What is an easy Christmas craft for age 2-5 yrs to do?

Answer 1

lots of things to try...best to let the children do as much as possible...

one of the favorites is making an ornament...you can use a variety of things for the main section i have used card stock, construction paper, wrapping paper, cardboard---cut them into shapes of your or the childs choice-have the children color or decorate with choices of items glitter, punched out shapes, macaroni(prepainted), wrapping paper, yarn---once dry cut out the middle and place a picture of the child inside(be sure to name and date the back) and pass on to the parents to hang on the tree(can also make larger versions to actually be picture frames)

try painting with branches of christmas trees, the needles fall off and when dried and cut into shapes makes a nice type of sachet

try the reindeer idea but use paint to make acutal prints--brown for the main part of the face--choose either brown, red, or green to paint the hands for antlers-use the thumbs with black for eyes and thumbs with red for the nose and then allow the child to decorate the outside or the inside for the parents(be sure to name and date the back)

also use hand prints to make trees(can also do cut outs of hands rather than paint) or wreaths, and then make other decorations

make paper chains--depending on the childs ages use construction papaer or wrapping paper to make the links and either paste, glue, tape, or staples(be careful can cause scratches or cuts)

have the children help to make a christmas game like pin the nose on santa, or rudolph or star on the tree--using a large piece of cardboard or plywood to paint a plain color and then design and paint with the help of the children and then have fun playing together

string large pasta noodles(prepainted-either by adults or the children themselves) on fat yarn to create cool jewelry

make collages using pictures from magazines, newspapers to create santa letters or posters of what the children want

try making playdough colored in seasonal colors to encourage the creativeness of the children

try some easy seasonal recipies like cookies, breads, candy, lots to choose from

practice wrapping gifts with old boxes and paper

running out of room hope you like the ideas some of the other ones sound like they have possibilities

Answer 2

How about a little Christmas village? The base can just be a section of a cardboard box. The houses and other buildings can be made from milk cartons, kleenex boxes, and other small containers you can find around the house. Just be sure they're all cleaned out, first. Simply paint the boxes by adding windows, doors, siding, snow, etc.. You can glue the buildings down. For the landscape use dough to make hills, ponds, creeks, etc.. Trees can be made from pine cones; snowmen from the dough; cars (use toy cars if you have any; if not, maybe match boxes). You can string popcorn together and use them for Christmas lights or funny looking icicles. Use your imagination. Most of the materials are things you have around the house or can find outside. The only thing you'd have to buy is some paint and ingredients for the dough. Everything I mentioned, I'm sure a two year old can do. It'll get very messy, no doubt, but, you can easily spend hours doing this type project. The kids will enjoy hunting for the items, especially for those they can find outside. I think in the end it will make a really nice center- piece. Make the display as big or as small; as detailed or as simple as you like it. Have fun! Go wild! You and they will love it. They may even want to do another one next year. Or may even become a tradition.

Answer 3

you could make lots of green hand prints then cut them all out and arrange as a Christmas tree then the children could make decorations for the tree. Salt dough can be cut into Christmas shapes and painted in gold or silver paint with glitter, foam ball can be rolled in glue and then glitter, candy canes can be made by twisting together red and white play dough then leaving to harden. All are very easy and look effective

Answer 4

Make reindeer! In one of my education classes we were just talking about this. Trace the child's foot on a peice of brown construction paper and then trace their hands twice on a different color. Cut them out and glue the hands behind the the foot cut-out. The foot part becomes the reindeer's head and the hands are the antlers. You can glue googly eyes on and red pom poms for the nose.

This may be hard for a 2 year old though, but I remember doing this when I was 4 in preschool. You will need to help them, for sure.

Answer 5

You can make easy reindeer by using construction paper, red or brown pompom balls, and googly eyes or buttons. Use brown construction paper to cut out an oblong oval (for the head), then help the children trace their hands with a pencil onto another sheet of brown construction paper for the antlers. Cut them out and place them on your reindeer's head. Add buttons or googly eyes for eyes and use the pompom for a nose.

Another fun thing to do, though it's more of a winter craft, is to tape doilies (of different sizes) on a black piece of paper and use paint to dab the dots to make snowflakes. Then you can pull off the doilies and have pretty snowflakes.

You can help them do crayon resist art by having them make Christmas or winter pictures by drawing with the crayons, then use watercolors to paint over the rest of the paper. The crayon won't hold the paint so it will remain it's original color while the rest is the color of the watercolor paint.

You can have them trace their hands on green construction paper several times and make small wreaths with them.

Answer 6

Craft innovations: Have the babies paint a huge piece of corrugated cardboard blue. that's their piece of the sea. As they finished right here crafts, tape each and each sea creature to their sea. Make massive call fish. Have precut stars. the babies unfold glue over it and then dip it interior the sand bin. Make jellyfish by using gluing celebration streamers to the back of one million/2 a paper plate. youngsters can draw a face on the plate. Have babies paint 2 very super precut shapes of fish on opposite aspects. while they dry staple the shapes very almost all at the same time and then have the babies stuff it with paper from the recycling. My son enjoyed this interest!

Answer 7

Lots of thing to do!! Such as make ur own X'mas tree from child handprint and put it together to make as a X'mas tree.
Make snowflakes effect on ur own, just prepare some flour, lots of salt and water. Mix them 2gether and placed them in squeezy bottle. Chd will design on a s.flakes template.
Make ur own X'mas ornament by using used/damaged CDs. Decorate them with glitters.... It look gorgeous!! U ought to try!!! Good luck. U can also try this following web:
www.dltk-crafts.com
www.coloringbookfun.com

Answer 8

Give them each a large drawing of Santa like from a coloring book, a glue stick and some cotton balls. They smear the glue all over Santa's beard on the picture and stick the cotton balls there. It is easy and cute!

Answer 9

Pinecone ornaments

Paint pinecones with glue, then sprinkle with pretty glitter. Tie a pretty ribbon or twist a pipecleaner around it to make a hanger.

For a nicer smelling ornament, you could use a cinnamon spice blend instead of glitter.

Answer 10

You can make a wreath with a paper plate. Just cut out the middle hole and let them decorate the outer rim with glitter, pom poms, markers, pine cones, construction paper, etc. Then hang it up in the house and they would be so proud of their work.