Looking for handmade gift ideas kids can make for parents or grandparents for the holidays? These DIY fingerprint Christmas gifts from kids are the sweetest keepsakes. They are personal and easy to create.
I have put together a list of 10 simple fingerprint craft ideas that toddlers, preschoolers, and elementary school-aged kids can make at daycare or in the classroom for mom, dad, grandma, or grandpa.
Fingerprint Christmas gifts from kids feel like a moment frozen in time: a tiny fingerprint turned into a reindeer, snowman, nativity scene or Christmas tree.
Whether you’re crafting with preschoolers at home, creating gifts in the classroom, or planning easy daycare Christmas crafts, these handmade keepsakes are the kind families hold onto for years.
They’re simple to make and budget-friendly, which you appreciate when you are a teacher.
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1. Fingerprint salt dough Christmas tree ornament
Make adorable Christmas tree ornaments using salt dough and a cookie cutter, and ask kids to press their fingerprints to form the ornaments. Write the year on the front and the kid’s name on the back. Finish with a layer of Modge Podge .
2. Fingerprint reindeer ornament
3. Christmas tree kitchen towel
This ornament is covered in adorable fingerprint reindeer. What makes this ornament so adorable are the tiny red dots and the red bow.
An inexpensive DIY Christmas gift for grandma, this kitchen towel combines handprint Christmas trees with fingerprint ornaments.
4. Fingerprint Christmas lights plate
Make sure to use porcelain paint for this handmade Christmas plate so it can be heat-resistant, food, and dishwasher-safe.
5. Fingerprint Christmas tree wall hanging
This Christmas tree wall hanging is such a simple fingerprint craft that you can put together in a matter of minutes.
6. Fingerprint flower pot
Turn fingerprints into cute flowers on a flower pot. If you are looking for a more Christmasy look, make the flowers red and paint the top border green.
7. Clay pot Christmas trees
Paint clay pots of different sizes, stack them together and have kids add colorful ornaments using their fingerprints. These Christmas trees make beautiful indoor or outdoor holiday decorations.
8. Fingerprint photo frame
This could be a fun December daycare craft to hand out to parents for the holidays. It combines a handprint with a fingerprint Christmas light garland.
9. Fingerprint Christmas lights canvas
Little Christmas tree canvases to gift to grandparents. Parents can start by painting the background pink, and once it is dry, move on to painting the Christmas tree. Kids will add their fingerprints at the very end.
10. Thumbprint Christmas mug
A simple Christmas mug with your kids’ thumb turned into Rudolph the reindeer’s nose.