Simple Christmas Crafts for Preschool Children
- Reema
- Dec 3, 2023
- 3 min read
Updated: Dec 6, 2025
Here are some really simple, inexpensive and beautiful Christmas crafts for the holiday season!
🟡🧑🏼🎄🎄Pom Pom Christmas Ornaments 🎅🏼🎄🔴
Pom pom ornaments are fun and easy for kids to make. You will need a Styrofoam ball (available on Amazon), some pom poms and glue.
Start by putting some glue along the seam of the ball. Next press the pom poms onto the glued area.
Keep adding the colourful pom poms till the entire ball is covered and fluffy. To finish, glue a small loop of twine at the top so it can hang on the tree. Now let your child decorate a corner of the house with these cute, bouncy ornaments.
Check out the video below to see how it is done.
🎅🏼🎄🏠 Cardboard Gingerbread House 🏠🎄🎅🏼
Instead of using real cookies, children can build a gingerbread-style house with cardboard.
Here are the materials needed:
Thick brown craft paper
White puffy paint
Colour-changing puffy paint (optional)
Candy or sweet-themed craft stickers
Red, orange, green, blue and white paper
Large circle paper punch
Snowflakes
Red & green glitter glue
Red marker
Small white pom poms
Glue gun or strong craft glue
Cut a simple house shape out of brown paper. (Take help from the video below to see how it is exactly done). That’s your gingerbread base. Punch out a few bright paper circles to use as candies. Outline the roof with white puffy paint so it looks like soft icing. Add little colour-changing paint to give the house a fun little glow once it dries.
Glue the snowflakes around the roof. Then decorate the walls with candy stickers and glitter glue. Add a couple of white pom poms at the bottom to look like snow. Let the craft dry, and your cute gingerbread house is ready.
This video shows how to do this activity.
🎄❄️⛄ Popsicle Stick Snowflakes ⛄❄️🎄
Take popsicle sticks and arrange them into snowflake shapes. The below YouTube video will help you arrange the sticks in perfect shape. Once the shape is done, let the little ones paint them white or blue, sprinkle glitter, or glue sequins on top. These will look great when hung near windows or on the tree. Here is a tutorial video for this craft.
🍩🎄🎅🏼 Salt Dough Ornaments 🎅🏼🎄🍩
This classic craft is one of the simplest Christmas crafts, requiring just two basic ingredients- salt and flour.
Mix two cups of flour with one cup of salt, and knead it into a soft and smooth dough. Roll the dough out, cut shapes with cookie cutters and make a small hole at the top for hanging. It is best to supervise the children at this stage so that they don’t injure themselves while cutting the dough into the shapes. You can even roll small bits of dough to make scarves, buttons or bows. Let the pieces dry under the sun till they turn hard. This may take a few days.
Once the pieces are dried, the decor part begins. Ask the kids to paint the shapes or glue on tiny embellishments. Salt dough ornaments are a great way to make Christmas decorations or gift tags.
🎄🎅⛄ Christmas Wreath Crafts🎄🎅⛄
A super simple and easy to make Christmas theme craft!! All you need is a cardboard ring, green yarn, red decorations and red thread. Ask the child to wrap the yarn around the ring tightly. Stick the end of the yarn and then decorate it. DONE!! Wreath is ready!!
🎄🎄 Paper Christmas Trees 🎄🎄
SWIPE ➡️➡️ to see the video tutorial!
⛄❄🌨 Paper Snowflakes⛄❄🌨
video tutorial
🎄🎅⛄Handprint Snowmen🎄🎅⛄
We used black craft paper, acrylic paint (white and other colors of her choice), brushes, pompom and clothes peg.
🎅🎄⛄ Craft sticks Christmas tree 🎅🎄⛄
Things required - Craft sticks plain or green and brown colored ones, green yarn, pompoms, yellow craft paper, glue.
🎄 If you have plain craft sticks colour them using paint and brush. We didn't have a brown one for tree trunk so Shanaya painted one.
🎄 Stick 3 green colored sticks in a triangle and let it dry and be firm.
🎄Glue one end of the yarn and ask the child to weave the yarn around tightly. Glue the other end. Glue the pompoms and star cut from paper. Ta da!! Christmas tree is ready!! You can hang it as an ornament too!!
🎅🎄⛄Hand and Foot Print Reindeer🎅🎄⛄
A super simple Reindeer art made from hand and foot prints of brown paint, two google eyes and a red pompom!! The Reindeer headband is a printable from @simpleeverydaymom.
🎅🎄⛄A paper plate Santa Claus craft 🎅🎄⛄
I hope you and your child have a lot of fun doing these! Merry Christmas!
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