[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 Special (11–20)
Christmas lantern
In the run-up to Christmas, making Christmas lanterns is a great activity for 4-year-olds to enjoy.
Start by cutting plastic sheets and drawing their favorite pictures.
Next, add color using colorful cellophane and try out different combinations.
Finally, assemble the sheet into a cone shape and place an LED light inside to complete a beautiful lantern! Through this craft, children can express their creativity and experience a sense of accomplishment.
Scratch art Christmas tree
Why not try making a Christmas tree with children using a technique called scratch art? Scratch art is a type of art where you apply black over a colorful base and then scratch the surface to reveal the colors underneath.
First, color a sheet of paper with crayons in various colors.
Next, cover the entire surface with black crayon.
Then, scratch a drawing using a skewer or toothpick, and cut it into a triangle to finish! It feels different from ordinary drawing, so children may find it fresh and engaging.
Christmas wreath made with twigs
Introducing an easy Christmas wreath you can make with twigs! You can even use twigs you picked up on a walk.
Why not include this as a craft activity in the lead-up to Christmas? First, arrange the twigs into a pentagon and secure the overlapping parts with pipe cleaners.
Next, wrap yarn or pipe cleaners around the branches to decorate them as you like.
Adding pinecones or ribbons will make it even more festive! Finally, tie on a string for hanging, and you’re done.
It’s a craft that lets kids showcase their individuality, so give it a try!
Decorated with yarn! Christmas wreath
Why not try making a classic Christmas decoration—a Christmas wreath—by hand? By using the shape of a paper plate, you can achieve a neat finish.
Cut out the center so that only the rim of the paper plate remains.
Color the donut-shaped plate with a green marker.
Wrap colorful yarn around it, securing it with glue as you go, and add some beads for a fun, vibrant look—your wreath is complete! You can also use paint or crayons to color the plate for a different feel.
Make plenty and enjoy a festive, dazzling Christmas!
Reindeer accessory case made from a milk carton
This is a reindeer-themed trinket holder that’s sure to be a hit at Christmas parties.
It’s made by reusing an everyday material—a milk carton—so try making it together with your child! First, cut the milk carton to create the base of the holder, and apply double-sided tape around the outside.
Please have an adult handle the preparation up to this point.
Next, cover it with construction paper and add the reindeer parts to finish! Children around age four can freely decorate it with their own unique ideas, and you can also thread a string through to make a handle.
Climbing Santa Claus made with a paper cup
Here’s a craft idea themed around Santa Claus climbing a chimney to deliver presents! First, prepare a paper cup with the bottom cut out.
Attach two short pieces of straw to the inside of the cup with tape, placing them diagonally opposite each other.
Next, thread a piece of string through one straw, then loop it back through the other straw to create a U-shape—that completes the mechanism.
Decorate the outside of the cup with a Santa Claus cutout made from cardstock, and you’re done! Hook the top of the U-shaped string onto something like a hook, then pull the two hanging ends alternately, left and right, and Santa will climb higher and higher! The best part is that it’s not just for display—you can actually play with it.
You might also draw Christmas-themed designs directly on the paper cup.
[For 4-Year-Olds] Fun for Christmas! Craft Idea Collection (21–30)
A bubble art snowman
https://www.tiktok.com/@levwell_hoikushi/video/7587300923865648405Soap-bubble art creates unique patterns.
This time, let’s use the technique to make a snowman.
First, prepare some colored bubble solution.
Just mix soap solution into white paint thinned with water.
Dip a toilet paper roll core into the bubble solution and use it as a stamp so that two circles connect.
These will be the snowman’s head and body.
Once it’s dry, draw the face, hands, and a scarf with pens or crayons to finish a cute snowman.
