[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 Idea Collection (21–30)
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.
Make a stylish snowman!
We usually imagine snowmen as pure white, but let’s get creative and turn them into stylish art.
First, fold a sheet of white origami paper and make several cuts.
The key is to cut it so that when you unfold the paper, it forms a round shape.
You’ll get a circular shape with beautiful patterns.
Children will be excited to see how the snowman’s pattern changes depending on where they cut.
Use the patterned cutouts to make the snowman.
If you stick it onto black cardstock, you’ll have a lovely winter craft.
A classic Christmas tree made from a single sheet of construction paper
Here’s an idea for a Christmas tree that also works as a lampshade.
All you need is one sheet of green construction paper.
If you want to decorate the tree, prepare any embellishment parts you like.
First, cut the paper into a square, then fold it into a triangle twice.
You’ll find two pockets; open each and flatten them into squares.
With the center of the origami facing downward, fold both lower edges to the center line on both sides.
Unfold all the creases and squash-fold them into triangles.
The large triangles become the tree’s foliage, and the small triangle at the top becomes the trunk.
Cut slits into the foliage to create the jagged look of fir leaves.
For the trunk, roll the corners inward and glue the ends together to form a ring.
Decorate with your chosen parts, then place it over an LED light.
No-sew yarn Christmas tree
How about making a Christmas tree with cozy, warm yarn? There’s no knitting—just wrapping the yarn around a base—so it’s an easy idea to try with kids.
First, cut cardboard into the shape of a tree.
Then stick double-sided tape on the front and back of the three edges, peel off the backing, and staple the end of the yarn to the back.
From there, simply wrap as you like! Once you’ve wrapped it all around so the base doesn’t show, tie off the yarn so it won’t come loose, and decorate with ribbons or gem stickers.
Add a string and you can use it as an ornament, too.
A DIY Christmas tree made with 100-yen store items
It’s a Christmas tree made by attaching fringed origami to a cone base crafted from drawing paper.
The key is to curl the fringed sections by gently stroking them with a pen or the tip of a pair of scissors—this gives it a soft, fluffy texture.
We recommend making the slits very narrow, about 1 mm wide.
Create several of these pieces and glue them to the base in tiers.
Finish by adding a star and ribbon on the top and small pearls all over, and you’re done!