Origami ideas for December! Easy Christmas and winter crafts to make with kids
Make the cold season fun! When it gets chilly, why not enjoy December-perfect origami crafts with your child? There are so many seasonal motifs—Santa, reindeer, snowmen, Christmas trees, and more! Cute creations made with colorful origami will warm both your room and your heart.
Everything is easy to make, so even little kids can join in with ease and enjoyment.
Whether at daycare, kindergarten, or at home, enjoy origami together and create wonderful winter memories.
You can also use them to decorate for Christmas!
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December Origami Ideas! Easy Christmas & Winter Crafts to Make with Kids (21–30)
Cute star-shaped box
This is a star-shaped origami box that looks cute just as it is on display.
Because you fold it into a star shape, some steps may feel a bit complex.
But that makes the sense of accomplishment even greater when it’s finished.
It’s a piece I’d love origami enthusiasts to try.
As you keep folding and adjust the form, the star shape will come together.
Once it’s done, just imagining what to put inside can be exciting.
You could make several boxes to decorate your room, or fill them with sweets and give them as gifts.
That irresistibly puffy feel! A star-shaped box
Let’s try making an origami box with a fun shape: it has a small opening and a plump, rounded interior.
The puffy shape looks cute, and the overall star-like form makes it even more adorable.
After folding to a certain point, use scissors to cut about halfway.
When you unfold the cut piece, it becomes a pentagon.
Fold this pentagonal origami into the shape of a box.
Adjust the opening and the bottom, and you’ll have a plump, star-shaped box.
You can put in small items, of course, as well as little treats like candies or chocolates.
3D! Star-shaped accessory case
You can flatten and store it when not in use! It’s a star-shaped trinket box.
Fold the origami in half, then in half again to make a square.
After creasing, open it back to the half-folded state, align both side edges to the center line to crease, then unfold.
Fold the two bottom corners up to the outer crease, then fold again so the new creases align with the center line.
In this state, trim off the unnecessary top portion, and the origami becomes a hexagon.
Fold the edges of the hexagon inward, crease the center of the origami into a hexagon, then keep adding creases as you collapse it into a smaller hexagon.
Finally, fold the center area outward to make the opening of the container, press the sides inward to form a star shape, and you’re done!
Recommended for winter! Oden origami
@hoikushi_worker How to fold “Oden” with origami. A perfect craft idea for chilly winter days! Use origami paper to make konnyaku, daikon, and chikuwa. Skewer them and place them on a paper plate, and you’ve got delicious-looking oden! Display them on the wall, make lots and play pretend oden shop, too. ================================= Do you have any concerns at your childcare workplace? Even if it’s not related to this post, tell us about any issues or worries you have in the comments! Let’s exchange ideas casually.#Childcare Crafting#Nursery School Craft#Wall Creationwall surface#Recital#HomeCraftsAutumn CraftsPapercraft#papercraft#kidscraftsOrigami playOrigamiorigami#OuchiMonte#AtHomeMontessoriEarly childhood education materialsChildcare#Nursery schoolNursery teacher / Childcare worker#First year as a nursery teacher#KindergartenKindergarten TeacherKindergarten teacherAspiring childcare worker#NurseryTeacherInTrainingNursery school teacher#NurseryTeacherThingsChildcare student#IWantToConnectWithChildcareWorkersNursery Teacher Worker ================================
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When the weather turns cold, oden starts appearing by the register at convenience stores.
It’s a classic dish that every Japanese person thinks of as a winter staple.
This time, let’s make oden with origami! We’ll show you how to make konnyaku with triangles, daikon using the zabuton (cushion) fold, and burdock root by rolling a sheet of origami paper.
Try drawing patterns with colored pencils or crayons as you go.
In the end, it will take the shape of skewered oden, so enjoy sharing some hot, piping oden together.
Easy! Origami Snowman
Speaking of snowmen, they’re usually two-tiered, but this time let’s make a three-tiered snowman! First, fold the top and bottom corners of the origami paper toward the center.
Flip the paper over, then fold the top and bottom edges you just made toward the center in the same way.
At this point, the top and bottom corners will stick out, so fold those in to meet the center as well.
Next, place the paper vertically and make creases by folding the top and bottom corners twice each.
Align the corners with the center of the paper and the inner corners of the diamonds at the top and bottom.
Once the creases are made, flip the paper over and perform a pleat fold from the bottom, matching the creases to create the three tiers of the snowman.
Then, using the remaining top crease, fold the top part of the paper to the back, and fold the corners of the pleated section into triangles.
Finally, tuck the remaining bottom corner to the back, and your snowman is complete!
Cute! Origami of an igloo and a snowman.
Here’s an idea for making a snowman and a kamakura (snow hut) out of origami.
If you make the snowman small, you can place it inside the kamakura for display.
For the snowman, start by placing the origami paper like a diamond, with the white side facing up.
Next, fold the bottom corner up to the center to crease it, unfold, then fold again by aligning the corner to the crease you just made.
After making one more wrap fold on the same section, flip the paper over and fold the remaining corner to the center.
The colored part will become the hat, and the remaining white area will be the snowman’s face and body.
From here, fold the corners and edges, using pleat folds as needed to shape the snowman.
For the kamakura, fold the corners and edges inward little by little along the creases to form the structure.
Santa wrapping
Let’s make Santa-themed wrapping that can hold small sweets or gifts.
With the colored side of the origami paper facing up, fold up the bottom edge by 1 cm.
Flip the paper over and fold up the bottom edge by 1 cm again in the same way.
Flip the paper over once more, then fold up the bottom edge again.
Make sure this fold is narrower than the remaining width above it.
Turn the paper over, fold the left and right edges inward so they overlap, then glue to form a bag.
Close the opening so it is perpendicular to the bottom to finish.
Draw Santa’s face on the white part to complete the look.