7 Best Christmas DIY
7 Best Christmas DIY
Christmas is the perfect time to engage your kids in various exciting activities. It can be Christmas decorations or wrapping gifts or making cookies. There will also be winter break for the kids, so this is the perfect chance to sit with your kids and do DIY crafts for Christmas. You can make your kids do Christmas decorations, personalized Christmas gifts, etc. Here are some Christmas DIYs that your kids can do:
1.DIY Christmas trees:
Christmas is all about Christmas trees and it will be very nice to create one’s own Christmas trees. Kids get excited when they learn to do miniature versions of huge Xmas trees. It can be done with various materials.
- It can be paper, paper plates, old tins, etc. Using paper, preferably a green one, fan folding can be done and it can be fixed on a paper roll to make it look like a tree.
- Another way using the paper and how the whole family can be involved is by tracing every family member’s hand from big to small and it can cut be cut. It should be arranged with the smallest hand tracing on the top and the largest hand tracing at the bottom so that it looks a Christmas tree.
- The other way is by using paper plates, it is done by rolling them in a conical way and painting them green. Old tins can be stacked above one another to make them look like a tree.
In all of these above methods, you can use glitters, pom-poms to decorate the tree that you created.
2.DIY Christmas tree decorations:
The decorations in the Christmas tree make it look so elegant and people take great efforts to do so. It would be really fun to create your own decorations for your tree.
- You can make use of paper cups, toilet paper rolls, clear plastic ornaments, slices of wood, buttons, bottle caps, pinecones, paper, etc.
- The paper cups, toilet paper rolls, can be transformed into reindeer by attaching horns that can be cut out of paper.
- Gingerbread man can also be done by attaching hands and legs to the cups and rolls.
- The slices of wood can be painted as Santa Claus or a Snowman.
- The bottle caps can be arranged as a snowman and painted.
- The pine cones can be painted with bright colors.
All these can be used to decorate the Christmas tree.
3.DIY Wreaths:
Wreaths are beautiful decors to welcome the guests, and when it is handmade, it becomes even more authentic.
- You can make use of tissue paper, mason jar lids, colored papers to make wreaths. Tissue papers are cut in donut shape and are stuck using glue in a chart that is again in the donut shape, Lots and lots of pieces of such tissues are to be used for creating a wreath.
- Rope, a ribbon can be used around the mason jar lids so that they look like wreaths.
- Hand tracing of your kid’s hand can be done and many such traces can be attached circularly to make it look like a wreath.
4.DIY Snow globe:
Snow globes are such fascinating things for kids. They love the sparkles and love playing with them. It can be done very easily using an old jar, glitter, and glycerine, or baby oil. Just mix the glycerine, or baby oil with glitters and add your kid’s favorite little toys inside it, it can be a snowman, Santa clause, etc. Close it tight with the lid and the snow globe is ready.
5.Thumbprint and Potato print art:
Kids always love any kind of artwork. Artworks bring out the creativity in them. Thumbprint and Potato print art is one such innovative art. Just dip your kid’s fingers in paint and make them do patterns in chart paper. Potato can be carved in the shape of a Christmas tree or snowman. This can be dipped in paint and prints can be made in a chart. They can even do greeting cards with that.
6.DIY using slime:
Slime is always fun to play with. Colors can be added to slime and it can be transformed into a candy cane, Santa Claus, etc. This is very much similar to clay modeling and can engage the kids for hours.
7.Christmas themed coloring pages:
Coloring is a very easy and fun activity that you can engage your child and you can make Christmas-themed coloring pages so that your child can spend their time coloring them. There can be outlining of Santa clause, Christmas tree, snowman, etc. Your children can even prepare a greeting card using the coloring that they have done.
Christmas is all about coming together and celebrating. Make use of these creative DIYs, tell your kids about what Christmas is all about and spread the Christmas spirit among your family members.
