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Kid-Made Christmas Reindeer Cards

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With just a handful of craft supplies preschoolers and older kids can make an easy Christmas reindeer card for their teachers, grandparents or other special people in their life.

Christmas reindeer cards preschoolers and older kids can make on their own

I thought it would be nice for the boys to make Christmas cards for their teachers this year. This is how the reindeer cards were born.

I did my best to come up with a very easy idea to get my preschooler boys excited and eager for some crafting.

We only used a handful of craft supplies that you most probably already have in your household. If not, you can grab them during a visit to the craft store. Or you replace any of the three craft supplies with other material you have at hand.

Make sure to also check out these fingerprint reindeer cards – they are so easy to make, just add the kids fingerprint.

Variations of the Christmas reindeer card

  • Use a red sticker for the nose 
  • Draw or paint the nose
  • Use a red dot marker to make the nose
  • Draw the eyes
  • Use sticker eyes instead of googly eyes
  • Draw the antlers with a brown marker or pencil
  • Use brown yarn instead of the pipe cleaners
DIY Christmas reindeer card for kids to make

RELATED: Check out all these 45 reindeer crafts for kids.

If you plan on crafting with your kids during the holidays, here is our entire collection of Christmas crafts. Below are some of our favorite ideas:

Christmas reindeer cards

Easy kid-made Christmas reindeer cards

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How to make a reindeer Christmas card

You can replace the regular googly eyes with peel and stick wiggly eyes (to make it really easy for young kids) or colored googly eyes, if you want to add a bit more color to the Christmas card.

Reindeer cards: kid-made Christmas cards

Step 1: Make two little holes at the top of the card.

Step 2: Glue the eyes on the card. I made little marks with a pencil on the card to make it easier for the boys to know exactly where the eyes and nose should go.

Step 3: Glue the nose under the eyes.

Step 4: Slide a brown pipe cleaner through the holes you made at the beginning. Cut the pipe cleaner and create the antlers.

Step 5: Glue the antlers to the card. If you’re using regular school glue or glue stick, you need to place a book or two on top of the card and give it a little time for the antlers to get secured on the card. If kids run low on patience, mom can step in with her hot glue gun.

Christmas Reindeer Cards for Kids

Christmas Reindeer Cards for Kids

Active Time: 10 minutes
Total Time: 10 minutes
Difficulty: easy

An easy Christmas reindeer card kids can make on their own for their teacher or grandparents, with just a handful of craft supplies and no template needed.

Materials

  • white card stock
  • brown pipe cleaners
  • googly eyes
  • red pom poms
  • glue

Tools

  • pencil
  • scissors

Instructions

  1. Use a pencil to make two little holes at the top of the card.
  2. Glue the eyes onto the card.
  3. Glue the nose under the eyes.
  4. Slide a brown pipe cleaner through the holes you made at the beginning. Cut the pipe cleaner and create the antlers.
  5. Glue the antlers to the card. If you’re using regular school glue or glue stick, you need to place a book or two on top of the card and give it a little time for the antlers to get secured on the card. If kids run low on patience, mom can step in with her hot glue gun.

Notes

To make it easier for the young kids to know where exactly to glue the eyes and nose, use a pencil to make small marks on the card.

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These reindeer cards are part of the Kid-made Christmas Cards series hosted by Mum in the Mad House. The series contains 30 great Christmas card ideas for kids to make. 

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Clare's Little Tots

Sunday 20th of November 2016

I love the simplicity of this yet it looks so effective :-)

Julie

Wednesday 16th of November 2016

Very cute card idea! We love reindeers and their big red noses!!

Stef

Wednesday 16th of November 2016

Yes, that's the best part of reindeer crafts : their noses :)

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