Looking for easy Christmas classroom crafts to make the holidays extra special for your students?
This festive round-up is packed with fun, hands-on projects that preschool and kindergarten teachers will love!
From simple paper ornaments to creative holiday art activities, these Christmas crafts are perfect for classroom parties, winter centers, or quiet afternoon projects.
Whether you’re teaching in a preschool, kindergarten, or early elementary classroom, you’ll find plenty of holiday craft ideas for kids that are low-prep, budget-friendly, and full of cheer.
Get ready to fill your room with creativity and Christmas spirit while helping kids strengthen fine motor skills and express their imagination.
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1. Christmas lights photo frame
To make these adorable Christmas photo frames, have kids decorate wood frames with colorful string light patterns using their fingerprints and a black marker. Then, take festive photos of each child wrapped in Christmas lights, print the pictures, and insert them inside the decorated frames for a sweet classroom keepsake.
2. Craft stick gingerbread house ornaments
This popsicle stick gingerbread house craft can be easily adapted for all ages. Preschoolers can focus on painting the houses while a teacher adds the decorations, while older kids can do everything from start to finish.
Add wooden beads, glitter Christmas pom poms and plastic peppermint candy to your gingerbread houses.
3. Handprint Christmas wreath
Each student in your class can contribute with one handprint to create a beautiful Christmas wreath. It would make a great holiday decoration for the classroom or school hallways.
4. Clay pot Christmas tree ornaments
Paint small clay pots green, then use colorful paint to add festive polka dots all around. Once dry, glue a wooden star on top, and a ribbon for hanging, and you’ll have a cute Christmas tree ornament perfect for kids to make!
5. Craft stick Christmas tree ornaments
These craft stick Christmas tree ornaments are easy to make and leave room for creativity. Start by gluing three craft sticks together to form a triangle, and then decorate them with pom-poms, pipe cleaners, or bells. Add a paper star and string.
6. Paper plate Christmas tree
Cut a spiral shape from a painted green paper plate, add colorful paper ornaments, and a yellow star on top – yes, this paper plate Christmas tree is easy to create and makes a beautiful holiday decoration!
7. Paper roll reindeer craft
Combine paper rolls, sticks, colorful pom poms, and jingle bells to make this cute reindeer craft with your students. Use these eye stickers for a fun and unique look.
8. Paper plate peppermint craft
Use the free printable to make this easy paper plate peppermint craft in your classroom.
9. Handprint reindeer craft
Everybody loves a handprint craft. In this case, kids can use their handprints as antlers for these cute reindeer. Great for the Christmas bulletin board.
10. Christmas window ornaments
These Christmas ornaments are made with red craft sticks and decorated with mini wreaths and sparkling faux snow. What makes them even more special is the photo of the students glued to the window.
11. Snowglobe ornaments
Take a photo of each child pretending to catch or hold snow, cut it out, glue it onto a paper snow globe shape, and add faux snow and a ribbon loop for a cute personalized ornament!
12. Cinnamon stick Christmas tree ornament
This cinnamon stick Christmas tree ornament looks adorable and smells so good! Students will tie ribbons of different colors and patterns onto the cinnamon stick and work on their fine motor skills while creating a beautiful ornament to take home to their parents.
13. Christmas tree ornaments
Paint small paper cones green and decorate with colorful plastic gem stickers. Add a paper star for a sparkly Christmas tree ornament!
14. Grinch paper craft
Use the easy Grinch printable to make this fun Grinch craft with your kindergartners or elementary school-aged kids. The craft makes a perfect December bulletin board and can be paired with Dr. Seuss’s book.
15. Coffee filter reindeer
Use cone coffee filters to make these easy and adorable reindeer. Glue them onto black paper splattered with white paint to make it look like and decorate with Christmas stickers for a fun winter classroom display.
16. Paper plate Christmas tree
A simple 3D Christmas tree craft that starts by folding a paper plate into a cone and painting it green. Decorate with colorful pom poms.
17. Paper roll Santa ornament
You can turn these paper roll Santas into ornaments by adding ribbon or fill them up with small toys or wrapped candy for a fun surprise.
18. Stuck in the chimney Santa craft
This stuck in the chimney Santa is a fun Christmas craft that will put a smile on your students’s faces.
19. Paper bag snowflakes
These paper bag snowflakes may look difficult to make, but they’re actually really easy. Once kids learn how to make them, they will want to create as many as possible.
20. Recycled Christmas candle craft
Don’t throw away your empty wrapping paper tubes this holiday. Instead, save them to make these festive Christmas candles.
Now that you took a look at all the Christmas classroom crafts, I’m curious which ones you will give a try with your students.