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Hands and Feet Reindeer
This Hands and Feet Reindeer is an easy preschool christmas craft! They may need some help cutting out the shapes, but there's nothing like a craft made with little hands and feet to make it that much more unique!
Level of Difficulty: Easy
Here's what you'll need...
Construction paper
Scissors
Pencil
Glue
Google eyes or marker
Here's how you make it...
1. Trace and cut out two hand prints and one foot print (you may get a better shape if you trace around a foot with a shoe on). Cut out a red oval for a nose.
2. Glue your foot print onto a piece of construction paper. Glue your hand prints on behind the foot prints to make the reindeers' antlers. Glue on your nose, and if you have google eyes, glue them on, otherwise just draw them on with a marker!
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Cone Christmas Tree
Children will love to make their very own Cone Christmas Tree! Dress your tree with scraps from around the house like buttons, felt, sequins and such! Preschoolers will need help making the cone, but they'll love to decorate their very own tree!
Level of Difficulty: Easy
Here's what you'll need...
Construction paper brown and green
Pencil
Scissors
Glue and/or tape
Embellishments found around the house
Here's how you make it...
1. Cut out a semi circle from a piece of green construction paper. The easiest way to do this is to trace around a plate and the cut it in half.
2. Roll your semi-circle into a cone and glue or tape to secure.
3. Cut a rectangle out of the brown construction paper, roll it into a cylinder and glue or tape to secure. Place your cone onto the cylinder to make your tree and you're ready to decorate!
Use items you have around the house to trim your tree. What's on ours? We used red and white pipe cleaners twisted around each other to make candy canes; we used ribbon scraps to tie into bows, and we used some sparkly sequins. Use you imagination!
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HandPrint Gift Bags N Tags
Make your gift extra special by making HandPrint Gift Bags N Tags! This is a great gift giving craft for Toddlers and Preschoolers, you can even do this one with your baby!
Here's what you'll need...
Construction paper
Pencil
Scissors
Glue
Marker
Embellishments (optional)
Paper bag
Paper bag (for gift bag)
Hole Punch (for gift bag)
Ribbon/twine/yarn (for gift bag)
Here's how you make them...
1. Trace a hand print onto a piece of construction paper and cut out. If you wish, decorate your hand print with embellishements, like glitter glue, sequins, markers/crayons, glitter, etc. Glue onto a paper bag, or to make it more fancier buy a plain gift bag at the dollar store. Or tape your hand print onto your gift for a personalized gift tag! Write on a special message!
2. Once you have glued the hand print, fold the top of the bag over, punch two holes in it, thread a piece of ribbon through the holes and tie a bow at the front.
Another, although messier, option is to brush a thin coat of paint on a hand and press it onto paper and cut it out.
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Spaghetti Christmas Ornaments
These unique Spaghetti Christmas Ornaments are a great holiday craft for toddlers, on up. They would make a cute gift for a Grandparent or family member! They won't last until next season, but there're fun to make every year!
Level of Difficulty: Easy
If you're doing this craft with a group, keep in mind these decorations need to be left to dry overnight.
Here's what you'll need...
Spaghetti, broken in half, cooked and cool
Glue
Paint Christmas colors
Spoon or popsicle stick
Wax paper
Ribbon, yarn or string (to hang your ornament)
Dessert sized paper plates (optional)
Here's how you make it...
1. Tear off a piece of wax paper about 18"-24" long. Pour 1 Tablespoon of glue onto your wax paper and add about 1/2 teaspoon of paint on top. Mix together with a spoon. Repeat using different colors. If you want to keep your paint separate, mix each paint color in dessert sized paper plates.
2. Smear your cooked spaghetti into the paint and lay it on the wax paper. Continue with different colors.
3. Let dry overnight. Peel the ornament off the wax paper, and string a piece of ribbon, yarn or string, through your ornament and hang.
If you're doing this craft with a toddler, it may help to keep the spaghetti contained if you draw a circle or square onto the wax paper with a permanent marker and tell them to make their ornament inside the shape.
Add some extra sparkle by decorating with glitter glue once they've dried!
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Easy Paper Garland
Trim your tree with this Easy Paper Garland, a fun Christmas craft for the kids to make and your tree will look pretty good too!
Level of Difficulty: Moderate
Here's what you'll need...
Construction paper
Hole punch
Yarn or twine
Here's how you make it...
1. Cut your paper into 1" strips. Fold each strip accordion style.
2. Punch a hole through the entire accordion. Thread onto yarn or twine, alternating colors. Tie at the ends and your ready to decorate your tree!
This garland will also look great with Christmas scrapbooking paper in different designs and colors!
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Paper Bag Rudolf
Some simple materials make up this Paper Bag Rudolf, an easy and inexpensive Christmas craft for kids to decorate the house or classroom!
Level of Difficulty: Easy
Here's what you'll need...
Paper bag
Tape or glue
Construction paper
Scissors
Pencil
Scrap paper
Red pom pom (optional)
Here's how you make it...
1. Stuff the bottom 1/3 of your paper bag with crumpled up scrap paper.
2. Fold each top corner over to make a triangle, and tape to secure.
3. Fold your triangle down and tape it to the paper bag.
4. Now you will need to cut out 2 hand prints from brown construction paper and eyes from black paper. If you don't have a red pom pom, just cut out a red circle from red paper. Glue on all your reindeer parts!
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Prickly Christmas Tree
You can touch and feel the pine needles on this Prickly Christmas Tree! Decorate your tree with what ever embellishments you have around the house! A great Christmas craft for preschoolers, on up!
Level of Difficulty: Easy
Here's what you'll need...
Rice
Green food coloring
Water
Zipper baggie
Wax paper
Card stock or cardboard
Pencil
Marker
Glue
Embellishments from around the house
Here's how you make it...
1. Place 1 teaspoon of water and 6 drops of green food coloring in to a zipper baggie. Add 1/2 cup of rice into the baggie, seal it and mix well to coat all the rice. Spread the rice on a piece of wax paper to dry. It will take 1/2 hour to and hour for your rice to be dry and ready to use depending on your climate.
2. Draw a triangle on your piece of cardstock or cardboard, fill it in with glue.
3. Sprinkle your green rice over top of the triangle, press it down a little if you want. Then shake it off. You're left with a prickly tree!
4. Decorate your tree with whatever you have around the house. We used stickers, but you can use felt scraps, pom poms, glitter glue, construction paper and so on. Don't forget to make a trunk for your tree, use a marker or piece of construction paper!
Just regular construction paper will work for this craft, but the rice is a little heavy so that's why we've recommended using a heavier paper like card stock - even the back of a cereal box would work well!
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Recycled Christmas Card Crafts
Keep your old Christmas Cards, or save them for next year - there are so many Recycled Christmas Card Crafts you can make from these! Easy and inexpensive Christmas Crafts for kids!
Here are some ideas for you: These crafts are pretty easy to to understand just from the pictures themselves.So no instructions included :)
Christmas Card Wreath
Christmas Card Garland
Recycled Place Cards
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Christmas Treat Jar
This Christmas Treat Jar is so easy to make and can be filled with just about anything! These make perfect gifts for teachers or anyone who you need to give a 'little something' to for the holidays!
You can find canning jars easily at any craft store or discount department store and only cost about $1.
Level of Difficulty: Easy
Here's what you'll need...
Jar
Snack food
Ribbon (optional)
Glue (optional)
Here's how you make them...
1. Start to fill your jar with your Christmas snacks. We put Banana Chips, Craisins (dried cranberries), unsalted peanuts, cashews, and almonds, Christmas colored M&Ms. Choose any snacks you'd wish, just make sure that everything is
unsalted. Otherwise the salt will draw the moisture out of your other treats and ruin the taste.
2. Layer your snacks so that they are at least 1" thick, otherwise your snacks will run into each other and won't look 'layered'. A regular sized canning jar will take about 1 cup of snack for each layer - this is a great opportunity for the kids to practice 'measuring'.
3. To finish off your jar tie a piece of ribbon around the lid. We wrapped and criss-crossed a ribbon around our lid and secured it with a drop of hot glue (or fabric glue).
If you want to add an extra special touch, why not make your gift tag out of a handprint, just a quick way to make your gifts even more personalized!
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Handprint Christmas Tree
This Handprint Christmas Tree craft is a great holiday craft for toddlers, preschoolers and kindergarteners! Decorate your tree with what ever you have around the house or classrooom!
Level of Difficulty: Easy
Here's what you'll need...
Construction paper
Scissors
Paint and big brush
Glitter (optional)
Here's how you make it...
1. Cut a triangluar shape from a piece of white construction paper. Make green hand and finger prints all over the triangle. You can lightly dip hands and fingers, but brushing the green paint on hands will make a better print! (less blobs and quicker to dry)
2. You can decorate your tree any way you'd like. What did we use? We diped fingers into red paint, sprinkled glitter over top, and shook off the excess. This makes great ornaments for your tree (the glitter sticks to the paint when it dries). We topped our tree with a star made of yellow construction paper. Be creative, you can make your own ornaments out of paper, use glitter glue, stickers, the sky's the limit!
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