Kids Christmas Crafts - The Best Way to Keep Them Entertained in Winter

December 11, 2017

Sometimes Christmas can feel completely out of control for families with young children. We are all bombarded with advertising and it seems as if every child wants every toy under the sun. But there are ways to get things back on track and to make it all a little less stressful. One great way to do lots of things together as a family is kids Christmas crafts. Well designed Christmas crafts should be versatile enough to ensure that children of different ages can all participate.

The are two basic areas to concentrate on when it comes to kids Christmas craft ideas and these are foods and decorations.

Let start with the decorations. The best material for decorations is definitely paper. This is for several reasons. Firstly, it is cheap, you can collect packets during the year when they are on offer and secondly you can make just about anything with it. For the really adventurous you can even make your Christmas baubles!

The important thing about any kids Christmas craft is to start really early and to use it as a way to build up to Christmas. This also means that you can do the projects in stages.

Start by preparing boxes for each child of what they want to use. For example I have one child who loves green and another who's favourite colour is red, so we divide up our collections of goodies; paper, stickers, into boxes for each kid. This also means that they can swap and it all adds to the game factor.

The next thing to do is to work out what each child wants to make and to get lots of picture for them to copy. This is where you have to do some behind the scenes work.

Depending on the age and levels of expertise of the kids you may need to do some preparation in order to avoid frustration. Remember, it is still their project, but you are just solving some of the problems before they arrive.

By starting early it means that when you get the tree you will already have some decorations to put on it, and you won't need to either go out and spend a fortune on shop made ones, or have a manic making session to stop the tree from looking bare.

The things to start with making are stars for hanging on the tree, I use the foerbel star for this. I use the same star in different sizes to make indoor wreathes as well. I simply get a metal coat hanger and bend it into a circle and then decorate it with pine cones and stars and tie a large ribbon around the top, where the hook is and you have the most beautiful wreath. You can add to these with gold or silver sprays, or even decorate the cones with fake snow.

No kids Christmas crafts are complete without biscuits for the tree. These are an essential for any family. As with all things, you need to work out exactly what your kids can do at their ages. If they are only little then you are probably best cutting the biscuits your self and letting them make the mixture and apply the decorations.

All in kids Christmas crafts are the ideal way to spend every cold or wet evening between the beginning of the September term and Christmas. As a family you will have great fun, you will find that you sit around a table and talk more than you have done all summer. It is a really fun experience and you are bound to want to recreate it again the next year.