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Fun and easy DIY Christmas Card ideas for Children

Blog
Georgia Fisher
29 Nov 2024

With Christmas fast approaching, we’ve got some fun and easy handmade DIY Christmas cards that children of all ages can make. These festive crafts will excite children for Christmas while they work on their creativity, fine motor skills, and hand-eye coordination.

Christmas Tree card with paper straws

This is a quick and easy Christmas card craft the children will love making and sending to loved ones. It is easy to set up and requires only a few simple materials, making it budget friendly.

Christmas tree painted on white card

Instructions:

Cut 4 small slits into one end of the straw and fan the pieces out.
Dip this end in the green paint and stamp the green paint in a triangle shape in the centre of your card.
Add a small brown rectangle at the bottom for your base.
Once dried, glue your sequins to your tree and a star on the top.

What you’ll need:

Green paint (307389)
Brown paint (307387)
Paper straws (230540)
Glue (710956)
Snowflake sequins (322350)
Star shapes (116485)
Card making kit (109280)

Fork Christmas tree

Painting a Christmas tree with a fork is an exciting way to paint without a brush! The kids will love painting a realistic spikey tree on their Christmas cards.

Instructions:

Dip your fork into the green paint and drag it out from the centre line of the page. In a tree shape, start with smaller lines at the top and longer lines at the bottom.
Using cotton buds, add dots of multicoloured paint as your baubles.
Decorate with pipe cleaners across the tree as your tinsel.
Add a star on top.
Finish by writing your Christmas message.

What you’ll need:

Paint (734528)
Fork (249769)
Glue (710956)
Star shapes (116485)
Pipe cleaners (301295)
Card making kit (109280)

Christmas wreath cards

This is a perfect card-making activity for all ages. Younger children can practice stamping with their paper cups, while the older children can get lost in decorating their Christmas card wreaths.

Instructions:

Cut 3cm slit into the top of your paper cup all around the edge, and then fan out.
Dip this into green paint and stamp it onto your card.
When dry, repeat with a different shade of green on top of your first circle
Using a cotton bud. Add red dots in groups of 3
Feel free to add glitter or sequins for that extra festive touch!

What you’ll need:

Card making kit (109280)
Green paint (307389)
Emerald green paint (307394)
Red paint (307397)
Paper cups (237906)
Christmas Sequins (305038)
Glue (710956)

Bauble Christmas Cards

This simple card-making craft is the perfect end of term activity! The children can use various materials to collage their paper plates to make baubles for their Christmas cards.

Instructions:

Decorate your paper plate with mosaic pieces, glitter and pens.
Cut out 3-5 small circles of the artwork
Stick onto the card.
Draw a line from the top of each circle to the top of the card to look like baubles hanging.

What you’ll need:

Mosaic pieces (114839)
Glue (710956)
Paper plate (307123)
Glitter (306215)
Pens (75126X)
Card making kit (109280)

Christmas card-making kits

Spread the love this Christmas with our ready-to-go Christmas card-making kits, perfect for early years and primary classes. The Christmas card-making activities contain all the perfect decorations for 30 children to make their own cards. All you need to add is glue for the perfect sentimental Christmas card.

Our selection includes:

Giant Christmas Bauble Card Making Activity (329681)
Christmas Stocking Card Making Activity (321958)
Jumbo Christmas Tree Card Making Activity (134503)
Christmas Gingerbread House Card Making Activity (301713)
Christmas Pudding Card Making Activity (135138)
Rainbow Christmas Tree Activity (138673)
Christmas Robin Card Making Activity (135107)

Shop our full Christmas range now and remember to tag us in your festive creations on Facebook, Pinterest, TikTok, and Instagram using the hashtag #YPOcreateandmake

Georgia Fisher

Author

Georgia Fisher

Supplier Marketing Officer

YPO

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Georgia is a Supplier Marketing Officer who helps deliver a wide range of multi-channel campaigns across both digital and traditional channels. Before stepping into this role, she worked as a marketing apprentice in YPO’s Early Years team, where she focused on researching and creating relevant and engaging content for blogs and social media, as well as supporting Early Years events and key campaigns.