Preschool Christmas Crafts

Preschool Christmas Crafts are always an excellent choice to help your children understand the season and let them get involved.

It’s the time of Santa and his reindeer and the kids are making sure they’re extra good so they don’t end up on the naughty list.  It’s also the time of Jesus’ birth as Christians celebrate. There are several things you can do to get the children excited while offering fun in all its glory.

These crafts can bring pure joy to all as the little ones create homemade gifts for their mommies, daddies, and grandma and grandpa!  Heck, maybe even make something for the family dog!  They deserve presents too!

In the Kitchen

Some beginning ideas can be found in your kitchen cupboards or pantry.  Try introducing the little tike to cereal jewelry by threading it on chenille stems.  Something like Fruit Loops can add different colors. Try dipping some plastic spoons into chocolate and wrap with a ribbon.

Kids Crafts

Bring out some finger-paint and have the kids paint Santa and his reindeer.

Cut out different scenes from magazines and have the kids glue together a Christmas card.

Anything you can do with paper, magazines, scissors, glue, glitter and other miscellaneous other pretty things will work well with crafts for preschoolers.  Food sources can add whimsy.  Try drawing placemats or coasters for your upcoming dinner party.

Are your kids familiar with shapes and does the science of geometry appeal to them?  You can cut construction paper into triangles, stars and circles to form Christmas trees.  Better yet, you could draw the shapes and have the kids trace them to make the tree even more their own.

You can cut different shapes out and glue them together to make Santa and use cotton balls for his beard and curly hair.

Box of Love

A very simple idea with one of the largest impacts that preschoolers can make is a Box of Love.  All you would need for this craft is small plain boxes, glitter, ribbon, maybe even some sequins or buttons.  Aid your child with the use of all these materials if necessary.

You can then write a little message on a stock of paper that will last for a while. This decorated box can be given to someone they love. Whenever you hold the box to your heart you think of the child who loves you …

Christmas Play

How about encouraging the kids to put on their own play?

You can use small paper bags, construction paper, fabric scraps and beads and buttons to put together different kinds of puppets.

Want them to feel a really great case of accomplishment?  Just give them the general idea of Christmas, leave the play unscripted and turn the kids loose to see what they can come up with for a Christmas story.  If there are mistakes made, let it slide… just enjoy the moment.

There is just a myriad of things you can do with the younger children if you let your imagination, and theirs, flow.  Don’t hold back. Walk into your pantry and see what’s there.  Foods, bags, glue, scissors, plates and cups can all become a grand Christmas themed item.  All you need to do is give birth to a preschool Christmas crafts idea and let it fly!