Homemade Hanukkah cards are a great way to send holiday cheer. These are made with magazine scraps, but students could easily recycle any scraps you have on hand.
Christmas Craft – Fun and Festive Activities for Your Class!
It’s Christmas craft time! As the end of the school year glistens like a mirage on the horizon for teachers, many classrooms are beginning to shimmer with the familiar sight of… glitter!
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas.
Which means… it’s Christmas craft time! And whether you’re on Team Sparkle or a firm believer that ‘less is more’ (and none is best) when it comes to glitter, we have everything you need to make your students’ final weeks of school festive and fun!
Glitter for everyone… or not (you decide). Image: Giphy.
Our Christmas crafts are all teacher-created and approved, so your students will still be learning until the last day of term. Download our teaching resources for instant use!
There’s no need to purchase expensive kits or craft packs because you’ve probably got everything you need already in your supply store room.
Christmas Craft Ideas for Teachers
The Christmas Craft Bucket List is a novel way to prepare, store and select activities.
- Write the names of your chosen activities on painted pop sticks and place in a bucket (ours is from Ikea).
- Next, prepare your photocopying and gather your supplies for each activity.
- Place the gear into bags (we like to use these recyclable paper gift bags from Officeworks).
- Use one of our bright Christmas Page Bordersas labels, and hang up your activities ready to go!
Each day, ask a student helper to draw a stick out of the bucket and SURPRISE your class with exciting new Christmas crafts each day!
Traditional Christmas Craft – Baubles
Before your students create the bauble, you may like to get them to decorate the strips of paper by either writing things they are grateful for or things they love about Christmas.
How to create the bauble:
- Students cut out the strips of paper.
- Once all of the strips have been cut out, students stack the strips of paper on top of one another and use a hole punch to create a hole on the small cross at each end of the paper strips.
- Then, they use a split pin through each of the holes to keep the strips of paper together.
- Gently fan out the paper to create a sphere shape.
- Students cut out the holly or star depending on what they have written on the strips and attach it to the top of the bauble with ribbon.
Christmas Craft with a Problem-Solving Twist!
I had a LOT of fun playing this drawing game whilst making the video up above! If your students love to draw, our new Roll to Create Gingerbread House will be right up their alley.
Whilst not technically a Christmas Craft, this activity is still fun and festive and can be played time and again with different results.
If this activity is a hit with your students, try our new Roll to Create a Christmas Story next!
3D Christmas Card Craft
Still looking for the ultimate Christmas craft of 2022? This one will knock your stockings off!
You ’ll just need to download and print out our Christmas Decorative Square Templates and head to our fabulous Christmas Exploding Gift Box blog for full instructions and a great how-to video!
Line and Design Christmas Crafts
After last year’s Funky Reindeer Christmas Craft trended with teachers everywhere, we’ve just released our brand new version of this awesome artwork template!
Here’s how to do it:
- Download our Funky Snowman Craft Template and print it on white paper.
- Trace the outline of the snowman with a black marker.
- Choose either straight lines in each section or different patterns. I would suggest lead pencil first and then when the artist is happy, they can go over their lines with a thin black felt tip marker.
- Then, colour in the snowman’s arms and Christmas hat. The brighter the better!
- Cut out the arms, hat and snowman.
- Glue the snowman onto coloured card.
- Then, glue the other pieces over the top.
- Display and admire!
Christmas Crafts for Book Lovers
These little Christmas cuties are so adorable that your students will probably want to make the whole set. Download your new Christmas Corner Bookmark Templates, grab some pens, pencils, crayons or watercolours and you’re good to go!
Christmas Mindfulness Activities
Hold the glitter! Not all Christmas craft activities need to be sparkly and vibrant.
These fantastic new Australian Animal Christmas Mindfulness Colouring Pages have already been extremely popular. Use them in the classroom in the busy lead up to Christmas to help your students reflect, relax and be mindful.
Maths-Aligned Christmas Activities
Always a favourite, our Roll, Add and Colour Sheets combine mathematics with colouring in!
Our Christmas-themed sheets are sure to be a huge hit with your students:
Simple Christmas Tree Topper Craft
Perfect for a gift for students to take home to their families, our Christmas Tree Topper Craft is loads of fun. Read our blog on Christmas Tree Toppers for inspiration on how to decorate these downloadable templates.
Elfie Selfies!
Another big favourite here at Teach Starter is the original and best Elfie Selfie! Turn your students into mischievous elves with a click of a camera and some creative paper craft!
These make an exceptionally festive Christmas classroom door display. Take a look at our fabulous blog packed with plenty of ideas for decorating your door, including Elfie Selfies!
Most Loved Christmas Craft: Funky Series
Our most loved Christmas craft to date, our Funky Reindeer posters dominated social media last Christmas! Would you believe this great teaching resource has been downloaded almost 40 000 times!? These guys look amazing when displayed – but we don’t have to tell you guys that!
Christmas Snow Globe Craft Keepsake
Grab our Christmas Snow Globe Craft Images and watch this incredible video to make this gorgeous craft with your class.
Non-Christmas End of Year Activity Alternatives
If you have some students who don’t observe Christmas or participate in Christmas celebrations, you may wish to download and use some of our lovely teaching resources with a summery, fun vibe from our End of Year Activities Resource Collection.
We hope you love our easy Christmas craft and activity ideas, and enjoy this wonderful time of the year with your students!
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Cathi Priest · 4 years ago Thank you.
Holly (Teach Starter) Teach Starter
· 4 years ago You’re most welcome Cathi!
Ann Jones · 5 years ago Loving the resources! If I could make one request, it would be that there was one neutral option in each set that could be used for Students who don’t celebrate Christmas. I’m having fun being creative with a ‘summer’, ‘celebration’ and ‘family time’ theme, but it would be nice to have all resources in the same place. Thanks in advance!
Bronwyn Teach Starter
· 5 years ago Hi Ann! Thanks for your lovely comment. I love your idea of adding inclusive options so that all students in a class can participate. I have just added eight great non-Christmas themed activities to this post. Wishing you a lovely break.
Homemade Button Ornaments
These adorable ornaments are made with just a few items you probably already have and the kids can make them with no problem at all. With little effort or real crafting skill, they can make something that can pass off as a great parent gift.
Handprint Christmas Wreath
It doesn’t get much simpler than tracing and cutting, does it? This fun craft for littles and requires almost no craft experience. With just a few materials, the kids can create a personalized decoration that is hands-down one of the cutest wreaths we’ve seen.
Pom Pom Snow Globe
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For the young ones, this is an easy craft that involves a kid favorite—pom poms! They’ll love ‘making it snow’ in their little paper globes.
