Christmas Paper Crafts for Children

Children love to make things out of paper. The holiday season is a great time for children to make fun and interesting Christmas paper crafts. Here are three easy to make Christmas paper Crafts for your children to enjoy.

Paper Snowflakes

This project requires very few materials, making it a simple, but amazingly fun holiday paper craft. You will need white paper (or colored if you prefer) and scissors. Glue and glitter can also be used to further decorate your paper snowflake.

Since real snowflakes have six sides, the first step in making your paper snowflake is to fold your piece of paper into sixths. To do this, start by folding your paper in half. Then, taking one corner of your half, fold the paper into a 60 degree fold. (Using a protractor will help make your 60 degree folds easier.) Do the same with your other side as well. This will produce a somewhat funnel shaped piece of paper. Using your scissors, cut the edges of your paper off in an arc, to complete your funnel shape. Now start cutting allow the edges to make your desired designs in your snowflake.

To further decorate your paper snowflake, you can use all purpose glue and sprinkle glitter onto your snowflake (or a simple glitter glue) or you can also glue items such as sequins or beads to your snowflake as well.

Construction Paper Christmas Cards

Rather than buying store bought Christmas cards, children can make their own construction paper Christmas cards to hand out this year. To make simple construction paper cards, you will need your desired colored construction paper and markers. For more elaborate Christmas cards, you will need glue, glitter, pictures, sequins or beads.

To make your construction paper Christmas cards, simply fold the piece of construction paper in half, and have your children decorate them. Children can write their own messages inside of the card, and can decorate both the outside and the inside of the card however they desire. Children can also make their own paper snowflakes (see above) and glue them to their cards for decoration.

Phone book Christmas Trees

Phone book Christmas trees are a great Christmas paper project that are lots of fun for children to make. Any size phone book will do to make these Christmas trees, however the larger the phone book, the longer the project will take. An average paper back book will also work to make these paper phone trees.

Start by folding all of the pages in the book. Fold the page into a 90 degree angle, giving it a nice sharp edge. Pages can be folded individually, or you can also fold two or three pages together to create a thicker fold. Please note, this can be a messy project. Ink from the pages will stain your hands, so you may want to have children where protective gloves when folding the pages.

Once the pages are folded, fold the front and back covers as well. Glue the covers together with a strong all purpose glue. This will create your "tree." Now you can begin to decorate the tree. Using a desired colored spray paint, paint the entire tree. Once the tree is dry, you can glue small decorations onto the tree if you desire.

For more crafting ideas for children, be sure and check out Easy Construction Paper Crafts for Kids, by Hillary Marshall, as well as my article on Christmas Tree Decoration Projects for Children.