Christmas crafts for kids
The Advent season is around the corner – and you would like to make the upcoming Christmas season a special one for your children? With our Christmas craft ideas, creative hearts will definitely skip a beat and even the darkest winter evening will be a time for creativity and socialising. Thanks to our easy tricks, easy-to-follow tutorials, printable templates and a whole lot of fun, creating Christmas crafts will become a positive memory for your children, as well as sweeten the entire Christmas season.
Another advantage: you can choose from various gift options for parents, grandparents and friends! Discover now cool Christmas crafts and make the holidays a memorable bonding experience for the entire family.
Creating Christmas crafts: What does crafting teach children?
Crafting is a wonderful way to improve children’s fine motor skills as well as their ability to focus. Even though it looks like fun, the little artists’ brains are working at full speed.
Creating Christmas crafts strengthens the ability to coordinate hands, fingers and eyes. Furthermore, crafting during infancy facilitates the process of learning to write later on. If your child is already able to hold a pen and put different shapes on paper, they will find it much easier to write their first letters. Crafting can even promote skills needed for mathematics: it strengthens spatial thinking abilities, which are an essential part of one’s mathematical understanding.
But, regardless of its influence on later performance, crafting is an activity that requires a lot of concentration but that is also totally rewarding. In fact, children can immediately see the result of their efforts! This combination of calmness and focus resulting from working with one’s hands makes crafting a relaxing as well as balancing activity that benefits both children and their parents.
Which materials do you need?
When creating Christmas crafts, the little ones’ safety is just as important as having fun in the process. Therefore, on our STAEDTLER website we share easy craft ideas for Christmas that are childproof and that can be created with materials that are easy to handle.
These include the following craft materials:
- Watercolours
- Wax crayons
- Coloured pencils
- Fibre pens
- Modelling clay
- Coloured paper
- Cardboard (including corrugated cardboard, kitchen rolls, toilet paper rolls etc.)
- Natural materials like sticks, chestnuts or pine cones
In our STAEDTLER assortment, you will find a wide selection of high-quality painting and crafting materials for all age groups that help you realise your creative craft ideas. The painting as well as the crafting supplies have been adapted to the needs of the little ones. You can find all products suitable for crafting with kids here.
Creative Christmas crafts for kids
Create your own wish list
Writing one’s wish list and sending it to Santa Claus is an essential part of any perfect Christmas time. This might feel like a burdensome writing practice to some children – but with the right approach, writing one’s wish list will become yet another colourful Christmas crafting session.
Christmas crafting with kids: winter decorations
There are many classics when it comes to Christmas crafting. Besides popular Christmas cards, there are many other wonderful ways to promote your child’s creativity, and create heart-warming Christmas decorations. We will share great Christmas craft ideas that provide lots of fun and that turn your home into a real winter wonderland in the following sections.
Glowing Santa Claus made of an empty milk carton
The advent season is the perfect time to cuddle up at home. The smell of freshly baked Christmas cookies fills the air, it is dark and cold outside, and warm candle light illuminates your home. This glowing Santa Claus further increases this level of homeliness. This craft idea is not just easy to create, but also very sustainable since all you need is an empty milk carton.
Funny Christmas pendants made of screw lids
This idea is perfect for easy Christmas crafting with younger children that would feel overwhelmed if confronted with more challenging crafting projects. All you need to create these Christmassy pendants for your Christmas tree or Advent wreath is preserving jars’ screw lids. Discover now how you can turn these simple screw lids into funny, Christmassy decoration. These pendants are also a perfect gift idea for a gift swap.
Sweet bear lantern made of an empty milk carton
This wonderful upcycling DIY project is not only eco-friendly – it also looks incredibly sweet and is the perfect craft idea for kids. The tinkered bear lantern is the perfect accessory for the little ones’ lantern parade, but it can also be used as cute Christmas decoration at home.
Cookies made of modelling clay
Cookie baking with the kids is already a beautiful, Christmassy activity with the little ones. In addition, kids can let their creativity flow by creating colourful cookies using modelling clay. At the same time, they train their spatial imagination and perception.
Little DIY Christmas animals
Cute Christmas and winter animals are not only a cool craft idea, but also very popular amongst children. We have compiled different templates to download for you, to help you and the little artists create an entire zoo full of cute animals.
More colouring and craft templates
How can I make handmade Christmas gifts with my child?
On the occasion of Christmas, the goal is to find the perfect gifts for your loved ones. Why not seize the opportunity and create personal gifts for grandparents and friends during your Christmas crafting sessions with the little ones?
Of course, any and all craft ideas that we have compiled as ‘decoration’ can also be gifted. All these projects have required a lot of time, concentration and love, which is why the little ones have every reason to be proud!
However, every gift should come with proper gift wrapping that is just as beautiful, and perfected with a Christmas card. We have compiled Christmas craft ideas for both categories right here. These tutorials are aimed at adults, but they can easily be adapted to a Christmas crafting session with kids. For example, you could sketch templates and then let the little ones decorate and embellish them with their colourful creative products. In a final step, you can cut and glue them according to your craft idea.
Good to know: On our topic page, you can find many other creative Christmas tutorials (primarily for adults). To make sure that you and your family always find new inspiration for your next crafting project, we have compiled various craft instructions for children.
As you can see, there are no limits when it comes to Christmas craft ideas for children. Just try the different Christmas craft ideas and make the Advent season an unforgettable moment of creativity and being together.