[For 4-year-olds] Fun Christmas! Craft Ideas Special
As Christmas approaches, both adults and children get excited and fidgety…
It’s such a delightful event, isn’t it?
If you’re doing Christmas crafts with four-year-olds, you’ll want to capture that sense of excitement too.
Four-year-olds, who enjoy expressing themselves and turning their ideas and creativity into tangible forms, do best with open-ended craft ideas they can freely explore.
This time, we’ve gathered a variety of ideas featuring different materials, techniques, and motifs.
Please feel free to use them as inspiration.
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[For 4-Year-Olds] Fun for Christmas! Craft Ideas Collection (71–80)
A Christmas tree made by sticking pieces together
Here’s an idea for a Christmas tree made by combining construction paper pieces.
As the name suggests, you create individual pieces and then join them together to form one large Christmas tree.
First, cut construction paper into the shape of a Christmas tree and decorate it however you like.
Once finished, attach the pieces to the wall, fitting them together to build a big Christmas tree.
Try planning the number of pieces so it forms a neat triangle.
Beads and stickers are great decorating options, too.
Santa made with a paper plate
For children who want to enjoy Christmas, we recommend making a Santa craft using paper plates.
Ordinary paper plates transform into a humorous Santa! Tear light peach and red origami paper, combine the two to create Santa’s face and body.
Then just add and glue on the facial features, hat, hands, feet, belt, and a cotton beard to finish! The making process itself sounds like a lot of fun.
The finished piece looks warm and is sure to brighten up your Christmas wall display!
3D Christmas ornament
As a craft activity for Christmas, how about making a 3D Christmas ornament? The steps are simple, so it should be easy for four-year-olds to try.
First, draw Christmas-themed pictures—like Santa, a reindeer, or a snowman—on two pieces of construction paper cut into rectangles.
For Santa, for example, you might draw the face on the first piece and Santa’s outfit on the second.
Next, roll each piece into a loop to make a ring and glue the ends together.
Finally, attach the two rings to each other, and it’s done! Enjoy decorating a big Christmas tree with your creations!
3D Christmas tree made from paper cups
Using everyday materials, try making a 3D Christmas tree together with your child! It’s a craft idea that will boost the festive mood.
By stacking two paper cups with slits cut into them, they transform into a three-dimensional Christmas tree.
Try adding more slits to change the look! Another highlight is that you can enjoy decorating it however you like with sparkly pipe cleaners, pom-poms, sequins, beads, and more.
Painting the paper cups with paint is of course fine, but using torn-paper collage and similar techniques can also let kids enjoy a different style of expression.
Original Santa Claus made with paper plates
Let’s use everyday paper plates to create original Santa Clauses! It’s perfect for 4-year-olds to express their individuality.
Have the children draw faces on Santas made from construction paper and enjoy the process! It’s exciting to see what kinds of faces they’ll come up with.
Once the faces are done, stick them onto the paper plates to finish.
You can display them on the wall or enjoy them as decorative objects.
This is an easy Christmas craft for nurseries and kindergartens, so feel free to use it as a reference.
Christmas decorations made with paper chains
These Christmas chain decorations made from paper loops are perfect for preschools, kindergartens, and at-home crafts! By using Christmas-colored origami paper for the loops, you’ll get decorations that are just right for the season.
The method is simple: cut origami paper into strips, form loops, and connect them.
Add a Santa hat or beard to the top loop to complete a Santa loop garland.
Use white paper for a snowman, brown paper for a reindeer—have fun with different variations! You can also change the length or thread ribbon or chenille stems through the loops to make them look even more festive.
It Makes Sounds! Santa and Reindeer Hand Bell
Let’s ring and play together with Santa and Reindeer handbells! Decorate the sides of colored paper cups by attaching Santa Claus and reindeer embellishments made with colored construction paper and stickers.
Punch a hole in the bottom, thread jute twine through so the cup can hang, and attach a bell to the end of the twine—that’s it! Since Santa and the reindeer are made by cutting out simple shapes, it’s perfect for practicing scissor skills.
Enjoy the Christmas spirit with your eyes and ears!
