[December Wall Displays] Cute Winter Craft Ideas You Can Use Beyond Christmas!

[Origami] Christmas Tree

Origami Christmas tree | a Christmas tree

Origami is a popular activity in early childhood education, isn’t it? For December, Christmas trees with festive motifs are highly recommended.

Both adults and children can get excited to see how unique each tree turns out! This design lets you try bag folds and some finer folding techniques.

Teachers, be sure to fold along with the kids.

Finish by adding lots of cute decorations to create a tree full of originality! If you’re making a wall display, create many in different colors to make it lively.

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Christmas cake

[Preschool Christmas Craft] “Christmas Cake” Demonstrated by a Nursery Teacher

Creating Christmas cakes to decorate the walls during the holiday season is a great way to spark children’s creativity.

The teacher can make the cake base, and the children can use construction paper to craft colorful fruits, candles, and Santa figures! Display the finished sweets on the wall to give the classroom a festive, seasonal atmosphere.

Seeing the decorations they made themselves will surely make the children even more excited for Christmas.

Since this project involves many steps, it’s recommended for ages 4 and up and best done over two days.

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Stained-glass-style tree made with aluminum foil

Even stained glass, which might seem difficult, can be an easy challenge for kids if you use aluminum foil! Here, we’ll show you a shiny, beautiful stained glass-style tree.

First, crumple up aluminum foil to give it a wrinkled texture, place it inside a clear file, and cut it into a triangle.

Add masking tape around the edges of the file, stick on your favorite stickers, and it’s done! You can also draw stained glass-style outlines on the clear file with a black permanent marker and color them in; placing aluminum foil behind it will give the piece a different look.

Enjoy tailoring the activity to children’s ages and interests!

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Ornaments made from plastic cup lids

Why not use plastic cup lids to make Christmas ornaments? Enjoy creating dreamy ornaments with children using familiar materials! First, make a snowflake from quarter-size origami paper and stick it to the back of the plastic cup lid.

Next, cut transparent origami into a circle and attach it to the back as well.

Finally, decorate the edge with roll stickers in any design you like, add a ribbon, and you’re done! If the children are around five years old and can use scissors, let them try making the snowflakes.

Since the materials are translucent, we recommend displaying the ornaments where they’ll catch the light!

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A Christmas tree made by sticking pieces together

Here’s an idea for a Christmas tree made by assembling individual pieces.

As the name suggests, you combine creations made by individuals to form one large Christmas tree.

First, cut construction paper into triangles to represent the tree, then decorate each piece however you like.

Next, attach the triangles to the wall, fitting them together to form one big triangle, and you’re done.

Try planning the number of pieces as you work.

Beads and stickers are great options for decorating.

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