51+ Christmas Crafts and Activities for Kids
Over the years, we have collected a lot of different Christmas crafts and activities for kids. We have had loads of fun doing them. Each year we have done something different and loved it.
There are over 51 Christmas activities ideas you can find. There are arts and crafts, Christmas sensory bins, Christmas fine motor activities, Christmas painting, Christmas gross motor, and Christmas books.
I love all the different Christmas activities that we have done.
Christmas Crafts and Activities for Kids
I love that there are so many Christmas crafts and Christmas activities that you can do, and you have loads of fun doing them! Each year new activities are added to the site and they show up here. And they are so much fun to do.
You can find our Christmas Printables collection here
Things to use with these Christmas Crafts & Activities
I always get asked what we used with the crafts and books. And these are just some of the items we use the most with these activities.
We have included links to some of the products and resources we have used with this activity. If you purchase via the links we may earn a small commission.
- dot marker or bingo daubers
- watercolors
- watercolor paper
- paper plate
- glue
- 1 1/2 inch circle punch
- construction paper
- Christmas Washi Tape
- Ceramic Christmas tree plastic lights
- Safari Ltd Designer TOOBS Christmas
- green yarn
- cookie cutters
- Mr. Willowby’s Christmas Tree
- There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Bell!
- Polar Express 30th anniversary edition
- Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer) (Little Golden Book)
Christmas Crafts and Activities Menu
A jump to the Christmas activities you are looking for. These are all the sections you will find below.
Christmas Arts and Crafts
Christmas Fine Motor Activities
Christmas Painting For Kids
Christmas Sensory Bins
Christmas Gross Motor
Christmas Books for Kids
Christmas Arts and Crafts
Here are our collection of arts and crafts that we have done. Each year we do different things, but we have a few favorites. We just love making wreaths. Plus they are fun to make. I let me girls pick a lot of the crafts that we do.
1. Paper Roll Nativity Craft
Easy to Make Paper Roll Nativity is something you can do year after year! It is a simple and easy. This is great for kids to work on retelling the story of the Nativity and learning about it.
2. Yarn Poinsettia Craft
Yarn Poinsettia – Legend of the Poinsettia is loads of fun to make! This is a great fine motor craft.
3. Tissue Paper Birds Craft
Tissue Paper Birds – The Birds of Bethlehem was a favorite and we have repeated this a few times! Plus Christmas Birds goes with a great the book.
4. Stringing Pom Poms Craft
Stringing Pom Poms is a great craft and fine motor activity. You can string pompoms together with thread and needle to make this activity.
5. Easy Christmas Decorating: Wrapping Pictures
Easy Christmas Decorating: Wrapping Pictures is our fun way to decorate the house! You can see how fun it is.
6. Fine Motor Craft: Washi Tape Christmas Tree Craft
Washi Tape Christmas Tree is a great fine motor Christmas tree craft for kids to make. You can use a mix of colors of Washi tape.
7. Tissue Paper Christmas Wreath Craft
Tissue Paper Christmas Wreath are so much fun to make and look great in the windows. These are super simple to make and only use a few items to make it.
8. Yarn Paper Plate Christmas Wreath Craft
Yarn Paper Plate Christmas Wreath is loads of fun for Christmas wreath craft for kids to make!
9. Washi Tape Wreath Craft
Washi Tape Wreaths are simple fine motor wreaths for Christmas that kids can make and are tons of fun to make and display during the holidays.
10. Torn Scrapbook Paper Holly Wreath Craft
Torn Scrapbook Paper Holly Wreath is a fun way to use up left over scrapbooking paper for a Christmas wreath.
11. Christmas Washi Tape Ornament Wreath Craft
Christmas Washi Tape Ornament Wreath are great fun to make and great for fine motor work. Plus make super cute wreaths.
12. Oil Pastel Ornament Wreath Craft
Oil Pastel Ornament Wreath is super easy Christmas wreath craft for different ages to make with fun and creative ways to make the ornaments.
13. Christmas Wreath With Scrapbook Ornaments Craft
Christmas Wreath With Scrapbook Ornaments For Kids is a super fun way to use up scrapbook paper and make a super cute and easy Christmas wreath for kids. And the ornaments always turn out super cute.
14. Reindeer Christmas Wreath Craft Craft
Reindeer Christmas Wreath Craft is a great craft you can make with kids for a fun winter scene with reindeer on a wreath.
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Christmas Fine Motor Activities
I’m always looking for fun and different fine motor activities. There are so many different ones to pick from. Here is the collection we have done during Christmas time. We love the glass gems and have had tons off fun using them for fine motor activities.
15. Fine Motor: Sorting Christmas Lights
Fine Motor: Sorting Christmas Lights is really fun for kids to do. They work on their pincer grasp and have fun.
16. Hands On Christmas Themed Gem Patterns
Hands On Gem Patterns is fun math with fine motor. You can work on different types of AB patterns.
17. Stringing Pom Poms
Stringing Pom Poms is a great craft and fine motor activity. Plus an easy decoration to make.
18. Fine Motor Gem Wreath
Fine Motor Gem Wreath works the fine motor skills while making a wreath.
19. Fingerprint Wreath
Fingerprint Wreath is fun with stamping finger prints for a dot marker wreath.
20. Model Magic Christmas Tree
Model Magic Christmas Tree is a fun way to work on fine motor and make a really fun Christmas tree to display.
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Christmas Painting For Kids
There are so many different ways to paint and we love mixing up how we do it. We have used watercolors, q-tips, and cookie cutters a lot!
21. Watercolor Christmas Trees
Watercolor Christmas Trees are a fun way to use cookie cutters for painting Christmas trees on paper.
22. Q-Tip Painted Christmas Trees
Q-Tip Painted Christmas Trees is fun painting with q-tips and cookie cutters. You can dot trees and have loads of fun.
23. 5 Gold Ring Water Color Painting
5 Gold Ring Water Color Painting is a great 12 Days of Christmas activity.
24. Christmas Cookie Cutter Painting
Christmas Cookie Cutter Painting is a super fun way to paint with cookie cutters! Kids have loads of fun with this.
25. Glitter Watercolor Christmas Lights Painting
Glitter Watercolor Christmas Lights Painting is a simple and easy to for Christmas painting. You have fun with cookie cutter paint and glittery watercolors.
26. Watercolor & Oil Pastels Christmas Trees
Watercolor & Oil Pastels Christmas Trees is a fun mix medium art craft that you can do with kids. You have a watercolor tree and oil pastel ornaments.
27. Rudolph The Red Nose Watercolor & Oil Pastel Painting
Rudolph The Red Nose Watercolor & Oil Pastel Painting is a super easy painting activity that many different ages can do!
28. Cookie Cutter: Christmas Lights Painting
Cookie Cutter: Christmas Lights Painting is a simple and easy painting of Christmas lights on a Christmas tree.
29. Christmas Tree Paper Roll Painting
Christmas Tree Paper Roll Painting is a fun painting activity for a Christmas tree and has fun colored lights that is super simple to make with kids.
30. Christmas Watercolor Cookie Cutter Painting
Christmas Watercolor Cookie Cutter Painting is a fun watercolor inside several Christmas cookie cutters. A fun way to make a simple Christmas painting.
31. Nativity Painting with Cookie Cutters
Nativity Painting with Cookie Cutters is a great way to focus on the Nativity and make a great painting for kids.
32. Nativity Watercolor Painting for Kids
Nativity Watercolor Painting for Kids is a fun way to make the whole nativity with kids in a fun painting activity using cookie cutters.
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Christmas Sensory Bins
My girls just LOVE sensory bins. I’ve always got one up for the season. Every year we have had at least one for Christmas, and it was so much fun for them to have.
Nativity Sensory Bin
Nativity Sensory Bin is a fun way to explore the nativity story with figures form the story with sensory play that a lot of kids love.
Christmas Tree & Kinetic Sand Sensory Bin
Christmas Tree & Kinetic Sand Sensory Bin has red, green and clean evergreen trees in a kinetic sand sensory bin. A great Christmas themed sensory bin for kids.
33. Christmas Lights Water Bead Sensory Bin
Christmas Lights Water Bead Sensory Bin is one that kids just love to dig around in! You can search for different colors of lights or just play in the sensory bin.
34. Christmas Water Bead Search
Christmas Lights Water Bead Sensory Bin is one that kids just love to dig around in! You can search for different colors of lights or just play in the sensory bin.
35. Christmas Light Sensory Bin
Christmas Light Sensory Bin was so much fun to dig around in. You have a mix of lights and yarn for the sensory bin.
36. Christmas Sound & Fine Motor Sensory Bin
Christmas Sound & Fine Motor Sensory Bin is one that kids can have tons of fun comparing different sounds with a little fine motor thrown in.
37. Christmas Button Sensory Bin
Christmas Button Sensory Bin is a fun rice and button sensory bin. You can search for different colors of green, red and white in the sensory bin.
38. Christmas Sensory Bin
Christmas Sensory Bin has loads of Christmas themes for kids to explore through. You have a mix of Christmas items in the bin for kids to explore.
39. Christmas Lights & Rice Sensory Bin
Christmas Lights & Rice Sensory Bin has a mix of rice and Christmas lights for kids to play in. You can see how much fun it is a sort and find the colors.
40. Christmas Lights and Kinetic Sand Sensory Bin
Christmas Lights and Kinetic Sand Sensory Bin is a fun sensory bin with ceramic Christmas lights and green kinetic sand for kids to play in.
41. Christmas Jingle Bells and Rice Sensory Bin
Christmas Jingle Bells and Rice Sensory Bin is a fun sound sensory bin to explore with different colored bells and rice.
Christmas Red & Green Sensory Bin
Christmas Red & Green Sensory Bin is a simple to set up sensory bin with red and green colors. A fun and easy Christmas sensory bin you can use with kids.
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Christmas Gross Motor
I’m always thinking up new gross motor activities we can do. Check out some we have done below!
42. 10 Lords a Leaping: Jumping Activities
10 Lords a Leaping: Jumping Activities gets you up and jumping! This is a great activity to go with the 12 days of Christmas Books.
43. Polar Express Gross Motor
Polar Express Gross Motor is a geat gross motor activity you can do with the book or movie.
44. Christmas Themed Gross Motor
Christmas Themed Gross Motor with a fun gross motor dice you can use as well.
45. Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer Themed Gross Motor
Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer Themed Gross Motor has fun movements while you read the book!
46. Christmas Gross Motor With Bear Stays Up
Christmas Gross Motor With Bear Stays Up is a great way to get kids moving while you read.
47. The Nutcracker Gross Motor Activity
The Nutcracker Gross Motor Activity has great movements with fun gross motor during Christmas that matches up with a great book!
48. Gingerbread Man Gross Motor Dice
The Gingerbread Man Gross Motor Dice has 6 fun movements for kids to act out.
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Christmas Books For Kids
Every year we find new Christmas books and have so much fun with them! You never know what fun books you are going to find.
49. Christmas Books For 2015
Our New Christmas Books For 2015 a collection of fun new books we found in 2015.
50. Christmas Books & Reading Charts
Christmas Books & Reading Charts are a really fun way to read during Christmas time.
51. Countdown to Christmas with books
Countdown to Christmas with books a fun way to count down to Christmas with 25 books suggests!
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If you are looking for Christmas Printables I have a few. You can find all of them by clicking on the picture below.
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