18 Easy Christmas Crafts for Toddlers

Have you ever wondered what to do with the lonely socks in your laundry room? They might be the treasure you need this holiday season, and best if the socks are white.

You can use the socks to make little snowmen inside your home with your kids, the steps are easy, and your toddlers will also love them. You can start by washing those socks and drying them before bringing them to the crafting table. Now, follow the instructions, or you can improvise depending on the situation.

1. Help your kids fill the socks with uncooked rice (uncooked rice is harmless and will let the sock stand upright easily). An adult can help by sewing the open ends firmly or securing them with rope.
2. Let your toddlers rubber band the socks into the shapes of snowmen. Using a rubber band helps the socks get the familiar three-tier snowman shape. 
3. Now, let your toddlers work on their creativity decorating the snowmen using buttons and scarves made of colorful shoelaces or ropes. You can also give them a painting brush and some colors to make eyes and nose. Adults can help secure the buttons by gluing them firmly. 
4. Make a bunch of tiny snowmen with socks, and they can go around the Christmas tree. Adding a white rug below the snowmen helps provide an authentic snow feeling. 

Would you like your toddler to make a jungle of Christmas trees to go around the socks snowmen we created earlier? Using popsicle sticks to make some Christmas trees is the answer. 

If you are using colorful popsicle sticks, then you might save yourself the hassle of painting, but letting your child paint their popsicle sticks will be added fun during the holiday-themed DIY crafting session. A small painting brush and some watercolors are always fun for toddlers. You can follow the step-by-step guide or can improvise as you get going with the craft. 

1. Start things off by letting your child paint popsicle sticks with their little paintbrush and some watercolors. Adults can monitor their painting and help them cover some left-off patches and dry the sticks first.
2. Adults must hot glue the popsicle sticks together, forming a triangle and a stem from the bottom. You will need to stick four popsicle sticks together to make one tree.
3. Let your toddler bring out their creativity in decorating the Christmas tree. They can use mini jingle bells, stars, pom-poms, and all sorts of decorating items to make their tree handsome. Adults can help by securing all the needed parts together with glue.
4. Make a bunch of little popsicles stick to Christmas trees and form a garland to decorate your home or your giant Christmas tree. You can also place them around the previously made snowmen. 

Popsicle stick Santa hats can be another of your DIY crafts this holiday season with your toddler. 

You can use red colored paper, some white pom-poms or cotton balls, popsicle sticks, and red paint to make these tremendous decorating items for Christmas with your toddler. You can refer to the following step-by-step guide or improvise. 

1. Adults can start by gluing the popsicle sticks together, forming a triangle, and pasting the backing paper in those triangles before letting the glue dry for a while and handing them over to the kids.
2. Help the toddlers paint the red popsicle sticks with a small brush and some red paint.
3. Let your child decorate the hat with white pom-poms or cotton balls. Adults might need to glue them to place them securely. 
4. Create a bunch of hats, and they can be used in the holiday cards, or they can also be used to decorate the Christmas tree this festival season. 

You already know toddlers love getting their hands dirty with paints, which might be handy in making our next craft this holiday season. 

Preparing reverse fingerprint Christmas tree cards is a piece of cake for both adults and toddlers. A reverse fingerprint Christmas tree is a Christmas tree where the tree is not made of paint, but instead, the surrounding is made of paint. You can follow the step-by-step guide or make your guidelines. 

1. Adults can start off by cutting out shapes of Christmas trees from a piece of paper, or you can hand over the work to your elder kid or your spouse while you snuggle into a blanket on the couch, watching your toddler create a piece of art.
2. Secure a blank piece of paper into the crafting table by placing some weights on the corner and placing the Christmas tree cutout in the middle of the paper. (You can use a plate instead if you want to keep your toddler’s work safe for a long time).
3. Now it’s time to let your toddler dip his little fingers or hands in paint and start his artwork by making prints of his hands all over the paper except for the cutout portion. They can also use multiple colors, but we recommend sticking to one or two colors per art as more colors make the painting look messy.
4. Take out the cutout form the paper revealing the shape of an uncolored Christmas tree, your toddler will jump with excitement at this point. 

While you might need to help your toddler wash hands a few times thoroughly, but few extra handwashes are worth the final piece of art. 

Toddlers love playing with paper, and you can encourage your toddler to bring out their creativity by making a simple Christmas tree from scrunched paper. 

Let your toddler enjoy to their fullest while playing with their favorite thing, paper, and there is no other way of hyping your little one for the upcoming holiday season than by engaging them to make and decorate a Christmas tree by themself.

The best part about scrunched paper Christmas tree is you will only need some scrap paper tissue, construction paper, glue, and scissors. I bet you have those things in your drawer, so take out the supplies, gather your kids, and let’s get started. 

1. Adults can start things off by cutting the shape of a Christmas tree from construction paper. Giving a pair of scissors to your toddler’s hands is not a wise move.
2. Hand over the cutout to your toddler along with scrunched colored paper tissues and let them decorate the tree themself. Adults might need to help here and there to stick things into place but let your child use their creativity.
3. You can help your child glue the paper trees to a homemade garland that can be used to decorate your house, or you can also keep the trees individually and later add them to the holiday cards you send to your family. 

The best part of making a painted handprint tree is you will just need to be by your toddler’s side as they make a masterpiece with some paint and their bare hands. 

If you are a parent to a toddler, you might have already understood there is nothing that can stop a toddler from sticking their hand into the paint box. You can help your child enjoy with paint while they make a beautiful Christmas tree with some paints and their hands. It would be a precious moment to watch your little one as they enjoy painting a Christmas tree. 

Step 1: Take out some green paints and a piece of big paper on your crafting table and let your child make imprints of their hand in the shape of a tree on the paper. Using green paint might come in handy. 

Step 2: Help your child decorate the tree with different colors with their tiny fingers, they will enjoy every moment of the experience, and trust me you will too. 

While you might need to help them dry the paint and wash their hands and cloths, but few extra handwashes will be worth the masterpiece your little one will create. 

What can be more Christmasy than pine cone ornaments? Your toddler will love the idea of decorating a pinecone to go on the Christmas tree this year. 

While creating an ornament with pinecone can prove to be a little challenging for your as you will need to gather the supplies, once clean pine cones, some glue, some glitter, a hook, or yarn is gathered, the rest of the steps are piece of cake. You can follow the step-by-step guide or create the ornaments with your own idea, but it will be fun to do with your toddler either way. 

Step 1: Clean the pine cones and cover them with glue, an adult can perform the cleaning and gluing part to avoid any accidents. 

Step 2: Open a packet of two of glitter and let your kids cover the pine cone with glitter, use multiple colors on different pinecones or make them layered. You can ask your toddler what they want to do. (placing the pinecone inside a plastic container, or on a plastic wrap before glittering makes the cleaning much easier). 

Step 3: Let the glitter and glue dry for a while before you attach the hook to the top scales of the pinecone. (the hooks attach easily, you can also use yarn to make a loop) 

Step 4: Help your toddler attach the newly made ornaments to your Christmas tree, they will feel proud to decorate the Christmas tree with the ornaments they have made with their own hands. 

Challenge your toddler’s motor coordination and imagination with foil icicles this holiday season. 

These winter screaming ornaments are very easy to make and they require only a few materials. You will just need some aluminum foil, a bit of glue, strings, and glitter (blue ones preferred). Now, it’s time to gather your toddlers around the crafting table to start the process. 

Step 1: Cut or tear the aluminum foil into triangles. Triangles help the foil take the shape of icicles later. 

Step 2: Let your toddler roll the aluminum foil triangles to form icicles, you might need to help them to roll the pointy end tighter and the other end a little bit lose. 

Step 3: Once you get the desired shape, place the icicles into a paper plate or a plastic container ( cleaning will be a lot easier this way) and dab glue here and there to the foil icicles. Now is also the best time to attach string to the loose side of the icicle to hang them later. 

Step 4: Let your toddler decorate the icicle with glitter, blue glitter would look best for the icicle but any other color will also look good. Shake off the loose glitter once the paint and glitter have dried. 

Step 5: Help your toddler hang the newly made ornaments into the Christmas tree, you can also make a garland to decorate your house of Christmas tree. 

Don’t throw away the toilet paper rolls after using all the tissues, they can be a treasure this holiday season once you transform them into Santa. 

All you need is some toilet rolls, a few sheets of red glitter paper, some cotton balls, black buttons, and glue to stick everything together to help your toddler make Santa out of toilet paper rolls. Gather up the supplies and bring your toddler to the crafting table and let’s get started. 

Step 1: First help your toddler to stick the glitter paper to the toilet paper roll, adults can help them to stick the paper together. 

Step 2: Stick two black buttons in front of the toilet paper roll, now it’s time to make Santa’s face. You would get a great result by using some skin-colored paper to cover another smaller toilet paper roll, you can use multi-colored markers to draw eyes and nose. 

Step 3: Help your toddler make a hat and beard of Santa with cotton balls. Help them stick everything in place. Your Santa is ready to decorate your home.

Furthermore, you can make elves, snowmen, and reindeer as well to go along with Santa and complete the whole squad. Your toddlers will love to play with the toys they have made themself. 

Are you looking for decorating your Christmas tree with your toddler this holiday season? then making stick snowflake ornaments might just be the thing for you and your little one to bond upon. 

These simple yet beautiful ornaments are very easy to make and trust me, you and your child will have a lot of fun making these ornaments and decorating your Christmas tree together. All you will need is popsicle sticks, some glue, some paints, and buttons. If you throw in some glitters your child will jump with excitement. Now, let’s get started with the following steps. 

Step 1: Help your toddler glue 4 popsicle sticks together to form an asterisk (*). Now it’s time to paint the snowflake in the desired color and let the paint dry for a while. 

Step 2: Help out your toddler by pouring some glue into all the hands of the snowflake and let him pour glitter here and there for extra fun. I would recommend placing the snowflake into a plastic container as it will make the cleaning part easier later. 

Step 3: Let your little one place buttons on all the corners of the sticks, you can help by gluing them firmly and placing a string or a hook which will be useful in hanging the ornament later. Once the glue dries, you will be ready to hang the ornament on your Christmas tree together. 

One of the most important decorations for Christmas is a wreath, we have brought a simple DIY for your toddler this holiday season to make their own wreath. 

The fun part is, there is not much adult involvement in making paper plate Christmas wreaths and you can let your little one decorate wreaths however they like. All you need for this fun, easy, and beautiful Christmas decoration is a paper plate, some pom-poms, colors, glue, and a pair of scissors. 

Step 1: Cut out the middle of the paper plate and let your child run their imaginations wild in decorating. They can use all sorts of things from pom-poms to stars and glitters. 

Step 2: Help your little one secure their decoration by gluing them together firmly and putting a string to hang the wreath later. You are all done once the glue and paint dry. Your toddler will be excited to choose a spot to hang the decoration this Christmas. 

Well if you think about it, toddlers love to get their hands and feet imprints everywhere. So, let them do that very thing this Christmas and create beautiful art out of it. 

You will just need some paint, preferably brown color, sheets of paper, some googly eyes, and buttons to make the perfect craft for this holiday season with your toddler. Once you gather up the supplies and bring your little one to the crafting table, you are all set to go. 

Step 1: You can kick things off with your toddler’s feet, quite literally. Put your toddler’s feet into the paint and help them make an imprint on the sheet of paper. Placing a newspaper as a base can help with the cleanup process later. 

Step 2: Let your little one decorate the reindeer with googly eyes just below the toes and a button at the heel part. They can also make horns with markers for added beauty. 

Step 3: Let the paint dry for a while before you help them stick their master piece on the wall or if you want your child’s masterpiece to last for years you can also frame them. 

As the temperature drop outside this holiday season, bring the snowflakes inside in form of cotton swab snowflakes. It will be a fun project to do with your toddler during the school break this year. 

Making cotton swab snowflakes this year is very easy, all you need to do is gather some construction paper, a bunch of cotton swabs, a pair of scissors, and some glue to stick everything in place. You can follow the step-by-step guide or improvise when needed. 

Step 1: Cut the construction paper into circles, handling scissors is a job for adults to avoid any accidents. 

Step 2: Let your toddler stick the cotton swabs forming an asterisk on the construction paper. You can help your little one by securing everything in place using glue. 

Step 3: You can also improvise by making all sorts of patterns and designs or encourage your little one to try out new shapes. They will benefit form using new shapes and designs. If you take out a pack of glitter then they will be much happier pouring the glitter all over the snowflakes to make them shiny. 

Are you tired of hanging the same old and boring ornaments on your Christmas tree, you might be looking for a change this year and it involves crafting by your toddler. 

You can give a new shape to the decoration ornaments and all you will need is some paints, some small pom-poms, and markers. And yes most importantly your toddler to make beautiful shapes and reindeer on the ornaments. Once you have gathered everything you can follow the step-by-step guide. 

Step 1: Let your toddler make thumbprints on the ornaments, they can make multiple prints on one ornament. 

Step 2: Let your toddler decorate the thumbprint with pom-poms and markers giving the shape of reindeer to the thumbprints. Adults can help to secure the pom-poms in place with glue. 

Step 3: Let everything dry and you are ready to hang the ornaments on the Christmas tree with your toddler. They will definitely feel proud to see their art on the Christmas tree. 

Christmas is not just about snow and Santa but also about twinkling colorful lights. This year you can make twinkling colorful light paintings with your little one as a holiday-themed DIY project. 

Letting your child near electricity and twinkling light might be a bad idea but creating those shiny lights as a painting is an excellent idea. You will just need multiple colors, some sheets of paper, and a marker. You can follow the step-by-step guide or improvise depending on the situation. 

Step 1: Adults can start things off by drawing an outline of the light with the marker before handing the paper to the toddler. 

Step 2: Let your child place multi-color fingerprints on the outline you have drawn, more the colors merrier. You can help by making small aesthetical adjustments here and there to make the painting beautiful. 

Looking for something fun to do with your toddler during the school break? Gingerbread cookies might be the answer if you love baking. 

Take out your favorite recipe for gingerbread cookies from the cookbook and bring your toddler around the baking table. This DIY holiday craft doubles as a tasty snack for the afternoon as well. 

Step 1: You can start things off by preparing the necessary ingredients for gingerbread cookies but let your little one cut the shapes with a cookie cutter, they will feel involved in the activity. 

Step 2: Once you have baked the cookies, let them cool for a while. Let your child decorate the cookies with all the different colored icings and flavors. They will later enjoy their tasty craft. 

The fallen withered leaves might not be the trash you think they are as they could be used to make beautiful decorative items this Christmas. 

Ingredients for this simple and beautiful craft are withered fallen leaves, some non-toxic paints, a paintbrush, and strings. As the craft uses simple and children-friendly ingredients your toddler will be more than happy to join you in the process. 

You can kick things off by gathering all the supplies and spreading some newspapers on the craft table, cleaning will be much more easy this way. While there are not any fixed steps involved in this DIY craft as it’s all about imagination we have helped you with some guidelines. 

Step 1: Give your toddler some paint, a painting brush, and some leaves so that they will be busy pouring their imaginations into the leaves while you work on more real deals of painting Santa clause and reindeer on the remaining leaves. 

We all know the story of Grinch stealing the Christmas and toddlers are found of this green character. So, let us bring him to life this holiday season with a simple and beautiful DIY craft. 

All you will need to make Grinch Paper Plate Craft is some construction paper, a paper plate, some cotton balls, markers, and green paint. Here is a step-by-step guide for you and your kiddo. 

Step 1: Let your toddler kick things off by painting the paper plate green to form the face of the infamous character. 

Step 2: Adults can help by cutting the hat out of the red construction paper and the eyes out of the yellow construction paper. 

Step 3: Let your child decorate the hat with cotton balls and adults can help by securing everything to place with glue. You can always let your toddler make faces and other features with marker but that might not be a great idea so we recommend fronting that part yourself. 

Step 4: Now, everything is ready so it is up to you and your child to decide where to hang Grinch for this year’s holidays. 

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