Would you want to ignite the spark of the Christmas holiday for your kids? Engage them with some simple Christmas crafts for kids to make this festive season fun and memorable.
In celebration of Christmas, there are tons of decorative arts children can make this holiday season.
These arts are just so special and signify a sense of belonging, hence expressing themselves through crafts. This creativity further impacts their self-esteem and helps them bond well with family and friends.
We have a list of thoughtful crafts that kids can make to let them have fun and feel the impact of Christmas.
15 Decorative Arts For Children to Make to Enjoy the Christmas
1
Santa Advent Calendar
Santa Advent Calendar is a fun and magical Christmas craft that makes kids act lively while celebrating Christmas. This irresistible craft makes kids want to play with it every day of the Christmas season.
The attached calendar allows them to happily count down to Christmas Day from the 1st day of December. This makes kids experience a fun-filled day as they play with the toy and look forward to Christmas.
The advent calendar reminds them of the birth of Jesus as they hope to celebrate it.
Each day brings a chance to create beautiful memories of the Christmas celebration. The Santa Advent Calendar is so fascinating that it has some candies behind the dates.
Furthermore, each date can have advent songs that children can listen to and learn theology. They can tap on any date to listen to the Christmas melodies.
2
Christmas Tree Card
Christmas Tree Card is a quick and easy holiday gift for children to celebrate the season.
As a special holiday season, kids can craft this card and infuse thoughtful words and phrases for anyone dear to them.
It is a symbol of appreciation and acknowledgment of how much they cherish their loved ones. On the other hand, it fuels their creativity, making the season memorable, fun-filled, and joyful.
As a parent/guardian, you can engage them to watch DIY videos where they can recreate beautiful pop-up Christmas Tree cards. The Christmas tree is a symbol of the celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ, which is worth the merriment of the season.
They can use folded papers and sequins to decorate a beautiful and colorful tree card.
3
Beaded Snowflake Ornament
Kids can learn how to make this simple and glimmering art. This is a unique and great hands-on skill to keep children busy with craft-making. You can get the kids assorted decorative beads for their artwork.
Besides, kids can make beaded ornaments and present them as Christmas gifts to their Aunts, uncles, cousins, and other relatives. This can also be an opportunity to embrace skills aside from the festive period.
4
Felt Stockings
Felt Christmas Stockings come with sequin embellishments. Children can make this DIY craft as a stunning decor for house decoration.
They can also wear them as matching fancy footwear to celebrate the season. Wearing this on their feet can cause them so much jubilation in the house.
5
Paper Ball Reindeer
A Paper Ball Reindeer is a super easy craft kids can construct using colorful strips of paper.
This craft is fun and quite simple for kids to make. They can simply roll tissue paper to form the balls.
More so, kids can use other objects such as:
– scissors: for cutting
– glue stick: for holding papers together firmly
– pom-pom: this comes in different colors and sizes in the form of wool, feathers, paper, thread, or cotton.
– googly eyes: A fancy black eyeball that forms the pupil of the reindeer
– brown paper: a thick or light paper that the kids can fold or cut for the craft
The Paper Ball Reindeer is perfect for children’s festive play time and Christmas parties.
6
Craft Stick Wreath
Kids can make Craft Stick Wreaths by placing sticks in a clockwise direction and holding the back with hot glue.
Children can make an imaginative work from the combination of different objects which is capable of brightening a space.
7
Pine Cone Ornament
To form a beautiful pine cone ornament, you will need the following:
– a white pipe cleaner (as seen in the picture). You will have to bend the upper part to form the head of the swan.
– a paper: a brown or gold paper cut in a triangular shape to form the beak. This will be joined to the white pine cone with hot glue.
Also, cut a white paper in a feather-like shape to form the wings. Then, cut a tiny string and place it around the neck of the swan as a beauty ornament.
8
Circle Snowmen
Kids can craft this piece to announce the arrival of snow and the winter season. It is used to celebrate the season of intense cold.
A circle snowman can be made with crochet wool and spoke or ordinary paper cut in circles, folded and joined with glue and stick.
9
Gingerbread House Card
Children can craft a Gingerbread House card using cartons or thick papers to construct the shape of a house.
They can place the cut-out shape on a blank colored card. This is a way to enhance their imaginations of building their houses someday to their taste.
You know the feelings of moving into your new building during Christmas and invite family and friends to celebrate with you. That’s how kids also feel about constructing a paper house.
10
Paper Plate Baubles
This is another amazing festive decoration kids can make. It will require cutting several designs and gluing them on a plate-like shape. Afterward, hang it on the wall by attaching a string to a hole.
11
Handprint Christmas Tree
In celebration of Christmas, kids can also make handprint Christmas trees. This will involve dipping the palm in paint (in a way that the five fingers absorb the paint).
So, they will transfer the paint on their palms onto a canvas paper multiple times to form a tree design.
Additionally, the kids can trace their palms on colored paper and cut the design. Repeat it severally to achieve enough cut-outs.
12
Salt Dough Ornament
This is a DIY (Do It Yourself) craft that toddlers can create at leisure.
Though not edible, kids can learn how to make salt dough with the right recipe.
Salt Dough ornament is a decorative hands-on craft where children learn to cook by bringing their imagination to life.
This craft is a test of their cooking skills. With that, they want to recreate the tasty cookies their mothers prepare for them.
13
Candy Cane Reindeer
Candy Cane Reindeer serve as party treats for children’s Christmas party. The candy cane is usually a striped color like red and white.
To make this, the kid will need pom-pom, googly eyes, a striped cane, stickers, a hot glue gun, pencils, and sticky tape.
14
Reindeer Gift Bag
Just as the name suggests, kids can make and present this paper bag to their friends and loved ones.
To them, it’s like a shopping bag or mini bag where they can keep their candies, biscuits, and other items. So, gifting it to other children shows their care and love. Also, it shows how important the craft is.
15
Reindeer Headband
When children make headbands with paper or fabric materials, they can tie them on their heads. The fabric should be colorful to depict the Christmas season, usually red, white, and green colors.
Kids can use the Reindeer headband as an adornment on their hair each time they dress up. Imagine the joy of wearing a piece you created.
Frequently Asked Questions
1. What do crafts teach children?
The benefits of craft-making for kids are so enormous. Through craft-making, they develop problem-solving skills. This is because their mental ability is put to work.
Furthermore, they learn teamwork (especially when crafting with their siblings and friends).
They also learn how to relate with people (parents, neighbors, classmates, and teachers whom they might want to show or teach their art). By so doing, they are building their communication skills.
2. What is the most popular Christmas craft?
There are so many crafts the kids can engage themselves with at leisure. Some of the well-known arts include snowmen, Christmas trees, Santa, headbands, and other handmade crafts as we have discussed in this article.
3. Why is Christmas craft important?
The thoughtful act of creating something unique and special to celebrate Christmas shows how important the season is.
Christmas crafts are very important because they show kids’ ability to customize passionate ornaments for personal use and as gifts. It further allows them to spend quality time with extended families and distant friends.
Another benefit of Christmas crafts is it allow Children to unwind the stress of academic sessions and improve their artistry.
Additionally, kids begin to identify their passion, strengths, and talents by engaging in holiday craft-making.
4. What are the Christmas colors and their significance?
The Christmas colors for the festive celebration are mostly red, green, and blue.
Red signifies the blood of Jesus Christ who was born on Christmas day. It demonstrates His love and sacrifice for mankind which children practice today by gifting their crafts to loved ones.
This is also the reason they introduce those colors in their decorative arts.
Green signifies evergreen. That is, ever flourishing which represents eternal life.
White signifies purity, peace, goodwill, and hope. The white color also represents elegance which is why many people use it in Christmas decor. More so, because the Christmas celebration takes place during the winter period, we use white color since it is associated with snow.
5. What object represents Christmas?
Stars represent Christmas. No wonder, from history star has been recognized as a symbol of celebration. To date, stars signify joyful celebration. So, kids can include stars in their crafts such as Reindeer Headbands, Christmas Tree Cards, etc.
Conclusion
We have discussed these 15 simple and creative Christmas crafts for kids your kids can do this holiday season.
Interestingly, these Christmas crafts for kids are fun to engage with and are recreational activities that make them self-empowered. Through the crafts, they recognize patterns and detect sequences.
These Christmas crafts for kids also help them recite festive poems, chant songs, and identify words and numbers accurately.
Apart from doing these crafts as an indoor activity at home, they can make them during their school end-of-the-year party.
By doing so, parents will want to appreciate their creative works. This appreciation could be in the form of scholarships, cash gifts, or any other award-winning prizes.
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