Ideas for Winter-Themed Crafts and Bulletin Board Projects for 5-Year-Olds
By the time children are five, they handle scissors and glue more smoothly, and the range of craft activities expands dramatically.
Why not enjoy some winter-themed crafts together with your five-year-olds?
We’ve gathered plenty of ideas inspired by events like Christmas, New Year’s, and Setsubun, as well as winter-specific items like snowmen and mittens.
Encourage projects that let children freely express the worlds they imagine and experience a sense of accomplishment and satisfaction.
Since we treat what the children make as works (art pieces), we refer to them as “seisaku” (creations) in the main text.
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How to make easy oden
Recommended for those who want to make an oden pot packed with lots of ingredients! Prepare as many sheets of origami as you can in colors that match typical oden ingredients.
For example, for daikon radish, take a beige sheet of origami, cut it into a half-sized rectangle, fold it in half, fold the corners, and draw lines with a crayon to finish.
For konnyaku, simply fold a small piece of origami into a triangle and add a pattern.
For kombu, fold a black sheet of origami three times to make a small rectangle, then stick a thin strip of yellow origami down the center.
Finally, glue all the pieces you made onto a sheet of construction paper cut into a pot shape, and your oden pot is complete.
Try making and adding any other favorite ingredients with your own creative twists!
Christmas activities for 0-year-olds
As part of a Christmas-themed activity, why not try making Christmas trees and ornaments? Use a stamp made by covering a lactic acid drink bottle with fabric to print patterns on construction paper, or decorate ornaments with stickers to make them festive.
In the end, you can even decorate a big tree drawn on the wall! Even children who don’t yet understand what Christmas is will surely deepen their understanding while having fun through play.
Prepare ornaments and stickers with different motifs and colors, and let the children choose for themselves.
Let’s make a big Christmas tree!
This is an idea where you put a big Christmas tree made from construction paper on the wall and let the children freely decorate it with ornaments.
Since it’s for infants (0-year-olds), please prepare the ornament bases in advance by cutting them out of construction paper.
Let the children draw on the bases with crayons or stick on stickers to create lovely ornaments.
Once the ornaments are finished, decorate the tree with them! If you prepare bases in a variety of motifs, the tree will look even more festive.
How to make handprint reindeer and Santa
Here are some craft ideas for making Santa Claus and a reindeer using handprints.
For Santa, use a handprint to create his beard, and for the reindeer, use a handprint to form the face.
Since Santa’s beard uses an upside-down handprint, make sure to pay attention to the direction when stamping.
The faces are made with round stickers, so the children can also enjoy sticking the stickers.
Once Santa and the reindeer are finished, glue them onto a base with a construction paper Christmas tree attached.
Be sure to decorate the tree with round stickers as ornaments, too!
Perfectly round and cute! Threading Santa
Santa Claus’s big belly is the cutest feature! This is a unique lacing craft.
What you’ll need: a paper plate, scissors, a hole punch, red yarn, red tissue paper, glue or double-sided tape, and Santa’s face and body parts.
Cut out the center of the paper plate and punch holes around it, then lace red yarn through the holes.
Next, attach crumpled tissue paper around the rim of the plate.
Finally, glue on Santa’s face and body parts, and you’re done!
Santa Claus paper plate craft
https://www.tiktok.com/@peta_peta_anyo/video/7436681167174307079This is a Santa Claus wall decoration idea that children can enjoy at different difficulty levels, from infant to preschool classes.
In the infant class, children can aim to complete their work by drawing or pasting Santa’s face on a paper plate with crayons, while in the preschool class, they can start from cutting the paper plate with scissors and work through to completion.
Using cotton, white decorative balls, and googly eye stickers adds a three-dimensional effect.
The wall will look festive, and it might make children look forward to coming to school.
An ornament that can also be hung on the tree! Star decoration
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You can easily make this using simple materials from a 100-yen shop.
First, roughly cut colored construction paper in your favorite colors.
Place a star-shaped template on top of parchment paper and secure it with tape.
Peel off the star together with the tape, then freely stick on the small pieces of the cut paper.
Add another layer of tape over the top, and cut along the star shape with scissors.
Finally, punch a hole and thread a string through it to complete the star ornament.
Using cellophane makes it translucent and more festive in the light, perfect for Christmas trees or wall decorations.
It’s a simple yet eye-catching craft that you can enjoy making with children.
