Christmas Crafts For Kids

Kids love everything about Christmas except waiting for the day to get here. With them taking a break from school, you'll often hear cries of, "I don't have anything to do." You can keep them busy this holiday season with Christmas crafts that are easy and fun for the little ones to make. You can also give kids Christmas fun and games any time of the year and best of all, these fun activities are highly educational too.

Christmas Crafts You Can Do With Your Kids

Have the kids glue the cards decoration side up down on colored construction paper. When the glue dries, cover the craft front and back with clear contact paper, making sure there are no open ends or gaps. Kids love setting their plats on their own special Christmas place mat.

Santa Ornament:
This makes a great little gift for kids to make and give their friends or teachers too. Pick up large plastic ornaments at the craft store. These ornaments will open for you to put items inside.

Open the ornament and fill it with peppermints. Secure it closed again. Using a medium sized wooden ball, glue on jiggly eyes. Once the eyes are set, glue the wooden ball onto the top the plastic ornament.

Next, add cotton hair for the head, mustache and beard. Glue a red felt 'hat' on top of the hair. At the base of the ornament, glue a long piece of black felt for Santa's belt. Glue the front bottom of the ornament to a thin wooden heart that's been painted black. The curves in the heart will be Santa's feet.

Christmas Countdown Chain:
For this popular craft, you'll need red and green construction paper cut into thin, even strips. The kids can decorate the paper strips with Christmas writing and glitter glue.

Form the strips into connecting circles and glue each one closed. Once the glue is dry, hang the circle within easy reach of the child. Each day that passes until Christmas, the kids get to tear off one of the links of the chain.

Candy Cane Reindeer:
This craft is an oldie but a favorite among children. All you need are candy canes, jiggly eyes, pipe cleaners, mini pom-poms and glue. At the top of the candy cane, glue a pipe cleaner, twisting it into the shape of antlers. Glue jiggly eyes on either side of the reindeer 'head' and add the nose to the end of the candy cane.

Cookie Cutter Ornaments:
To do this craft, you'll need an assortment of cookie cutters in various holiday shapes. The ones that work the best are snowmen, Santa, trees and bell shapes.

Place each cookie cutter on colored construction paper. Trace around it. Cut it out. Have the kids decorate each cut out with glitter and mini pom-poms for Christmas balls on the tree.

For the snowmen, use mini black pom-poms for his buttons. You can use jiggly eyes on the snowmen and Santa. Once each ornament is finished, use a hole puncher to punch a hole at the top. Thread thin ribbon through the hole and let the kids hang their special ornament from the tree.

There are ready-made craft kits which you can buy online at Amazon.

Here are a few very popular Kids Craft Kits you may want to browse through:

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There are also kids craft books that you can buy online or at your local book store.

Kids Christmas Activities Give Kids Hours and Hours of Good, Old Fashioned TV-Free Fun

Keeping kids happy and busy at Christmas is easy if you have the right activities to give them. We've a package called 'Kids Christmas Activities' specially created by Teresa Evans, a teacher and lover of games. With 'Kids Christmas Activities' you can provide children with quality Christmas activities and Christmas games that will get them playing, laughing, learning and thinking.

The 'Kids Christmas Activities' package come as electronic books (e-books) that are downloaded to your computer in a flash. Which means in a matter of minutes you can be printing all of the worksheets for Christmas and Christmas games that you want for your kids or your students. You can print as many copies as you need for your kids.

The Kids Christmas Activities Package consists of:

1. Over 75 pages of Printable Christmas Activities for kids including Christmas Word Puzzles, Christmas Math Worksheets, Christmas Writing Activities, Christmas Mazes, Christmas Cards, Christmas Bookmarks and Christmas Coloring Sheets.

2. 11 Colorful Kids Christmas Games to print and play - including dominoes, bingo, board games, riddle match game and games sheets

3. A book full of Kids Christmas Party Ideas (as a bonus)

4. A Mystery Christmas Gift for You (as a bonus)

So you'll never be short of a Christmas worksheet, Christmas activity or Christmas game.

To learn more please visit the Kids Christmas Activities website.