Handmade Christmas present ideas! A collection of fun ideas for nurseries and kindergartens
As Christmas approaches each year, it’s time to start thinking about Christmas presents, isn’t it? Here, we’re sharing handmade gift ideas for nursery and kindergarten teachers that you can enjoy making together with the children.
From photo coasters and pipe-cleaner wreaths to spinning Santas, these playful ideas are packed with fun! The time you spend creating with the kids—and the moment you give the gifts—will surely become wonderful memories.
Let’s make one-of-a-kind presents together that let each child’s individuality shine!
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Handmade Christmas gift ideas! A collection of fun ideas for nursery and kindergarten (31–40)
Christmas headband
Practically store-bought! Here are some lovely Christmas headband ideas that don’t even look handmade.
Use a store-bought headband as the base, wrap wire around it, then coil the wire upward into a spring shape.
Wrapping it around a pen helps you get a neat, even spring—highly recommended.
Next, make trees, Christmas lettering, stars, and other shapes out of felt.
Sandwich the bit of wire you left sticking out at the top between the felt pieces and glue them together—that’s it! It’s very simple, yet turns out super cute.
For the felt decorations, you can make matching pieces for left and right, or if you’re short on time, leaving the back plain still looks adorable.
It’s a versatile idea you’ll be glad to have in your toolkit.
Christmas card
Colorful Christmas cards alone can heighten the excitement for the holidays, can’t they? Try adding Christmas-themed decorations with drawings or stickers, or even making pop-up elements—by increasing the steps to match your child’s age, the anticipation as you work toward completion grows, too.
Not only is it fun to keep or display the card yourself, but creating one as a gift for someone else may let your child enjoy the process with a different feeling than usual.
It’s a project we highly recommend—seeing the finished card is sure to boost everyone’s spirits.
Santa’s Shaky Snow Globe
Here’s a craft activity using a plastic cup.
After sticking Santa parts onto the plastic cup, put origami paper inside—either cut with scissors or torn by hand.
Cover the cup with a paper lid and tie it with jute string, and it’s done! Tearing paper into different shapes by hand is a fun way to practice fine motor skills and provides great stimulation for growth.
Shake the finished cup and enjoy watching the paper flutter inside.
It might also be fun to add natural items like leaves or acorns.
Santa hat
Kids love wearable items like hats, don’t they? Let’s make a Santa hat to boost that festive Christmas spirit.
Prepare red construction paper, mark the center at about 20 cm, and use a protractor to sketch a line at a 130-degree angle.
Next, attach a string to a pen and draw a curve as if using a compass.
Add about 2 cm for a glue tab, then cut along your guidelines.
Roll it into shape and secure with double-sided tape, and your hat is complete! You can also make a yarn pom-pom and attach it to the very top for extra cuteness.
These are great to make at daycare, kindergarten, or at home.
How about hosting a Christmas party with Santa hats you made yourselves?
snow globe
A magical snow globe makes the perfect Christmas gift, doesn’t it? While making a real snow globe might be a bit tricky for children, you can easily create one by sealing figures made from paper clay or origami inside a plastic cup.
Craft a snowman or a tree, use cotton to mimic snow, and draw illustrations on the plastic cup—once finished, it’s sure to be an adorable piece.
By using thick paper as a base, you can display the completed work as-is.
It’s a Christmas-themed craft that’s easy to enjoy, so give it a try!
Handmade Christmas gift ideas! A collection of fun activities for daycare and kindergarten (41–50)
jelly cup tree
This is a Christmas tree made by repurposing empty jelly cups.
Why not try making a handmade, palm-sized Christmas tree that you can carry around? Fill the cup with cut pieces of yarn, then secure around the rim with glue and add a construction-paper lid.
Decorate the cup with a star and line tape, and your Christmas tree is complete.
Simply changing the colors of the yarn and stickers lets you enjoy lots of variations.
It’s a fun craft where you can stuff the yarn and stick on stickers—give it a try with the kids!
Ornaments made from toilet paper rolls
It would be fun to make Christmas ornaments using everyday toilet paper rolls, wouldn’t it? After cutting a toilet paper roll in half, wrap it with origami paper.
For Santa, the key is to stick on two colors of origami paper, each covering half.
When making parts like hats, beards, or antlers, it’s best to use sturdy paper such as construction paper so the shapes don’t deform easily.
Once you draw the face with colored pens, attach a string and hang it up! It might also be fun to make animals like bears or rabbits.