Children enjoy creating arts and crafts for Christmas. It gives them an opportunity to create Christmas gifts for loved ones or to personally decorate their homes or classrooms. Creating things themselves can also give children a sense of pride in their ability to produce something.
Gift Ideas
One Christmas gift children can make is a snow globe. This craft is particularly easy for children with siblings young enough to be eating baby food, as they will have ready access to baby food jars for the project. After removing the label from the baby food jar, they can glue a small trinket to the inside of the jar lid, fill the jar most of the way with water, put some glitter in the water, and screw on the lid. After sealing the lid and allowing the snowglobe to dry, they can wrap it and give it as a gift to friends and family.
Another example of a gift children can make on their own is a Christmas ornament. This craft is good because ornaments can be made of anything from paper and string to glass globes from the craft store. Children can use paint, crayons, glitter and glue to personalize their ornament and create something that can be used as both a gift and as a decoration for years to come.
Decoration Ideas
One popular Christmas decoration that children can create is a Christmas angel. Angels can be created from paper circles folded into a cone with paper wings, a paper face and halo. Children can personalize the angel by using cutouts of handprints as the angel's wings.
Christmas wreaths are also a popular craft, and they can be customized in a large number of ways. Children can use garlands wound around a bent wire hanger, arrange handprint cutouts on a paper circle, or color a paper plate with the center cut out.
Coming Up With Ideas
The ideas listed above are only a small sample of the types of projects children can create around Christmas. Fun art activities can be created with nearly any art medium for any aspect of the Christmas holiday, including angels, trees, reindeer, Santa, cookies, stockings and more. One way to come up with a Christmas art project can be to find whatever art supplies you have in the house and ask the children what their favorite part of the holiday is, and how they think they can make something representing it using the supplies available to them.
Another way to come up with craft ideas is to find decorations in school, on television, in craft stores, or other decorated places and recreate them at home. Many craft stores also offer free craft ideas in the store or on their websites, and often have materials for specific crafts available in special displays around the holiday.
