Holidays and weekends spent at home can have many benefits. Do-it-yourself, in particular, allows you to take advantage of free time, creating numerous jobs for children. All creative activities help stimulate the imagination and encourage talent in children. This article offers you many ideas to create objects, decorations, and crafts for every party.
Of course, the expert hand of an adult is required, as it works with scissors, a hot glue gun, and other materials that children need to be careful of. Some of the proposals are very simple to make, others a little more complex, but we guarantee a genuinely original final result. In the image gallery, you will find some tutorials to follow. Go with the imagination!
Paper crafts for children
Among the many Christmas decorations and crafts for children, the tree is the one that cannot be missing. However, there are also plenty of drawing ideas for creating and decorating a Christmas tree.
Materials
- Colored cards
- Plastic stick (to recycle those of the lollipops)
- Small wooden cube with a hole
- Color gold
- Brush
- Hot glue gun
- Scissors
Method:
- First of all, you have to start with the cards. Draw a silhouette of a tree. Based on this, cut out many shapes from colored cards.
- Paint the cube with gold color. Let it dry. If necessary, also paint the sticks of the Christmas tree.
- Using the hot glue gun, fix the stick onto the card.
- Attach the other green card as well, so that you get more layers of card and multiple trees.
Creative Christmas crafts with paper
Materials:
- Carton box
- Scissors
- Scotch tape
- Matchbox
- Metal paper clip
- Glue
- Pencil
- Wire
This job requires the help of an adult, as you have to prepare a lot of templates from cardboard. Once you have prepared everything you need, you have to have the child build the decoration. If the little ones in the house like Legos, then this construction is for them. Also, it is a beautiful design during the home as the Christmas season.
Method:
- Prepare all the card templates shown in the photo.
- Build to obtain a small house. Insert the matchbox inside and secure it with glue. Hide a sweet surprise inside.
- Decorate the house with the white ribbon. If you have acrylic colors, you can color the way you like.
Christmas ball to hang
With what to decorate the tree? Of course, with the balls! In this tutorial, we offer you some original balls created with paper. The primary material to be used can be, for example, gift wrapping paper. If you have stored last year’s gift boxes, then you can recycle them creatively.
Materials:
- Paper with Christmas motifs
- Star motif puncher
- Paper clip
- White and red thread
Method:
- The paper you have decided to use should cut into strips of the same length.
- Punch out both ends and in the center with the star punch.
- Join the strips and pierce the center with the metal paper clip. Also, attach the red-white wire.
- Also, join the two ends.
Unicorn headband with glitter elements
Materials:
- White and pink felt
- Gold glitter ribbon
- Batting or padding (those used for children’s toys)
- Headbands
- Fake silk flowers
- Pencil
- Scissors
- Hot glue
- Unicorn printable template
Method:
- With the model shown in the previous photo, it is possible to report the measurements on the white felt. Then cut out the felt according to these measurements.
- Use some hot glue to form a cone, starting to roll the top of the cone until the unicorn horn is formed.
- Keep twisting and sticking until you approach the edge of the cornet.
- Block the cone with a few more pastes.
- Fill the horn with cotton wool. For the horn to be beautifully straight, it is recommended to use a lot of cotton wool and push it as far as possible.
- Glue the horn to the headband.
- Glue the sequins onto the horn starting from the top.
- It’s time to glue the fake flowers too. Adhesive with the heated glue gun to the base of the horn.
- Also, attach the ears on both sides of the headband.
Rainbow earrings to do with Eva rubber
Accessories are an inevitable part of a little girl’s look. In this tutorial, we show how to make rainbow earrings.
Materials:
- Colored sheets of Eva rubber
- Scissors
- Colored thread
- Pins of earrings
- Glue
Method:
- To make these beautiful earrings, you only need to cut out semicircles from the sheets of Eva paper.
- Glue the semicircles to the wire.
- The thread must then fix well on the pins.
A unique Christmas tree with glitter paper
The Christmas tree symbolizes the Christmas holidays, but why not make it small and with paper? Here is an idea that will appeal to children and adults too.
Materials:
- Green glitter card
- Pom pom
- Gold stars
- Kitchen paper roll
- Twine of gold color
- Brown acrylic color
- Brush
- Scissors
- Pencil
- Glue
Method:
- First of all you need to prepare the outline of the Christmas tree. It must then print on the green and cut-out cards. Glitter paper can find in all stationeries.
- The paper roll must cut in half to make the trunk. Paint in brown color. Would you please wait for it to dry and fix the shape of the tree?
- Decorate with pom pom and twine. The decorations can also glue with a hot glue gun.