These quick and easy Christmas crafts for kids can be made in under 30 minutes using items that you probably already have around the house! No special tools or skills are required, so ANYONE can make these cute holiday themed projects! Great fun for the entire family!
Candycane Reindeers
You’ll need:
- Googly eyes
- Small red pom poms
- Brown pipe cleaners
- Candy canes
- Hot glue gun
Tissue Paper Wreath
You will need:
- Circular wreath form – cut from recycled cereal box or a paper plate
- Lots and LOTS of green tissue paper squares
- White glue
- Paint brush
- Pencil with eraser
- Embellishments – pom poms, sequins, etc. (optional)
- Ribbon or string for hanging
Thumbprint Lights Photoframe
SUPPLIES NEEDED:
- Frame with white mat border
- colored ink pads
- fine tip sharpie
- little thumbs to help 🙂
Pinecone Trees
You will need:
- Pine cones
- Plaster of Paris
- Green paint
- Silver/Red paints
- Old necklace/costume jewellery
- Glue
Paper Plate Elf
Supplies you will need:
- small paper plate
- green, yellow and white cardstock paper
- skintone paint
- cotton balls
- googly eyes
- red circle sticker (or you could cut a circle out of construction paper)
- black marker
- scissors
- glue
TP Roll Santas
What You’ll Need:
- 1 empty roll of toilet paper
- 3 sheets of felt (1 red, 1 black and 1 peach)
- 2 googly eyes
- 1 red pompom
- 1 yellow button
- 5 cotton balls
- 1 mini red cup
- glue
- scissors
Lolly-ice stick Ornaments
Here’s what you’ll need to make these ornaments:
- 3 popsicle sticks (one with about 1″ cut from the end of it)
- 1″ x 1″ square of brown card stock
- A star cut from glittery card stock
- A piece of twine, approximately 6″ long
- Hot glue gun
- Scissors and a craft/utility knife
And to decorate them, you can use whatever you have on hand!
- Tiny pom poms
- Sparkly pipe cleaners
- Jingle Bells
- Rhinestones
- Buttons
- Glitter
Eggbox Bells
To make these jingle bells you will need
- an egg carton to cut up to make bells
- paint and optional glitter glue
- pipe cleaners
- jingle bells
Reindeer Photoframe Ornaments
To make these you’ll only need
- lolly-ice sticks
- ribbon
- brown paint
- pipecleaners
- pom-poms
- googly eyes
- small photographs cut to size
