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For older kindergarteners: December crafts that 5-year-olds will love — ideas from flat to three-dimensional projects

How about enjoying some fun crafts with children during the winter season? This time, we’re sharing enjoyable craft ideas perfect for five-year-olds, such as Christmas stockings and snow globes made with roll sticky notes, as well as wreaths featuring Santa and reindeer.

These can be made with familiar materials like construction paper, origami paper, and paper cups, so preparation is easy.

Encourage each child to use their imagination and enjoy creating their own original pieces! If you use them to decorate walls and other areas, you can instantly create a festive atmosphere.

Because the children's creations are treated as works of art, we use the term “seisaku” (制作) to refer to them in the text.

For older kindergarteners: December crafts 5-year-olds will love! Ideas to enjoy from flat to three-dimensional (71–80)

Christmas card

Super Easy: Three Cute, Simple Handmade Cards You Can Make with Kids [Christmas/Birthday]
Christmas card

Colorful Christmas cards by themselves heighten the excitement for the holiday, don’t they? Try decorating them with Christmas-themed illustrations or stickers, or even adding pop-up elements—by increasing the steps to match your child’s age, the anticipation leading up to completion grows, too.

Cards made not just to keep or display, but to give to someone, feel warm and are sure to deliver your feelings straight from the heart.

It’s a craft we highly recommend—one that’s guaranteed to get any friend who receives the card excited.

Hoshino Takashi
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Paku-Paku Santa & Reindeer

Easy with paper cups! Talking Santa and reindeer puppets that open and close their mouths
Paku-Paku Santa & Reindeer

There are nursery schools and kindergartens that put on performances at Christmas, right? But many of you might be wondering what to do.

What I’d like to suggest is making “Chompy Santa & Reindeer.” These are puppets made by joining two halves of a paper cup, and you can move the mouth like a puppet.

If you use them to put on a puppet show, it’s sure to be a lot of fun.

Of course, they’re also recommended if you’re just looking for a cute craft.

There’s quite a bit of cutting involved, so please be careful as you work!

yamamoto
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Star ornament

#4 Easy Paper ‘Star Folding’ Decor for Your Room: Christmas Ornaments
Star ornament

Here’s an idea for a star ornament you can use for Christmas and more.

Take a square sheet of construction paper, fold it in half to make a crease—do this step twice—then fold it four more times and cut with scissors to form a pentagon.

Open the paper and make slits; fold it again and cut along the slits to quickly transform it into a star shape.

Alternate mountain and valley folds along the creases to create a three-dimensional star ornament.

Add a loop to hang it, and it’s perfect not only for a tree ornament but also as a wall decoration!

sasashina
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Paper plate wreath

[Nursery & Kindergarten] 5 Paper Plate Christmas Wreath Crafts [From 100-Yen Shops]
Paper plate wreath

A paper plate wreath that makes party decorating fun is recommended because the materials are easy to gather and the steps are simple.

First, cut out the center of a paper plate to make a ring that will serve as the wreath base.

Then just glue on ornaments made from construction paper or some yarn, and you can create a wonderfully original wreath.

If you trace, cut out, and paste handprints, you can make a one-of-a-kind wreath too.

Please be careful when using scissors or a craft knife for the cutting.

Hoshino Takashi
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In conclusion

We introduced a variety of December craft ideas to enjoy with five-year-olds.

With events happening in December, try making crafts to use as decorations, and let the children’s free ideas shine.

Through crafts that bring out sparkling smiles, create warm memories with the children even in the cold winter.