Crafting for Christmas is a great way to bring your family together. These activities can also keep toddlers from being bored. Learn more in this presentation.

1. 5 Christmas Crafts that
Toddlers Will Enjoy

2. The holidays can be a mess with decorating, shopping
for gifts, and preparing the holiday dinner. But it’s
time to welcome a happy mess during the holiday
season: doing Christmas crafts with your toddler.
Give your toddler the gift of creativity this year by
doing these 5 fun Christmas crafts that he or she will
surely enjoy..

3. CHRISTMAS TREE REVERSE FINGER
PAINT CRAFT

4. Try Pure Wow’s craft suggestion for a
Christmas Tree Reverse Finger Paint craft.
Make your own Christmas tree shape or
have your child trace one onto a piece of
construction paper. Keep the tracing mold
taped to the paper while you have your
toddler finger paint around the tree.
Remove the taped tree mold and you have
an awesome design to hang your wall or
turn into a Christmas card for family and
friends.

5. GINGERBREAD HOUSE

6. Whether you purchase a gingerbread house kit or
take the leap and make your own, making a
gingerbread house is an awesome craft for
toddlers. The best part is that it’s edible after it’s all
done and once you get pictures as a keepsake.
Help your child make icing designs and carefully
place gumdrops and button candy to accent the
gingerbread house.
Take it a step further and make your own
gingerbread people that can stand outside of the
house.

7. DIY CHRISTMAS
PLACEMAT

8. Make Christmas dinner for your toddler extra special by creating a DIY
Christmas placemat.
Pick up a white basketweave placemat from a local craft store.
Purchase acrylic paint in red, green, yellow, and other colors you may need for
your chosen design.
Customize the placemat how you and your child want it with paint, felt, and
other decorations.
If you are painting, let it dry for at least 45 minutes before use.
Snowmen in a snowy environment.
Santa with one of his reindeer.
A Christmas tree with presents underneath.
Gingerbread men with a gingerbread house.
Customizing Ideas:

9. CHRISTMAS HAND
PRINT CRAFTS

10. You can make your toddler’s handprint into almost any Christmas character
or object such as:
Santa Claus.
A snowman.
A reindeer.
A Christmas tree.
A penguin.
Check out Pure Wow’s post about this craft.
Be sure to write the year on the back of the craft,
so you and your child can look back on
it as he or she gets older.

11. REINDEER BROWNIES

12. Here’s another tasty edible craft for toddlers. Have
your toddler(s) help you mix the ingredients for
brownies before placing them in the oven. Once they
cool, have your children help decorate the brownies to
look like reindeers with pretzels for the antlers, red
round chocolate candies for the nose, and eyeball
candies for the eyes.
Take a look at the Cooking with My
Kids blog for more information.

13. HELP YOUR TODDLER GET
CREATIVE THIS HOLIDAY
SEASON!
Whether an edible or a keepsake
craft, make every day a fun and
interactive one by doing some
Christmas crafts with your toddler
leading up to the holiday..