar.
Calendars are fantastic gifts for parents and grandparents who love displaying pictures of their children and grandchildren.
Holiday Picture Frame
Buy a blank wooden craft frame and let your child decorate it. They can use markers or paint to change the base color. Your child can add festive touches, such as red bows, glittering stars, and present-shaped stickers, to customize the frame before adding a favorite picture and wrapping it up.
Sunrise Children’s Foundation: Educating And Inspiring Children
Sunrise Children’s Foundation offers several programs for children five and younger, including Early Head Start, home visiting, and the WIC program in Nevada. Our programs promote children’s health and well-being while providing Early Childhood education that prepares them for success in school and life. Our programs include social opportunities, seasonal activities, and fun holiday crafts for kids.
