Kids Crafts Ideas

Craft

Tube Sock Snowman

Supplies

  • Tube Sock with red border
  • Uncooked rice (approx. 2 cups)
  • String
  • 2 plastic baggies
  • Small green pompoms
  • Extra small brown pompoms
  • Small brown pompom
  • Googly eyes
  • Red yarn
  • Glue gun
  1. Fill a plastic baggie with 1 cup rice. This should fill 2/3 of the sock.
  2. Tie the top of baggie with twist tie.
  3. Put bag inside tube sock.
  4. Tie tightly with string
  5. Repeat above using 1/2 cup of rice (more or less)
  6. Tie tightly with string.
  7. Fold over the ribbed part of the sock to make the snowman's hat.
  8. Cut 3 strands of yarn and tie around the snowman's neck
  9. Glue on green buttons, brown mouth and nose
  10. Glue on eyes
  11. Make a tassel on the top of the hat with yarn, glue
Craft

Paper Bag Reindeer

Supplies needed:

  • Paper bags
  • Deep red (or another color) construction paper
  • Glue
  • Scissors
  • Markers or crayons
  • Googly eyes
  1. Trace two hands on construction paper. Cut them out. These will be the reindeer’s antlers.
  2. Fold the two squares of the edges of a paper bag under the corners, to form the reindeer’s head.
  3. You now have the shape of the reindeer’s head for the puppet.
  4. Glue, tape, or staple the handprints behind the reindeer's head.
  5. Cut out eyes from construction paper (or glue on googly eyes).
  6. Using red paper, cut out and glue on a large red nose.
  7. Glue them to the reindeer's face.
  8. Draw a mouth with a marker or crayons.
Craft

Smiley Snowflake

Supplies

  • White craft fun foam
  • Small goggle eyes
  • Tacky craft glue
  • 2 tiny pink pompoms or pink blusher
  • Black or red marker
  • Paper punch
  • Scissors
  • String
  • Printed snowflake pattern

Print the free smiley snowflake pattern, shown at right, and cut out the pattern. Use this paper snowflake to trace the pattern onto white craft fun foam. Make two identical patterns and cut them both out of the fun foam.

Next, place one snowflake over the other, offset so that the points of the snowflakes do not overlap. Check the photo and use this as a guide. Glue the two snowflakes together with tacky craft glue.

With the paper punch, make a hole at the top of the snowflake. Glue on two small googly eyes (or draw your own eyes).

Glue on two small pink pompoms for cheeks. If you don't have any pompoms, you can smudge on a very small amount of pink blush makeup as cheeks, or color lightly with pink paint or crayon.

Finish your Smiley Snowflake Christmas Ornament by using a black or red marker to draw on a smile. If you wish, you could also dust on white glitter for added sparkle.

Craft

Potted Reindeer

Supplies

  • Clay pot or plastic plant pot
  • Brown medium pompom and a small red pompom
  • Red pom pom or small wad of red tissue paper
  • Googly eyes
  • Craft fun foam
  • Gold pipe cleaner
  • Red thin ribbon
  • Silk holly leaves or use what you have
  • Printed ear pattern:
    Pattern
  1. Paint the pot brown if you have to.
  2. Glue on the goggle eyes and glue on the medium brown pompom and glue the small red pompom on top.
  3. Print and trace the ear pattern, or draw your own ear pattern onto fun foam and cut out. Starting in the center of the pot, glue the ears on to the pot.
  4. Bend the gold pipe cleaner in two loops and glue it in place, in front of the ears.
  5. Add the holly leaves or other Christmas foliage, then tie a bow from thin red or green ribbon, and glue the box in front of the leaves.