Easy Christmas Art Activities for Kids

November 30, 2024 by Sarah White Leave a Comment

There are so many different holiday themed arts and crafts projects that kids can do, but I wanted to share a bunch of easy ones that you ca do with a classroom of kiddos or at home to display through the season. (A lot of these projects would be great to do at school for kids to give as gifts.)

This watercolor snowflake project from The Crafty Classroom uses bleeding tissue paper to make the effect. If you don’t have any on hand you can just paint on the template with watercolors.

Speaking of watercolor, these watercolor geometric holiday designs are super cute painted with watercolors. Get the templates from The Best Ideas for Kids. You could also just have kids color them in with crayons or oil pastels if you don’t have watercolor paint handy.

Make a painting of a Christmas tree in a window with this project idea from Projects with Kids. It doesn’t take a lot of supplies but looke really pretty and would be cute to make into a greeting card or just to decorate the classroom.

I love these little printable pop up scenes for kids to color from Krokotak. They look like little snow globes and feature a pop up snowman, gift, tree and house so kids can pick their favorite to make.

Shaving cream marbling is a classic kid craft, and you can give it a holiday twist with this project from One Little Project. It’s shown as a Christmas tree but you could make it into a snowflake, bauble or anything else you like.

And speaking of baubles, while we’re veering into sensory territory, why not try painting with Christmas ornaments? This idea from Happy Toddler Playtime is easy to set up and fun for kids — just make sure you’re using non-breakable ornaments! This is another one where it would be fun to do the painting and then cut it into festive shapes to use as ornaments or in other projects.

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Shark Week Learning for Kids

Shark Week generally happens in July, but any time is a good time to learn more about sharks.

First, start with some fun whale facts like these from Kids Craft Room. Here I learned about the dwarf lantern shark, which is the smallest shark and only grows to about 6-8 inches (about 15-20 cm) long. It also emits light. How cool is that?

Natural Beach Living has some great printable shark information guides, where kids can learn about different kinds of sharks, match the facts to the pictures, or print out doubles and do a shark memory game.

Living Life an Learning has some great shark activity pages including the parts of a shark, types of sharks, a crossword puzzle and more. Also check out their parts of a shark and word scramble download, and a life cycle worksheet.

Learn about how sharks float with this great activity from JDaniel4’s Mom.

Need more facts about sharks? This fact pact from The WOLFe PACK on Teacher Pay Teachers includes fact sheets, a printable flip book, informational text, vocabulary, comprehension questions and more.

Living Montessori Now has a great collection of shark themed activities with a Montessori inspired twist. You’ll find a shark roll and cover, shark phonics and lots more shark activities Deb has collected from all over the Internet.

Remember the “Sharknado” movie? A Few Shortcuts turned the combination of sharks and tornadoes into a fun science activity. You’ll need a bottle connector for this project but otherwise should have everything you need on hand. Use their template to make your sharks out of aluminum foil. So fun!

You can also do some shark themed coloring with these coloring pages from Encouraging Moms at Home. Or make a cool 3D shark with this template from korkotak. And there are tons of different shark crafts collected in this post from Kids Activities Blog.

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