70+ Easy Christmas Craft Ideas for Kids

Christmas is a very happy and merry time of the year. Everyone looks forward to the Christmas celebrations every year. Why not give the Christmas decorations a personalized craft touch. It will help you cut down costs as well as relate on a deeper level to the meaning of Christmas as well. If you are making these decorations with your kids, you will also more time and reasons to bond with them. Thus Christmas will help you to achieve so much along with the merry making and celebrations.

72 DIY Christmas Crafts for Kids

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Hand cutouts Christmas Craft ideas for kids

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This is a very innovative way to make a Christmas tree using coloured paper. Make hand prints on the green coloured paper and cut the hand shapes out. Cut out a star out of a golden or yellow paper. Make and cut a trunk from a brown coloured paper. Now assemble the trunk, golden star and the green coloured hand cut outs in the shape of Christmas tree.

Old jar Snow man Christmas craft ideas for Kids

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Snowman signifies the winters and Christmas approaching at the same time as Christmas is on 25th December of every year. Most of the countries have winters during that period. You can use a salt pepper sprinkler jar to craft a snowman. The body will be represented by the jar and the head by cotton or any other rough sphere material as shown in the image.

Jelly Christmas Craft hacks for kids and adults alike

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Jelly is loved by every kid in the house. The flavor of the jelly is the main distinguisher in choice of jelly. You can use your kids favorite jelly and craft it in various shapes and figures like a snail, toffee, or even a roll. You can use rolled jelly for the purpose.

Paper plate Christmas craft hacks for kids

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The unused paper plates in your house can be utilized to craft beautiful pieces for Christmas. One of them is displayed in the above image. Cut one radius on the plate from the center to the circumference and fold the plate to form a cone shape. Color this cone with green color and then use fur balls of different shades.

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Paper plate Santa mask Crafts for Christmas

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In this idea, the paper plate is used to provide a base to the Santa mask. The eyes can be found easily in the market and the rest of the face is drawn and painted. Cotton is used to represent the white beard of the Santa. And the nose can be made with any small round object after painting it red.

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Cinnamon roll Christmas Crafts for kids

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Reindeers, which are the ride of the Santa, can be crafted with the help of cinnamon rolls. Just join the rolls as shown in the image. Remember to keep the head roll above the other two. Then paste artificial eyes and a red-colored ball for the nose. You can tie red ribbon around the hand if you want.

Creative Christmas Tree ball crafts

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The Tree balls are used to enhance the beauty of the Christmas tree at night. You can draw and paint on these balls with the help of acrylic colors. Try to showcase the winter season in the drawings with the help of penguins, snowman, polar bears and much more.

Christmas Crafts for kids

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There are hundreds of ideas available but we are focusing on the best ideas here. One of them is to first cover the area where the tree is to be represented with the help of masking tape and color the rest of the sheet with different shades of blue. Then remove the tape and give that area some artistic touch.

#Reindeer hanging Christmas crafts for kids

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Another way of crafting a reindeer is via coffee cups. You can use these to represent the face and the horns can be represented by wires covered with clothes or any velvet material. You can use the red thread for hanging these beautiful Christmas crafts for kids.

3D paper Christmas Crafts for kids

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For a 3d shaped Christmas tree of paper, cut lines to form squares on the sheet. Then form a triangle of the complete paper and also fold those squares into half diagonally. join multiple papers together for better 3d effects.

Christmas tree ball crafts

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In this Christmas tree ball decoration, you can paint reindeer faces on them with acrylic colors. Try to keep the drawing towards the animated side rather than a real deer.

Paper gingerbread Christmas crafts

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This craft can be made with the help of high GSM paper sheets. The body is of cylindrical shape and the hard paper if semi-folded to make hands and legs. For the head, cut out a circle and you can draw the eyes or use artificial ones too.

Stencil Christmas card crafts for kids

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Cut out a Christmas tree from one sheet and use it to cover the tree portion. Now paint the rest of the sheet with the help water paints or acrylic paints. You can draw any shape but the best suited is a circle to signify winters and snow. Smaller the size of the circle, better the finish will be. Then remove the tree cut out and you can also draw some patterns inside the white area.

Cinnamon roll Christmas Crafts for kids

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The trunk of the Christmas tree is made with the help of thin cinnamon rolls. Ribbon pieces are tied on these rolls as shown. If you will make a large-size tree then the ribbons won’t be able to stand horizontally so avoid that. You can use two different colors of ribbons or take one color and draw some patterns on it. Thread is used to hang these beautiful crafted trees.

Wooden cork crafts for kids

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All of those wooden corks from drink bottles can be used in making these cute reindeers. The horns of wires and the eyes in these are artificial. The nose can be made with paper or any small sphere painted red. Use ribbon or glossy paper strips for hanging them.

Paper hanging crafts for Christmas

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For these hangings, just cut multiple strips from various colored sheets. Fold these strips into half and use only one type of color sheet piece to tie it from above where the ends meet. Punch the through holes and use thread to hang them.

Beautiful Christmas crafts for kids

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Socks for Christmas have their own history. You can draw and cut artificial socks on a cardboard sheet and decorate them with threads and different drawing. You can also write a short message on these socks. Crayons can be used in this idea for better precision and hassle free work.

Jar crafts for Christmas

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Craft the winter animals and put them in the different jars. You any small powdered material such as of thermacol or wax and sprinkle it on the sides of the jar to represent snow. This will enhance the beauty of the crafted animals.

Using Foam for Christmas crafts

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The candies are the essence of every Christmas. The red and white colors represent snow and Santa. You can craft a few artificial candies from foam sheet for decorating the tree and the house.

Paper roll Christmas Crafts for kids

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Roll two pieces of paper. One in the cylindrical shape and other in a cone shape. The bigger diameter of the cone must be equal to the diameter of the cylinder. Now put the cone on the cylinder and draw the figure which is too easy to make. Cut the sharp edge of the cone so that it does not hurt anyone.

hand wreath Christmas Crafts for kids

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Take any color paper of 2 shades. One of light shade and other of the dark. Cut out a few hand figures from these sheets and keep them alternatively as shown. The number of cut-outs depends on the size of the hand and the curve formed. Use red circles and ribbons for the finishing touch.

Glowing jar Christmas Crafts for kids

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Craft a snowman with white material such as cotton, clothes or papers. Now, put it in a transparent jar with a neon features light of any color. During the dark, turn the jar light on. Blue is used here as blue represents winters in most of the cases. The white portion will glow as shown.

Beautiful tree hanging Christmas Crafts for kids

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This is an easy to make Christmas tree hanging craft for kids. All you need is a circular piece of ivory sheet. Make a christmas tree using strips of coloured paper. Punch a hole at the top of the circular hanging. This beautiful hanging can be later used as a bookmark as well.

Reindeer Christmas Crafts for kids

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This cup based reindeers are a great way to add more beauty to your Christmas decorations. These reindeers are easy to make. Fill the plastic cups with cement or wax. Let it solidify. Invert the solid cups and add googly eyes, nose and golden reindeer antlers.

Paper bag Christmas Crafts for kids

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This is a beautiful Christmas cany bag crafts for kids. This is an easy to realise craft. The brown paper bags can be easily adorned with googly eyes, a red nose and reindeer nose. It looks very pretty.

Stamping stars Christmas Crafts for kids

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Stars are an integral part of Christmas crafts. This easy to realise Christmas craft for kids can be made using a potato and paint. You need a plain base to paint the stars on. This creates a beautiful pattern which can be used as a wallpaper or even to cover the Christmas presents.

Brown paper reindeer Christmas Crafts for kids

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This is a beautiful reindeer face mask placards. You can write inspiring quotes at the back of the masks. You can play different games using these beautiful easy to make Christmas craft.

Paper Christmas tree Christmas Crafts for kids

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This is a beautiful paper craft Christmas craft for kids. These Christmas tree crafts require very fewer supplies. You need an old paper roll, a green-colored paper, and some golden stars. Make a fan using the green colored sheet, fold it in half and paste the edges. Now slit the paper roll and fix the inverted fan in the slit. Add the golden stars to the edges of the green fan.

Old bottle caps Christmas Crafts for kids

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This is a beautiful bottle cap craft. Take some old bottle caps. You can use plastic caps as well. Now paste a white sheet at the base of the inside of the bottle cap. Add different adornments and make a snowman face in the top most bottle cap. Paste these bottle caps onto a ribbon and hang these using these ribbon heads.

Yarn Christmas tree Christmas Crafts for kids

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This is a very beautiful Christmas craft. This is easy to make Christmas craft for the kids. You can help the kids in cutting the triangular pieces of cardboard and help them cover it in beautiful green yarn. Add a shiny silver thread to add the shine to the tree hangings. Add some thread on top to help you hang these beauties. Also, add some stars on top of the yarn tree.

Old socks Christmas Crafts for kids

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This is a beautiful white socks snowman Christmas crafts for kids. You can make this beautiful white sock snow man by joining white sock with cotton or polyfil and then adding black felt detailing on top of it. You need to tie at the end of every base. Add a red nose to make it look more beautiful.

Sun catcher Christmas Crafts for kids

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These gem suncatchers are great Christmas ideas for kids. These gem suncatchers will surely look great on your window panes this Christmas season. You can make these beautiful sujcatchers using some colored tissue papers or glazed sheets, tear them into pieces and then stick them to the windo panes.

Christmas Crafts for kids

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These gingerbread bakery items are a great Christmas craft ideas for kids. This is a great way to include your kids with the prepapration of baking items. They will slowly start love to bake different stuff. Thus, this will become their first baking classes.

Green tissue paper Christmas Crafts for kids

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This tissue paper wreath is a great design. Make some tissue paper flowers and string them onto a ductile thin wire. This will provide you with a green circular base. Add small red pom poms to give it the christmas effect. Add a twine or red lace to help you to hang the wreath to a nail.

Photo wreath Christmas Crafts for kids

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This is a very beautiful photo wreath. You can make such photo wreaths for the whole family to make the decorations look inclùsive and beautiful both at the same time. You can use puzzle pices, egg cartons, etc to realise this beautiful wreath design.

Wreath Christmas Crafts for kids

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These small sized wreaths for Christmas are a go to craft idea for the kids. Your kids can surely make these wreaths in theur leisure time. They can be wasily made with some thin jute rope. Add some red paper flowers and green leaves to give it the Christmas touch.

Santa hangings Christmas Crafts for kids

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This is a really sweet wooden spoon santa craft. You can make these santa faces to be hung up on the Christmas tree. You will require the spoon head for this craft. Make the face of the santa complete with the santa head, eyes, nose and the white beard.

15+ DIY Christmas Tree Crafts for Kids

We hope you liked all these beautiful Christmas craft ideas. These crafty ideas will surely bring a colourful cheer to your home decor. You can make this year’s Christmas celebrations a hit with all these beautiful crafts. We will soon come up with more such content. Do give us your feedback in the comments section below. You can check out other related articles on K4 Craft. Keep smiling and creating with K4 Craft!

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