Christmas Craft Ideas for Kids to Make This Holiday Season

As Christmas approaches, we are stepping into a season filled with sparkle, joy, and an unforgettable holiday magic. For children, Christmas is a world of wonder—decorated trees, glittering lights, loads of gifts, family time and the thrill of surprises. It’s the time of year when imaginations run wild and every day feels like an adventure.

Christmas is more than gifts and goodies; it’s a time to create memories, celebrate togetherness, and foster a spirit of giving. And what better way to immerse little ones in the season than through easy Christmas crafts? With a few art supplies and a sprinkle of creativity, these simple craft ideas will not only keep children entertained but also help them feel involved in the festivities around Christmas.

Let us make this Christmas an experience by engaging children in festive activities that teach them the joy of creating, sharing, and celebrating! These Christmas crafts for kids are not just a meaningful way to spend quality time with your child but you can help them wrap their creations and have them gift it amongst loved ones.

25 Easy Christmas Craft Ideas for Kids

1. Snowman Colouring Page

Let children dive into the world snowy fun with snowman colouring page! This kindergarten craft for kids is a creative way to let little artists bring winter wonderland scenes to life.

Materials required: Snowman colouring page printouts, crayons, markers, or coloured pencils.

Steps: 

• Print out snowman colouring pages.
• Hand out colouring tools and let kids fill the snowman with their favourite colours.
• Encourage them to add snowy backgrounds or extra details like hats or scarves.

2. Handprint Christmas Tree Craft

Children love playing with colours. This Christmas capture the magic of togetherness by hand printing Christmas trees with your child. This Christmas art for kids is perfect as a keepsake, it adds a touch of personal charm to holiday decor.

Materials required: Green paint, paper, brown marker, and colourful stickers or glitter for ornaments.

Steps: 

• Dip your and your little one’s hand in green paint and press it onto the paper to create handprint branches of a Christmas tree.
• Add additional handprints around to shape it like a Christmas tree.
• Let your child draw the trunk of the tree and let them embellish the tree with different colours or stickers.

3. Christmas Card Craft

Holiday cheer is incomplete without Christmas cards. Encourage children to design Christmas cards to spread holiday cheer by crafting personalized messages and designs! These homemade cards will be cherished by family and friends.

Materials required: Blank cards or folded chart paper, sketch pens, stickers, glitter, and holiday stamps.

Steps: 

• Have children draw Christmas designs and elements on the front page of the folded chart paper.
• Let them colour and beautify their cards using coloured sketch pens, glitter, stickers and holiday stamps.
• Help them write a sweet message inside, or help younger ones write their names.

4. Jingle Bell Necklace

Ring in the holiday season with jingle bell necklaces! Children will love hearing the bells as they toddle around, bringing Christmas cheer wherever they go.

Materials required: Jingle bells, string, scissors, and optional beads.

Steps: 

• Cut a piece of string long enough to wear as a necklace.
• Thread jingle bells onto the string, alternating with beads if desired.
• Tie a knot to secure and enjoy the festive sound.

5. Popsicle Stick Christmas Trees

Build a tiny forest of Christmas trees with colourful popsicle sticks! This easy, Christmas craft for kids helps their festive imagination and creativity get bigger as they design the little Christmas forest.

Materials required: Green paint, popsicle sticks, glue, and small decorations like pom-poms or glitter.

Steps: 

• Paint popsicle sticks green and let them dry.
• Glue sticks in a triangle shape to create a tree outline.
• Decorate with tiny ornaments or paint on “lights.”

6. Easy Santa Craft

Make Santa a part of holiday decor with these cheerful and easy Santa Craft. This simple project is perfect for young children eager to meet Santa for their gifts.

Materials required: Red and white paper, cotton balls, glue, and googly eyes.

Steps: 

• Cut out a red triangle for the hat and a white circle for Santa’s face.
• Let your child glue cotton balls along the hat’s edge and beard.
• Add googly eyes and draw a nose to finish the final look of Santa.

7. Pinecone Christmas Trees

One beautiful way to encourage children to use natural materials for crafts. This Christmas craft idea for preschoolers is made using pinecones to make festive decorations. Such craft ideas also pique their interest in knowing nature more.

Materials required: Pinecones, green paint, glitter, and small beads for ornaments.

Steps: 

• Let your child paint pinecones green and sprinkle some glitter on these cones while they are wet.
• Dry them out and help kids glue small beads as ornaments.
• Place them on display to cheer your little ones and a fine rustic Christmas look with the decorations.

8. Paper Snowflakes

Paper Snowflakes is one of the easiest preschool Christmas crafts that little kids enjoy making a lot. Decorate windows with beautiful paper snowflakes that mimic the magic of a snowy day, all from the warmth of indoors.

Materials required: White paper, scissors, string.

Steps: 

• Fold a square sheet of paper diagonally and fold again.
• Cut small shapes like semicircles, triangles or stars along the edges carefully as your child watches the wonder unfold.
• Unfold to reveal a unique snowflake design.
• Help them tie a string and hang it on the window

9. Fake Snow Activity

One of the fun and easy Christmas crafts for kids is the fake snow craft. Bring the snowy fun indoors with this tactile fake snow activity – perfect for sensory play and building small “snowmen.”

Materials required: Cornflour, Baking soda, water, and a bowl.

Steps:

• Mix equal parts of cornflour and bicarbonate of soda in a bowl (e.g., 250g each).
• Slowly add water, a few drops at a time, until the mixture holds shape but crumbles like snow.
• Now let your little one shape, mould, and play with small snowmen they create!

10. Twigs Star

One more nature inspired Christmas craft activity for kids is a rustic star from twigs. A simple yet beautiful twig star is a perfect decoration for hanging on the tree or around the house.

Materials required: Twigs, glue, and string

Steps: 

• Help your child arrange twigs in a star shape, breaking pieces as needed.
• Glue the twigs to make them stay together in the shape of a star and allow to dry.
• Let your child decorate the star or keep it as it is for a rustic look and add string to hang it.

11. Christmas Tree with Tapes

Create a modern and colourful Christmas tree with decorative tapes! This easy craft lets children make vibrant holiday decor with minimal mess.

Materials required: Green, red, and gold coloured tapes with design, white paper, scissors.

Steps:

• Stick different coloured tapes onto the paper horizontally in increasing order of length one beneath the other to form a tree outline.
• Cut out the tree shape and display as a fun holiday decoration.

12. Popsicle Stick Reindeer

Did you know that you can transform simple popsicle sticks into adorable reindeers? These little Christmas crafts for kids are perfect as decorations for Christmas trees or as festive fridge magnets for gifting purposes.

Materials required: Popsicle sticks, brown paint, googly eyes, red pom-poms, and glue.

Steps:

• Let your child paint popsicle sticks with brown colour and allow it to dry.
• Glue three coloured sticks into a triangle shape to form the reindeer head.
• Add googly eyes and a red pom-pom for the nose. Ta-da and the reindeer are ready.

13. Foil-Roll Snowman

Use a kitchen foil roll to bring a little snowman friend to life! This Christmas craft idea for kids is quick, easy, and perfect for holiday decorations.

Materials required: Aluminium foil, markers, buttons, and glue.

Steps:

• Cut a foil paper roll in half and paint one half white to create the snowman’s body.
• To make headphones, attach a thin strip of paper over the top of the roll and glue a pom-pom at each end of the strip.
• Cut a small triangle from yellow paper for the snowman’s nose and glue it on. Then, use a black marker to draw the eyes and smile. Your music-loving snowman is complete!

14. Toilet-Paper Roll Reindeer

Turn an ordinary toilet paper roll into a cute reindeer, perfect for spreading holiday cheer!

Materials required: Twigs, Toilet Paper Roll, different colored wool, googly eyes, glue, scissors, pom-poms.

Steps:

• Let your little one cover the toilet paper roll with brown wool completely.
• Help them wrap small twigs with different colored wool.
• Stick the wrapped twigs inside the toilet paper roll using glue to create reindeer antlers.
• Paste on the googly eyes and add a pom-pom for the nose.

15. Paper Plate Santa

Get ready for Santa’s arrival by crafting a festive paper plate version! This easy Christmas craft for kids let them create their own jolly Saint Nick.

Materials required: Paper plate, red paint, cotton balls, googly eyes, and glue.

Steps:

• Help your little one cut a paper plate in half.
• Cut a large triangle from the rest of the half to create Santa’s hat and paint it red.
• Cut a small circle for Santa’s nose.
• Let your kid assemble the eyes, nose and hat. Attach a cotton ball to the top of Santa’s hat.
• Draw Santa’s eyes and lips using a black sketch pen.

16. Yarn-Wrapped Trees

For a cosy, wintery look, have children create yarn-wrapped trees! This craft for kids is both simple and great for the development of their fine motor skills.

Materials required: Cardboard tree shapes, green yarn, pom-poms and glue.

Steps:

• Cut out a cardboard tree shape.
• Help your little one wrap green yarn around it, securing the ends with glue.
• Let them add small decorations like pom-poms to decorate the tree.

17. Yarn Hats

These adorable mini yarn hats make perfect winter decorations or ornaments, adding a warm touch to any tree! Bring out the artistic side of your little one with this Christmas craft for kids and see them get awestruck with these cutest hats that they create.

Materials required: Yarn of different colour, toilet paper roll cut into small rings, and scissors.

Steps:

• Cut yarn into short lengths and help your child tie them around the cardboard ring.
• Gather the yarn ends and tie them together to form the top of the hat.
• Fluff to create a mini winter hat and use it to decorate the Christmas tree hanging.

18. Sock Snowman

Let your child create a sock snowman using mismatched socks. This Christmas craft for kids is not only fun but also helps children understand the importance of upcycling things.

Materials required: Socks, rice, rubber bands, small buttons, glue and fabric scraps for scarves.

Steps:

• Fill the sock with rice and secure it with rubber bands to make body segments of a snowman.
• Glue buttons as eyes of the snowman and fabric scraps as scarves around the “neck.”
• Let your little one decorate it with buttons or a small hat for extra flair.

19. Santa Hats

Craft mini Santa hats that bring Christmas cheer to any space! These mini Santa hats are great as decorations or little holiday gifts for your loved ones.

Materials required: Red felt, cotton balls, and glue.

Steps:

• Cut red felt into triangles and roll into cone shapes.
• Let your child glue cotton balls around the brim of the cone and a small cotton ball or pom-pom on top of the hat.
• Let it dry and display as decoration on the Christmas tree.

20. Clothespin Snowmen

These charming clothespin snowmen are perfect for clipping onto gifts or holiday cards, adding a delightful winter touch to your holiday cards. These tiny little creations are not only simple to make but are the cutest snowmen that your little ones would love to make.

Materials required: Wooden clothespins, white paint, markers, and fabric scraps for scarves.

Steps:

• Let your child paint clothespins white and let it dry.
• Ask them to draw on faces and buttons with markers.
• Wrap a small fabric strip around the “neck” as a scarf.

21. Christmas Masks

Let your child have fun as they prepare Christmas Masks. They can dress up as their favourite holiday characters and put on these Christmas masks, making it a perfect fit for holiday parties or imaginative play.

Materials required: Paper plates, markers, paint, and elastic string.

Steps:

• Cut out eye holes in the paper plate.
• Use different decorations to make them look like Santa, reindeer, or elf masks.
• Attach an elastic string so that it stays in place when kids wear it.

22. Santa Puppets

Enjoy holiday storytelling fun with the Santa Puppets Christmas craft for kids, these puppets are simple to make and can help your child bring Christmas tales to life with minimum effort and materials.

Materials required: Craft sticks, red and white felt, googly eyes, and cotton balls.

Steps:

• Let your child glue red felt onto the stick for Santa’s hat and coat.
• Add googly eyes, a cotton ball beard onto it.
• Cut a small strip of chart paper and stick its ends to form a ring.
• Stick it beneath the stick and let dry and start the puppet show!

23. Duct Tape Ring Christmas Tree

So many duct tape rings ready to be dumped in the bin? Wait! Let’s make a modern Christmas tree. This Christmas craft for kids utilizes duct tape rings that can hang as a wreath or table décor!

Materials required: Duct tape rings of different sizes, wool (green and brown), scissors and tiny decorations.

Steps:

• Allow your child to wrap the duct tape rings with green wool and one large duct tape ring with brown coloured wool.
• Let them decorate it how they like using small ornaments or ribbon.
• Display as a unique décor piece.

24. Button Snowmen

These tiny button snowmen are as cute as they are easy to make, perfect for embellishing holiday cards or tree ornaments.

Materials required: White buttons, glue, markers, and small pieces of felt or paper for hats.

Steps:

• Help your child stack and glue three buttons to form a snowman body.
• Add eyes, nose, and buttons with markers.
• Glue on a small felt hat.
• Let them use it as decorations on envelopes or let them design a small winter land on a paper using multiple snowmen.

25. Christmas Tree Snow Globes

One of the most intriguing Christmas crafts for kids is the Christmas Tree Snow Globes. Help them capture the magic of a snowfall in a jar with these homemade snow globes, a perfect winter craft for kids!

Materials required: Clear jar, small plastic Christmas tree, or small christmas trees, glitter, and water.

Steps:

• Glue the tree towards the inside of the jar lid.
• Help your little one fill the jar with water and glitter.
• Let them screw on the lid, flip, and watch the snowfall!