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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A fun igloo with stamp play
https://www.tiktok.com/@hekimen_25/video/7474953127922322696Let’s try a fun winter craft with stamping.
First, apply white paint to a square sponge and stamp it all over a sheet of blue construction paper.
After the paint dries, cut the paper into the shape of an igloo.
Cut out the entrance of the igloo, a kotatsu, and the face and hands from construction paper, then glue them onto the igloo to finish.
Draw expressions on the face parts with crayons, and add any pattern you like to the kotatsu.
You can also use stamps or stickers to add patterns.
Easy-to-make snowman using a plastic bottle
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For winter crafts, many projects use snowmen as their theme, don’t they? If you use an empty plastic bottle, you can easily make a snowman craft.
Stuff cotton into the empty bottle.
Once the container is tightly filled, put the cap on, then draw eyes with a pen or decorate it with stickers.
Wrap a thin, long strip of felt or ribbon around the snowman’s neck area and glue it on to finish.
You can display it in your room as is, or make several and line them up to play like bowling—it sounds fun either way.
Let’s make winter animals!
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Let’s make a winter animal—a snow rabbit—using colored construction paper.
First, use white paper to make a plump, egg-like shape.
Cut out nandina (heavenly bamboo) leaves and berries from colored paper as well.
Create a window with falling snow from colored paper, then paste the rabbit there.
If the snow pieces for the window are too small and tricky, a parent or guardian can cut them, or you could draw them with a white crayon instead.
Putting this on a wall or mounting it on a backing sheet will enhance the winter mood and look lovely.
You could also change the wall decorations with each season.
Shimenawa you can make with chiyogami paper
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We’ll make a shimenawa-style decoration using washi paper.
The base will be a paper plate with the center cut out.
The cut-out center of the plate will be used as the knot of the shimenawa.
First, glue crumpled brown-toned washi paper onto the paper plate that will serve as the base.
Attach washi paper to the knot in the same way.
Once that’s done, create and stick on decorations such as the zodiac animal for that year, as well as pine, bamboo, and plum blossoms using colored construction paper.
And that’s it—you’re finished.
If you make the zodiac ornament removable, you can likely reuse the decoration the following year.
Give it a try!
Make It with Resist Painting! Gloves and Hat

Are you familiar with the crayon-resist technique? It’s a method where you paint watercolor over a drawing made with white crayon, and the paint is repelled by the crayon so the drawing emerges.
Because you can barely see what you’ve drawn in white crayon, applying the paint can lead to surprisingly delightful results.
Try drawing on colored construction paper cut into winter-themed shapes like scarves, hats, and gloves.
If you plan to display the artwork, you can mount it on a backing board afterward.
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Spins great! A top made from a paper cup

Why not open up a paper cup and make a well-spinning top? You will need a paper cup, markers, origami paper, and so on.
First, mark the rim of the paper cup into eight equal sections.
Cut along the marks, but don’t cut all the way—leave a little uncut.
Once you’ve made the cuts, fold them and spread them out.
Trim off the tips and decorate with markers or similar.
A continuous pattern may look nicer when it spins.
Next, fold the shaft using origami paper.
Fit the shaft into the bottom (underside) of the paper cup, and you’re done.
Make it with straw stamps! Snowman craft

Let’s make a snowman wall art with straw stamps.
First, an adult draws large and small circles on construction paper.
Using a plate as a guide is fun, too.
Then, draw a snowman’s hat on colored construction paper or origami paper.
Have the child cut it out.
Glue the cut-out pieces onto a darker-colored construction paper.
Once they’re glued, draw the snowman’s face with crayons.
For the straw stamp, cut slits into the end of a straw and spread them out so it forms a flower shape.
Dip it in white paint and dab it on—this creates lovely snowflake-like prints.


