Easy Christmas Art Activities for Kids

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.

I did a post earlier this year with activities and ideas for teaching the alphabet, but a lot or learning letters and recognizing them just has to do with seeing them and working with them a lot.

That means coloring, tracing, identifying things that start with different letters and more.

One way to reinforce the letters is through little activity books like these cute printable alphabet books from Life Over Cs.

These are available for free when you subscribe to her newsletter, and I’d say that’s well worth it if you have a little one (or a group of little ones!) working on the alphabet and letter recognition.

Each mini book includes a collection of things that start with that letter to color, color and read with words that start with the letter, tracing the letter, finding the letter in a grid and other coloring pages with objects that start with that letter.

These little books are super useful reinforcing the different letters and giving kids different activities related to the letters.

If you do a letter of the day or letter of the week you can use a new book for each one, and then keep the copies in your reading center or in a basket where kids can look at them again.

And of course you can add in all the other letter activities you like, go on a scavenger hunt for items that start with that letter, read alphabet books, practice writing letters in rice or with pompoms or playdough or whatever sensory activities you like.

You can grab the free printables when you enter you email address at Life Over Cs, and check out her other great alphabet resources and activities while you are over there.

Do you have favorite activities for teaching letters to kids? I’d love to hear about them!

[Photo: Life Over Cs]

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