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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For 5-Year-Olds: A Collection of Winter-Themed Craft Activities and Wall Display Ideas (111–120)
Letter to Santa
Many families probably struggle with when to tell their children the truth about Santa Claus, but while they’re still little, you want them to keep dreaming, don’t you? A letter to Santa, adorned with Christmas-themed decorations, can become a creation filled with your child’s innocence and wishes.
Christmas scenes crafted from each person’s perspective are sure to warm the heart just by looking at them.
It’s a seasonal project perfect for winter that heightens children’s excitement for Christmas.
snow globe
Make a snow globe and enjoy the magic of winter with the kids! Attach decorative paper to thick cardstock, then stick on snowmen, houses, and cotton snow.
Once you glue a clear lid all the way around, add a base decorated with masking tape to finish.
You can also hang it on the wall, so it’s fun in a daycare room or at home.
It’s a project where children can freely express the worlds they imagine in their minds while gaining a sense of accomplishment and confidence.
Savor the winter season together and create wonderful memories!
Heart mobile
These heart mobiles can also be used as Valentine’s Day decorations.
Make them with the kids to get everyone excited for Valentine’s! Since the main steps are cutting and pasting construction paper, it’s a perfect craft for five-year-olds.
For any slightly tricky steps, it’s best if the teacher demonstrates with a sample—good practice.
You can also adapt the heart-shaped mobiles into other shapes like stars or diamonds and combine them to create more variety and a livelier display.
A family of snowmen made with handprints
How about expressing a cute little snowman craft using handprints? First, make the children’s handprints with white paint.
The key is to have them spread their fingers wide.
Once the paint dries, attach hat pieces to the fingertips.
It might be fun to let the kids decide the colors and designs to some extent.
Then draw facial expressions on the finger parts.
Finally, use a cotton swab to stamp white snow onto the background paper, and it’s complete.
You’ll end up with a collection of pieces, each with a different expression that reflects the children’s unique handprints.
Valentine’s chocolates made from newspaper
When it comes to big events in February, Valentine’s Day tops the list.
Even preschoolers might make friend chocolates or give them to someone they like.
Here’s a cute craft idea that’s perfect for Valentine’s Day.
Twist newspaper into thin strands and shape them into hearts.
Mix your favorite color of acrylic paint with glue and brush it on.
Finally, wrap them with finely cut construction paper, pom-poms, or ribbons, and you’ll have Valentine chocolates that look almost real! They make great room decorations and are perfect to take home as a craft project, too.
Oni Made with Lattice Weaving
This is a perfect idea for 5-year-olds who are getting more skilled with their hands! Winter includes events like Christmas and New Year’s, and Setsubun in February is one of them too.
So as a winter craft, let’s try making an oni (ogre) using lattice weaving! The weaving will be for the oni’s pants.
Take a base sheet with several straight slits and weave thin, long strips of construction paper over and under in order.
When it’s finished, it will form a checkered pattern, so aim for that as you work.
Once the pants are done, attach them to the oni’s face, add arms and legs, and you’re finished!
Mittens made with a yarn threader and torn-paper collage
When it starts getting cold, we wear gloves when going out to keep our fingertips warm, right? Here’s a craft idea for making such gloves.
Decorate the gloves using yarn threading and torn-paper collage.
Pre-punch holes for the yarn with a hole punch, and let the child thread one glove however they like.
For the other glove, they’ll be gluing on torn origami paper, so have them thread the yarn around the edge in a looping pattern to frame it.
If you prepare base glove templates, origami paper, and yarn in various colors and let the child choose, they can create their ideal gloves—and have a lot of fun doing it.