woodworking projects for kids - Christmas Crafts For Kids

woodworking projects for kids

Christmas crafts for kids are a perfect way to create holiday memories as well as decorations that will help recall those happy childhood moments for decades to come. You can help your child create fun crafts even if you are not a crafty person in general. Kids crafts are simple and often require very simple materials. If it is too complicated, they will likely lose interest quickly. You can find simple instruction sonline for many holiday crafts and even craft kits so you have all the materials and instructions gathered for you. This can be a real time saver as you prepare for other holiday events.

Some of the most fun and endearing holiday crafts include handprints, photos of your child, and other simple reminders of how fast they grow. This years handprint picture will be a real treasure in 10 or 20 years as you try to remember how small those now grown up hands once were. A simple and creative way to showcase pictures is to create ornaments with photos from the previous year. Each year your tree will include more and more of those happy memories and will become a scrapbook of the good times in your childs life. These ornaments can be as simple as plastic lid recycled from the kitchen with a circular picture pasted inside. If you want to be more elaborate, you can use scrapbook paper and small wooden picture frames to create pretty little ornaments.

Another fun and simple craft is to use finger paint to make handprints in the shape of a Christmas tree. For a more lasting version of the handprint, you could make handprints with fabric paint on squares of plain fabric. A single handprint makes a cute throw pillow - and you can even use a premade pillow sham if you are not the sewing type. You can gather the handprints over the course of a couple of years to make a cute handprint quilt. Handprints and footprints on a t-shirt or sweatshirt make a perfect gift for daddy or grandparents.

Clear plastic ornaments are readily available at craft stores. They can be filled with various items for keepsake ornaments. One fun idea is to use a little sand and a few small sea shells to create a beach ornament - even more fun if those shells were collected on your summer vacation. Shredded crinkle paper and a little glitter also makes a fun ornament stuffer that even a small child can help with.

The most important ingredient in any craft project is fun, so be sure to make the experience fun for your child. Be careful not to criticize their efforts and understand that imperfection is part of the charm!

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woodworking projects for kids