The holidays are all about spending time with our friends and family, whether that means talking, cooking, or going sledding.
For children, getting into the holiday spirit means enjoying a mix of indoor and outdoor activities, many of which involve glue sticks, pencil crayons, and DIY fun.
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10 Easy Holiday Crafts to Make with Your Children
Whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, or Yule, you and your children are sure to enjoy these easy holiday crafts to create with your kids.
All are inspired by snow, candles, and common holiday elements.
Make a Physical or Digital Scrapbook
Scrapbooks are incredibly fun to make with your family.
All you’ll need are photos, a theme (i.e., snow or the holiday you’re celebrating), and a 12×12” scrapbooking album.
Or you can create a scrapbook online with your children using custom templates, stickers, and backgrounds.
Make a Traditional Kwanzaa Gift Pouch
Gift pouches are made for a few holidays, but most notably for Kwanzaa.
You can make colorful gift pouches using fabric, fabric paint, and thread.
Traditionally, homemade gifts are placed inside, but you can add money, gift cards, tiny treasures, or anything else in the gift pouch.
Make a Tasty Mug of Hot Chocolate
There’s nothing more satisfying than snuggling up in a blanket and drinking hot cocoa.
If your children feel the same, you can make a mug in hot chocolate’s honor with a few popsicle sticks, cotton balls, paint, and glue.
Make the handle out of construction paper or bristol board.
Make 3D Paper Candles (for a Menorah)
Using card stock, glue, and tape, you and your kids can make large paper candles for a DIY Menorah.
To make the candles look lit, install an LED tealight near the top.
If you don’t celebrate Hanukkah, you can still use this craft to make a beautiful centerpiece for your dining room table.
Make Painted Wooden Yule Ornaments
Yule is pretty like Christmas, so you’ll find common holiday elements, like decorating a tree.
Whatever they draw can be hung from the Christmas (or Yule) tree.
Make a Simple Snowflake with Scissors
It’s easy to make paper snowflakes just using scissors.
Just grab an 8½x11 sheet of white paper and fold it in half twice.
Start cutting into the paper, making sure that you don’t cut the edge of the paper.
When you’re finished, open your paper up.
Use pencil crayons to color the paper.
Make Dried Orange Peel Garlands
This craft is easy but requires a bit of prep work.
You’ll need to slice oranges or apples ahead of time and bake them for 45 minutes to an hour at 300°F.
Once finished, you can grab beads, popcorn, and dried fruit and start placing them on twine, rope, string, or fishing wire.
Make a Felt Christmas Wreath
If you want to start a fun Christmas tradition with your family, consider buying and cutting strips of fabric to create a felt wreath.
You only need two different shades of green felt, small red ornaments, and hot glue to get started.
Use a cardboard circle as the Christmas wreath base.
Make Old-School Orange Pomanders
Pomander balls are oranges decorated with cloves.
They make your home smell amazing and can be hung as ornaments.
To make pomanders, take oranges and use toothpicks to insert whole cloves into the fruit.
You can dry them to make long-lasting Christmas decorations.
Make a Mason Jar Snow Globe
Buy a set of mason jars and screw the top off.
Glue whatever you want to the base, like a snowman, tree, Menorah, or other holiday symbols.
Fill the mason jar with 1/5 Elmer’s glue, 4/5 water, and 1/5 a jar of small glitter.
Screw the top on the mason jar and flip it back over.
