Fun Christmas Crafts for Kids

Christmas is almost here!

Every year we look for new, easy Christmas crafts for kids. Last year, snowmen wooden bead ornaments were a hit with the kids and their friends.

They also enjoyed making glitter pinecones, fabric foam trees, and colorful sleds out of fat popsicle sticks (I’m not sure if those spent more time being dragged around the house on a string, or hung on the tree!).

And of course, googly eyes and toilet paper rolls make for fun Santa, reindeer and snowman creations.

This year since the kids are now 4 and 6, I thought we could try something more challenging. I had cut some lavender leaves and was hanging them up to dry (to try making potpourri sachets) but was hit by inspiration to try mini wreaths.

The kids enthusiastically responded when I proposed making mini Christmas themed wreaths. Find out how we made these super easy mini wreaths below.

We’ll be adding more pictures and instructions of the other Christmas crafts we’re making soon!

Mini Christmas Wreath materials

• Cardboard
• Scissors
• Jute twine
• glue (we only used this to glue on the pinecone since it was too heavy for glue stick)
• optional decor: glitter glue (or glue and sprinkle on glitter!) pinecones, sticks, leaves, stones, whatever you’d like to decorate with. Dried flowers would probably look nice too.

Mini Wreath Instructions

1. Cut a circle out of a piece of cardboard or cereal box. You can cut it out as large as you’d like but we’d suggest around 6″-8″ in diameter to make it manageable for little hands.
2. Then cut out a circle shape in the middle, leaving about a 1″-2″ border. It should now look like a donut. It doesn’t need to be perfect, in fact, we like it when it’s not perfectly even as it gives it some character!
3. Take the jute twine and tie a starting knot on the backside of the wreath.
4. Start tightly wrapping the jute twine around the cardboard donut until you have wrapped around the whole cardboard donut and tie a knot to tie off the end on the backside. If you have extra, tie off a loop so that you can use it to hang the wreath up. If you don’t have enough, cut another piece of jute to make the loop. Don’t worry if there is a little bit of slack on the twine around the cardboard as we will be sticking leaves in, but make sure it’s not super loose, otherwise, the twine won’t hold it in a wreath shape and things will fall off.
5. Once the jute twine is all set, start sticking leaves, sticks, stones, etc under the twine. If you are adding something long, like a stick of leaves , you may need to stick one side under one piece of twine, and the other side under another one to avoid it from being imbalanced and flipping off the wreath.
6. Alternatively, you can use glue to glue everything to the wreath. With my kids, I do without glue as much as possible to reduce the mess!

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