Christmas Crafts Ideas for Kids – By Little Harvard

Fancy Deer

• Cover a cardboard tube with patterned paper;

• Cut a triangle head and two large and two small oval ears out of paper;

• Glue the smaller ears inside the larger ones and fold in half. Glue to top of triangle;

• Cut felt circles for eyes. Glue googly eyes to felt. Add pom-pom nose;

• Glue the triangle to the top center of the tube;

• Use straws and pipe cleaners to make antlers.

Crafty Christmas Stocking

• Cut a sock shape out of two pieces of felt;

• Staple the edges together a half inch from the sides, leaving the top open;

• Glue rickrack over the staples to cover them;

• Add a felt loop to the top corner of the stocking for hanging. Decorate with felt and buttons.

Super Dotty Christmas Tree

• Cut five 18 x 24-inch triangles from cardboard;

• Score the center of each triangle to make it easier to bend;

• Fold each triangle in half and glue together;

• Use clothespins to keep the pieces together;

• Paint the tree white;

• Roll corrugated paper around a cardboard tube to make the tree base;

• Cut a star from felt;

• Add a wire to the bottom of the star to attach to the tree.

String O’Dots

• Cut two yards of string;

• Every few inches, place a sticker on the string and then press another sticker back to back;

• String around the tree.

Spotty Felt Skirt

• Trim the edges of a two by two-foot piece of felt to make a circle;

• Glue rickrack to outer edge of the circle;

• Decorate with felt circles;

• Place under mini-tree.

Double Trees

• Paint two cone water cups green;

• Wrap rickrack or ribbon around one;

• Decorate with pom-poms;

• When the paint dries, apply a thin layer of glue to the second cup and cover with glitter.

OH’ Santa!

• Paint a cone-shaped water cup red;

• Cut out a circle face shape from felt and snip top of face to make it flat;

• Cut a felt beard and mustache and glue to face. Add black dots for eyes;

• Wrap pipe cleaner around the point of the cup and the middle of the cup to make the hat and jacket trim;

• Glue the face to the front of the cone. Add a small pom-pom for a nose;

• Glue paper feet to the inside of the cone.