[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)
A Christmas tree made with torn-paper collage!
A torn-paper Christmas tree made by tearing and pasting origami is a craft you can enjoy with children.
Tearing the origami into small pieces exercises their fingers, and thinking about color combinations while sticking them on fosters creativity.
Add star-shaped stickers and decorative stickers freely, and you’ll have a one-of-a-kind colorful tree.
If you dot the background with a white crayon like falling snow, it will enhance the wintry atmosphere.
Working while chatting makes the conversation lively and creates lasting memories.
It’s a Christmas tree idea that uses simple materials to create a festive piece.
Handmade ornaments
@kuumama.asobi Do you know this? 🎄 Develop fine motor skills! High-end-looking Christmas ornaments 🧶 A fun, educational craft for parents and kids using paper plates and yarn ✨ ───────────────── ✂️ Materials Everything can be found at the 100-yen shop 🙌 ・Paper plates ・Yarn (green/white/red, etc.) ・Decorations (ribbons, beads, pom-poms, etc.) ・Hole punch, craft knife, glue/adhesive ───────────────── 🧠 Educational benefits Lacing builds dexterity and concentration ✨ ✅ Improves fine motor skills (great for practicing precise movements) ✅ Boosts focus and stamina (quiet, repetitive work with a sense of accomplishment) ✅ Develops spatial awareness (thinking about how to thread) Nurture the foundation for writing and thinking while playing 🌱 ───────────────── 🎨 Craft tips Slightly thicker yarn is easier to handle than thin yarn! If you punch the holes at equal intervals, your tree shape will look neat and pretty 🎄 👉 Check the “Craft Tips” highlight for details! ───────────────── 📎 Save this for a weekend parent-child craft 🎅 At @kuumama.asobi, we share seasonal crafts and educational play ideas you can enjoy at home 🌿#HomeCraftsChristmas craftsEducational play#ParentChildTimeWool yarn art
♬ Jingle Bell Rock (Cover of Bobby Helms) – Glee Cast
This is a decoration that can also be used as an educational activity, where you thread yarn through holes punched in a paper plate to create a Christmas tree shape.
First, use a paper plate with a lace doily attached as the base, cut it into a triangle, and punch holes around the edges.
Then thread green yarn through the holes and shape it like a tree—that’s the basic idea.
How much yarn you thread is important, too; move your hands steadily to give the tree plenty of volume.
Using yarn in other colors to create ornaments for the tree is another recommended option.
[For 4-year-olds] Fun for Christmas! Craft Idea Special (31–40)
A Christmas tree made with clay and tissue paper
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♬ Christmas song “Let’s decorate” – 3KTrack
This is a Christmas tree mascot with a distinctive, softly textured look, made by combining clay and tissue paper.
First, shape the clay into a Christmas tree and coat the entire surface with glue.
Next, prepare tissue paper cut into small pieces, press them into the clay, and cover the surface.
It’s best to fill it in until the clay is hardly visible to create the effect of spreading leaves.
By choosing colors and arranging the tissue paper thoughtfully, you can create an even more beautiful Christmas tree.
Paper plate Christmas tree
This is a small Christmas tree mascot made by decorating a base crafted from a cut paper plate.
First, cut the paper plate in half, paint the rim brown for the trunk, then roll it into a pointed cone shape.
Next, glue small pieces of green origami around it as leaves, add decorations, and it’s done.
It’s important to attach the leaves firmly to cover the base and build up volume.
Since the overall design is simple, it might be nice to think about the surrounding scene and how you arrange it.
Christmas Present(s)
On Christmas night, Santa finished delivering presents to children all around the world.
But then he realized he still hadn’t given one to Harvey Slumfenburger.
“I want to deliver to him, too!” he said, leaving his sleigh behind to walk—up and down, over hills and valleys.
No matter how far it was, he didn’t give up and set out to bring the present.
It’s a story that makes you want to cheer on Santa’s determined efforts.
The illustrations are large and simple, making the action easy to follow.
The highlight is the unfolding journey that makes you want to root for him with a “Just a little more!”
How to make a cute pom-pom Christmas tree
Let’s make a cute Christmas tree using decoration balls.
Prepare 25 decoration balls in your favorite colors, floral/arranging wire, origami paper, and decorative parts.
First, separate the balls into groups of 9, 7, 5, 3, and 1.
Thread each group onto wire, twist to secure, and form pom-pom rings.
For the single ball, insert a U-shaped bent piece of wire.
Roll the origami paper into a cone to create the base, then slide on and stack the rings in order from largest to smallest.
Finally, insert the single decoration ball at the top and decorate to finish.
Easy! Torn-paper Christmas tree
https://www.tiktok.com/@hoiku.labo/video/7446285535447944455Let’s create a Christmas tree with torn-paper collage! Prepare a base with the tree trunk already glued on, and have the children tear several sheets of origami paper into small pieces.
If tearing is difficult, you can prepare pre-torn origami paper.
Apply glue in a triangle above the trunk, then attach the torn paper on top to form the tree.
Finish by decorating with round stickers as ornaments.
Mixing patterned origami with solid colors will make it look more festive.
Choose sticker colors that won’t be overpowered by the origami colors.