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6 easy Christmas craft ideas for schools

November 28th 2024

As we approach the festive season children’s book specialist Steph explores creative and easy craft ideas for the classroom, ranging from reception to Key Stage 3, across a variety of curriculum topics to engage your pupils.

Plus, Christmas themed book recommendations for classroom reading time, perfect for gifting to your pupils.

Steph | Children's Book Specialist

Stephanie joined the Peters team in 2020 after working as a secondary school librarian and science teaching assistant. Her areas of expertise are KS3 and Accelerated Reader books, and she is a firm advocate for the importance of access to books for everyone.

In her spare time, she enjoys reading horror, crime, mystery and thriller titles.

Christmas craft activities for Reception to Key Stage 2

Christmas cards

Make and design your own Christmas cards! Use whatever materials you have at hand - have fun and get creative.

Articulated Reindeer puppets

Find a reindeer template or create your own. Print these onto light card.
Get the students to colour in the templates and cut them out.
Hole punch where each part of the reindeer will be attached. Use split pins to attach the different parts.
Have fun making your puppet move its head and legs!

Toilet roll Snowmen/Santa (KS1/LKS2)

Paint the empty toilet roll or cover with crepe paper (white for snowmen, red for Santa).
Decorate! This is the fun part. Use buttons, beads, coloured paper, cotton wool, or drawing with pencils to put on the belts, beards, hats, faces, buttons, etc...

Handprinted Christmas tree (Reception/KS1)

Paint the hand green and place down on white card.

Do this several times and arrange the prints on the card to look like the branches of a tree.

Allow to dry.

Use fingerprints in different colours to look like decorations on the tree.

Paint or draw on a star and a tree stump.

You could do a giant classroom display – get each child to draw around their hands on green paper, cut them out and arrange on a display board to look like branches on a tree. You can even add a star and ornaments.

Books to support your Christmas crafts

Christmas craft activities for Key Stage 3

Snow globes (KS3)

You will need a jam jar and lid, water, glycerin, glitter, small toy, glue, festive tape.
Glue the toy or decoration to the inside of the jam jar lid.
Fill the jam jar halfway with glycerin, add water almost to the top and stir.
Add a small amount of glitter, stir to test the effect -add more glitter if you need to.
Fill the jar the to the top with water and carefully place the jam jar lid onto the jar.
Put some festive tape around the lid, shake your globe and watch the effects!