One of the perks of having small children is that they still love spending time with you and impressing them is not that hard. With Christmas right around the corner Christmas around the corner, you can plan some fun activities with your child. Crafting is one of those fun activities that help children to explore their creative side. Cherish the time with your small children this Christmas with these Christmas crafts ideas.
Pinecone Christmas Trees craft
For this Christmas craft you only need
- Green spray paint/ acrylic paint
- Pinecones
- Coaster
- Glue
- Embellishments (sequins, buttons, etc)
- Fake snow (or cotton balls)
How to Make Pinecone Christmas Tree Craft
You can ensure there are no insects in the pinecones by popping them in the oven for a few minutes just to be sure. Paint the pinecones green and let dry. Glue the bottoms of the pinecones to a small coaster. You can add snow by painting the tips of the pinecones white.
Decorate your trees however you want! You can use embellishments such as sequins or buttons or you may use tiny colorful cotton balls
Pom Pom Ornaments
A fun way to add some start to your Christmas is to have your kids make their own Christmas tree ornaments. The pom pom ornament is one of my personal favorites and it’s easy to make and suitable for small children.
Materials Needed for Pom Pom Ornaments
For this Christmas craft you will need the following
- mini pom poms (colors of your choice)
- plastic ornaments (that can be opened)
- ribbons (in colors of your choice preferably Christmas colors such as green and red).
How to make Christmas Ornament
As mentioned before, this craft is very simple. It literally has only two steps. You simply open the plastic ornament by screwing off the lid and then put as many mini pom poms inside the ornament and put the lid back on then insert the ribbon through the hole at the top of the ornament and tie it into a bow. And that’s it.
Glittering Popsicle Stick Christmas Tree Ornaments
The kids will love this one. Not only do they get to eat loads of popsicles but they get to recycle the sticks to make something fun!
Materials needed:
- Popsicle sticks
- Stick on rhinestones
- Foam star
- Hot glue
How to Make Glittering Popsicle Stick Christmas Tree Ornaments
- Paint some popsicle sticks; paint some purple and some green.
- Cut the green popsicle sticks into 6 pieces in 1/2″, 1″, 1-1/2″, 2″, 2-1/2″, and 3″ lengths.
- Add a generous glob of hot glue on the end of the purple popsicle stick, place both ends of the twine on top of the glue, then sandwich the 1/2″ piece of green popsicle stick on top to hold the twine hanger in place.
- Place the other popsicles evenly on the purple popsicle stick and glue them in place with hot glue.
- Use hot glue to attach the sparkly foam sticker star.
- Decorate your tree with glittery rhinestones!
Santa Belly Ornament
For this Christmas craft, you will need the following:
- Red Christmas ornament
- Black paint or black paint
- Gold Glitter paper
- Glue
How to make a Santa belly Ornament
Place the black tape once around the red ornament or paint a thick line in the middle of the ornament
Cut out a square in the gold glitter paper and cut a square hole in the middle of the square glitter paper. This will be the belt.
Glue the opposite side of the glitter paper and place in the center of the ornament on the thick black line or the black tape.
Santa Sticks
This Christmas Craft is very easy to make. All you need is some popsicle sticks, red paint, black paint, mini red, yellow, and white pompom, red ribbons, and cotton balls.
How to make Santa Sticks
To make these adorable Santa sticks, paint about ¾ of the popsicle sticks red and the other far end of the stick red to represent Santa’s hat. Place the mini white pompom using glue to represent the tip of Santa’s hat. Paint one line of white paint below the red paint to represent the brim of Santa’s hat. Use the black paint to draw Santa’s eyes below the white paint. Use the red mini pompom as Santa‘s nose.
Pull apart the cotton to make Santa’s beard and glue it below Santa’s nose. The section for Santa’s face should remain unpainted as this represents Santa’s face.
A few inches below Santa’s face, back on the red paint, paint a black line through to represent Santa’s belt and add the yellow mini pompom that represents Santa’s belt buckle.
Easy Popsicle sticks Christmas tree
This is another popsicle stick Christmas tree, but this one is easier than the first. You will need a few popsicle sticks and some paints in the colors of your choice. You can group the popsicle sticks in groups of three and paint the groups of three in the same colors. Use glue to glue the groups of popsicle sticks together to make a triangle. For the top of the triangle glue a string at the top and a star. Glue some mini pompoms on the popsicle.
Tea Light Snowman Ornaments
Talk about a bright idea! Kids will love this Christmas craft. All you need for this one is ribbons and a black sharpie to draw the eyes and the mouth of the snowman’s face, a pink sharpie for the cheeks, a string to tie the ornament on a tree, a tea light of course(gosh!) a ribbon for the scarf and a black cartridge paper that you cut out in the shape of a snow man’s hat. Easy peasy lemon squeezy!
See https://www.redtedart.com/tea-light-snowman-ornament/ for sensible instructions 😊
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